The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1868-05-10

A Yankee has invented Q medicine to re-
move boil from = tea-kettle. .. rs .,
The man who raised breeze was not an
Agricultural, but politician.
Books are the depository Of everything
| that is most honorable in man. ~, -
Costly apparatus and splendid cabinets
have no power to mako scholars.
Our good or bad fortune depends greatly
| on the choice we make Of our friends.
He who who cannot live well to-day, will
be less qualified to live well to morrow.
When does an artist appear thoroughly
miserablef When he draws long face.
A trial trip-A trip with two Saratoga
trunks, four band boxes, and a-woman.
moral means will ever intercept good ends.
When i'll news comes too late to be SER
viceable to your neighbor, keep it to your
self. -
What glorious object does q boy getting
up in the morning resemblef The rising
sun.
When should man dine eft, rich,n
said Diogenes, "when he likes; if poor,
when he can"
The sheep in the meadow and the axe in
the forest contribute their "chOps" for the
support of man.
Why wasn't Eve tried for stealing the
Applc bcCuuSc CQCrc was no court OF aD-
pellate Jurisdiction.
can marry any girl please" said a
boaster. &c Very true" replied his friend,
!" but you can't please any"
The simple endeavor to fulfill each inn
mediate claim of duty, may lead to the
highest acts of self devotion.
The Boston Post says: GO Nothing is good
when run into the ground" How about
plOws, and-and-Posts, ehf
Z" came near selling my boots the other
day." said Scuttles to friend. elbow so ~
Well, had them half soled."
There is n comfort in the strength of love.
Twill make q thing endurable which else
would overset the brain or break the heart.
"A man lately appeared with his legs 30 at!
tennated that the authorities had him ar
rested because he had no visible means of
support.
What is the difference between one who
walks and one who looks up fight of
stairsf One steps up stairs, and the other
stares up steps.
The happiest conversation" says DR..
johnson, " is that of which nothing is dis
tinctly remembered, but a general effect of
pleasing impression
Punch advises farmers to SOW up their
P's, keep their US, hive their BIS, shoot
their Us, feed their Ms, look after their
potatoes, rs and take their Els.
"Why do you always buy second class
| ticket Z" asked a gentleman of miser.
Because there is no third-class ticket"
was the unexpected but satisfactory reply.
What is the language of speaking daggers,
and what is the color of the eyes on looking
daggers7 If man loses his voice when
engaged in a war of words, does he get
hOarse -de-cOmbaty
Sir Walter Scott and Daniel O'Conneu, at
| n Lotto r;r,l r,f kt>afp 1ixyoa Iol
success in the world principally to their
wives. Were the truth known, theirs ia
the history of thousands. n.
cit is dangerous to be working with q
sewing machine near a window in thun-
der Storm" jerks says he has found it.
dangerous to sit near some sewing machines
4 when there is NO thunder storm.
What can be better than a woman with
cataract in her eye, q waterfall on her head,
a creek in her back, forty springs in her
skirt, and high-tied shoesf Why, one with
a notion in her head and swimming in tears.
A stingy husband accounted for all the
blame of the 1awlessness of his childten in
company, by saying his wife always "gave
them their own way" "Poor things, it's
reply.
Punch says men are said to have stronger
attachments than women. 1t is evinced in
| little things. A man is often attached to
an old hat but did you ever know of
woman having an attachment for an old
bennett
A gentleman residing in the neighborhod
of the city possesses piano of such excess
sive delicacy, that it has been known,
when it's owner was in difficulties, to go to
a pawnbroller's and instantly fetch twenty
dollars.
Hospital doctor: "Well, nurse, how go
the patients ?" Nurse" Oh, pretty well,
sir, there's eleven dead!" Doctor Eleven!
only eleven Why, 1 left medicine for
one was so refractory he wouldn't take
his'n."
-" A country surgeon, who was bald was
visiting friends house, whose servant