The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1868-08-16
MORNING STAR AND CATHOLIC MESSENGER.
NEW ORLEANS, SUNDAY. AUGUST 1G, 1868.
WIT AND WISDOM.


Dress Material for the ca-Sl,ore-serge.
A Suit that Rarely Fits Wcll-A law
What is the worst seat to hold one up
Conceit.
n-Money-What is expended in bowl
ing-aileys.
Whatever else you may choose to sip, let
alone gossip.
A grocer is like highwayman when he
lies in weight.
Avoid extremes; neither get your feet
nor your head tight.
Is the "coming woman" any relation to
the passing bell(e)7
How To Cure "Girl of the Period"-
Put full stop to her.
The camel wanted to have horns, and
they took away his cars.
1t is much easier to get over the rent O
q garment than of IL dwelling.
Favorits Airs of Mammas with Marriage
able Observation-Disclosures
Counterfeit virtues are often Il more pop
Mar currency than the genuine.
The ants in not few houses i'll the city
Just now, far exceed tho unclcs.
Friends are most often like the negro
moon" Nebber shine dark nig gifts"
Why is n poor singer like n countcrfcitcr
WHY does II clock always look ba>lful
Because it keeps its hands before its face
The more IL woman's waist is shaped like
an hour glass, the quicker will the sands OF
life run out.
The country, just now, locks extremely
grcen--as do, also, some of the city people
who visit 1T.
"Genius will work its way through" as
the poet said, when he saw hole i'll the
elbow of his coat.
writer may be said to be more free
than IL king, inusmuch as he can . choose
his own subjects
Bishop Meade, of Virginia, once said
Z" Our girls are poorly educated, but our
boys will never find it out
a young lady, on being asked what call
ing she wished her sweetheart to follow,
bluslingly replied that she wished him to
be II husbandman.
a cynical pedagoguc gives it as his opn-
ion, that, days, ladies seem to treat
their waists rs vulgar fractions-tu be re-
duccd to the lowest terms.
A person. passing through certain town
and observing upon II door the name OF
+ Haswcll, remarked the gcntlcmuns name
would he as we'll without the ii.
That young man to whom the world
loves IL living" has been turned out of
doors-llis landlaty not being willing to
take the Indebtedness of the world on her
shoulders.
An old salt sitting on a wharf, the-other
day, very sOberly remarked: - began the
own ever SINCE A terse and suggestive
biography.
A man, in telling about wonderful
parrot hanging in cage from the window
of n house which he often passed, said: alt
cries stop thief" SO naturally that every
time hear it al~oys stop''
A subscription paper was lately circu-
lated with the following object i'll view +:
ave subscribe and pay the amount Oppo-
site our names for the purpose of paying
the organist and boy to blow the same
"Rose, my DEAR said a mother to her
daughter, "if you are so prim and reserved,
you will never get a husband" "Ma,' u
replied the young lady, unless the poets
tell fibs, prim Rose is not without attrac-
tons"
..Pray, Mrs. Radriski, why do you whip
your children so often - Ella, Mr.. Worthy,
/ do it for their enlightenment. l never
whipped one of them in my lifetime that
he didn't acknowledge that it made him
smart"
A man, having hurt his forehead, was
advised to rub it with brandy. Some days
after, being asked if he done so, he an
swercd: az have tried several times, but
can never get the glass higher than my
MOUTH ~
Nine-tenths of mankind are born grum-
blers. During recent wet spell, a gentle
man ventured to congratulate his umbrella.
maker. eyes, that's all very well, sir" he
replied; "bnt, then, there's nothing what
ever doing in parasols."
Mamma, why does papa call news.
paper an organ ~ Because papa wants
TO go TO Congress-, and ne can't so withou,
facing the music" "What is facing tho
music mammal" "Giving stamps to the
organ grinder, my child"
A conceited coxcomb, with q very pa
tronizing air, called out to an Irish laborer
"Here, goa bogtrotter, come and tell me
tlo greatest lilo you can, and will treat
you to glass of whisky" "By my word,
said Pat, "an yer honor's a gentleman"