The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1869-08-22
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Brokers as .well as reporters often take short
Knowledge is power. Hence the widows
might.
Tho first thing Adam planted in the garden
his foot. ID
The man who feathered his nest plucked an
other goose.
A good way to find a woman out--Call when I
she isn't at homo. th
"should old acquaintance be forgot ~ Not if
they have money. 1
Matters of moment ought to be described in
III temper puts rs many briefs in the lawyers
bag as injustice. Sf |
WHY should a woodcuttcr never be hungry 7
Because he can always have a chop by axing.
The man who was laboring to build up a
reputation has suspended work for want OF
stock.
If you are irritable, turn yonr teeth upon
yourself; you have no natural right to bite
others. @a.t'fs>t ~ So f2t atA
An editor sayH, a Our hest things will be
sonnd on the Outside Thats the way with
most of the world. 7Hs,lfl ROY s94S Il
az have very little respect for the ties of
this world,n assthe chap said when the rope
: was pnt around his neck.
The leader of a recent camp-meeting in Ohio
announced "The brother-in-law of President
Grant win now lead us in prayer"
The world is sea of glass; nfiiiction scat
ters path with sand and ashes, IL order 10
keep our feet from slipping.
Don't be afraid of the storms of time, know
ing that God holds the moral as well as the
physical ocean in the hollow of his hand
"Attention, men "a said corporal to a divi-
sion of recruits "When your names are called
you say here,' and he who is not here say lab
sent"
The following sentence appears in the columns
of a Liverpool paper The corporation are
about to build two free schools, one OF which
is finished"
A gentleman asked a negro boy if he would
NOT fake n pinch of snuff. ''No,' replied the
darkey, very respectfully, = me tank YOU
Pomp's nose not hungry"
A home missionary was asked the cause OF
his poverty. 4" Principally" said he, with a
twinkle of his eye, "because I've preached so
much without notes"
Hone is like the cork to The net, which keeps
the soul from sinking i'll despair; and fear is
like the lead to the net, which keeps 1T from
floating IN presumption
A person, fond of the marvellous, told an inn.
probable story, adding, as was his wont, - Did
YOU ever hear of that before ~ mo, sir" SAID
the other, "pray, did you you :"
"when was Rome built 4" inquired a COM
petitive examiner. " In the night, SIT; In ~
the night! How do you make that out :!
"Why, sir, you know Rome wasn't built IN a
dayn'
A servant girl, hearing the lady of the house
ask her husband to bring Dombey d Son
with him when he came nome 10 ulnIer, laiu
>, two extra plates on the table for the supposed
visitors.
No bull of Irish extraction excel this OF
Cobbett's In one of his Rural Rides" h'
SAYS, " saw corn standing in ricks thing
/ never before, and would not have be
= Iieved it had not seen it,"
A Quaker having sold a fne-looking bu
blind horse asked the purchaser, Well m;
was the answer fNeither will he see an.
fault in thee" said old Broadbrim
An honest old lady in the country, whe
told of her husbands death, exclaimed, Vel
do declare our troubles never come alone
1t Amt q week since l lost my best hen, an
now Mr. Hall has gone too, poor man ::
A ehurlish fellow refused to pay the shoe
black his price, saying that half his price wa
enough; whereupon the shoeblack exclaimed
$50 along old buffer all the polish you haV
got is upon your shoes, and gave you that
"Do you belieYe in the appearance of spirit
father o. asked rather fast young man of h
o.. inSIulrent sire. ''No, Tom, but believe
their disappearance, since ! missed my bot
of Bourbon last night" replied the old gentl
"Why, Sambo, how black you arc I" said
gentleman the other day to negro waiter
e hotel Chow in the name of wonder d
SeI EPSON s"s am dis-de day dis chile was boz
dere was an eclipse"
Said q Baptist to q Methodist, 81 don't lii
church government, it isn't simple eno9g
there's too much machinery about it. -" 1t
true" replied the Methodist, we have me
machinery than you but then, you see, it doI
take SO much water to run 1T
"You say, Mr.. Smith, that you saw the plai
tiff leave the house" Eyes, sir, in gre
haste.o ado you know what caused Z
hastePp "Pm not sartin, sir, but think
was the boot of his landlord" 1" That will {
Clerk, call the next witness"
"You musicians ought to be happy fellow
said p. the other day to band-mast
EWhy Z" said the leader. Because You ne
never want for money, for when your fut
run short you have only to put your inst
lnents to your lips, and raise the wind"
An Irish juror having applied to the JUG
to be excused from serving on account of de
ness, the judge said, Gould you hear
charge to the jury, siFf, YES, heard =
make any sens, out of it," lie was left off.
"A facsimile of Scotch newspaper cent
old was recently reprinted; and it fell into
hands of n couple, who, seeing in 1T an adv
tisemcut for man and his wife as butler