The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1869-05-23
,-opu1ra srAR AND CATHOLIC MEssEKGER.
INV ORLEANS. SUNDAY. May 70. 1850.
WIT AND w1sDoM,

a Mares Nest-A stable.
common Abilities-Lie- abilities. 1
A BAPTIST Constellation-The Dipper.
Dogs are the greatest wags we have.
when does nature pay its debit When
IL falls due.
The lady who strained every nerve has
rot the neuralgia. -,
The gentleman who took the Hoor left
The largest ants in the world are called
ri. ..Woman Questionn-What shall
oet for q spring bonnes1
when ia money DAMP When 1T is dew
., the morning and mist ut night
"Whst il the best remedy for dead
lockfn A skeleton key, OF course.
II vou would not have affection visit you
\ twice, listen at once to what 1t teaches.
He who watts TO do great deal Of good
stonce, will never do any.
Many of the richest planters Of Jamaica
live ON coffee grounds.
Why is prudent man like q pint Be-
cause his head prevents him going too far.
Thew saw that the ground is the only
reliable bank; but it is broken every day.
= Wanted. strong adhesive, plaster, to
make busy bodies stick to their own busi-
ness.
Be not all sugar, or the world VIII
swallow thee up; nor all NORWOOD, or it
will spit thee out.
How does the butcher declare his afsec-
tionf By sending q tender lane Gender
loin.)
"Are you fond q tongue, sir Z" az was
always fond of tongue, Madame, and
like it stiti."
sesine q cellar nearly finished, . waggish
rkod "a
foundation for a story.
In cold, northern countries, by y wise
i provision of nature, the mountains are clad
= In firs.n
Nothing 30 adorns the face as cheerful
ness. When the heart is in flower its bloom
and beauty pass to the features. i9
The mind is like a trunk-if well packed
Il it holds almost everything; if ill packed;
next to nothing.
Another youthful nOblenaan has just "run
through the whole of his ancestral estates,
but, then, it was on foot, SO there's no marin
done.
A coauette may be compared with finder,
(which lays itself out to catch sparks, but
Toes not always succeed in lighting q
match.
|s bachelor editor, who had pretty I'M
aarried sister, lately wrote to another
editor similarly cireumstanced, T" Please ex-
shange p
4 A clergyman who had been accused OF
Preaching long sermons, excused himself
& N the ground that the church was a large
1ne. = * -
& 1t was not Mrs. Darlington who thought
Ed" must be great newspaper boy DE
eause his name was attached to so many
paragraphs in the newspapers.
wag who was asked to buy bank
note detector one day, said he would pur.
- - in
bis pocket.
which are ascribed to Francis de Sales, "A
udicious silence is always better than trutf
spoken without charity"
A lady, while praying in church a few
lays ago, had her watch stolen by some
thief, who was thinking of time, while sh,
was thinking of eternity.
ais your house q warm one, landlord =
asked a gentleman in search of a house
FsIt ought to be, ;" was the reply, "the paint
81 er gave it two coats recently"
- person was remarking the other day
/" How cheap everything has got ~ tNo
Everything" said his friend. "Why, wha
isnot?" "Womanr ooh, aye )! forgot
woman ie alive deer. k =
A woman being eDjoihed to try the effect
of kindness on her husband, being told i
would " heap Goals of fire on his head, }" re
piled, "I have tried boiling water, but
didn't do a bit of good"
Theodore Hook, when diniag with til
author of a work called " Three words
the Drunkard," was asked to review i
Oh, my dear fellow, that ] have don
already in these words-pass the bottle
little boy and girl had been cautione
never to take the nest egg when gatherin
the eggs; but one evening the girl reache
the nest first, seized an egg and started fl