Semi-weekly Louisianian. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1871-1872, 1871-10-01
FUN AND FANCY.
LIBERTY OF THE PRESS.

LIBERTY OF THE PRESS.
Around her waist l put my arm
1t felt as soft as cake
.'Oh, DEAR" says she, 'what liberty
You printer men do take!'
why, yes, my Sal, my charming gal.
Il squeezed her some, l guess,
Can you say aught against
The freedom of the press
kissed her, tool did, by Jove!
She 'colored like beet;
Upon my living soul she looked
Almost too good TO eat
l gave her another kiss, and then
Says she: Il do confess
l rather kinder sorter like
The freedom of the press !"
LOGIC.
It's strange, but true, that common cat
Has got ten tails-just think of that
Don't see it, Ell? The fact is plain,
To prove it so rise t'explain.
We say: A cat has but one tail
Behold how logic lifts the veil:
No cat has nine tails; don't you see
One cat has one tail more than she?
Now add the one tail to the nine,.
You'll find full ten-tailed feline.
As Holmes has said in his lone horse Shay"
Logic is logic, that's all say.
WHAT sort of person is the
H'Swell of the Ocean" we have heard
so much of?
A barber is always ready to
scrape an acquaintance, and often
cuts them, too.
In time a mulberry tree be-
comes silk SOwn-and a silk gown
becomes a woman.
Why do sailors weigh the an
Choir every time they leave port !?
And do they find it loses or gains !?
What is the difference between
coal bucket and a fresh cod fish !?
One is a coal hOd, and the other is
a whole cod.
The man who wrote "put me
in my little bed" never had one, he
slept under the wharf and boarded
at the Poor House.
When man puts up at Chi
cage hotel he sees in the paper next
morning that he has "reined in his
foaming valise at the fremont.
The rural portions of Rhode
Island complain that Providence
has too much power in their Legis-
lature. 1t is complaint seldom,
made in any other State in the
Union.
"A Kentucky man unites the
vocation of blacksmith and barber.
In moments of abstraction he uses
a mans face as an anvil and the
razor as hammer. This treatment
wears out the anvil rapidly.
"A stranger meeting a man in
the streets of Chicago a few days
since, roughly accosted him with,
Here, l want to 60 to the fremont
Housed" The deliberate reply was,
Well, you can go if you won't be
gone long"
"A gentleman, on getting soda
was retiring from the store without
the usual little ceremony which
follows the operation.
"Recollect, sir" said the polite
proprietor, "if you lose your pocket
book, you didn't pull it out here"
Mother, "said little girl who
was engaged in making her doll an
apron" l believe l will be a duchess
when l grow up. "How do you
ever expect to become a duchess
my daughter ?" her mother asked.
"Why, by marryinga Dutchman, to
be sure replied the girl.
Teacher" Mary, dear, sup
pose l were to shoot at a tree with
five birds Oh it, and kill three, how
many would. be left ?" Mary
four years old-"Three, ma'am.'
Teacher-''No, two would be left"
Mary-"No, there wouldn't though ;
the three shot would be left, and
the other two would be flied away
A young lady was entertaining
some friends the other evening,
when one said, "Miss-, your
braid is coming Off" She clapped
her hands to her head and found
nothing unslipped. The gentle