Semi-weekly Louisianian. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1871-1872, 1871-11-09
FUN AND FANCY.

An editor ont West, whothough |
Lhe wages demanded by composit-
ors was an imposition, discharged
his hands, and intends doing his
OWN type setting in the future. He |
SAYS: "owiSG, 70 the eXorBiEant
Wsees dEmANdeD by prInteRs
wEhaAe couCluyeD To do oNR oW"
type sEu!na IN rue fULuRe;; AND
arraouGH WE neveI lEsrnEd Tue
Business We 20 MOI See any gRear
mlSqeryerY in aHe sRt"
e The Iowa penetentiary at pre-
sent contains two hundred and fifty
and not q woman among
them! A irrepressible bachelor
suggests that this don't argue any
thing in favor Of woman's superior
virtues-it only shows that they are
more cunning, and avoid detection
in their misdemeanors.
The last good story on our
streets is to this effect: During a
recent inquest held on the body OF
one who had committed suicide, the
coroner asked q witness: "Madame
do YOU know whether this man ever
committed suicide before, or not?"
There is nothing like getting at all
the facts in a case of this kind.
A Norwich authority tells a pa
thetic little story about a pigeon
which became fastened by a lorg
string hanging from its leg to a
telegraph wire. Two or three boys
wanted to throw stones at it; but a
kind gentlemen, telling them not
to hurt the poor bird, got q ladder
and carefully unwound the string
and put the frightened, Autsering
little creature tenderly into his bo-
som while he descended. The next
evening he remarked that it had
made o much nicer pie than he had
expected.
They have a School Of Design
for Women in Philadelphia. The
Memphis appeal adds ): Mature
did enough for our women in this
way, and they need no school of the
designing sort"
-Nevada is capable of supplying
the world with salt. It abounds in
salt springs, salt marshes, sail
mountains, and great plains. where
the evaporation of ages has left de-
posts of salt almost illimitable il
extent.
Washington Irving, in con
versation once, alluded to a man o
superior pomposity as "a great man
and, in his own estimation, o yer.
great mana man of great weight
When he goes to the west, the cas-
tips.up."
Chemists say linen can be col
verted into sugar. A young bachelo
says he has seen the sweetest kim
of "sugar"-in linen.
Quilts are things that are some
times taken from the opinions G
one goose to spread the opinions
another.
The man who waited for q
opportunity has gone on and tn
man who was fred with ind;gna
ton has been put out.
-''Sir, you have broken you
; promise" said one gentleman t
another. "Oh, never mind, I ca
make another just exactly as good.
3 "A correspondent describes Wiz
ME Ream in her studio with he
arms bare to the shoulders and be
ankles likewise"
"Good morning" said q printe
: in search of female compositor
"Have you any daughters VIII
, would make good type-setters
"No, but 1 have . wife who woul
make o fine devil, said the monsta
-Dobbs thinks that instead (
giving credit to whom credit is du
q the sash had better be paid.
How can I expand my chest
asked a stingy fellow of q physical
: "By carrying larger heart in it
the doctor replied.
VI 1t is stated that two-thirds
b the women in lunatic asylums
= America are the wives of farmer