The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1871-07-16
NEW ORLEANS. SUNDAY, JULY l6. 1871.

man in the right place.
Woman shows her fondness for the unity by
always wanting to be won.
The greatest glory is not in never falling
but in rising every time we fall
A fiirt who kept list of her admirers in a
diary, wittily called it her him book.
A bachelor friend compares a shirt button to
life, because it SO often hangs by thread.
Too much cheek shows deficiency of brain,
for Nature does not give lavishly OF both.
MANY ladies can bear the loss of their good
name, if nice gentlemen give them better.
bank-note is better than hard money, be-
cause if you fold it, you'll find it increases.
Why is a poor doctor like q molef Because
you can track him by his holes in the ground
Was Ruth ever rude to Boazf Oh, yes !;
when she pulled his ears and trod on his corn.
Fortunes favors are like steep rocks-only
eagles and creeping things mount to the sum-
NIT.
Quilp believes there are two things to be
eternally lost-his umbrella, and the man who
stole It,
said they reminded him painfully Of the in
come tax.
Widows have been compared to green wood,
which, while it is burning on one side is weep
ing on the other.
The Height of sabbatariansm--F Finding a
bank note on the pavement on Sunday, and
declining to pick it up.
Proverbial Fallacy-Waste not, want not
Bosh! One may never waste candles end
and want a thousand a year.
CT could tail unfold" Could youf Then
lose not a moment, but go instantly to Mr..
Darwin. He will be delighted to see you.
To be fully up with the century, live habit
ually, when young, with those older than
yourself, and, when old, with those younger.
A Vermont girl inquiries if the -woman's
rights movement includes counting, for the
young men in her neighborhood are very bash
full.
"There is something very attractive in little
girls" said the parson. Yes" said the old
farmer and it's still more so as they grow
older"
Never chew your words A student once
asked: Lean virchu, fortichude, gratichude or
quiechude dwell with that man who is q
stranger to rectichudef'
"Mamma," said precocious little boy, who
against his will was made to rock the cradle,
eff the Lord has any more babies to give
away, don't You take EN-"
The gentleman who borrowed an oyster
knife with which to open an account at a
bankers is anxious to meet with patent
corkscrew to draw check.
drunken man, after trying in vain to keep
on the sidewalk, was heard to exclaim, as he
heaped for the middle of the street, "There {!
now go in the street, if you want to.
al have millions of money" said a dashing
fop to a girl about to run away with him
but you might as well scrape up all the
Jewels and spare change you have got"
that good deal remained in the measure after
it was turned, remarked, {" There was some in
the measure before / drew your gallon"
An exchange says that a street in Peoria,
which was known last year as turtle Dove
had its name changed to Nursery Row."
An old woman driving a four-footed troop
was accosted by young man with, Good,
meekly replied, GOOD morning to you, my
son."
In the Picture Gallery-Young lady Gndg-
told e have this nothsr
these horrid pictures to look at until the peo-
pie come"
A female lecturer said :" Get married, young
men, and be quick about it. Don't wait for
the millennium, for the girls to become angels.
You'd look well beside an angel, wouldn't you,
you blockbeads "
The Connecticut papers are telling of Sun
day School boy, who being asked who made
the beautiful hills about there replied that he
did not know, as his parents only moved into
town the Friday before
Thor.l pson is not going to do anything more
in conundrums He recently asked his wife
the difference between his head and a hogs
head, and she said there was none. He says
that is not the right answer
A LADY, and her two daughters having ar
rived at the drawing-room, and given their
names, Mrs Foote and daughters" We're hor-
rified at hearing themselves announced by the
footman as Mrs. Foot and the Miss Feet"
Want of Tact.-Remarking to q fat man,
"May your shadow never be less Saying to
a friend, whose nasal organ is not conspicuous
for beauty, that something is as plain as the
nose on his face. Asking q deaf man whether
he hears good accounts of his son.
If some are refined, like gold. in the furnace
of affection, there are many more that, like
chaff, are consumed in it. Sorrow, when it is
excessive, takes away fervor from plety, vlgor
from action, health from the body, light from
the reason and repose from the conscience.
He took her fancy when he came, he took
her hand, he took kiss he took no notice OF
the shame that glowed her happy cheek at
this. He took to coming afternoons, he took
an oath he'd ne'er deceive, he took her mas
ter's silver spoons, and then he took his leave
Methodist preachers are proverbially face
tious. A day or two since, in the course of the
trial of DR.. Lanahan before the Book Commit
tee of the Methodist Church, the Rev. Mr..
Moore made the statement " that Methodist
preacher had been hung, and Moore ought to
be; whereupon q good brother promptly ask
ed, (Which MooreT
A burly Teuton entered city one day