The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1871-11-12

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R,others in arms Twin boys.
purnine vords-A dictionary in flames.
mTbe Pacific Mails "-Quiet husbands.
THE higher circles-she rings around the
mI an inbuman act = Pulling down the
"blind."
"A handy tune-For-tune. 1t is not COM
mon metre.
Ouery-Can a man who worships money
be called Riohualistf
St. Thou xquinas owed his wisdom
more to pr3 than to study.
Every man has his weak side: and it is
very often that this weak side is the best
part of the man. t-=-.
why is . horsee the most curious feeder,
IN IN i has not 5 ~ mouth.
4 Califofki has bought a mule,
and a brotbel hronicles it as q re.
mausrkabie iasssa a1lf- possession.
aNo cards, Ho cake, no company, no.
body's buainess, = was recently appended to
the marriage notice OF young cynic.
A guest at a western hotel, finding long
hing him some "tald-headed butter"
g Poor I,ncinda took that circumstance
,,rch To hearth F." Did she indeedf The
moor girl I wish was that circumstance"
schoolmasters and professors in colleges
ara like stones they sharpen all manner of
blades, and wear themselves out in doing
The Oldest.-The sun is the oldest lun-
her merchant, since he has been dealing an
beams since the first day of completed Gre
alton. z t2
Beware OF inquisitive people. A wonder
- f,l curiosity to know all is generally ac-
compauied by as great a desire to tell it
again.
A new legal work is now in the press
which it is anticipated will meet an i'm
mepse sale. It is entitled, "Smith on the
Evasion of Debts"
Men are frequently like tea. The real
strength and goodness is not properly
drawn out of them until they have been
short time in hot water.
The Boston Post says: In New York
they call red hair F." Schenectady color y
Schenectady being, as every one knows, a
A pheasant flew through q window pane
into the dlning-room of a Minnesota hotel.
It was the nearest the guests have come to
having chicken this year.
A cynical man says the reason women
are GO fond of writing letters is, that they
rejoice in the opportunity of saying all
they wish without the possibility of an in
terruption. - -
To the door of parish church was.
recently affixed the following notice "The
chureiwardens will hold their quarterly
9 Rssiias 8 sssss ST es1s' '''A Of p"'
! aBob," said young fellow to his COM
panion at a fancy fair, I" you are missing
ali the sights on this side" Never mind,
Bin p retorted Bob "Pm sighting all the
misses on the other"
A bank is said to be the most likely
building to catch cold in, because there are
SO many drafts in it and the reason there
are SO many drafts in it, is because so many
people 90 there to raise the wind.
A Duluth paper says one of the streams
running into Lake SYpexior, from the
North, is called /" Temperance River" be-
cause it is the only op9 of all the tributaries
of the lake that has no bar at its mouth.
A lawyer once pleaded with great ability
the cause of his clieat for nearly an hour.
When he had done, his antagonist, with
supercilious sneer, said he did not under
stand a word the other had said, who
merely replied, 81 believe 1t, for was
speaking law"
Wise as Goose.-A gentleman asked a
shepherd q" whether that river might be
passed over or not" Yes" said the shep-
herd but, upon trying, the gentleman
bounced over head and ears. "Why, you
rogue" said he, did yoU not tell me that
said the shepherd, "I thought SO, for my
geese go over and back again every day,
/ and did not doubt that you were as wise
as q goose"
One of the last humorous papers has q
very funny cut. 1t illustrates this scene
An old gent is walking in his garden.
Presently the milk man comes along, out
side the high garden wall, and gives his
customary yell: Old gent hears hear, something,
Just what is wanted; SO he puts his ear
trumpet in place, and elevating the bell
edge over the wall, exclaims: Here ~
Mile man takes it for dish, and emptics
quart Of milk into the old gents ear and
goes about his. business. It is about as
ludicrous an inciden ban be imagined
N. o. Present Age. IA
A little travesMe of Ishionable cores
pondence puts in an Amusing light the alb
surdity both of writing pet names and of
fashionable precocity. The writer's are
supposed to be young ladies of eight years
Or thereabouts-such young ladies as now