Semi-weekly Louisianian. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1871-1872, 1871-10-08
FUN AND FANCY.

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donkey.
What is the difference between
a mother and a barber? The lat
ter has razors to shave, and the for
mer has shavers to raise.
The fellow who called tight
boots comfortable, defended his
position by saying they made man
forget all his other miseries.
"A fifth avenue widower said of
a recently departed wife, the other
day; 81 shall miss her; she was a
very expensive woman
Make friends with life insu-
rance, that when you are old it may
comfort you. Remember the Wash
ington Life.
Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
says that she early imbibed the idea
that ga girl was as good as a boy"
Yes, and better too for kissing pur-
poses, we think.
"A young man generally gives
a lock of hair to his sweetheart be-
fore he marries her. After marriage
she sometimes helps herself, and
don't use scissors.
At Long Branch, the other
day, one young girl asked another
to dance with her. Indeed, 1
won't" was the reply; what do I
want another girl hugging me for?"
A glorious, sensible girl, that.
A Chinaman who had his nose
cut off during little alteration in
San Francisco, had it carefully
packed and sent home to show his
friends one the American customs.
In New Orleans the colored
people ride in the street cars with
the white people, while in Balti-
more they are discussing the ques-
ton as to whether such things
should be allowed. New Orleans
is ahead of Baltimore in this res
pect.
--Scolding is the pepper of ma
trimony and the ladies' are the
pepper boxes. So says an old fogy
bachelor. We would give his
name, but we are afraid that the
peace of the neighborhood might
be disturbed by the noise of a broom
handle.
A young man in Maine, who
had made all his arrangements to
marry the daughter of a hotel
keeper in that State, few DAYS
ago, was astounded by o demand
from her father for her board during
the entire time in which they had
been engaged" about four years.
The youth suddenly disappeared
from town.
"A minister asked little boy
who had been converted, "Does not
the devil tell You that You are not |
n Christian Eyes, sometimes
"Well, what do you say 10 him p,
Il tell him." replied the boy, with
something of Luther's spirit, "that
whether l am Christian OF not, its
none of his business"
A strong-minded woman, in re-
ferring ''The Effeminate Man." in q
lecture, said: "He is like weak
poultice; like a cross between root
beer and ginger-pop, with the cork
left out; like kitten in pantalettes;
like sick monkey with a blonde
mustache. He goes through life on
tiptoes, and dies like cologne water
split on the ground.
-"Well, do You love me?" said an
ugly and not very agreeable friend
Of the family to the pet four-year
Did. Il know, but I can't tell" was
he answer. "But why not?" "Be-
cause I should be whipped if did,"
vas the frank reply of the observ-
ne child, who had been taught by
past experience that it was not al
Ways safe to tell the truth about his
nama's visitor.
An absent-minded editor, who ,
S known to have an account at the ,
'ank. comes from some fifty miles
'elow our city counting. The other o
light it came to a climax, and the
id man was interviewed. $50 YOU
Tant Clara said the young lady's
ather. "What will Won give her >"