Semi-weekly Louisianian. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1871-1872, 1871-11-12
FUN AND FANCY.

lit - somewhat curious f0ct that
a compositor takes most IS when
hardest at work.
"A young lady requested to be
released from her marriage engage
ment on the ground that when she
contracted it she believed her lover
o duck" but has since found him
to be o goose.
If small girls are waits are large
ones walters ? Certainly" says
sweet sixteen, least the boys have
the habit of appling them to their
lips in sealing their VOWS"
A poor Irishman offered An old
saucepan for sale. His children
gathered round him, and inquired
why he parted with it.
"Och, me houeys," answered he,
Il wouldn't be afther parting wild it,
but for a little money to buy some
thing to put in it.
What kind of . drum is that
which is always best when it cannot
be beaten "A conundrum.
A Frenchman said Of Shakes
peare. "Ven you find any zing you
no understan,, it is always somezing
fine."
Hail street-car in bad wealth
er, and it Will stop ~ aid you ; but
hail friend in Your adversely, and
sse what notice he will take of YOU.
A writer on school discipline
says, Without liberal use of the
rod it is impossible to make boy
smart"
Give me a pound Of oysters, |"
said man to an oyster vendor who
was going by. II sell by measure,
not by weight" said the FISHERMAN.
Then give me a yard of them"
said the man. The FISHERMAN shook
his head obviously and passed on.
Some ingenious Yank has in
vented n process by which maple
sugar can be made out of common
New Orleans molasses, 1avoring it
by steaming maple-wood. The next
thing we sru looking for il Q pro-
cess whereby they will make honey
from cod-liver oil, Aavoring it with
bees-wax.
A jolly Jack tar, having str; y
ed into a show at a fair to have
look at the wild beasts, was mucE
struck with the sight of a lion and
a tiger in the same den. "Why.
Jack" said he to o messmate, who
was chewing quid in silence, 81
shouldn't wonder if next year they
were to carry about sailor and a
marine living peaceably together !"
cay" said his married companion,
''or a man and his wife"
Scene in st. Louis. "What un-
der the sun is the matter with you,
old fellow ?" Individual in . hur-
ry: "Must get that train Other
man: "Well, there is plenty Of time
the train does 10. s.art for ten
minutes and, besides, there art
several other people here who want
that tra.u." Excited individual ::
Il must get that train, and that's
fixed III get that train if it costs
me my life" Other man: "What
is the necessity Of your reaching
Chicago by this train anyway ?"
Man in a hurry: Il must get to
Chicago tomorrow on this train,
or those people up there will have
built up the whole darned town
again, and l won't see them ruins"
OF the seven colcred churches
in New York city, owning property
to the value of $4,000 f.; the
Metho1ists hold more than three
6fths or $4,000 the Prebyterias,
$4,000 ; the Episcopalians, $751;
while the Bsptists have only Sos, 900.
Surely tho Baptists cannot be very
enterprisng over there.
The nose acts like q custom
house officer to tie system. II is
highly sentative to the odor of the
most poisonous substances. It.
readily detects he:-lock henbane.
monks hood and the plants con-
tanning pruss;c acid ; it recognized
tho fueti! smells Of drains, and
warns US Rot t. smell the polluted
AIR The nOse, IN So sons;f;vo that