The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1872-02-11
Msrnlng Star and Catholic Messenger.


A man should never so to church wit
cough and disturb the rest of the congre
CATION.
An exchange asks, "Where is Smith Z
We think the right answer is, every
where"
Happiness is perfume that one canno
shed over another without q few drops fall
ing on ones self.
Bioggs had his nose pulled and wa
asked by friend to resent it. He said h
would next tweak.
Advice which, like snow, softly falls
dwells the longer upon, and sinks the
deeper into the mind.
A brieAess lawyer ought never to be
blamed, for it is decidedlg wrong to abuse
man without a cause.
A man in Boston is said to be SO short
that VIXEN he is i'll he doesn't know whether
no has headache or corns.
Talk to thyself and insist on reply, yet
not before the world, let it think that no.
body else will talk to thee.
An opponent of the school boards insists
that If you teach a boy to write, he is much
less likely to make his mark in after life.
"What a waste of money Z" soliloquized
avagrant, " to be buying meat that's half
bone, when You get whiskey without any
A prominent journalist in New York,
of one Thousand dollars for q tale that will
make his hair stand on end.
Be not proud of riches, but afraid of
them, lest they be a silver bar to cross the
way to heaven. You must answer for
riches, but riches cannot answer for you.
An attorney observed to q brother in
court that he thought vhiskers very nm
professional. "You are right replied his
friend, ga lawyer cannot be too barefaced."
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studying Latin. She has beau. He asked |
her what sic transit gloria mundi " meant. |
She translated it, Come and see me on |
Monday"
(Which side Of the street do you live
on ~ said counsel recently, cross-ex-
aiming a witness. "On either side, sir.
If ye 60 one way it's on the right; if We 20
the other way it's on the left.
Life is book of which we can have but
one edition. Let each days actions, as
they add their pages to the indestructible
volume, be such as we shall be willing to
have an assembled world read.
"Sam, what do you suppose is the rea.
son that the Gun goes towards the south in
the winter :" Well, I don't know, massa,
and gone to de souf, where he Experiences
warmer longitude
In vain do they talk of happiness who q
never subdued an impulse in obedience to =
q principle. He who never sacrificed a {
present to future good, or a personal to a
genera! one, can speak of happiness only
ss blind Of cOlors. g
! good parliament man, for I use their IAN
yuage: received two bills the other day, o
With requests for immediate payment; the
'ne ordered to be laid on the table-the Ii
'ther to be read that day six months" &c
A gentleman having engaged brick 9
aver TO make some repairs in his cellar, y
rdered the ale to be removed before the I,
commenced his work. "Oh, / ~
m not afraid of barrel of ale, SIR" said ..
he man. presume not, said the GENTLE :.
IAN, but think barrel of ale would run 10
your approach" ~
cunning lawyer, meeting with a d,
lrewd old Quaker friend on a white horse m
addy! Pray, what makes your horse M
'ok so pale in the face this morning9n
Az, my dear friend, )" replied the old man. re
IT thee hadst been looking through a ali
after 80 long, thee would look pale too" to
We all remember the story of Mary's 70
Itie lamp. 1t has assumed many forms, sa
1t we have never before read the German m,
ersion of it. 1t is thrilling, interesting gr
I'd life-like: an
Marys cot Won leetle scheepe lat
And every 5iaes Were ~ May Mays bin, sal
Az. Das ieetle scheePe has been come, too no
A clergyman and one of the elderly Au
tlshloners were walking homo from me 9
Getting one frosty day, when the old
ntieman slipped and fell on his back. 1ul
re minister. on being assured that he was los
hurt, said to him. My friend, sinners II e
'n ~ on slippery places" The old gentle s on
~ looked up, as if to assure himself of spe
.. fact, and replied, "Yes, see they do; pr
can't" thil
An o,,, bod
n-as":s eh.9han wno was In the habit v
pIehSing say" to every sentence to spe,
4 b;s - u.1sA e.ee, haVlnS hearo to o
lressed the ili-behaved domestic when '"'>
met him az say, John, they say that
say that say / say : and if do say Fl
WAY 10 reason why you should or b
", say, JONI. Of c
ne man who has lately been trying to the
,e half dollars from n chemical extract the
he silver leaf tree, received a letter by we'll
last steamer from his friend in Califor- His
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