The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1872-05-05
Morning Star and Catholic Messenger,


The JOY of the dumb is always unspeak
able.
The chasm that swallowed up wit-Sar
casm.
Every young doctor gets on if he onl,
has patients.
What grows bigger the more you con
tract it Z Debt.
Slander is the revenge of q coward, ant
discrimination his Defence
Undoubtedly genuine spiritual NANTES
tations-delirum tremens.
The man ia indeed "hard mp" who can.
not get credit for even good intentions.
A Detroit picture dealer says the hardest
work he has to do is to frame excuses.
Teach your children to help themselves
but not to what doesn'G belong to them.
Fashionable young ladies, like letters
require stamps, or the males reject them
A beau dressed out resent les the CHINA.
mon tree-the bark is of greater value than
the body.
Hook, in describing badly cooked din.
ner, said everything was sour except the
vinegar.
True courage ia cool aud calm. But
what ls done in anger, can never be placed
to the account of courage.
The one serviceable, safe, certain, re-
pursuit, is the quality of attention.
AS pride is a vice that seldom eecapes
without punishment, so humility is virtue
that hardly ever goes without a blessing.
The most fashionable way of using books
Is to serve them as men do lords-learn,
their titles, and brag of their acquaintance.
A wag saving with a blunt saw, after
trying vainly to saw with it, broke out as
follows: I" OF all the saws that 1 ever saw
saw, never saw a saw saw as that saw
saws"
Somebody says, there are two things
about which we should never grumble
first, those things which we can prevent
and secondly. those things that we can not
prevent.
In reply to young writer who wished to
know which magazine would give him the |
highest position quickest, a contemporary !
advised powder magazine, if lie contribu-
ted fiery article.
"A gentleman of the negro persuasion
thus philosophers and reasonizes with the
white world-"All men are made of clay,
and like a meerschaum pipe, are more val
liable when they are highly colored.
Sloth makes all things difficult, but in
dustry all easy. He that riseth late must
trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his
business at night, while laziness travels so
slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.
My dear Polly, am surprised at your
taste IN wearing another woman's hair on
your head" said Mr.. Smith to his wife.
.. My dearest Joe, am equally astonished
that you persist in wearing another sheep,s
srool on your back"
Men Of the Times-The gentleman whose
eye lit on passage in the paper called in
the engines to put it out. The party who
said he was acting under a strong convic-
ton is still in Newgate. The man who al
ways acted on impulse has got q" better en-
gagement at a music hall.
rather grand and dramatic STYLE of ex- ,
preston came to n sudden collapse in court :
the other day. An indignant witness ex- :
claimed, "The first time that ever did +
such dishonorable act would blow out g
my brains, sir." every good" said the b
timer" -
Nilsson was popular in Syracuse. Among a
the out OF town people who came to hear c
her was bevy of girls from Wells Female c
college, Aurora. As they took leave of the h
ohJect of their attention they were affected "
70 70 tears. Ono pretty girl, evidently, "far ii
Nilsson, but kissed her trunk" T
short time before the revolution of the 81
4th OF September, deputy saw NJ. Theirs te
apply his tongue to postage stamp bear a.
ing Napoleon His, image. The deputy b
n Thinn' have caught you in the act :" =,
,,eepnty answered "Of kissing the tyrant.n e!
VI. liners rejoined: "My dear fellow, you al
ire mistaken was taking the stiffening &c
'ut OF him." Xxi
. Here are two jokes about the river which u, u;
yves it's name to the port of Liverpool A 90 90
sag. crossing to Woodside Ferry, and OBJ fa
erVlng the muddiness of the water, re- %
marked that Shakespeare was quite correct s 0n
stating that "the quality of Mersey is not to
. !aLned.' A Liverpool pilot, adrift in the n nr
rish Sea during dense fog, is said to In In
ave fervently uttered a familiar couplet WI
rom Pope: W.
That Mersey to others showed FRI
That Mersey show me. ~.
very tedious fellow annoyed Douglas nv ~.
errod very much by his everlasting long he o,
.ofies, and on one occasion he related ." 10
avlng heard song by which he was h %a
ute carried away. Jerrold, looking NC,
,oond, asked if any one present could ~.
ng that song. -
gentleman in Augusta, Ca, purchased her her
'me two years ago shaving brush rem
,nstan+ ,,sas EsI az tnaC city' eno, afcer not