The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1872-01-31
From The Courier-y ournal

An exchange says: "Grant seems
TO love money better than fame ana
to he determined to provide against
such,a contingency as the ing'afitnde
Of the tRepublic or theswreck of his
marty, by Zhaving lis pockets well
stuffed with money" This is true.
Grants princirles>arc precisely those
of the Crnsus of whom the poet speaks;
Whenever Won marry. CrEsus said,
Marry II rich widow ,r rich maid
The wife. yon know, may turn out Ill,
But, CAD, the money never will
e The venerable great. grandmother of
us alt, the Cincinnati Enquirer, has
gotten off IL '.goak'--thus: "That was
IA splendid reception the General gave
Alexis to-day" said General Dent,
trinnphautly. h"Yes;" NretOl tied Nib'
hles, "no man in the world cali beat
I Grant nj ieceiviug."i Unc",ef, fl"ys.
aud let us drink this in silence and in
tears. tgE- j.. $3.50 e''i t.i''d ~ "a
The Chicago Post says: "Tle Phila-
delpli, Bulletin has one colninii Of
likes on the Duke, which, it calls
! Czar-castic, hut it occupies TO" much
room explaining some of the jokes.
I, Will. the others are useless fOr'w;int ct
explanation" And it may he said Of
the whole Of them, too" that, like the
POSTS jokes, they are not worth ex
lplaining.
| An exchange says: "Practiraiiy,
ithere is no use Tor term to express a
million Of millions. In financial cal,
cula,ions a word expressing thousands
of milIiuus ia useful" 1t certainly is
very useful. In calculating the steal
ings Of the Radical party, in fact, we
coul'ln't possibly gsf along without ''''.i it;
Mr.. Edward Hagan, of New York
city, tcstities that he has drawn sala-
!, ~ of 81 500 a year, from the. Comp
, trolIer's Office for doing nothing. This
ease of, Hogan's, bad as it is, not Sc
had as that cf GRAFT, who draws g
salary of sea, 600 a year .frem the Gov,
eminent for doing worse than nothing
In lis remarks in the Senate thu
ether day on Nh. Autllnny's RESOLUTION
= to create Committee on. Rstrcpch
meut,, Mr.. Nyc objected. TO giving thu
committee. authority to send for per
sons aud papers. He didn't particu
e la,ly object to the sending for persons
=. hut lie thought -,tllereswere one, or tw'
:. papers-the tinripnati; Enquirer 70
Instance which are not worth sendin
:. for. .i...f 4 e Il no.i l.t 81
Senator Scott insists that the Presi
dent shall suspend the wit IF habea
corpus in Florida. Considering til
>. extreme cheapness Ofrore, it is won
r har that.s,mehosly tl0csn's insist tina
l. the President shall suspend Senate
re- Scott. ~ g. .,.-it3i al!' .H.sl ssi'r.
:" The Detroit Free Press announce
- tile birth of "a pair of triplets" in I'll:
& city. 1t is rarely seldom that yon fiji,
pf t,iplets no are ingenious enough I
~ lie born in paris without leaving a
y odd baby somewhere iii tile ine:ghbo
- hood. "a 20 ''''
! 1t is tile boast Of the Chicago Pc
=, that it will soon have operation o,
-. "f the fastest printing presses in tt
.,e West. The rage for waste paper
h., Chicago must have taken the form
l. an epidemic when ordinary presses ia
- to supply the dcmand. ,.i.,..g,, ,'..'
To An Illinois paper speaks Of "Jel
It's Smith. Jr., of Sangamon county
cd This is a weak invention Of the enem
a The idea that t..ere is, Or ever WAS,
Id ever will be, more than one Jot
At Smith, is perfectly obsn,l.
ns The Chicago Evening Post spea'
IN of the Courie' Journal rs. the Cod
"a We always write the name OF the p.
ar i'm full. aud NOT one .,:in liz twenty M
go, lion knows what we are talking abo
mi even then. s...s,Is..,, -.
All The Detroit Free Press says "nea
NE MINISTRIES are dsridel in Germany
''e 1t is not strange thas,they should
for they are often laughed at even,
~ this country. risii>;.,: ,a Z 'faj@
the 4.,.5., -.
~ sGeneral Grant" says the N
-, York Evening Post, sis a sincere 10,
49,, of peace" Especially lift happens
49, I've gold piece.
ETY. It is said that the Manassas haiti
the field has been sold for eight dollars
acre. A few years ago Mcdowell ii
pope paid d great deal more than II
for 1t. aid didn't get possession Of
property either.
=" The New York Independent says
I" one of Grants assertions, in his M
Us sage, that it "conspicuously Ia,
'pS varacity." If the independent me;
ICE that Grant lies like a dog, it ought
ga say so.
VIC Female suffrage has been tl,orou
me Iy tried in Wy"ming Territory.
ne don't know whether the people til
'liii like it or not, We only know
lu'- they are anxious to swap it "tf for