The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-12-07
How is this for Highg

Ii is our delight, while endeavoring
to, divert our reader, to mingle q GER
tain amount Of instruction with the
lighter pabuium offered 90. that the
reader may not say, after laying down
the paper, that he has lived fthfongh
the perusal Of us) fiji vain. Hence tSis
that we occasionally abstract word
from Webster's unabridged, and hold
ing it up to play contemplation con-
vey at the same time very interesting
as we'll US valuable information to tho
inquiring mind. -
On this occasion, dear readers, we
desire to call your attention. to the
word high. 1t is a term that is much
used both by high and low while Jack
and the game sustain intimate rela-
tions thereto. When only one point
is required to 60 out it becomes an
interesting question who is high, but
if the whole party is, the point il
sometimes q troublesome one to de-
eide. We trust none Of our readers
ever get as low as to take hand with
those who get high.
High is a word that is used in va
riOus connections, and to express
vayied ideas. For instance, George
Washington was high in the estima-
ton Of the worlti, yet, it is mortifying
to reflect that IL common prize fighter
was Hyer. Real estate sometimes
goes very high, but it can't begin to
go up as high as a balloon can. A
valuable race horse may 60 for high
price, but the most worthless old pei
try in a livery stable goes for hire, if
he goes at all. eli! hill" cries the
fast and boisterous youth, as he en-
dcavors to pass all other teams on the
highway, and the most timid and SEN
sitivc maiden will, "Hie thee: away to
my bower" at loves low signal.
In countries where the nobility
thrive it is considered great good for
tune to be ligh-born. In this land Of
equality, however, where one man is
as good as another, and two men are
good us half IL dozen sometimes, we
have nobility, and to be high born
is simply to be born in the fifth or
sixth. story. 70 such people it must
really be a pleasure to get "down in
the world" In Spain, a nobleman Of
the lowest class is called q hidalgo. The
higher you 60 in the scale Of nobility
the higher the dalgoes. .... ,a,x
Those were rare days when the
high-born few ruled the low-born
many; without let OF hintlrance, sub
ject only to wllim or caprice. They
rode the high horse, INDUCED in high
flown phrases (if we can believe the
r,mances Of that period, which, of
course, We can't,) wrote III hier-
oglyphics than anyone else ever did,
eat high-scasonfd food ind drank
hilariously as in winter they hiber-
mated. High old times, were. they
nOtf
And, finally, considering the high
price Of composition in this Office, it
is high time that our article On High
may be. brought down to a close. We
don't desire to appear high-percritical,
or of a high pocliondriac turn Ut mind,
neither would we speak in. high-per-
boles, or in any manner high-poth-
ecate our ideas but to the rising gen
Grafton who desire to stand high in
the world, we would say, avoid high
pocrisy, shun higlsters, cultivate tho
high drant rather than the beer pump,
don't make high -enas Of Yourselves iii
matters neneal; in short he
high -nlinded.-Fat Contributors Sat
urtlay Might ,.. ..-.-