The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1873-02-01
CLIPPINGS.

The Attorney General of Florida is
blind.
Bismarck's sou is engaged to an
American girl. 49,. ,,.....
Why is u mouse like II load OF hay?|
Because the cat'ii eat it.
Thackeray's daughter is the queen
Of London literary circles. 2's' ~,
Rev. III. w. Iseccher received over
one thousand callers on New Years.
The work Of tho doctor fills six feet
of ground, but the dentist fills an achcr.
The Cabinet ladies do not furnish
strong drink mt their receptions this
year.
One hundred and fifteen criminals
had their heads chopped off recently in
China. -.rs .....
Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity,
without which truth acco,nplishcs but
half it's victory.
There arc between fifty and sixty
thousand foreigners in Africa, hunting
for gold and precious stones. 80
The first ingredient in conversation
is truth ; the next, good sense; the
third, good humor; and the fourth wit.
A fruit canning, establishment in
Dover, Del, has received an order from
single house In London for 400, 900
cans of peaches. '"' -'-'-.'t .... =
Barnum is trying to secure for his
new show man who doesn't blame
his wife for everything that goes wrong
about the house. D.
The intimacys ov old age seem to
konsist in drinking yung hison tee to-
gether. and comparing gouts and ruma-
tizms.-Josh Billings. s.
Jenny Lind recently delighted the
Americans at Florence by singing in
the Episcopal chapel maintained by
our countrymen in that city. ,...-.
Tennyson is exceedingly reserved.
He Is said to be the only living Eng
lishman of notoriety whose talent for
privacy no American has ever bafllcd.
It is said that Poole, the famous Lon
don tailor, retires from business with
$4,000 He seems to have beon tho
proprietor OF tho goose that laid the
golden eggs.
The Japanese in Washington have
abandoned their picturesque flowing
in black suits and white kids. Uncou-
Portable laps .-.
An aged man delivered 4 touching
remcmbrancer at Il neighbours funeral
by observing pathctically that the Dc
parted "wouldn't rare and cuss about
taxes any lnole."
1t occurred to II Danbury scholar,
while writing II composition last week
to make tho remarkable statement
that .san OK does not taste IA good AS
An oyster, but it can run faster"
A correspondent thinks that tho
meanest man he has yet heard of is the
boarding house kccl,> rat the Highlands
who would not permit II corpse to be
taken from the house until his board
bill was paid.
Shanghai is the stronghold of the
Roman Catholics in China. They have
4 large cathedral there, beside flourish
ing mission establishments. Their adj
herents in and around the city are said
to number $4,000.
They have instituted Il new kind of
surprise party out West. An anony-
NOUS letter is sent I" u citizen, inform
ing him, i'll II friendly spirit, that Il
surprise party is to be given him on Il
certain evening. He gets ready for it,
waits expcctantiy, nobody comes, and
his surprise is overpowering.
1t makes one smile, in these days of
huge public debt, to hear the returns
from Sitka. She owes a debt of one
hundred and fifty dollars, and has
seventy-tivo cents in the treasury. 1t
makes one think of the time in our own
country when Daniel Webster playful
ly put his hand in his pocket and OFF,
cd to pay up the United States debt
himself,