Rapides gazette. (Alexandria, La.) 1869-187?, 1873-04-12
GENERAL ITEMS.

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PAPER flour barrels are proposed.
To understand truth, one must livelt.
He WHO talks, sows; he who listens,
reaps.
TO love is the only thing that can fill up
eternity.
AN awful swell-The cheek after a
toothache.
The popular business with young ladies
-Husbandry.
In China wives are considered legal
tender for debts.
GREAT SMOKERS - The Boston ruins /;
they are still at it.
NATURE feels no loss, because God is al |
ways present to her.
OF the hundred good things in this life, |
ninety-nine are health.
He who cheerfully commits the uni |
verse to God has nothing in the universe
to fear.
WHATEVER God gives men as stepping
stones, they often make into stumbling
blocks.
MELANCHOLY suicide-A little boy, on
being threatened with whipping, hung
his head.
"PAws for a reply" as the cat said
when she scratched the dog for barking
at her.
Two San Francisco school-mistresses
have been suspended for using bad Ian
guage.
The female servants of Ottawa, Ont,
are forming a union to regulate the prices
ofdomestic labor.
To love and to labor is the sum of liv-
ing. And yet how many think they live
who neither labor nor love!
PERHAPS one reason that laymen so sell
dom succeed in the pulpit is that their
preaching is so apt to be pew-erile.
AFFIRMATIVE negation-Giles: "Did e'er
man ever zee stitch wet weather in all his
born days afore." Hodge: ''Noah!'
TAXATION is said to bear equally on all
classes, from the fact that it hardly press
es on the rich, and presses hardly on the
poor.
A Down EAST pundit wants to know
what battle in the Crimes should remind
one of fight with the Modoc Indians
Balak-lavaI
A CHICAGO servant girl recently took
dose of morphine to make her cheeks
look pale. 1t was one Of the greatest sue
cesses on record.
A CONNECTICUT editor has been elected
fence viewer. and now calls upon sill per-
sons having fences to be viewed to bring
them to his office.
THE Boston Transcript declares that the
minus of the ladies there are in great agi-
tation concerning the ''flxins" on their
new Easter bonnets.
In an audience of rough people gener-
Gus sentiment always brings down the
house. In the tumult of war both sides
applaud an heroic deed.
COPS image slumbers in our souls till
shard-edged grief cuts here and there,
when 10 the semblance of His form APP
pears sculptured by the woes of time.
THE patent self-inserting button, it is
feared, will make sad work in the mar
rage market. What will men with pat.
ent self-inserting buttons want of wives
THERE is young man in Connecticut
who is out of employment and wants io
serve as substitute for some old pension
er of 1872. AS he is only about twenty
three years old, appearances ale agains
him.
THERE are but three ways of living, a
some one has said, by working, by beg
ging or by stealing. Those who do no
work, disguise it in whatever pretty Ian
guage we please, are doing one of tb
other two.
A pYEING establishment in Nashvill
has a mixture which is called ''the purpl
dye." 1t is strange coincidence that
man who had very sick dog the othe
day expressed his apprehensions in pre-
cisely the same language.
CoNFUcIUs said To dwell with goo
man is like entering house wherein ar
the fragrant ''lan" flowers after whil
you may not seem to smell the fragrance
because your whole person has becom
impregnated with the fragrance.
WISDOM is like electricity. There is n
permanently wise man, but men capable
wisdom, who, being put into certain con
pany, or other favorable conditions, b
come wise for time, as glasses rubbe
acquire electric power for while.
DURING the past year the National Lif
Boat Institution saved on the coasts of ii
British isles total of 54S human lives an
% ships. Since its foundation, the Life-Boi
Institution has contributed to the savin
of a. AGA lives. 1t has fleet of 233 III
boats, manned by 1900 men.
THE editors of the Louisville Cowte
Journal and Chicago Post are engaged
an enterprise that bushes, for the tin
being, the tumult of political controve
sy, and holds the mind in the firm grip
an unrelenting dubiety. They are tryin
to locate each others brains.
A COURT in Baltimore is asked to
eide that man who was frozen to deaf
last year, in ascending Mont Blanc, 10
his life in an "exploring expedition
This reminds us of citizen of New Yol
who tried to secure the prestige of TO
eign travel by visiting Jersey City.
The greatest thing human soul ev,
does in this world Is to see somethin
and tell what it saw In plain way. HUI
dreds of people can talk for one who G.
think, but thousands can think for Of
who can see. To see clearly Is poetr
prophecy and religion-all in one.