The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1873-07-19


cost as high as $500, 600.
LADIES who wish for heartsease
shouldn't marigold.
THE cook-oo is supposed to make the
BIRDS -nest pudding.
Coop RULE FOR JuLY-Never strike
bed when it's down.
AMERICAN gills are said to expose the
biggest braids at the Vienna Exposition.
WHAT GOES Most AGAINST FARMERS
GRAIN His reaping machine.
AT what season did Eve eat the apple?
Early in the fall.
The Psurutuvney Valley Spirit is the
name of new Pennsylvania paper.
IF you want to indulge in all the indeli-
cacies of the season, go to Long Branch
THE dressing gown is the most lasting
of all garments; it is seldom worn out.
One of the, .loveliest flowers now in
bloom is the sweet pea. 1t has a pea-cu-
liar beauty.
having said smart thing unless they see
the ''proof." ..
WHAT the pleasure-seeker should do
next month requires the most august con-
sheraton.
IT is singular paradox that in our col
leges the commencement is the closing
exercises.
THERE is society of unfashionables
in Philadelphia. and any member who
puts on sty l. is fined 81.
The Glorious Fourth is the time for us
to think of our forefathers and foremoth-
ers-if we have SO many.
Two licenses to sell opium in Honolulu,
were recently sold at auction, and bought
for $2S.OO0.
"A KANSAS paper describes man as
being '.as seciable as batch Of candi-
dates two weeks before election
If you want to avoid coup de soletl.
look out for the sun, which strikes fer all,
price too senseless to be- mentioned.
The Herald publishes brief account
of the Nomads in Independent Tartary,
but says nothing about the MAIDS.
WAS the cursed thirst-for gold, as men
toned by Marc, regarded in ancient
Rome as a symptom of the yellow fever?
So MANY people get killed or wounded
on the GLORIOUS Fourth" tina it might
almost be called the ''Goreious FOURTH
The sight of thirty-one babies in ten
minutes walk is cited as evidence that
Apalachicola is very healthy place.
WISCONSIN is good State for ladies in
hurry to marry to emigrate to. having
&, 900 more men than women.
A GIRL, fashionable in her tastes but
poor in her pocket, says she never real
lied her necessities till she got hus-
band.
WHILE jealousies will disturb the sur
face of society at watering-places, piques
will become common to sojourners among
the mountains.
Now that ladies' fans have attained Il
useful size, it is suggested that fan par.
ties, for the purpose of winnowing wheat
would come good in the country.
WHEN fellow courts girl he ought to
stick to it-no matter how large her faith
er's feet are. The more feet the more
acres in prospect.
THE melancholy side of our National
Holiday is that it brings so much atfiic-
ton to the sick I; but then every thing has
its melancholy side.
''CHIP" says the reason he grows so
tall, is that he never thinks of Shrews-
burys or Sherry cobblers without he longs
for some.
A FASHIONABLE lady named Sarah,
about starting for the springs, was ad-
vised bs her grandmother to take along
her Saratoga.
"A RHODE ISLAND paper speaks of an
escaped convict as being at large" in
that State. Why don't the Sheriff take
dozen men and surround it?
IMITATION meerschaum pipes are now
made out Of potatoes soaked in diluted
sulphuric acid, and afterward dried under
great pressure.
SMITH undertook to obtain some honey
surreptitiously from hive. He thinks he
has discovered bea-attitude not down in
the books.
CABBAGE-GRowER's MAxM.-Where-
ever you see head 60 for it, remember
ing always that two heads are better than
one.
1HE man who sang, ooh, breathe no
more that simple air." went into the
smoking-car where the air was more
mixed.
WIDOWS who have promised their hus-
bands to never marry again on the face OF
the earth, can 90 to the Mammoth Cave
and have the ceremony performed.
A GIRL presenting herself for a situa-
ton at house where ''nO Irish need APP
ply" in answer to the question where she
came from, said, Sure couldn't We per-
save by me accint that it's Frinch am -