The Louisiana cotton-boll. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], Attakapas, La.) 1872-1883, 1873-02-19
WISDOM is like electricity. There is

no permanently wise man, bit men ca
pable of wisdom, who, being put. into
certain company, or other favorable
conditions, become wise for o short
time, as glasses rubbed acquire electric
power for a while.-Emcrs0n.
Miss TEMPERANCE ANDERSON, a resi-.
dent of Baden, Beaver County, Penn,
sylvania, has hair six feet and a half
long. 1t is quite thick and fine, blonde
in color.
A LAD with a very unmusical voice
insisted upon singing at a recent party.
What does she call that inquired a
guest. The Tempest, I think, answered
another. Don't be alarmed, said a sea
captain present. It's no tempest. It's
only a squall, and will soon be over.
WHEN we look for the highest bene-
fits of conversation, the Spartan rule
of one to n is usually enforced. Dis
course, when it rises highest and
searches the deepest, wheneit lifts us
into that mood out of which thoughts
come and remain as stars in OUr tirma-
ment, is between two. -EmersOn.
THERE is no outward sign of polite
ness which has not a deep moral reason.
Behavior is q mirror in which every one
shows his own image. There is a
p~oliteness of the heart akin to love,
from which springs the easiest polite
ness of outward behavior.
JOSH BILLINGS was asked, How fast
does sound travel? His idea is that it
depends a good deal upon the noise
you are talking about. The sound of a
dinner-horn, for instance, travels half o
mile in a second, while an invitashun
tew git up in the morning i have known
to be 3 quarters Nv IN hour goin' 2 pair
of stairs, and then not hev strength
enuff left to be heard.
Some of those who hold receptions on
New years day will appreciate what
Sydney Smith says of the shakes Of the
hand There is the high official the
body erect and q rapid, short shake,
neal the chin. There is the mortmain
the fiat hand introduced into your palm,
and hardly conscious of it's contigIity.
The digital one finger held out, much
used by the high clergy. There is the
shakus rusticus when your hand is
seized in an iron grasp, betokening rude
health, warm heart, and distance from
the metropolis, but producing a strong
II of relief OF your part when you
find your fingers unbroken. The next
to this is the retentive shake one
which, beginning with vigor, pauscs as
if to take breath, but without relinuuish-
ing its prey, and before you are aware
begins again, till you feel anxious as to
the result, and have no shake left in you.
THOUGHTS DURING HAIR-CUTTING.
Will he cut it well, or shall I look an
for the next ten days?
Will he ask me how would | like it
cut ?
Will he talk to me ?
VIII he blow upon me
Will he snip a bit off my ear?
Will he prick my lip when he trims
mustache?
Will he tell me that my hair is getting
rather thin at the top?
Will he ask me whether I have tried.
or would like to try, their marvellous
or their wonderful wash, or
heir unrivaled restorative?
Will he ask me whether I will be
jhampooed:
VIII the Brushing business bring
ears into my eyes?
Will he part my hair on the wrong
ide?
Will uncomfortable hairs get between
ny collar and my neck?
OLD Judge ". Of, in the Old Do
is a character. He was a law
a legislator, a judge, and leading
among the old-line wings of
blessed memory ; but, alas! like them,
lis glory departed, and, like many
of his confreres, has gone "where
he woodbine twineth." Notwithstand-
ng the loss of property and the too free
Ise of apple-jack, he maintained the
of ex-judge, dressed neatly, car
led a gold-headed cane, and, when he
lad taken more than his usual allow
nee of the favorite beverage, he was
cry pious at such times, always attend
NO church, and sitting near the stand
s erectly al circumstances would ad-
and responding fervently. On one
ccasion q Baptist brother was holding
orth with energy and JUNCTION on the
wills of the times, and in one of his
lights exclaimed, "Show me a drunk ]
FdP The judge rose to his feet, and ]
balancing himself on his can
solemnly, Here / am, sir; here I I
mr. The elder, though a good deal 6
onplussed by the unexpected response, !
hanged to go on with his discourse, 6
nd soon warming up to his work, again T
allied out, "Show me a hypocrite s
how me a hypocrite! Show me a hyp- '
Judge W. again rose, and +
cached forward across a seat which in I
srvened, touched Deacon D. on the =
noulder with his cane, and said, "Dea- !
On d, why don't you respond, sir ? {
1hy don't you respond? I did when =
ley called me-" .
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