The Louisiana cotton-boll. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], Attakapas, La.) 1872-1883, 1873-04-09
GRAVE AND GAY.
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GRAVE AND GAY.
FIELD ExRBCIsE-Plowilg
MAN respires, aspires, expires.
ODD-FELLows' haul-A rich wife.
To UNDERSTAND truth, one emust live it
He WHO talks, sows he who listens,
reaps.
AN AWFUL swell-The cheek after a
toothache.
To LOVE is the only thing that can fill
up eternity.
FREE-HAND drawing-Handcarts in
Southern cities.
THE MAN who carries everything be-
fore him-The waiter.
NATURE feels no loss, because God is
always present to her.
OUR HOMES should be as holy as out
churches, to say the least.
Or THE hundred good things in this
life, ninety-nine are health.
How TO turn peoples heads-Oome
into a concert late with creaking boots.
To THE contemplatiVs soul there is no
littleness the least of things is infinite.
"PAws FOR repley," as the cat said
when she scratched the dog for barking
at her.
WHY ARE religious people fit subjects
for entomologists Because they are
insects.
WHATEVER God gives men as step
ping g-stones, they often take into STUN
bling blocks.
He WHO cheerfully commits the uni
verse to God has nothing in the uni
verse to fear.
AN Iowa paper boasts of weather cold
enough to make an Arctic bear wear
pulse-warmers.
SORROW is reigning on the throne OF
the universe, and the crswn of all
crowns, has been one Of thorns.
To LOVE and to labor is the sum of
living, and yet how many think they
live who neither labor nor love
AFFIRMATIVE negation--Giles: Did
e'r man ever zee stitch wet weather in
all his born days afore. Hodge: Noah
INFANCY is perpetual Messiah, which
comes into the arms of fallen men, and
pleads with them to return to Paradise.
A oRUsTY old batchelor says that
Adams wife was called Eve, because,
when she appeared, mans day of happi-
ness was drawing to close.
ARE DOSE bells ringing for fire in
quired Simon of Tiberious. No, indeed,
answered Tibe, dey had got plenty of
fire, and de bells are ringing for water.
COPS IMAGE slumbers in our souls
till sharp-edged grief cuts here and
there, who 10 the semblance of His
form appears sculptured by the woes of
time. ....
In AN audience of rqRgh people gen.
erous sentiment always brings down the
house. In the tumult of war both
sides applaud an heroic deed.
A YOUNG lady having read about 8
man having invented stove which con-
sumes its own smoke, hopes he will de-
wise method whereby tobacco-smokers
can run ON the same economical prin-
ciple.
THE MoRE l think of it, find this
conclusion more impressed upon me-
that the greatest thing human soul
ever does in this world is to see some
thing, and tell what it saw in q plain
way. Hundreds of people can talk for
one who can think, but thousands can
think for one who can see. To see
clearly is poetry, prophecy, and rei-
gion,-all in one.-Ruskin.
A BOY of tender years and heart has
drowned IT kittens, tied tin pans to the
tails of all the neighbors' dogs, orna-
mented his chamber by Pinning flies to
walls, cut brickbats with his uncle's
razor, blown up pet canary with FIRE |
cracker, pulled the tail feathers out of
two roosters, been thrown into the top
of an apple-tree by COW that he was
teasing, brushed his fathers hat against |
the grain, told his sisters lover about |
her false teeth, and still his fond moth
er intends him for thapu1pit.
HERR PRoFEssoR.-Iss it not q
shdrainch ting, laties, dat de Latin race |
Cannot aguire de EnkIish bronouncy-
elton? have choost dis momend bard
ct from an Idalian chendleman Ia Grade
vrent of mine ant ferry gleher mani |
who has lived IN Lonton almoste as
long as I hav-dvendy-vife eeeens-ant
foot you belief it? He shbeegs Enk-
ligh Wit kute shdrong yoreign indona-
ton How to you agound vor 20 sg-
ghsdra-orrtinary zeergoomsddanx 90
tat Punch.