Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1873-10-18
ADJUSTMENTS.

Young ladies called upon Mr.. Poo, to
obtain his permission to use the chapei
for the Sabbath school celebration. Mr.
p. replied that he had no objection,
provided the chapel was restored IN a.
good order as when the permission was
granted. One of the young ladies re-
plied that on examination of the chapel
they found it filled with cows. She
supposed it would be an easy matter to
drive them back into the building when
the exercises were over,
Here is one outcome of the density
of population A society is forming
in Zurich, with many indications of sup
port, whose object is to engage that their
remains shall be burned instead of buried.
The actuating motive is that, under the
prevailing custom, large spaces OF val
liable land are occupied by cemeteries
near towns, often to the detriment of
the public health, and which some
tim s present revolving spectacles when
graves have to be intcrfered with. The
other outcome is emigration to America
Plenty OF room to bury then here.
-" Thirty-two cents 4" echoed n wo-
man yesterday, when her grocer char
ged her that sum for a pound of but
ter. eyes, 'um," he replied with
bland smile. " You see the grocer can't
carry much of reserve, and We can't
turn out our collatteraIs at sacrifice.
II the government calls i'll the bonds
due in 1874, and then imports of bull
lion tend to ease the money market
little, butter must find its level with
everything else. Butter is very pan
icky Just now, but think the worst Is
over" She paid the money without
further growling.-Detroit Free Press.
After church, one Sunday. little
girl inquired of her mother who the
siggerbuggers" were. She was in
formed that there were no such crea-
lures. but persisted that there must be,
as the minister had prayed especially
for them, that day. 1t happened that
the reverend man had some peculiarly
of pronunciation, and after c0nsidera-
BILE investigation as to what the child
had mistaken for the siggerbuggers,
it was discovered that the ipterded
subjects for prayer were "the slck among
us"
The last from Scotland-Baillie
Sawmun: "Of coOrse, [ want Willie
to hse a guild eddycation i'll fac, I'm
thinkin o sending him to the ceemetery
at Rothsay." Councillor Trott "The
ceemetery? All, yell be wantin' him
to learn the dead language, ell p b. 5.
(who does not see it. "Of coorse, of
coOrse deed and leeving.'
In an editorial on the horse dis
ease the Congregationalist suggested that
il hight be well to sit at the feet of
horse and learn humanity. just so.
saws the California. Newsletter SIT
down at the hind-feet Of mule, and II
he don't humiliate you, pul his tail
and tickle the inside of his legs with q
stable-fork.
We were at Sundsy-school con-
cert the other evening and enjoyed the
following: Little fellow reclting his
verse-I am the Bread OF Life. Super
intendent, questioning him as to his
knowledge of the Bible-Who said L
am the Bread of life? Little fellow, IN
surprise, said it.
A PRETTY SCuOOSEREss.-The COM
mander of a schooner which trades with
Houston, Texas, is a lady. She is de-
scribed as having eyes like diamonds.
(Ah y hair like vexed mass of golden
feathers. o faultless form. (Pshaw y
And honor as pure as polished snow.
(Ouch D-Danbuyy Nea0s.
Sarah Jane DeFoe said that she
would be married in her old Kentucky
home in spite Of her father, and some
men tied him to the sofa, the crowd
walked in, and while he gnashed his
teeth Sarah Jane was we'd.
How different is the bias of mems
minds? What opposite tendencies they
exhibit in their investigation of the
phenomena of mental science! For ex-
ample the lawyer inclines to the at'-
stract, the builder the concrete.
Those old sOakers never lack for
arguments. Lately one replied to
temperance lecturer by the following
poser: "If water rOts the soles OF your
boots, what effect must it have on the
coat of your stOmach?'
Punch thinks that some people are
never contented. After having all their
| limbs broken, their heads smashed, and
their brains uOcked ont, they will act
ually 60 to law and try to get further
damages.
-"Who dat hit me? Where dat
lantern" were the exclamations OF an
astonished Elmira darkey after being
thrown something like a hundred feet
from a locomotive.
No actor has yet been able to coun-
terfeit that expression of Joy which
a man shows when discovering lO-cent
stamp in his paper of tobacco.
The sardine fishery is said to be the
best, this year, for years, and everybody
who likes the taste of coal oil and scrap
iron boiled down will rejoice.
Olive Logan says that the sight OF
q woman's ankle on Wall street would
put a quietus on any gold panic by
drawing all the crowd away.
The story that Leavtnworth father
had offered $4,000 to any one who
would marry his crOss-eyed daughter
brought about eight hundred strangers
into that town in one week.
An Irishman having been told that
the price of bread had been lowered,
exclaimed, "This is the first time 1
ever reioiced in the fall of my best
friend"
There is an ancient saying, Truth
lies in a we'll. May not the modern
adage Hn, the most certain charity is
at pump.-Doug,as JerrOd.
The price of speckled front just
now is twenty-five cents speck. Pur-
chasers who do not count the specks are
liable to be cheated.
An eastern paper says that when