The Louisiana cotton-boll. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], Attakapas, La.) 1872-1883, 1873-04-02

Mr.. Caudle observes that bee
stung is bad and hornet-8tung Is worse,
but neither is comparable with woman s
tongue,
The recent decline in the price of
coal-oil is a matter of congratulations to
the undertakors They say chat folks
don't kndle fires with the stuff when it
gets beyond a certain figure.
That "School of Journalism" at
Yale College is q success. An Iowa
editor has written to the President for a
couple of graduates as soon as they are
turned out. Salary six dollars n week.
A veterinary surgeon who lives at
! Wilmington tried to "GouHder' his
mothpr-in-Iaw by dancing polka with
her until she got warmed mp, and then
giving her nil the iced lemonade she
/ could drink.
Our valuable contemporary, the
Honolulu PoIynesian says: "Ta hook
ahOra Q ko kiaaina Oahu, J. kaOna ma
kahi J. Kaaukai ka mel i make tho
! hci. We agree in substance with this
view Of the case.
A young gentleman has recently
procured a local habitatiOn in Te1as,
who now advertises for q name, if nny
one has such thing to spare. He lost
his during prolonged residence among
the Indians, by whom he was kidnapped
number of years ago. No parties
called Smith need apply
Susan" said girl, looking out Of
the upper story of a grocery store on
LOrain street, addressing another girl
who was trying to enter at the front
door, "we've all been to prayer meeting
and been converted, SO when You want
lager on Sunday you will have to come
in at the back door. "
You can have no heaven after death
of which you have not sown the seed
before death. Keep a strict wach over
your thoughts and affections, over your
imaginations and wishes, for according
to their character is the character of the
demons or angels that keep your com
pany. With what spirit your soul is
associated in the body, into the hands
af the same will You fall when you are
oosed from the body John P,ttsoro.
-"Woodworth, said Charles Lamb,
lone day told me that he considered
Shakespeare greatly overrated. ''Thcre
is" said he, "an immensely of talk in
all Shakespeare wrote, and people are
taken by it. Now, if had mind !
could write exactly like Shakespeare" "
80 you see," proceeded Lamb, quietly,
"it was only the mind that was wanting.
Conversation between an inquiring
stranger and steamboat pilot: "That
is Black Mountain ?" eyes, sir; high
est mountain above Lake George y
"Any story or legend connected with
that mountain ?" "Lots of EN-. Two
lovers went up that mountain once and
never came back again. "Rndeod.
Why, what became of them ?" event
down on the other side" ,"
Since Napoleon's death. country
physicians are growing crazy over the
cases of embolism developed through
ont the land. Last week, in Ohio, n
young lady died from what round
headed old doctor said was "beart klot
or embyolism of the main fue Of the
heart, but she revived in an hour, and
it was found had been temporarily chOk-
ed by chew of gum which sho had
swallowed.
THE HEvPECKED MAN.-The henpeek-
ed man il most generally married but
there are instances on the record OF
single men being harassed by the pull
let's
Yu can alwus tell one oy these kind
ov men, espeshily if they are in the
company ov THAR wives. Thay looked
as RESIGNED tew THAR fate az a hen tur'
key in wet day.
Thare ain't nothing that will take the
starch out ov Il man like being pecked
bv woman. It Is wuss than seven
m 1nths' of the fever and agy.
The wives of honpeeked husbands
most alwuzsout liv THAR victims, and L
hav known them TO get married agln,
and git hold ov a man that time (thank
the Lord 2 who understood all She hem
peck lodges.
One ov these kind ov husbands IL an
honor TO his sex.
The henpecked man, when he glts out
amungst men, puts on an air ov bravery
and defiance, and once in a while will
git q leetle drunk and then go home
with firm resolve that he will be cap
tain on his household but the old wo
man som takes the glory out of him,
and handles him just as she would
hafF grown chicken, who had fell into
swill barrel, and had to be ierked out
awful quick. Josh BiII5agS.