The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-11-21
NUMBER IL.
Laughing Gas.

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Ships bread-Rolls.
A watch -word-Tck.
, Long division--Diyorce. 3
A nod fellow-..Morphsas.
Fee simple-Afee to quack. g
Light -headed-A street-lamp.
Leveling down-Going to bed. : :
Very hard lines-The railways. -
A yawl-boat-One filed with cry
ing babies. 's'' m. 2. -
An act of great politehess Polish
ing stove. y
How to treat wife-Treat her to
new dress. zsgs.5s
| A Dubuque, Iowa, man offers to
pray for $3 a year.
| Consistent to the last: Tom COL
Inns has died in cell. II x
Mrs. King William islreported to-
be terrible mother in law.
Albert Edward can pay his debts if
he wants to. He don't want to, how
ever. ff s.a
A San Francisco man committed
suicide because a pictorial sheet char
acterized him as an "old nuisance"
Olive Logan poises rolling pin on
the end of her thumb and demands to
know who first uttered that express
sion, .' Logan's man Sykes.n
90 kittens! in our hours Of ease,
uncertain toys and full of f1eas !;
! when pain or anguish hang Ger men,
we turn you into sausage then.Y a
The man who has not anything to
boast of but his illustriOus ancestors
is like potato plant-the only good
belonging to him is under ground.
There is evidently a very brilliant
future before Weston, but the general
opinion is that lie won't begin to re-
alize it much until somebody saws off
his legs.
A Georgetown man advertises con-
cerning his runaway wife, that ".As
I never pay my own debts it is rea-
sonable to suppose that I shall not
pay hers" ~
A ferryman was asked by q timid
lady whether any persons were ever
lost in the river over which he rOwed.
g Oh no, said he, We always find
'em the next day" =
An Indiana clergyman sued a news
paper,ssfor libel and dropped dead
within a week. The Detroit Free
Press says these fellows will learn
something BY and BY. -
Uncle, how do you tdo7 Which
would you like hest, work for Wages,
or part of de crop7" "Waal, T clar,
tink bofe de best, if you kin only
brung 'em togedder."
The opinion is being strengthened
every day that the man who first
made a shirt to button behind did
more for the world than one who has
discovered five comets
Washington Irving once alluded
to man of superior pompostiy az" a
great man, and, in his o@n estimation
man of great weight. When he goes
to the west he thinks the east tips up"
Girls as you value your lives, don't
get up and get breakfast in the morn
ings. A young lady attempted it one
day last week, and was burned to
death. Show this to your mammas.
A young blood at hotel WAS re-
luestcd to pass dish near him.
:" Do You mistake me for waiter p
said the exquisite. No sir mistook
you for gentlman," WAS thelp,ympt
reply.
The Shah of Persia thinks of send
ing an Ambassador to this country,
but for what purpose it is not known.
1t is conjectured. however, he requires
an agent in America for the sale ot
his book
Tennie C. Ciafin. according to the
Chicago Inter Ocean, is now Mrs.
John Green. Has this sweet cherub
been getting married ag;tin ? And is
there no law for the protection of her
aIIless innocenceY
The love-letters of the Due de
Richclieu are offered for sale III Paris.
In none of them, however, does it
appear that he and his sweetheart
ever simultaneously sucked at the
same stick of candy Washington
Chronicle.
Next to a rooster in a rain storm,
OF Il man with his mother-in-laW on
his arm, the most wretched looking
thing. in the world is a candidate who
has lust overheard some friend wanting
to bet there to one that he won't be
elected.
Rev j. H. Todd of Sioux played
Il rather neat little joke on his wife,
the other day. While she was unsus-
pectingly engaged in half soling his
winter trousers, he quietly slipped
out at the back gate and eloped with
milliner.
Boston men can't believe what
they see. One Of them had to feel Il
steam anger in Chicago to see if it
was really whirling. 1t really was,