The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1874-11-11
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England to have a few words OF
French on the tombstoncs over the
grave of q relative. -
The New York Pie Baking com
pany's factory, the largest establish
mcnt of the kind in the world, has an
invested capital of $4,000. Have
piece?
Some people complain about
their children being non-observing,
but we'd like to see the child who
won't observe how the family pie is
cut and who gets the biggest piece.
brigham Young's physician feels
of the old mans pulse, tells him to
run out his tongue and then shakes
his. head and remarks: II dunno-I
dunno"
Kate Field says she is conscious
that 'the man doesn't live who can
boast that he has held her hand more
than two or three seconds at time"
No one to love.
-Sorrowing widow go to Portugal.
1t is allowable there to marry after
seven weeks Of mourning, and we
know Of nothing more soothing to
the lacerated heart than to-than to
60 to Portugal.
John Erode is no more. You
probably didn't know him. He lived
in western Missouri, and in entering
the smoke house of friend to see
how the hams got along trap gun
blew his head off.
When 8 man gets into a crowd
and relates joke which he has Just
heard, and some one speaks up and
says he heard that five years ago,
wouldn't it be justifiable homicide to
kill him on the spot9
That was beautiful thought of
the poet that 'swoman clings to man
like the ivy" But is it always true?
How many baldheaded men can tes-
tify that no woman ever clung to
them like the ivy but what she let
go like s. graphing iron.
DR.. Mary Walker, who parts her
clothes in the middle, is authority
for the statement John Stuart Mill
that petticoats are but another name
for passiveness; that corsets signify
coercion, and that the trail is embod-
led thraldom.
Livery fashionable woman in Pa
ris hangs to her belt an alms-bag, a
fan, q ard-case, a pocket book, an
umbrella, a 0urnip-watch, pin cush-
ion, some ivory tablets and q little
mirror. And the sons of women like
these are expected to knock the nom
sense out Of Germany some day.
jerome Bonaparte, the second
son of the deceased nephew of the
great Napoleon, has been recently ad
mitted to the bar at Baltimore, and
his Ii st plea was pronounced IN adj
mirable effort, full Of promise Of fu-
ture distinction. He is described as
fine looking young man of grave
aspect, with an admirably formed
head, and face full of intellectual
expression.
Eternity is solemn word and o
solemn world. The soul of man
shrinbs back with dismay and dread
from entering that mysterious abode
of spirits. And yet all are on their
way to eternity, and must soon en-
ter it alone. But how little think
the gay and pleasure loving, who do
tread so near it's dark shores, how
soon they must launch away on that
un5ried ocean,
"A Kansas lady, writing of WIS.,
itation from a grasshopper in Mar
shall county, says: "Next day the
cornfields looked like plantations of
bayonets. They ate the tops of veg
etables, then the roots, leaving hole
i'll the ground. In the absence of
other fruit, we have been counting
greatly on the peaches; the trees are
stripped, only the stones left hanging
on by the stems
--Bunyan the author Of "Pilgrim's
Progress" on being cast into prison,
made a flute Of one of the rails of the
stool belonging to his cell. The
keeper often heard sweet music, but
. could not trace it, as Bunyan on his
approach always replaced the rail in
the stool. The officers searched in
vain for the mysterious sounds, but
Bunyan kept his secret, and the baf-
fled men were. forced to believe them
supernatural. , a@ 90 2 II
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