The Louisiana cotton-boll. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], Attakapas, La.) 1872-1883, 1874-06-03
FANCTES.
a dull book w7Ehsa very fine preface.
Som ebigaes it is ''haIf calf"

/ cold surface or creeks anu p0nuS.
A little boy heard his mother tell
of eighteen head of cattle being burnt
the other night Weren't their tails
burnt also ?" inquired the verdant
youth.
-" Patrick" said the priest, chow
much did YOU steal ?" Well, | may as
we'll confess to your Iiyerence for the
whole stack, for am going after the
rest tonight"
"A fish farmer in Illinois gets seven
ty, five cents per pound for his trout ;
thus a small string of fish will bring rs
much as q sheep, and they require
neither grain, hay nor stabling.
A New Orleans woman wears bus
tie made of government bonds. Her
husband looks over the bond market in
the evening paper, before going home
from the club, to see if her back IS up.
A prominent public Office in Nash
vile has this notice posted up " Don't
open this door," under which some wsg
wrote the query, Why ?" and another
responded, Because, d-n it, you
can't it's locked.0
A little boy a few days ago under
took to see if lie could lift himself by
hanging on a mules tail. He found
out all about it, and the doctors think
the skin on his forehead will grow up,
but will leave Il bad scar.
He unbIushingly admits that it was
IRE ofithn. hcngt"tSn sN>0's' o'it0 nj ah1"
his shoulder, and sadly whispered
" Her voice is irretrie7ooly gone. 0he
will never speak again.
A gentleman Of Louisville has
dog-a pointer. The dog ran up the
stems of a house and refused to come
down. His master followed, and found
"a Partridge" on the GoorpIate. Ihls
illustrates the force of instinct.
Hon. Jefferson Davis attended re-
cent ex ,mination of deaf and DUMP
children in London, and Earl Gran7lIl9
introduced him as a ''distlngulshed
stranger W wished to inform himself
of the method of their education.
-Anotber Yankee wants the govern
me to pay him handsomely for a pro-
cess he has invented for making 1t ram
wherever and whenever he pleases.
'Tis we'll the stars are up so high,
Or some designing ass
Would soon propose to take thcih "S"H
And light the world with gas
A Cincinnati reporter says that
there is something grand in the sight
of n pair of runaway horses, but the
detroit Free Press believes that good
deal depends on whether man Is on
fence or trying to climb over the end
board of the wagon.
A bill has been introduced IN the
Canadian parliament to make each
newspaper writer RESI- onslble to the law
for his articles, so that, if an editor
conld prove that he had not written
norticuiar article, he would not be lie
bic to punishment for 1t.
1t is said that Robert Dexter, OF
the New York Bonner, has refused an
ofpar of S1OO,OG for his trOtting horse
Ta1opr. or words to that effect. One
of t6pse fine days that horse is going to
lie down and die, and his owner VIII
feel that he has made a dropslcal 1901
of himself.
A regulation black, and-tan poodle,
to he worth 300, must have head
ohout the size of a black walnut; eyes
that stand outside of their sockets
tail about the size of leud pencil, and
| LOGS an atteDuat4d that the animal iaIis
over on his back every time he hits bis
head to bark.
"A company have purchased one
thousand six hundred acres OF land near
Rntte des Morts, Wisconsin, which 1B to
he devoted exclusively to the raising OF
no1skrats Last year about four thou
sand rats were captured on this territory,
and it is estimated that SIX Thousand
will be this year
A California editor says he can
stand it to hear tourists from the Allan
tic seaboard, who come out to the
Pacific coast, talking about " San Joey.
o1inn "San Josey," StanislOuse,
and the like. but when they begin ask.
Em ;na onestions about Mount Shyster"
he wants to be off.
"A literal-minded youngster was
picked up by visitor OF the family,
who, dandling him on his knee sa!d ::
II wish had this little boy L think
there's money in him. 10 Whlch
promptly replied the child a; L Know
there is, for I swallowed q cent when !
was at grandma's the other day.
"A Detroit gentleman prides himself
IN his fine fowls, and his neiRhbor 1s
e0naIlv vain of fine coach dog. The
dog worries the life out of the chickens.
A few days ago the owner OF the dog re-
ceived the following note; " FRIEND
You keep dogs. l keep chickens. II my
chickens worry your dogs, shoot en-
-Bv a return Just issued the area OF
london is 122 square miles. The river
is crossed by seventeen bridges. The
average daily supply of water is 5l4,-
269 metric tons, and the annual ratable
value of property is 100000, 900 sterl-
, ing. Last year the number OF births
, was 121, 100 in fifty-three weeks, or .
285 weekly; and, as the deaths were
Is GA. or ,44G weekly, the excess OF
, bir hs over deaths was 3,46G, or 839
weekly.
8 At the present time the postal
f rates between France and this country
are so high that it is cheaper for letters
between the countries to be first sent
to England, then re-transmitted tc
= their destination, either France or the
, United States, than for letters to be
2 carried direct by the French mails.
And there is an agency in London
: which makes money by undertaking
| this business of re-traDsmitting letters
t between the two countries.
They tell a queer story about The
doctors in a certain Texas town, wht
, were all away last summer to attend
Z medical convention. They were absen
e about two months, and on their return
found all their patients had recovered
/: the drug stores had closed, the nurse
: had opened dancing schools, the GENE
i i terry had been cut mp into building lots
e the undertakers bad gone TO makirl
= fiddles, and the hearse had been paint
V ed and sold as a circus wagon.
The lawyers of indianapolis are tor
q turing their brains over an extraordinar
+ problem. Ssrne years ago lady c
e that city was married, and four month
- +baraaFfar GaYarata5 from her hTshauf