The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1874-08-26
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The Chicago base ball club has
been beaten in everything but drink
ing oat meal water.
1t has been noticed that nothing
makes a woman laugh so much as a
new set of teeth.
Some of the sweetest music in
London is played by Italians, who
use instruments made of terra Gotta.
Can't they train Cinnamon to
eat grasshoppers? is the conundrum
propounded by interested parties in
the West.
Captain Fry's widow has started
a woodward in New Orleans. She
numbers her friends in that city by
the cords.
The number of Jews in Jerusa-
lem at the present time is said to be
$4,000, thus forming more than half
of the entire population.
Connecticut losses $500 sheen
every year by dogs, but if it wasn't
for spotted dog under the carriage
who would take any pleasure in dri-
wing out?
-Landlady (fiercely )-"You must
not occupy that bed with your boots
on" Boarder 40 never mind,
they're only an old pair. The bed
bugs can't hurt 'em. l will risk it,
anyhow"
Ten years from now Germany
expects to be able to put into the
field trained army of one million
six hundred men. This, for a coun
try that has no Indian war on hand,
will be rather enterprising.
When an Indian chief comes
down to making ak handles and sell
ing them at eleven cents apiece, as
the case with Big Wolf, of Nevada,
it's time to chip in for monument
to Cooper and Longfellow.
-"Well, Johnny, how are you get
ting on? How do you like your new
master?" Faith, Miss, ! dunno"
"He's a very excellent man; and you
can't do too much for him." can
sure. Miss, I don't name to-
One reason why Wisconsin hired
girls get four dollars per week is be-
cause they have to 60 down stairs at
midnight to investigate strange moi
SEES, while the man Of the house
takes up position under the bed.
-"Deserted by all but his aged
bob-tailed dog, his life went slowly
out as the shadows Of the setting
sun crept DER the front stoop ofDar-
liug's Grocery" is the way they ex-
press themselves out in Georgia.
Aunt Bella (who has just read
aloud "The Burial of Sir job n
Moore -"Now, then, which of the
verses do YOU like best" Jack
with alacrity )-"Oh!I know-'Few
and short were the prayers we said -
When q Tennessee husband will
horsewhip his wife for washing pota-
toes in his Sunday plug hat it's time
to enquire whether this generation of
men isn't getting to be too con
founded heightened for the age of the
country?
Turn for q moment from the
Beecher scandal and ponder over the
fact that the footprints of a Chicago
lady on the prairie near Michigan
City got crowd of men out to hunt
for stray elephant. So says Yves
tern paper.
Father Taylor, while lecturing
on Temperance, was Kissed by one of
his hearers, o notorious drunkard.-
Taylor stopped, pointed to the often
der and said, "'There's red nose got
into cold water; don't you hear how
it hisses?"
AN American, writing from
France, says cheap living in that
country is not to be found, and those
who come there must be prepared to
pay fully as much as ct home. Rel
atively speaking, he adds, living is
cheaper in the United States than in
France.
One Mellen Cross, who mysteri-
ously disappeared from Maine lu-
natic asylum, and on whose alleged
skeleton local coroner held an en-
tirely satisfactory inquest, has turn
ed up as an eremetic resident of Deer
Island, in Boston harbor, and the
provoked coroner aforesaid observes
that no one but a mailman would 90
off and leave his skeleton behind him.
John Morrissey's club house at
Saratoga is in full blast. Most open