The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-12-12
NUMBERl4.
Laughing Gas.

AduSuluS UdSs
Natural slippers--Eels.
Good bread is often much kneaded.
Open order" Six on the half she'll"
The fastest city in the world-Elec-
tricity. s-@
Never waste your time; waste some-
body else's.
You can't "take trickn with "the
trump of fame"
Many "play the knave" without
ever coming to the card table.
There are six George Washingtons
in the Pennsylvania State Prison.
When a Thermometer falls, how
often on an average does 1t breaki Il.
King Kotfee, ,nwho has been boAiugs
over lately, has settled down again. ~
! Mrs. Goodale, of Pequonic. Conn,
is 100 years old. Good ale keeps we'll.
A WORKOUT shoe is like ancient
Greece, because it once had Solon
(sole on). *~$a u
It is a good thing to be above board,
but generally q bad thing to be over
board. . a.5.{.s#
An Iowa justice the other day ac-
cepted two bushels of the pungent
onion as marriage fee.
A French milliner conceived the
novel idea Of having the ladies wear
their hats on their heads.
The tomb of Augustus at Rome is
to be used for theatre. The cx-Em-.
peror retains his private box.
Danger turks in every thing, ap-
parently, for now we are informed of
an explosion of ice-c,eam in Read
ing, Pa.
The French Prince Imperial has
ears like MilwaukeeaD, and his pho
tograph is doing him a great deal Of
damage. ss..a..=.
Grump accidentally sat on red
hot coal, and spent the night follow
ing in trying to turn SO he could see
his wound.
"Cheap and hungry dances" :" are
Vermont institution. There are no
refreshments, and the fun stops at IL
o'clock.
Half million dogs keep the peo-
pie of New Mexico in bark. If the
tonic does them good they are well
come to it.
Why did she turn her back on you
young man. Innocent child! She
wished to make an exhibition of her
new overskirt.
The Aldermen of Kansas City are
irreverently spoken of by a local jour
nal as ''the gentlemen with the red
eyes and nose"
A Frenchman wishing to compli-
ment a young lady by calling her
gentle lamb, said: "She is one NUT
ton as is small"
A circus lion is roaming around
Weston, Missouri, and people have a
good excuse for remaining away from
prayer-meetings.
A New Orleans paper offers the
sentiment thus: "George Washing
ton-First in war, first in peace, and
last in getting monument" ..-
We can't all be run over by loco
motives or killed by boiler explosions.
An Indiana man has just been crushed
to death in a corn grinder.
It is singular that mineral waters
are only beneficial to the wealthy.
We never knew a physician to advise
u poor man to go to any Watering
place.
A Boston philosopher says that yon
want to lock at mems boots heels to
discover their energy. A slow, sloth-
ful man runs his boots over at the
heels.
A Colorado exchange says: "The
Canon City girls don't take kindly to
croquet. They say it is too high
toned for them. Leap-1rog is their
best hold"
A spectre carpenter, who saws and
hammers and does other things in
cidental to his trade, is making the
owners Of a house in Richmond, Va,
very miserable.
A confidential clerk in Chicago
cattle yard has just skipped out with
several thousand dollars. The New
York Commercial thinks he has prob
ably taken passage for Cowes.
Without a desiie to brag, the De-
troit Free Press points to a Michigan
sunflower nineteen feet high, and
inquiries after the health
Of other suntiowers around the coun-
try.
A Council Bluffs lawyer ate peanuts
in court aud was fined $40 for con-
tempt. The Judge remarked that he
was determined to uphold the majesty
Of the law if it killed the entire pea
nut crop of the South.
If, as Emerson says, ain the wo,ds