The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-08-15
.PITH AND POINT.


s.Go FOR it while It's het,r was the ex~
hortation ola rural. youth to his lady-lOve,
as he handed her a fOaming glass OF soda
| She went for It. Ss@
DELIcATEIYsPuT.s=- - Customer ''Pm
afraid Fm getting a littlesbala!" J" Operator
-" Well, Sir, think. sir, when you attend
public worship, If FEasyou, I'd sit In the
| gallerys zeEE g
+ M AK ADEbRR says 81 can shake handa
| with Governor, sit beside an Alderman.
and smoke with State Senator, and new
i er feel my littleness. but when I eeme to
stand in the presence sofaa modeFn hotel
selerk. .I i feel that awe. and interierity which
1 tourists feel as they stand IN osemlte
] valley and fook up at the naountain6ops
thousand feet above" ssxzzg @ssszs
Do xoU chew gum The price Of three
pieces week, at one cent apiece, amounts
to S1.56 year, or in sixty-seven years to
4 iSI04.52. s1hat sum will purchase VI COM
! splete set of sAppleton,s Cgelopedla, q mar
riage license, black bombaZine dress for
your aunt, a German siIvefe eoffin-pfste and
a cheroos!~ Gu6sthis eutyyoung man, and
paste itsenthe back Of your giri's photo
.graph.--Lewistop Journal.
l. THERE, were a good many French words
lin the bffls-of fare at the recent banquet of
the Baptist Seeial Unionin New Saybrook,
Conn.,, which puzzled the walters exceed
ingly. Judge Wayland OF New Haven had
to deal with an uneommonly obtuse knight
4 joftheapren, and at length gettingout of
an IDIOT is % |" No, / do not, replied the
obIiging antiingenuousw er,sssIaH see if
a we have any - and he departed in quest
, of an idiot, amid q roar OF laughter.
The following testimony to the virtues
z Of al patent n1anure was received by its
4 owners Dear sSir-The land composing
: my farm had hitherto been so poor that a
Scotsman toulInot get a living of it, and
sesstony that wehad to slice our potatoes
} and plant them edgeWaTs; but hearing of
yodr manure I put some on ten-acre field
!. lssuFroundeds by rail fence, andsin the
: morning found that the rock had entirely
disappeared, neat stone wall encircled
: tie field, and the rails wefesplit into fire.
wood, and piled scientifically in my
THERE Is asWoTl1an out on West Hill
= wlie viii gessupsata6 o'clock, lxinlle the
: fire, get breakfast Trout out the family
s. wash the dishes, and six children, sew {
# lbuttoH on the neekzof l1erShElsband'i
r shirt and hunt bis hat, go to a. mission
r Sunday-schoOl and teach Class, attend
,e fchurch, rush home and have dinner owe
Il and the things cleared away n-time fol
- afternoon Sunday school, read the Sunday
= q school papers to the children, gosto church
= Rat night, and talk on her way home abou
y Sunday asa .sday of rest. ."-Bsptangto'
m mln lIo1oGl HaGcb-Eye.
d NExT to seeing afat woman sitting OF
q athesstoop Of her yine-clad cottage, sewing
: a patch on. her husbands breeches an'
ie telling her nefghbor across the street Wha
set she swould do if sshe. was Henry Wars
AZ Beecher. there is no sight so exhilaratin!
- in these times Of financial distress as
y party of Young men gathered on the gree
'e.swara III front of boarding g-hous
st hin theseeel of the evening batting wit
It, dexterous mallet the bounding sphere
", through ferrnginous loops as prescribe
H. by the immortal author Of the noble gam
he of Cincinnati Enquire.