The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1874-07-29
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Memory is the respectable and

sheath Of all science Cicero.
The manufacturers of baby wag-
ons look with alarm upon the pro-
posed suppression of the Mormons.
Edwin Booth will play no more
for year, oyerwork having made
him an invalid.
A sensitive girl has broken off
the match because he said she had q
foot like raisin box.
The difficulty is not so great to
die for friend as to find a friend
worth dying for Howe.
Detroit girls sit on saw-logs and
dangle their limbs in the wayelets
rather than go to a summer resort.
The individuality of each man is
that peculiar influence with which he
is intrusted for the good ofsociety.
Strike from mankind the pHnci-
pie Of faith and men would have no
more history than a flock Of sheep
Bulwer.
Mexican editors don't care about
an extended circulation. The fewer
subscribers they have the fewer times
they are shot at.
The most untalkative person sell
dom fails to make few remarks when
with bare feet he steps on carpet
taclts at two o'clock in the morning
What must be shall be; and that
which is q necessity to him that
struggles is little more than choice
TO him that is willing Seneca.
The price of steamboats, has fall
len ten per cent. along the Ohio and
Mississippi, and poor folks who con-
template laying in steamboat should
buy now.
If yoa want to find out mans
real disposition, take him when he is
wet and hungry. If he is amiable
then, dry him and fill him up and
you have an angel.
What is even poverty itself that
Il man should murmur under it? 1t
is but as the pain ofpierciug maid
EMS ear, and you hang precious jew
els in the wound.-[ Richter.
Old age is never honored among
US, but only INDUCED, as childhood
is; and old men lose one of the most
precious rights Of man-that of be-
ing judged by their peers Goethe.
Thomas Hood died COMPOSING
and that, too, q humorous poem. He
is said to have remarked that he was
dying out Of charity to the underta-
ker, who wished to urn lively Hood.
Never burn kindly written let
ters, the mute utterances Of those
afar, yet dear, whose faces you may
never look Upon again. Remember
how many little notion in tiuware
thcy will procure.
--Cognia's comet is now approach
ING the earth, and persons who know
where to look for it can sec it. It's
tail is half q degree long, and resem-
hies, to the heated imagination OF the
astronomer, 4 half-opened fan.
Colorado Iiailstones weigh one
pound apiece. This is taken rightt
from a Colorado paper, and it offers
to forward a few for Inspection
The story Of William Tell may be
exaggerated, but this is a straight
case we know.
There are good many pious
people who are as careful Of their re-
iigion as of their best service Of CHI
ma, only using it on holy occasions,
for fear it should get Clipped or flaw
ed in working-day wear.-[ Douglas
Jerrold.
New Orleans contributed $50, 900
to Chicago when fire rendered thou
sands of people homeless. Up to the
9th inst. Chicago had contributed to
Louisiana $6,029.50 for the inunda-
ted Parishes. The figures don't bal
ance well.
Sam, what kind OBJ fish in salt
water weigh de least?" "Why, Ju-
Illus, what ignoramus questions you
AK your brethren! Minims weigh de
least, OBJ course" "No, sar-dats
wrong, now; it am de porpus-cos
he's got no scales"
Whenever you see q small boy
emerging from the house with his
lett arm shading his eyes and the
other smoothing the basement of his
trousers, it is safe to arrive at the
conclusion that he has been chasing
the boot jack around his father.
The new liquor law Of lIississ-
ippi requires that no person shall be
licensed to retail liquor until he has