The Louisiana cotton-boll. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], Attakapas, La.) 1872-1883, 1874-01-21
HER REArTIr1tL EYES

HER BEAUTIFUL EYES,
Is 1t in depth, in color, or sizc
The charm which lies in those lovely eyes,
Blue as the summer sky?
babes r Chds, a woman in one.
My heart is drank up, rs the dew by the sIr,
BY the glance Of her beautiful eye.
Softly timidIy glanCinP up,
Enclosing its lid like q yiOot-cUp.
Looks wondrOuely sweet and shy
Gazing into its depths, know
The charm winch sets my heart in glow
Is the soul iii her beautiful eve.
- We're Egcrion.
ILLINOIS farmers want law reform
which shall simplify the practice of
courts and do away with useless verbi-
age, technicalities and special plead
iugs and also to provide for establish
ing courts of Cancellation, and to re-
quire county and circuit judges to set
apart a portion of each term for the adj
Indication of cases which may be pre-
sentcd by the agreement of both par
ties, to be settled by the judges upon
their merits, and no appeal to be al
lowed.
THE late Doctor Macadam used 10 tell
of tip8y Scotchman making his way
home on bright Sunday morning,
when the good folks were vending their
way to the kirk. A little dog pulled the
ribbon from the hand of lady who
was leading it, and as it ran away from
her she appealed to the first passor-by,
asking him to whistle for her poodle.
"Woman." he retorted with the Rolem-
nifty of visage which only dfankan
ScotChman can HssuuIg "'yVona~ssy t14sss
is not day for whistlin'. "-Er. sz'#a'siAs
A COURT at Pittsburg, Va, recently
convicted Williom Linkhan, member
of the Methodist church, of disturbing
his fellow w-worshipers in relig. .ous meet
ings by persistent singing in such man.
ner that some of the worshipers were
hugely amused and others exasperated.
A part OF the evidence against him was
an imitation of the defendants singing
by a witness, which "produce a burst
of prolonged and irresistible laughter,
convulsing alike the spectators, the bar,
the jury, and the court"
OLD friends are like old boots. We
never realize how perfectly they were
fitted to rs till they are cast aside, and
others, finer and more stylish perhaps,
but cramping and pinching in every cor
ner, are substituted Then we are o.
ten forced to hunt up the worn articles
from the attic where they have been
thrown, and for little season at least,
rest our weary feet by wearing them,
with our friends it is the same after
trying in vain to fit ourselves to the pc
culiarities of new ones, how often We
20 back with sigh of relief to the
dear people whose very faults may
sometimes have been brought about by
serving us !
A RETROSPECT
This is my youth,-its hopes and dreams,
How strange and shadowy it seems,
After these many years.
Turning the pages idly, 10,
look with smiles upon the woe.
Upon the joy with tears !-AIdrich.
The Wiertz museum, near Brussels,
Belgium, contains a picture of Napo-
leon Bonaparte, representing him in
Hades, which is thus described "He
is surrounded by those whose lives he
caused to be sacrificed in his attempts
to conquer the world. Bloody hands
are thrust out toward him, and horri-
bly, mutilated bodies and dismembered
limbs, still dripping with gore, strew
the ground. Clinging to him, with
faces expressive of anguish or fury, are
the wives and sisters of those whom he
has slain yet he is represented stand
ing in the well-known attitude, with
folded arms, calmly gazing into futuri-
ty, and needing naught of the scene
about him. His face betokens deep
thought. The whole picture is terrible
in its significance,