The Louisiana cotton-boll. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], Attakapas, La.) 1872-1883, 1874-04-01
SAYINGS AND EOINGS.
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I NEAIlO IL uIHIH ledu IeuC / - II t
q most difficult thing to keep.
r CURIOSITY concerning Sake Ioln
Q will be heightened now it is known In
She is an unmarried lady.
THE gas made in Erie is Of twenty
four candle power; that is, Ynu hN,
to light twonty-four candles to see Whor
the gas is burning.
a SIOUx CITY hotel has n black; nd
tan dog that killed 4 thousand rats II Il
month. This is good puff tor the Cog,
but hard on the hotel.
IT is a rule of etiquette in Arkansas
that no true gentleman will ent with his
legs thrown over the back Of his neigh
bor's chair, if he can help it.
SINCE the temperance crusado COM
menced one man in Ohio has signed
torty-tVo temperance pledges aud
" sworn off y iifty-four times.
IT IS singular that the most garrulous
speakers, no matter whether IN public
or private, are invariably those who are
" unaccustomod to public speaking.'
FROM SEA TO SEA-
We glide through golden seas of grain
We shoot shining comet. through
The mountain range against the blue,
And then below the walls Of SNOW
We blow tho desert dust amain;
We brush the gay mRlrona tree,
We greet the orange groves below
We rest beneath the oaks and we
Have cleft continent in twain
-JOdGtin MjHer.
LIEUT-Gov. CAMPBELL, of Bengal,
gives most narrowing picture of tLo
famine in India He says over $780,
600 persons are now in starving con-
,l:Lt~--.r
ANY one who desires to speak of the
Siamese twins learnedly will call them
Xiphopages of the class of Terata-ana-
catadidyma, or, for short, Omphleloph-
agus Yiphodidymus, and return thanks
to the Philadelphia doctors.
A SAILOR dropped out of the rigging
of ship of war some fifteen or twenty
feet, and fell plump on the head of the
first lieutenant. "Wretch!" said the
officer, after he had gathered himself
up. "Where the deuce did you come
from?" "An' sue I came from the
north of Ireland, yer honor"
THE man who ans vered an ADVERTISE
ment to the following feet lad his Gu
riosity satisfied :" If you would leaIn
W u"Nc LDIIG uappJS otlli h4uJ CSHuS LII
postage stamps to A. B." etc. Upon
receipt of postage Stamps, A. B. replied,
I" Your home woul be more happy if
you were less frequently there"
A YOUNG lady has the letters Y. NJ. @.
A. engraved on one corner o. her visit
ing cards, which she hands to certain
gentlemen visitors. At first they sup
pose she belongs to the Young Mems
Christian association, but it is not long
before they rightly construe the letters
to mean, "You may come again.
LIBERTY OF. THE PREss.-
Around her waist put my arm
It felt as soft as cake;
g Oh dear, says she, "what liberty
You printermen do take
why ya5526u ySS5 @y FL sr ny 95G5 GnaFRi9E g3Es sPl
Can you say aught, my love; against
The freedom of the press :"
kissed her some-I did, by gum!
She colorcd like beet;
Upon my living soul shc looked
Almost too good to eat!
gave another buss, and then
Says she, - | do confess,
I rather kinder sOrtcr like
The freedom of the press
THE fact that Barbara Frietchio has
not yet turned up in Washington, with
a claim of $25, 900 for holding the ma
tional flag out of her window in Fred
ericktown, and soaring Robert L. Lee,
goes far to prove that Whittier WIS
fooled in that little transaction, and
that B. F. is, as has been suspected, u
myth.
A FRENcHMAN, condemned to death
for numbering his wife and child with
out extenuating circumstances, demur
red to the sentence, because capital
punishment had been abolished in
France for political offtnces, and he
had killed his wife and child for no
other reason but because thay were
legitimists.
Mrs JONES always believed her
Frederick when he told her that the
" club was for the social intercourse
and discussion of professional topics,
until the other night, when he came
into the hall with rush and evinced q
desire to sleep on the front stairq.
's Mory," cold lie, Ills voice broken with
"Mary, you have been partak
ing of the intoxicating pledge, you
have broken the cup. ltsh no ush
d'nying it, Mary. I shee it in Your
breath and smell it in your eye. Oh,
Maryw With some difficulty he was
put to bed, but since that night he has
rot visited the club.