The Louisiana cotton-boll. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], Attakapas, La.) 1872-1883, 1874-09-16

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ing vehicle are seized and confscated
to the use of the fire brigade. a
These lines are by realistic aagis
nav [Mfchiganl poet n
"Wonst the red Injun here took ti4Si1. ds
lights,
Fisht, fit and bled
| Now most of the inhabitants is whites,
With nary red
In Paris, natural flowers are much
worn Mt one side OF the waist, and are
arranged in this wise 4 small bou-
quet is placed in tiny glass holder
containing few drops Of water, which
is then concealed in the folds of the
sash.
An Iowa paper reports the follow
ing rs the form of marriage in town
in that state: "Join your right hands.
Do you want one another ?" (They
both answer, "Yes.") "Well, then,
have one another. You're man and
wife. 4"
/ Thirty thousand portraits Of the
Prince Imperial, made by new pro-
cess, have been seized in Paris. They
were printed on cards which seemed to
be blank but if the cards were wet
with water a photograph of the Prince
became apparent in few seconds.
"A Vermont man has the following
posted in his field: "H any mans. or
womans COWS or oxen gets into these
here oats, his or her tail will be cut off,
as the case may be. I am @ Christian
man and pay me taxes but blast man
who let's his critters run loose, says l.
"A lady who had been teaching her
little f0ur-year-old the elements OF
arithmetic was astounded Mt his running
in and propounding the following prob
lem '' Mamma, If you had three but
terfiies and each butterfly had bug in
its ear, how many butterflies would you
have ?"
Remember that appearances are
often deceiving. Many q pale, thin
young lady will eat more corned beef
than a carpenter. Because you find
her playing the piano in the parlor it Is
no sign that her mother is not at the
corner grocery running in debt for a
peck of potatoes.
The New York Mail denounces as
double-distilled fool, a young French
man who, seeing the dead body OF q
very beautiful woman displayed at the
Morgue, went and killed himself, first
writing letter, stating that he had
committed the act in order to have his
cadaver put on the next slab to hers.
"A we'll Known brother of the press
remarks, in recent issue: "It is not
our fault that we are red-headed
and small, and the next time one OF
those oveFgrown rural roosters in ball
room reaches down for our head, and
suggests that some one has lost rose
bud out of his button hole, there viii
be trouble"
A Walker street ATLANTA, Ga.)
man has q goat for sale. While he was
at dinner recently, the goat chewed up
his new panama hat, box OF cigars,
and his wife's new bonnet, and several
fruit cans that were out airing, pre-
purubury for duty. Tho goat is an ex-
pensiye luxury, and will be sold cheap
on long credit.
To despond is to be ungrateful be-
forehand. Be not locking for evil.
Often thou drainest the gall of fear
while evil is passing by thy dwelling.
Verify evils may be courted, may be
wooed, and may be won by distrust; for
the soil is ready for the seed, and sus-
picion hath ooldlyput aside the helping
hand.--IUpper.
Grave city pastor to his fond wife
"My dear, Mrs. Wilson must be ex-
periencing a change Of heart. She
looked SO serious during my last ser
mon" Fond wife" Sho, you goose,
why couldn't you see that her new sun
day hat has one artificial flower less
than Mrs. Browns, who sits in the next
pewP" The pastor collapses and takes
refuge in an armchair.
"A brother OF the Ashantee King
Koffee named Aguasi Boachi, who was
taken from Coomassie by some Dutch
men at the age OF nine, brought up in
Amsterdam, and afterward sent TO the
School Of Mines at Fresberg, is now q
director Of mines in the Dutch colony
Of Batavia. He speaks three or four
European languages, is intelligent and
fond Of study, and generally respected.
AT his late faney-dress ball the
sumptuous Wales twas dressed in Q
light maroon velvet deubleb and cloak
OF satin, embroidered in gold, trunk
hose, large buff boots and black felt
hat, with white feather. He wore al
SO wig of fair hair, which prevented
his EASY recognition, and had his Star
of the Garter on his breast, and the
badge hanging from blue ribbon
round his fieck."
A hater of tobacco asked an old me-
gro woman, the fumes of whose pipe
we're annoying TO him, If she thought
she was d Christian. Yes, brudaer,
i spect I is." 'tDo you believe in the
Bible ?" Yes, brudder." "Do You
know that there is a passage in the
Scriptures that declares that nothing
unclean shall inherit the kingdom Of
Heaven p Yes, I've heard OF il"
'eWeil, Chloe, you smoke, and You
cannot enter the kingdom of Heaven,
because there is nothing 80 unclean as
the breath of q smoker. What do you
say TO that P' "Why, spects ] leave
my breff behind when ] go dar."
Edward v. Valentine, the Rich
mond sculptor, has returned from Yer
mont with block Of pure white mar
| Bile, from which he will fashion re-
cumbenb figure of Gen. Robert y. Lee,
to be placed on his tomb at Lexington.
The figure represents Gen, Lee Tepos-
ing in an easy position upon q couch,
| his head and shoulders slightly raised
above the body, and his IA aFsn out
/ stretched by the side Of rs aNos1 Hsa
i his right arm laid across hts 1x
/ he wears full confederate uniSaza.
| cluding boots and gauntlets, and light
1 drapery covers nearly the whole form.
The appearance is natural and graceful,
indicative OF peaceful slumber rather
than death.
There is a deal OF truth in the fol-
4 lowing bit, which we eut from an ex-
change To grow rich 10 not to make
/ more money, but to spend less. IL one
is not aceumulating money ag fast as he
thinks he ought, the remedy In nine
cases out Of ten is not greater exertion
to make money, but greater care TO
save it. Indeed, he who saves money
/ g,,ataynakica1tv putfinU away A mart