The Louisiana cotton-boll. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], Attakapas, La.) 1872-1883, 1874-01-28
PUBLISHED WEEKLY.
GRAVE AND GAY.

O'BRIEH, H., boasts of weather "coId
enough to make a polar bear wear Arc
tic ovprshoes."
JACK, who is ut boarding school in
the country, writes home, "Please send
me good trap to catch 4 woodchUck
and piece of carpet to say my prayers
| N.
FoErY pairs OF hands flying wildly in
tn" air, forty mouths in iistressful pan
tomime. "What do you want ?" asked
the teacher. "Your hair is falling off,
answered the chorus.
WHEN you have lost money in the
streets, every one is ready to help you
| to look for it but when you have lost
your character, every one leaves yoU to
recover it as you can.
THE arrangements of nature are ad-
mirable, exclaimed 4 Young lady dur
/ the late high winds. The same wind
which disarrange3 our dress blows dust
into the eyes of the wouId-be observers.
FELLow-crrGzENs," said 4 ooIored
pIcacher, 'ef I had been eatin' dried
apples for week, an then took to
drinkin' for a mont, couldn't feel more
swe}Ied. up than am dis mint wild
pride an vanity at seem such full ter
dance har dis evenin'."
Speaking Of SNOW The beautiful SNOW
Lock at il, flying and drifting below
g.! I,f. and ~ wi TN -IIEH
Making Of soil an alIuyial muBh;
Wctting our WhiAkcIS, mustlChcs. ami haT.
Soaking The stockings and feet Of the falri
Waking up chiIblains we had when a child,
Bii4t ring our cOrns till they re angry and WIG.
If ali of the authors Of " Beautiful Snow"
Would take Me SNOW With 'cIl. to regions be
low
The snow and the feIIers together might go,
At Icar. they've permission. 80 far as we know.
4 LITTLE boy was recently presented
with a toy trumpet, to which lie became
greatly attached. One night when he
was about to be put IN his "Iittle bed,
and was ready to say his prayers, he
handed the trumpet to his grandmother
saying, Here gran'ma, you blow while
pray.
4 MILL has recently been started i'll
England in which -four is made by
crushing the grain by small trip-ham-
mers instead of grinding it. It is
claimed that a pounding mill, costing
1000, will produce as much flour in
the same time asgo grinding mill worth
-, 600
ALEXIS has besought his father not
to send him around the world again.
The stern old czar consents on COndi-
ton that he will break with the girl of
his affections. She is beautiful, high
toned, amiable creature, but there ap-
pears to be something the matter with
her "blOod."
DID any of our readers, asks, the In
terror, ever know Of a congregation who
went heavily in debt for new church,
and who did not soon thereafter snub
and ship their pastor? The church
debt makes people cross, ill-natured,
critical, and the minister is the most
natural object in the world at which to
shoot splenetic arrows.
PROF. LIE CoNTE, in the American
Naturalist, in his paper on economic
entomology, gives an instance in which
all the caterpillers in nine-acre piece
of woods were destroyed by q disease
which had been communicated to them
by silk-worm. The same principle
might be used in destroying the cotton
worm and others of like nature.
In FORMER times the government al
Iowance given to the widows Of Scotch
cIcrgymen was nearly equal to the
clergymen's stipends. A minister of
Cranshaws, q parish among the Lam
mermoors, having wooed lass in hum
BILE circumstances, the father of the
damsel, when consulted on the subject,
said, "Tak' i'm, Jenny, tax i'm, he's as
guild dead as livin."
DAUGHTER of the house 10 privi-
legged old friend Of the family: "Dear
Mr.. Lupus, you don'b eoena to bo on
joying yourself. should like to have
you waltz this once with me-" Privi-
legged Old Friend: "My dear child, [
don't dance; but, if it suits you,
wouldn't mind sitting here with my
arm around your waist, while the 9th
ers are making themselves dizzy"
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