The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1874-05-27
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reasonable, than to leave reasoning
on things above reason,
Borrowing q knife to skin lead
pencil, is the smart little boys latest
act.
Mind your own affairs. Let all
the errors you see in others manage |
suggest corrections in your
own.
Some person was asked why b
stood before G.? Because, was the
answer, man was B before ne
can C..
TO Judge by the event, is an er-
ror all abuse, and all commit; for, in
every instance, courage, if crowned
with success, is heroism; if clouded
by defeat, temerity.
How is it that o husbandman
and a seamstress follow similar oc-
cupation ? Because the one gathers
what he sows and the other sews
what she gathers.
No mans body is as strong as
his appetites, but Heaven has con-
tracted the boundlessness Of his de-
sires by stinting his strength and
contracting his capacities.
d say, John, where did you get
that loafer's hat?"
please yer Honor" said John,
sits an old one of yours that Missis
gave me yesterday, when you were
to town."
-"He who goes to bed angry has
Satan for q bedfellow," says t h e
aphorism; but it is said there is a
married man who, though he goes to
bed meek and gentle as lamb, con-
fesses to the same predicament set
forth in the proverb.
-"Mother, may'nt l have the big
Bible in your room?"
eyes, my son, and I'm glad to sec
You DESTROYS of perusiug that Book
What do you most want to see in it?''
N only want to see whether | car
smash flies in it like Bill Jones does
at school,
Once at table Pitt was eXpati
ating on the superiority of the Latir
over the English language, and citet
as an instance the fact that two neg
atives make thing more positive
than one affirmative could do
Then, your father and mother,
said Lord Thurlow, ''must have beer
themselves two negatives to hav
introduced such positive fellow Il
you are!'
"A curious elopement occurred a
St. Joseph, Mo-, some time ago
The Belle Of the town found it diff
cult to choose between two favorit
suitors, and so took them both. Sh
married one at nine o'clock in tn
forenoon, and eloped with the othe
at nine the same evening, marrie'
him at Bloomington, twelve mile
from St. Joseph, and the happy con
pie continued their journey to part
unknown.
AT a distribution Of prizes latel
? little girl, whose parents had jus
been turned out of their lodgings
because they had failed to pay thci
rent, was asked by the rector: 'Hav
you studied sacred history, my littl
child% Eyes, sir" '.Do you kno1
the history Of the creation?' e
know that God made ALL" "Wh,
we're Adam and Eve turned out O
paradise?'' The child hesitated
moment, and then, fixing her eyes o.
her examiner, replied: "Probabl,
they were turned out because the,
couldn't pay rent
When an Arab woman intends t
mtr,rv again after the death OF he
first husband, she comes in the nigh
before her second marriage, to tn
grave of her dead husband. Her
she kneels, prays to him, and entreat
him mot to be offended-not to b
Jealous As, however, she fears h
will be jealous and angry, the widoN
brings with her q donkey, laden wit
two goat skins of water. Her pray
ers and entreaties being done, sh
proceeds to pour on the grave tn
water, to keep the first husband coo
under the irritating circumstance
about to take place; and, having we
saturated him, departs.
"A few days since, as q Roxbur
friend, at the close of his labors ft
the day, was enjoying a comfortab
ride home from his office in the cit
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