The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1874-08-05
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/ SO we must be found always under
4 his banner.
4 The Republicans have defeated
4 the Carlists in an engagement near
4 Bilboa. 4
The new postal convention with
Japan will go into effect the lst of
i January next.
4 Spare that you may spend; fast
4 that you MAY feast; labor that you
I may live; and run that you may
rest.
"A Vermont debating club is now
struggling with the question: (which
eats the most chickens ministers or
owls?' iaa
AS an excuse for rejecting wild
over, a fair young damseTinformed a
friend that she didnot want "a warmed
over man.
Tom Moore compared first love
4 to potato-because it shoots from
4 the eyes. Cor rather" exclaimed
Byron, "because it becomes all the
less by pairing"
"A Pittsburg kitchen girl recently
received an inheritance of half mil
lion of dollars. She was Immediately
invited into the parlor. &
Near Cena, Michigan, railroad
accident occurred lately, by which
seven persons were killed, and fifteen
others seriously injured.
The insurgent Cubans are just
now meeting with severe, reverses,
having been defeated in several small
engagements lately.
1t is said that the prettiest girl
in Harrisburg j s newspaper carrier.
She carries them in her hustle.
Then, of course, she is all ao1'tte
behind.
--Disdain not your inferior,
though poor; since he may possibly
be much your superior n wisdom,
and the noble endowments of the
mind. 20 7A<
Chicago is taking official action
to prevent the recurrence of destruc-
tive fires within the city limits, by
enforcing the wooden building ordi
nance of 1861.
There is something wrong with d
young man who wears his Sunday
clothes every day, and argues that
four hours sleep is enough to satisfy
the demands of nature.
"A maxim is the exact and noble
expression of an important and in
disputable truth. Sound maxims are
the germs of good; strongly imprint
ed in the memory, they nourish the
will. d
"A Kansas man sent his wife after
the cows, and she came home dumb as
an oyster. A wag says he knows lots
of married friends of his who will in
vest in COW pasture each with as lit
tie delay as their finances will allow.
Let amusements fill up the
chinks of your existence, not the
great spaces thereof. Let your plea
sures be taken as Daniel took his
prayers-with his windows open;
pleasures which need not cause sin
gle blush on an ingenious cheek.
-Thackeray, when speaking about
fame, would frequently tell the fol
lowing anecdote: When at dinner in
st. Louis, one day, he heard one
waiter say to another "Do you know
who that is?" NO "That is the
celebrated Mr.. Thackeray." "What's
he done?' BLESSED if know"
The little boy speaks again. He
recently fell into pond of water, but
managed to crawl out before assist
ance arrived. His mother at night
asked him to thank God for his pres
ervation, and he answered thought
fully, Yes, I s'pose bod did save me
but then I held on to the gwass, too.
"A Charleston baby fell out o
bed, Thursday morning, and, during
the next three hours, eight women il
the neighborhood made twenty-thre'
inquiries concerning its health, an(
its mother had to drop i t twenty
three times and go to the front win
dow to answer. This is Christian
charity.
"A gentle Quaker had two horses
very good and very bad one
Whenever seen riding the latter, i
turned out that Els better half hat
taken the good one. WHAT said
sneering bachelor, how comes it tina
you let your wife ride the bette
horsep Friend, when thee be mar
ried the'n know was the gentle re
NV. & ss& u.s.