The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1875-01-23
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NUMBER 70.
Laughing Gas.

i Laughing Gas.
Freebooters-Meu who are ready to
kick for nothing.
X. X. was surprised to hear an
Omaha man call him Mr.. King.
Mrs. Partington, reading Of the strike
of the wire drawers, remarked: "Ah,
me what new-fangled things won't
they wear nexti"
A Clarksville man has written . life
Of the devil. The last three chapters
comprise ten years biography Of
his mOther-in
There is vile hypocrite in Beth
lehem, Pa. He actually entertained
a company in honor of the anniversary
Of the birthday of his mother-in-1aw.
A Memphis, Mo-, medium reports
little Charley Ross Z" all hunk in Par
adise." He's happier there, where
Katie King can show Linn all the nice
things Mr.. Owen gave ner.
And now they say William Penn
would sit down under q tree with In
dams about him, and telling them of
the better world beyond the sea, deal
himself four aces aud win the game.
Life will feel brighter when it is
known that the Car of all the Rus
slams picks his teeth with = sjack-knife,
aud is about to 60 crazy like some Of
the rest Of Us.
"Pretty bad under foot to-day"
said one citizen to another, al they
met in the street the other day. eyes,
but it's fine overhead" !" responded tho
other. "True enough" said the first,
''but very few are going that way"
A colored gentleman went to .eop-
suit one of the most Enlightened"
lawyers in Boston, and after stating
his case said: "NOw l knows yOd's
a lawyer; but wish you would please,
ter"
A Thomas street school boy had
just got his face fixed to sing Let us
love one another" when y snOw-ball
hit him in the mouth and 50 confused
him that he yelled: "Bill Sykes, just
do that agin and I'll chaw your ear
off" ,st.
There is a gruR old party who lives
opposite to a church where the mem
bers of the choir meet twice a week
to practice, and who says if the sing
ing affects Heaven. as it affects Him,
there'll be no use of going there for
happiness. 81
The Prefect of Ten,- Tsin, the port
of Pekinx, China, whose salary was
81 500 per annum, has just retired,
after four years service, on a fortune
Of $3.50, 600. He displayed thrift and
industry equal to the average sAmeri-
can ce-holder. 80 IT,.
A Milwaukee dramatic critic tells.
how one of TIE stars was pretty
effcctually std6ed with the back Of y
chair" Though he had in his pocket
dead-head season ticket, he deter
mined that for once he, would fear
lessly give the truth.
According to . Paris letter hum
dreds of American mothers are there,
seeking titled Frenchmen for their
daughters. The old ladies doubtless
think that if they must add q fool or
two to their families they may as we'll
have the blooded kind. .,-
A good little boy on Hoyne street,
aids to clothe and feed his widowed
mother by threatening to "pcg"
stones at the little girls as they are
going to school, unless they pay him
a penny . day. His ambition when
he grows up is to be a policeman" :"
The owner Of a Nashville street rail-
road tried to ride on one of his ears
last week for nothing, and the driver
bounced" him. The driver who had
read that story about the great war
rior and the inflexible sentinel, ex-
pected to be promoted, but is now
looking for job.
"Now them" said q physician,
cheerily, to a patient, "you have got
along far enough to indulge in a little
animal food, and" " No you don't
Doctor" interrupted the patient /;
I've suffered enough on your Cruel
and slops, and I'd starve sooner than
begin on hay and oats"
An old lady in town has become
disgusted with almanacs. She says il
all the people in the country were to
stop buying almanacs, "maybe tho
printers who make 'em would put in
some total eclipses Of the sun and
moon, and some transit of Venuses
that would be visible here.
A gentleman, while walking in his
garden, caught his gardener asleep
under tree. He scolded him soundly
for his laziness, and ended by telling
him such sluggard was not worthy
to enjoy the light If the sun. 1T was
that reason exactly" said the gar
dener, "that l crept up into the
sllade." :. 40 ~ -'
Stranger, will you try hand with
us at pokeri" Thank you, gentle
men, but there are seventeen reasons