The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1875-05-01
NUMBER "a.
Laughing Gas.

Something about dogs-heaa.
Spring is on hand. Lettuce have
peas.
"A doughmestic difhculty-heavy
bread.
Improving ones time-mending the
clock.
The home circle--walking around
with the baby at night.
What is better than promising
young mani 4 payiag one.
; When man can't find any thing to
do, he has lived long enough. a
Why is the sun like . good loaff
Because it's light when it rises. a-
Question for actors-can an actor
be said to work when he playss
In what ship has the greatest num-
Der Of people been wrecked7 Court
ship. -..s
The man who doesn't hang out his
shingle and advertise dies and leaves
no sign.
BashfulDess is often like the plating
on spoons-when it wears off it shows
the brass. "@a'
A Spanish proverb says Z" A kiss
without mustache 10 like an egg
without salt" ~
The spelling mania IL raging. Par
ties Of four in the carts turn two seats
facing each other and spell.
Boss Tweed doesn't think the treat.
ment at the penitentiary very benign.
On the contrary he thinks it il 7x9. g
"Wby do you use paint {" asked .
violinist Of his daughter For tho
same reason that yon use rosin, papa"
How is that I" Why, to help me
draw my beau"
Nevada ice-dealers are already pre-
pairing to double their prices next
summer, upon the ground that the
crop will be almost entirely eaten mp
by grasshoppers.
A young lady while out walking
heard, for the first time, her mothers
intention to marry. again, and she was
obliged to sit right down and cry about
it. She could not go step-farthef. +
If George Washington himself had
only beeu cross-examined by Judge
Fullerton before he died, We have no
doubt it would have turned out that
he really lied about the cherry tree
after all. @
"Idiot!" exclaimed q lady, COM
ing out Of the theatre, one evening,
q Z gentleman accidentally stepped
on her trailing skirt. Which one of
a. Z" blandly responded the man.
"No eetin appnls in school ours"
reads sign on the blackboard Of
school house in enlightened old has-
sachusetts, where education II sup
posed to sit on the top rail and mako
faces at ignorance.
A subscriber to q Southwestern
newspaper died recently, leaving four
years subscription unpaid. The ed
itor appeared at the grave and de-
posted in the coffin palm leaf fan,
linen coat and Thermometer.
Mrs. sweetlo-" But why are you
making go many dolls pantaloons, my
dear Mrs. Jinkby." Mrs. Jinksby-
These are not dolls clothes my dear,
they are for the poor frogs who 60 ex-
posed in the water all winter in our
pond"
A colored congregation in Dayton
have decided to forgive sheir clergy
man for betting on thres card monte
and losing $50 Of festival money. Ono
of the deacons remarked : eve 10
all human, and the game is very ex-
citing"
"Cut this out; it n,sy ssre your
life," is the heading Of an sdve1tise-
ment in the Portage Register. A Port
age man cut it out, pasted It in bin
hat, and the same day was killed by
a brick which fell from the top of
building. ...-
A clergyman in one of our Eastern
cities was met by q seody looking
man with flask Of whiskey in his.
pocket, who inquired: "Sir, is thiss
the nearest road to the almshouse : ="
"No sir, !" replied the clergyman, point
ing to the bottle; but that is"
Mary" Please MN, is it true a.
you're agoing to buy grand pianoi
Will it be real grand one like they
'as at the 'allf" Mistress" Well,
yes Mary believe so, but-why I"
Mary" You ace, MN, cos when you
went out could play it to keep the
children quiet"
We read in the Bible, in the 13tl,
chapter of 1st Samuel aud 10Th verse,
that "There was no smith found
throughout all the land Of Israel"
OF course not. All the Smiths were
living in this country at that time,
and they have wonderfully increased
and multiplied since then.
An honest old gentleman from q
rural county, who came down to New
York to spend the sabbathwith friends,
was asked by one what the peo>
pie up his way thought Of the Beeeher
scandal. He replied that he never
tried it, and didn't kaew any thing