Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1875-07-03
OUR SPICE. BOX.

Shades oil nlSnt-Wliiuo"
Sheet music-children crying in bed.
A noose-paper-a marriage certificate.
The path of 'lu,y--through the custom house.
The cause of woman suHrage-scarcity OF
husbands.
What portions of the body are the best
travelers-,he two Wrists.
VIVA, is that which, by losing an eye, has
only a nose left q? A noise.
Some ladies, this season, wear wings-on
their ha,s-but it Doesn't make them angels.
The hair from ladys braid should never
be worn on the lapel Of gentleman coat
unless the parties are engaged.
Old Lady-Is this smoking carriage
Fellow (inside)-No. marin: if you want to
smoke you must 20 higher up
It's generally the case with bad boys, philo-
sophically remarks Miss Anthony, that ihey
look like their mother and act like their father.
You, feet are very stylish, said man 10
his friend whose feet were covered WIN pun
ious No. not stylish, bur exceedingly noooy'
was the good na'ured reply.
Arkansas paper says "a mule kicked
an insurance agent in this place ON the cheeA
the other day. The agents check was I'M
Injured, but the mules hOof was broken.
Kansas ,eacher-~Whe,e does all of oul
grain protuc, go tor Boy-"lt goes into TIT
bopper.n chopper! What hopper?
.Grasshopper!' triumphantly shouted TIT
Lad.
A prin,er's devil says his 10, is hard one
at his boarding house they charge him wit
all the pie they can't find, and at the ofhc
his employer charges him with all the I
they do find.
Statistics show that in the last ten years
on an average, ten out of every hundre
thousand inhabitants in the beautiful coun'r
of Dante were forcibly elected out OF the
skins. "Accidente =
AT a recent Washington breakfast: fru
was served as the first course, with articles
iewelry enclosed in the stones. The ICE
were in the form of celery stalks and ears {
green corn. How nice!
81 swear" said gentleman to his lad
love, @you are very handsome" Pooh
said the lady, $50 you would say If you d
not think So" And so would you think
answered ne, "thoug | should not say So
English ,rave!er-"As he got up two hor
pistols dropped from his back pockets
interocu,or-"B how could he find roo
for two horse pistols p Third party
he did no, mean two horse pistols, exactl
lie meant two Colt pistols"
Probably no characteristic Of the iema
mind is better developed than the docill
with which women accept the fashions oil !
tay. Be they beautiful OF hideous, becomi
or unbecoming, comfortable or torturins, Tn
are the fashion aid must be worn.
Old Lady (who sleeps badly mo
Mary. il ! should want to light my cand
are tue matches there ?" Mary-"Yes, ma "a
there's wan" Old Lady: "One! why, If
misses fire, or won't light"-Mary sc
divil fear of il, ma am. Sure | thried
A fond parent who bought COW for
summer residence in anticipation OF
delight that the product would cause his hi
daughter, was somewhat chagrined VIII
Miss Pert, looking upon pan OF meet
exclaimed "Oh, the horrid yellow scum.
isn't half so good Us the nice blue milk
We, in Boston,"
Taere was luiicrously sudden desc
from the sublime to the ridiculous where
clergyman preaching on the MINISTRY
Angels suddenly observed, 81 hear wi
per-" the change of tone started one Of
deacons, who sa, below, from a drowsy mo
and springing to his feel he cned, ''lts
boys IN the gallery"
English Tourist lin Ireland)-"Iell
waiter, at what hour does the first train lie
for Clonmel?" Waiter-"is it the ia
thrain, sor? I'm not rightly shure.
noine thrain up used to leave at haiti
noine-but fax il goes nj tin now, and the
no furrst thran now at all at all. But ~
at the bar, sor"
At prayer-mceting an old man got
and prayed for a son now in a felon cell
the crime Of murder. Another old .
trembling joined his prayers, adding that
too, had a son, but he had been murder
Their names were made known, and
fathers of Edward s. Stokes and Jares
Jr. stood for the first time face to fac'
Chicago Tribune
Aunt Heuy inquired Of the servant
recentlv il she came from the Hunsa
narts of Ireland. On being told that
geographical knowledge was some"
defective, she excused herself by saying
=. haiut much learuin' never went to SCI
but one day, and that was in the evenln,
we hadn't no candle, and the master di
come"