The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1875-03-26
SAYINGS AND DOINGS.

tempests, breaking and wrecking bus
mess; but nimhleness is q full fair wind,
blowing it with speed to the haven
Fuller.
BY the Apostle Paul, shadows to-
night have struck more terror to the
soul of Richard than can the substance
of ten thousand soldiers. s.-Shak8peare.
In Vienna they have single word
for fact very common with US now
. bursting of water-pipe. This is the
word - observation-disclosures
! renfatalitaten.
PAUL BoYNToN, the diver, says that
after man goes down 100 feet into the
water he has reached spot where dem
sity of fluid begins in such dead earnest
that diving has to stop.
MADAME IMAGINATION refuses to dress
in the Paris fashions. "The example
of strumpets, says she, sis not more
worthy of imitation in matters of dress
than in morals"
WHEN Chicago landly is seen buy
ing twenty-five cents worth of tea and
six dollars worth of beans the picture
of man lowering his trunk from a
second story window stands out like q
spatter of mud on a pair of lavender
pants.
ONE eighteenth of the land in Kansas,
except few Indian reservations, is de-
voted to common. schools. It cannot
be sold for less than three dollars per
acre. It may be paid in cash or in ten
annual payments at ten per cent. in
| terest.
SOME two years ago, Mrs. Morgan,
| who lives on Wolf creek, in Giles
county, Va, gave birth to five male
children at one time. They are still
living, are not deformed, are of good
constitution, and as sprightly as we'll
fed kittens.
AN eastern paper says that it cost
them So to get a blacksmith to pry
open Philadelphia charity box, and
when he got in it and emptied out four
cents the charity ladies, who had been
engineering that box for year, looked
an awful look at each other.
THIS is the season of the year when
the farmer tells his son John that if he
will sort over ten bushels of potatoes,
feed the stock, repair the fence and re-
shingle the corn crib he may have the
rest of the day to go rabbit, hunting.
MRS. SANFORD, of Connecticut, lured
by an Adonis of eighteen summers, has
eloped from her third husband. Per-
haps Anna Dickinson will stand up and
say that nobody ought to throw sand
on that kind of women.
BRUYERE once said: can inconsistent
- pbN io 1nrc,oF in loun.
a false woman is one who is already III
love with another person; tickle woman
is she who neither knows whom she
loves or whether she loves or not, and
the Indifferent woman one who does not
love at all.
WHAT, with the improvements at the
mouth of the Mississippi and the pro-
posed reservoirs at it's head waters,
there is fair prospect that engineer
ing science will convert that hitherto
eccentric and ungovernable torrent
into q very tractable and civilized
stream, after all.
PARIS is pluming itself on new
fancy in ladies' dress, which is species
Of tackle by which, when lady wishes
10 dance, the train of her dress is drawn
I'D to possible dimensions. This tackle
s made so as to be ornameRted with
lowers or ribbons, and to become
yreat addition to the toilette generally.
WILLIAM FRENCH, the first victin of
he revolutionary war, sleeps under the
ollowing obituary notice j.:
Here William French his body lies,
For murder his blood for vengeance cries,
King George the third his Tory crew
That with a bawl his head shot threw,
For liberty and his couutrys good
He lost his life his dearest blood"
The Lords Prayer was recently
allied to the attention of the San
francisco school board, and after some
the chair decided "that the
tord's PRAYER is partisan and sectarian,
nd that the use of it in our schools is
ontrary to the spirit of the school law"
rs chanting and reading were accord
aelv ruled out of the schools.
An Iowa woman went to church one
sunday and T" experienced religion"
irving home, she called her children
round her and said ST am pious now,
nd I am going to give you two days
, get religion. II you don't do it in
ne time I'll whale your hides of. [
ave learned my duty. Do you hear
le?" -
A scorcH beadle was the one who
opped the question in the grimmest
,anner. He took his sweetheart into
1e graveyard, and showing her dark
orner, said: "Mary, my folks lie
1ere, Would you like to lie there,
Tarv?" Mary was sensible lasse,
nd expressed her Willingness to OBJ
lin the right to be buried near the
eadles relations by uniting herself to
inn in wedlock. ... .......L
The girls attending a seminary in
linois set two chickens fighting Ia
,eir room last Sunday. Bets on the
,sult ran high, and at the conclusion
the contest the winning maiden was
better by q gold watch, pair Of silk
ockinps, q French corset, two rolls Of
lac hair, a patert hustle, ind beautl-
i hook. marx with SC Christ our Guide"
orked on it in colored silk. s.aa...
An Iowa papsr has this description
rect MT invention Among the
her pleasant resollections which mark
,e HOLIDAYS. friend of Burlington
I'd Missouri baggageman presented
I'M with patent trunk Litter. IL Is
ade Of steel and brass. Two clamps
asp the trunk at either end, and q turn
a knob in the hand of the baggage
an puIls both straps out by the roots,
tbe same time an iron hall weighing
~, ,,,nnda hammers away at the bottom