The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1875-03-06
Laughing Gas.

A terrible blOw-b'lOw zero s.. ~
Wine improves with age, but kisses
don't.
In regard to the tax on whiskey,
taat's easily rectifed. 's.
A williamsburg wonan has. an ar
sias'sa da. AZ 1sx.: Did .hs wear the othss
These stotmy sunday evenings are
weakening the coal bins at faiailies
with interesting dsaghters.
Mrs. Holmes, Of Katie King infamy;
according. te her own statement, ID
., ,cick Of the hoal business"
Kalakaua is. doubtless home ere this.
and getting mixed up under the cross
questioning Of Mrs. .Kalakaua.
Huldah, b. Loud is prominent
Massachusetts, suttr;lgist, and when
she don,t shrek We suppose she talks
like thunder.
A Kentucky paper speaks of a man
who had narrow escape from q sun
stroke, be having stood only two feet
from man who was struck. -,
A young lady says the reason she
carries, a parasOl is, that the sun is Of
the masculine gender, aud she can
not withstand the ardent glanees. n.
The song Of the Washington youth
-" i want to bo a lobby man and in
the lobby stand, with brass upon INV +
forehead and greenbacks in mI h.,nd." !.
All the axes and hDck rsaws found
in the ruins Of Pompeii are Of ixht q
make, MS If constructed for wolnan's
use. Those ancieiits know theirtlittle
business. .iist3F = Mi ; as8s -
Observation-Disclosures, said Judge
] Lord of Boston, g when we see y crowd, !.
at the Charlestown Navy Yard, We
infer, not that there Is to be war, but
an election" .1ase@ sslss..t.1
A Spntlay-school boy complains of
the dilattirimess of the officers Of the
school in procuring Minister Schenck's
new work .onr Draw Poker for the
library.-Norristoaca Herald. .s
A woman at Tiiin, Ohio, fell and =
broke her arm, but she refused, two
offers of assistance because the men
were strangers to her and there was
no one arO nd to introduce them.! x39 !
~. Gray-Pack with my box five
dozen quills.n There 10 nothing re -
markable about this sentence, only
that it is nearly rs short as one can be
constructed and yet contain the whole
alphabet. ...-5....4 -,
Vermont clergymen. are never. .per-
mfttga TO kiisa fi;eess Eiidfss tliey saV T.
just made brides. The dear creatures
put up their hands with the remark:
!" There, that'll do. I've seen you fell
lows afore."
'Any thing to beat Satan," was the
legend suggested to Il Danbury poll
tici;sn when asked to name something
appropriate as an inscription on u
banner for . Young Mems Christian
Association. '''' 5''
George Bapcr0ft's threat to write a
I" History Of the Great Rebellion in :,
two thousand volumes, as supple
ment to his History Of the United
States, hae concentrated public inter-
est upon a paragraph stating that old
paper dealers are only paving two and
n half cents per pound. - Brooklyn
Argus. 81 q ss3 r. aaas5tSlt
Woman does great deal to dis
courage lofty sentiments Of patriotism.
When man 10 leaning over the back
fence telling neighbor how lie would
shed his last drop Of blood for suffer-
ing Louisiana. it distnrbs him to have .s
his wife yell fiom the kitchens, Look
a. here are you coming with that
bucket Of water, or shall come out
and nee to youf"
A party of men animatedly engaged
in discussing politics before a country
store attracted tho attention of an
aged agricalturist. !" There's; some- .
thin the matter here" ," he observed to
his wife; and, drawing in his team,
he lightly shouted 10 q consumptive
individual on the outskirts, 8. What's
afQRti" Twelve. inches," was the
reply. The aged agricultu.
rist swore some and drove on.
IN one of our public schools yester-
day johnny and Jimmie got into .
quarrel and were cslled up for il. /" He
stole oranges. said Jol,Mny, s..and Z
kin prove it. ~ say | didn't was
the prompt response; "but he stole
apples and wouldnt give me the FIRST
bite" My dear children" said the
teacher kindly, "say no more. am
fully convinced that yon will be
board Of education some day" =
When we consider the prevalence
Of the custom to dab evsry body who
went to the wars with the title Of Cap
tain, General, &c, there il 4 peculiar
appropriateness in the following res
which, was introtluced at =
of Confederate soldiers at
Atlanta, Ca, the other day: Resolred,
that the President appoint a commit
tee of one to inquire into the matter
Of whether there wers any surviving
privates Of the late war.