The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1875-03-20
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Laughing Gas.


/ False pride goes before false hair.
Old time rocks-rocking the cradle.
How to signal a bark-pull dogs
tail.
The easiest way to pay a gas bill
is to burn Kerosene.
One Of our farorite prima donnas
has falsettO' teeth.
Lament of the sidewalk: avery
body is DOWN on me-"
The most melancholy spectacle in
the world is cold pancake.
A statistician estimates that court.
ships average three tons Of coal each.
Adam was proudly conscious that
he never made Il mistake in his boy.
hood.
The sea-faring men of Newfound-
land call pastors tho shippers Of the
churches.
The Millerites now keep the day on
which they are going up profound
secret.
There is an Armenia man who yells
in his sleep: "Mr. Evarts, your OBJ
lection is Overruled."
What is the difference between q
tube and Il foolish Dutchman? Ono
is Il hollow cylinder, and the other is
silly Hollanler.
:" Is there any man in this town
named Afternoon 2" inquired n Mis-
sissippi Postmaster, as he held up q
letter directed "p. NJ"
The furniture recently sold at the
Astor House in New York, was rich
with historical "reminiscences and in
sects.
Colonel Forney appears in the per-
sonals of the Italian papers as Capt.
fano Giovanni Fornez, and he is in
danger of being mistaken for Il bandit.
\ Washington man who was treated
to Il 225-centcr." slipped back to the
cigar store, the other day, and econ
omically exchanged it for ''three for
Il quarter"
\ negro woman IN Pitt County, n.
c., recently gave birth to triplets:
the first was white, the second mu-
latto, and the third black. This all
comes from civil rights.
"Juge not lest We be juged," was q
copy recently set" by Il teacher in
one of the public schools. Doubtless
that teacher considers spelling one of
the ornamental branches.
When Cincinnati young man says
to his souls idol: Don't kiss me
any more, now Sal I'm tired" she
knows he has just been shaved by
pne OF chose pretty female BARRIERS.
Mr.. Bergh's attention is called by
The Detroit Free Press to the fact that
the wolves Of Wisconsin are actually.
starving. Good gracious didn't they
get elected either ?.Rochester DEM
,crGt.
A bride in Indiana, after the con-
:lusiOn of the marriage ceremony
stepped gracefully forward and re-
luested the clergyman to give out the
lymn: "This is the way long have
sought"
Pause! young man. You want to.
ret married, and it is abont time YOU
lid! But recollect that unmarried men
lon't have to sit up all night once o
week with a shotgun, watching the
lothes line.
An Eastern paper says that during
he performance of an opera in st.
'etersbnrg, Patti was called out sixty
ines. That sounds pretty huge, but
hen she might have eaten something
hat didn,t agree with her.
She is Il perfect Amazon" said
'upil in one OF our schools of his teacher
yesterday, to IL companion. Yes"
aid the other, who was better versed
n geography than history, Il noticed
he had an awful big mouth"
There are young men who can not
old skein Of yarn for their mothers
without wincing, but will hold l25
ounds of neiglboring family for
he best part of the night, with pa
ience and docility that are certainly
A colored gentleman nf Montgom-
ry, Ala, has, we notice, unexpectedly
sft n vacancy in the jury box to ac-
ept a position in the city chain gang,
indy rendered him in consequence
+ IL misunderstanding about the own,
rship of some hogs.
A case Of sickening cruelty on the
art of the Sheriff of San Antonio,
'exas. toward ;. prisoner confined in
all, is reported. The prisoner was
eld for murder, and when a circus
an,e to town the other dag, the Sheriff
pfHsed to allow the man to attend.
'ublic Indignation at San Antonio is
aroused By this barbarous
nd heartless innovation.
What changes a few years bring
bout--don't they. Yesterday the
itizeiis of Arbor Hill were aware of
woman mad|y tearing along. potato
,assser III hand. giving chase to her
usband who was flying from her
resence like deer. Eight years ago
he same female took medal at an