The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1875-05-29
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Laughing Gas.
A moving tail-a hungry dora

A moving tail-a hungry dogs.
Between two evils choose neither.
The end Of everything the letter
g. 4
Can you 'spellsconsent in tiirSe let
tersf Y-e-s.
Title for . five-cent savings bank
the St. Nickle-us.
Even the LATEST boy can sometimes
catch a whipping.
The only suits that last longer than
you want are law suits.
With care q man can walk mn
rightly. One who is on the alert win
not be found on the orange peel.
Enterprise. The Chicago .Nm4s
sold twenty thousand extra copies on
the strength of the EDITORS going to
Jail.
| am bound to have my rights. .
as the man said to the shoemaker who
had sold him a pair Of boots, both
lefts. -"
What is the difference between 4
belle aud a burglarf The belle car
rles false locks, and the burglar false
keys.
When Agassiz was pressed to de-
liver lecture for pay, he replied !: Il
can not afford to waste my time for
money"
Love is sed tn be blind, but know
lots OF phellOws in love who can see
twice as much in their gals as I kan
Josh Billings.
Story, the sculptor, is making q
sensation in Florence, italy. by his
impe'sonation of Shylock, who was
also chiseler.
4 gentleman observing the sign of
!" Caswell " upon business establish
ment, remarked that it would be q as
,ceN without tho G."
Why call him a " groom a. eicht
out OF ten people do3 A groom's bus
mess is to look after horses. A BRIDE
groom's business is to look after his
wife's mother. = s.
When are stockings like dead mon I
When they are lnen-ded or, l1erhaps.
when their sOles are departed or
again, when they are all IN holes or.
when they are no longer on their last
legs.
A person was told that three Yards
OF cloth, by being wet, would shrink
Of a yard. "Well then"
he inquired. !" If you sh0uld wet a
quarter Ut u yard, would thero be auy
left?n
A little fonreyear old .woke no gerx.
early one morning, and seeing the
full moon from the window, he inno-
Gently remarked: . should think it
was about time for bod to take that
moon in."
The Indiana editor who took his
mOtlfor- -in-law on an editorial excur.
sion is requested to announce through
the cslumns Of his paper whether hs
was aetuated by generous impulses
or By fear.
g Dictionaries exchanged for cara
mels, says q placard in Chicago
candy store. The girls Of that city
will certainly participate in the SPELL
ing matches now that there is mar
ket for the prizes.
My DEAR" said husband in
startled tones, after waking his wife
in the middle Of the night, II have
swallowed dose of strychnine.~
: Well, then, do for goodness sake
lie still, or it may come up"
Captain" said sou of Erin, as
the ship was nearing the coast in in
clement weather, $ have We an al
nenik Oh board Z" "No, haven't.v
Then, bejabbers, we shall have to
AXE the weather us it comes.r
A widow, being cautioned by her
minister about flirting, said she knew
t was wrong for D,aidens and wives
% flirt, but the Bible was her autbor-
ty. 1t said Widows mite.n She was
iirting awfully at last accounts.
The tenor and soprano in q Boston
'hOir were married recently. A IA
etious exchange says that they met
y chants, the usual way, and ulti-
nately agreed to duet. And the first
addition to the family will be q trio.
A cruel joke at the expense Of
hose ladies who are perpetually
trlving to to gain a hearing in tho
'ress, has been going the round Df
literary circles, to the effect .' that
hey look much better in muslin than
D print"
She used to keep bits Of broken
hina and crockery piled up in a con-
enient corner Of the closet, and when
sked her reason for preserving such
omestic lumber, she sl,st o lurid
lance at her husband, and merely
~ He knows what tlem's
Dr."
Said a colored Georgia preacher:
Dar's robbin' and stealin' all around.
)ar's de Beecher business, de Wood
ull business, Snmner is dead, torna-
oes come whoopin' around, de Freed
nan's Bank has busted, and it pears
$ if de end was nigh, mighty clus ut
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