The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1875-04-09
SAYINGS AND DOINGS.

THE Ohio senate has passed bill
fixing the compensation OF members O
the legislature at $500 per annum.
HERE is an instance of Scotch thrift
A man sent to Jail for larceny was per
mitted to write to his wife, and this is
what he wrote ''Dear wife-if they
keep me in the gaol, make them pu
you in the poor-house."
"J. GRAY-Pack with my box five
dozen quills." There is nothing re
markable about this sentence, only tina
it is nearly as short as one can be con
structed, and yet contains all the letters
of the alphabet.
AT the trial of one Putnam, at Vir-
ginia City, for leading an idle, dissolute
life, District Attorney Cambell defined
hummer as aggregated, concatena-
; ted, conglomerated, segregated, con-
taminated, id loafer." This decided
the jury at once, and they found Put
nam guilty.
YoUNG fellow, if you have been
burning up another mans fuel and
coal oil all winter, without yet arriving
at definite understanding with his
girl. you may expect to be chalked down
as light and pithless fraud, and may
look to have the scathing finger of
scorn and the black muzzle of bull
dog pointed at you if you attempt to
take up your swing on the gate where
you left off last fall.
AT last here is a new fancy in the
prestidigitation Line. He borrowed a
bonnet from lady in the audience, and
as he was about to return it it caught
fire in the gas, and he had to stamp on
it with both feet to extinguish the
flame. Misery of the lady 1t was her
best bonnet. Then he fired pistol, and
a bonnet just like it fell from the chan
delier IN the middle of the theatre.
For generations past, French has
been the diplomatic language of Europe.
On the close of the Franco-Prussian
war, Berlin wrote diplomatic note in
German, of the deepest Russian blue,
to st. Petersburg the latter replied in
good Russian, sixteen quarters black.
The exchange of correspondence stopped
then and there in those two languages,
and French was resumed.
TA1MAGE is back in his favorite role
again. In his last Christian at Work,
he offers last word of gratuitous
advice to theatrical people: If you
will only stoop down and look through
the cracks in the floor of the stage"
he says, "you will see fire and smell
smoke. Better fly for your life. 1t Is
hard work getting to heaven from the
American theater. You will have to
spring seventy-fve feet at the first
jump 7"
A CLERGYMAN, at a recent teachers
meeting in Ohio, said that teachers are
too often selected in the wrong way.
" Examiners make an intellectual re-
quirement in straight jacket style, and
pay no attention whatever to the par
ticular natural, innate adaptedness of
the teacher for the profession, asd thus
men and women are found at the head
of our schools who are no more able to
develop the human mind than Modoc
is to draw picture of the heavenly
Jerusalem with charcoal" "
"HERE are the rules given for recog
nizing a persons character from his
manner of laughing. There are as
many kinds of laughter as there are
vowels. People who laugh in A are
frank. variable lovers of noise and
hustle. Laughter in e belongs to
and melancholy people. 0
Indicates generosity Of feeling and bold
ness of movement; be your guard if it
belongs to woman. I, I, I, is the
laughter of children and artless people;
it denotes kind, devoted nature, but
timid and irresolute. Avoid as you
would the plague, those who laugh in
Q they are misers, hypocrites. misan-
thropes pleasure has no charm for
hem"
Two children still and stark on a
snowy slope-the girl wrapped round IN
;he coat of the boy, and both young
aces fixed by frost in the calm repose
If death was the picture presented to
he eyes of wearied teachers near
Mount Ayr, Iowa, the other day. This
winters cold has taken many life, but
lone of the unfortunates were found
n so touching an attitude as this. 1t
vas not in the heat of the conflict that
he boy died; there was no rattling
lrum to stir his thickening blood, nor
omrade's eyes to mark his heroic fall;
lothing to rouse his young enthusiasm.
But the little coat folded carefully about
he girlish form, and his own naked
,reast, told of the quiet courage and
elf-sacrifice with which he had met the
itiless blast that blew as cold on him
s her.