The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1875-03-05
SAYINGS AND DOINGS.
LITTLE RAa.TAa.-

With an air of the most supreme content,
She paddles and plays till the day is spent
Why people complain she never can see,
When God is as good as ever can be;
She talks to herself and laughs, and sings
About the world and Its beautiful things;
But. though he is good to all Of the rest,
She is very sure that he loves her best!
oh, how much better this world would wag
# we all had hearts like little Rag-tag!
Christian Union.
Jo111BoY-"I say. waiter, which did
you put in first, the water or the splr-
| it's ?" Waiter-"W Whisky, sir and you
told me to fill it up" Jolliboy-"Oh,
that's all right haven't come to the
whisky yet" ----
| Arkansas hypoohondriac, meditating
upon the death of dog-fancier in his
neighborhood, gives~vent to the mourn
full thought "Our great men are Pc
tering out sort O. rapid like these times.
Whisky kills most of 'em some tum-
BILE overheard, and 'casionally one gets
hung"
BUTLER COUNTY, Missouri, has the
most eccentric genius on record. He 10
now sixty-fve years of age. At the age
of twenty.one he commenced to count
two billions, He has counted almost
necessarily ever since, and his task is
still incomplete. He says he wants to
count that number and die happy.
THE Japan News gives currency to
statement on good authority that Japan
ese criminals prefer being strangled to
being decapitated, and that, too, on re-
ligious grounds; the idea apparently
being that so long as the body is intact.
its resurrection will be possible, put
that when the head is once separated
from the body it may never be reunited.
The SUNNY SoUI.-
| There is many q rest on the road of life
If we would only stop to take it;
And many tone from the better land,
If the querulous heart would wake 1t.
To the sunny soul that is full OF hope,
And whose beautiful trust neer falleth,
The grass is green and the flowers are bright,
Though the wintry storm prevalent.
If the heat which human being
gives off in twenty-four hours could,
consistently with life, be retained With
in the body, its temperature would, at
the end of that time, have reached l85
degrees Fab, temperature above the
point of coagulation of albumen, and
high enoug ii to cook the TISSUES.
A PITTsFIEnD woman wants to wager
$500 that she can walk fifty hours with
out rest or sleep. You may succeed,
madame, but it will not be as easy nor
half such a comfort to you as to lie
close to the side of the bed and jaw
and keep your husband awake that
length of time.
THE prefecture of police of Toxic,
japan, has issued the following circu-
lar "Any person in European costume
meeting his imperial majesty will be
obliged to salute the emperor by hold
ing his hat under his left arm and low
ering his right hand to his knees.
Those who do not wear hat will be
obliged to lower both hands TO the knees
while bowling before the emperor"
SPEAKING of law books, recent lee
turer on the subject said: "Another
regularity of these books is, that no
one but q lawyer ever reads them. All
other books have readers outside the
class for whom they are specially writ
ten and we have, accordingly, amateur
men of science, physicians, amateur
artists, and even amateur theologians,
but no one ever heard OF en- amateur
lawyer"
ON Detroit sidewalk, the other day,
q portly man snatched at the surround
ing air for a second or two, and then
went down upon the icy bricks with
force that shook his frame and made
him see stars. "Say," remarked
newsboy to his companion who wit
messed The catastrophe, "that ERE fel-
ler's Free Mason didn't you see him
giving the sign?" Inside OF minute
two boys were getting away, closely
followed by boot.
A SAN Francisco husband denies that
the new chemiloon dress arrangements
are any Improvement on the old style.
His wife has adopted it, and it takes
her seventy minutes on an average to get
embarrassed at night, and on one occa-
sion the numerous India-rubber straps
got into q snarl, and, suddenly sollaps-
ing, caused her to perform double
somersault, during which her head came
in contact with the ceiling OF the room,
knocking her senseless. p. .s..
Scatter thy life as the Summers shower pouring,
What If no bird through the pearl rain Is sosrlngT
What If no blossom looks upward ador1ng!
Look to the life that was lavishsd for thee! s.os
30 the wild wind streWs its perfumed caressesi
Evil and thankless the desert it blesses;
Bitter the wave that its soft pinion presses;
Never it ceaseth to whisper and sing.
What If the hard heart gives thorns Tor Cny roses!
what if on rocks thy tired bosom reposes;
Sweeter is music with minor-keyed closes,
Fairest the vines that on ruins viii cling.
Give as the heart gives whose fetters are breaKnR-
Life. love and hope all thy dreams and thy waking;
Soon heavens river thy soul fever snak1ne,
Thou shalt know God, and the gift that he gave.
TIE late vast accession OF bonanza
wealth which San Francisco has en-
loved has led to the construction, by
banking company, of safe or vault
thirty feet long, twenty five feet wide,
and nine feet high, in which to deposit
bonanza drippings. The lot on which
this monster treasury stands cost $780,
600, and the safe $150,000. 1t required
o train of forty cars to transport the
safe from Canton, Ohio, to San Fran
cisco.
VERY stern parent indeed: "Conne
here. sir What is this complaint the
has made against you~
Much injured youth: It's Just moth
ing at all. You see Jimmy Hughes bent
a pin, and only just left it on the
teachers chair for him to look at, and
be came in without his specs, and sat
right down on the pin, and now ne
wants to blame me for it.
ONE of the most singular operations
Of the moon are the cracks or assures
which appear on its surface. These
radiata out from common center, gen.
orally from the center Of q volcano.
They are of vast extent, one OF them
being six hundred miles long, from one