The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1875-08-28
VOLUME N
LAUGHING GAS.

LAUGHING GAS.
a coffin is wanted for = dying echo
The Troy goats have taken to eat
ing newspapers off front stoops.
Why is dew like a falling star I Ono
is mist ON earth, and the other missed
from heaven.
! Why is a solar eclipse like a woman
whipping her boy1 Because it's.
hiding Of t1se sun. "
When q man has house lot ON
which he can not pay the taxes he!
has a aite too much. zr -. .s-,,.- .--.
Why have chickens no hereafter !
Because they have their necks twirled
(next walld) in taia. "7
/ WHAT'S the difference between the
North and South Pale. All the diff
ference in the world. ''.s.'
When will there be only twenty
five letters in the olpAabet When
you and / are made one. ....
Why is a lawyer like . restless man
in bedf Because he FIRST lies on one
ade and then On the ether. M
"My face is ragged, but Tn wealthy;
will You have me 7" said he. Yes,
indeed; it's knotty, but ifs nice" }" said
she. .s
Mother-ia-law il the name Of =
new mixture Of ale. 1t is old aud bit
ter, and comparatively few can swal-
low it.
WHY is q drunkard like bad poll
tician' Because be is always poking
his nose into measures that spoil the
constitution.
These are cooler nights, and most
people who sit on the piazza till late
in the evening conclude that ids
abo'ld tibe to ged dside ad go to bed
"Ma," said small boy, approach
! ing his mother and exhibiting unmis-
taxable symptoms of severe pain in
| the bowels, "do green apples grow in
heaven I" .-1...-....
A somewhat illiterate Detroit wo-
man, having read in = poem about q
simeon that ''swept tie plains" is urg-
| ing her husband to get one o. them
new tangled things for her to use in
her kitchen.
! A Catskill exchange says; There
| isn't any Overlook House. now, but q
man keeps sl,anty up there and
charges twenty-five cents for lemon-
atles, and he's about as near heaven
as he will ever get,
i A lady correspondent, who assumes
to- know how boys ought to be treat
ed, writes as follows: "Oh, mothers!
hunt out the soft, tender, genial side
d Of your boys nature" Mothers often
~ Old MO-.
An awful fate has overtaken Tex
as lawyer, The Bonhan Enterprise
says: Joe Dupre made his first speech
on Tuesday, assisting Capt. Sims in
the prosecution of Alex. Rodgers. Tho
jury sentenced him to he hanged.
The newspapers state that we'll
know banker Of Paris has absconded
leaving deficit behind. Mrs. Par
tington thinks that it was very good
of the poor man to leave it, when he
might have got off clear with every
thing.
Little Alice was crying bitterly,
and, "n being questioned, confessed
to having received slap from one Of
her playtsllows. You should have
returned it," unwisely seid the ques-
tioner. "Oh, 1 returned It before" !"
said the little girl. ="
Kingston giIls are opposed to in
k~r khn Iotk aAn,v fA
; that city. '.The idea!" says one Of
them, "of having letters left at the
house! Then We can't 60 to the post
l Office, aud won't have any excuse for
: going down town."-Rome Sentinel.
A child, when told that God ia
every where, asked, "ID this room I ''
8" Yes" "In the closeti" Yes"
SIN the drawers Of my desk !" Yes,
everywhere. He's in your pocket
now" "No, He amt though" And
why not ?" "Cause ! amt got no
D pocket"
A couple of neighbOrs became so
hostile that they would not speak to
eacl, other; but one of them, having
been converted at u camp meeting, on
| SCCAAA Hto ll uCA OuCluy uOAU OUV ulA
hand, saying, How dye do Kemp
| am humble enough to shake bands
with dog" .-... .r.
A boy in the suburbs tried to ascer'
tain the other day the soundness ol
the proverb: "Birds OF a feather
= flock together" He plucked the old
: rooster down to single tail feather
}, and it didn't flock at all, but went
J, and hid under the barn. Thus is an
y other old saw smashed.
"My dear" inquired q young wifi
Of her husband. as she reached up hel
little mouth to be kissed Oh his return
l. from business. baye you seen tn
: magnificent set of walnut furniture
II which the Jenkins have just bought
! "Hem. po, my love but have seel
a the bill. which quite satisfies me-"
e Bangs wanted to move from tn,
e .,f lic .sifnsc ,,,nt1,.r ,,.l ....