The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1875-09-25


things, and one of them has just said
this: "No young lady who values hel
happiness will marry widower until
ia least his first wife is dead
The Troy Times is assured by the
chief signal officer that. not withstand
ing the periodical excessive rainfall,
the aggregate rainfall in the United
States is not increasing.
The following il significant of
Spanish morality: mo Spanish maiden,
however poor, or however low her rank,
can ever walk alone in the street eve,,
for a few PAGES; if she does so her
character is gone.
Little Alice was crying bitterly,
and on being questioned, confessed 10
having received q slap from one of her
piayfellows. "You should have re-
turned il, unwisely said the qnestioner.
"Oh. l returned il before" said the
little girl.
Happy Bridegroom-"More money.
madam More money Hav, you for.
gotten that my money has bought
everything that you possess-the very
dress that you stand in ?" Bride
"No, sir; nor have forgotten that
your money mas bought what standsli
it."
"A ragged little urchin came co q
lady's door asking for old clothes. She
brought him a vest and pair Of trows-
ers, which she thought would be q
comfortable fit. The scapegraoe took
the garments and examined each then,
with disconsolable look, said;
There amt no watch pocket"
Madame de Stael wrote on an al
bum recently delivered. when two
beings truly love each other, they obey
without knowing, and that state OF
mutual dependence constitutes the
warmest and mildest OF tyrannies.
During clerical conference. the fol-
lowing conversation was heard between
two newsboys: ~ say, Jim. what's
the meaning of so many ministers being
here altogether ?"
"Why," answered Jim, a"ornfully,
"they always meet once year to swap
sermons"
-"What wealthy old fellows those
Knickerbockers must have been, said
a stran gar wslkina- throusf one of nur
ancient graveyards.
"Why SOP" asked his companion.
Because" answered the first, 81 see
'Diedrich' inscribed on 30 many OF the
tombstones.
"A London paper tells of country
man being taken to theatre, and when
the lights were down and the play had
commenced be was offered the use of
an opera glass. Examining il as closely
as the darkness of the place would per-
NIT, na placed it to his mouth and
turned it upwards. Finding that no
LIQUID was coming. out of it, he handed
it back in despair, "It's empty, John;
there's not single drop int man"
How much greater is the power OF
an old song, with simple air and words,
than that Of those more difficult and
artistic ones which sometimes threw
musicians into ecstasies OF
delight 1t may not be because there
is more music or feeling to it; but it is
endeared to the hearts of the common
people through familiarity. and as
ISOLATED with home scenes OF love and
affection, and appeals to sentiments and
feelings that could not be awakened
otherwise.
Miss Minkler, of Story county,
New, deserved better fate. Both her
arms were taken off at once by the sickle
of q reaper. Her father and the hired
man were paralyzed with horror. Miss
Minkier quietly called to them each to
seize the stumps above the wound and
compress them them, which they did.
She then told them to walk her to the
road, and they obeyed. She was taken
home smiling, the wounds were dressed
and thepoor girl is gointng to recover
Chicago Tribune.
During a dense fog a Mississippi
steamboat took landing. A traveller
anxious to 40 ahead, came to the I'M
perturbed manager of the wheel and
asked why the boat stopped.
''Too much fog; cant see the river.
"But you can see the stars over
head"
Yes, replied the urbane pilot; "but
until the biler busts we amt goin' that
way" The passenger went to bed sat-
isfed.
Addison says 81 have always pre-
ferred cheerfulness to mirth. The lat
ter I consider as an act, the former as q
habit of the mind. Mirth is short and
transient, cheerfulness fixed and per
mancnt. Those are often raised into
The greatest transports of mirth who
are subject to the greatest depression
of melancholy on the contrary, cheer
fitness, though it does not give the
mind such an exquisite gladness, pre-
vents us from falling into any depths OF
sorrow. Mirth is like fash Of light
ming which breaks through gloom OF
clouds, and glitters for a moment;
Q leerfulness keeps up kind OF day
light in the mind, and fills it with a
steady and perpetual serenity" -
ALI the ladies wear medal or
cross, attached to a ribbon, round their
necks. On close inspection saw that
these medals and crosses were the same
as given to distinguished men for ser
vices rendered to their country on the
battlefield. On inquiry, also, ascer-
tanned that they were in reality the
medals and crosses OF the husbands OF
the ladies who wore them, and that it
was now to be the fashion OF all ladies
to show in this way that their husbands
are decorated. 49," they say, Eve