The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1875-01-09
NUMBER I8.
Laughing Gas.

Laughing Gas.
Head waiters-Barbers.
Silence is tho fittest reply to folly.
Cheap iving-Living on excite
ment.
A bootless enterprise Going bare
foot.
What a barber mustn't do-Lather
his wife. 9s
Something to boot-Lightning-rod
peddlers.
A good kick out of doors is better
than rich uncle.
The worst kind of education-To
be brought up by policeman.
To q poor man with large family,
glory is of but little account.
When you hear a row next door, it
is sign the mOther-in-law 10 paying
q visit to the family. >4a -
Halo" bonnets probably derive
their name from the exclamation of
husbands when they See the bill.
ADutchman describes New Yorkors
as berry fine peeples," who "go
about der streets sheating each oder,
and dey call dat Dizziness"
1t must make = man feel mean to
pay an old debt because he thinks he
is going to die, and then have the doc
tor pull him through all right.
That farmer understood human ma
ture who said: elf yon want to keep
your boy at home, don't bear too hard
ON the grindstone when he turns the
crank"
An Illinois debater chad 'em" when
he arose and said: I" Yes, gentlemen,
Waterloo was the biggest kind of q
fight, but Washington whipped 'em
like a wink !"
A Covington man died and they put
him Oh ice, but he awoke in the night
aud yelled out: "Why don't you put
some more wood lin that stove1'
An agricultural paper says that kind
words will cure q COW of kicking, but
many prefer the old way of mauling
the critter with fence rail until her
heart is bl0ken.
A wicked man in Davenport, being
on his death bed, wished toa consult
some proper person regarding his fu-
ture state, and his friend,, sent fire
insurance agent to him.
Toledo papers announce that there
is plenty Of work in that city, but
carefully conceal the fact that said
work is sitting on bench in front Of
q coal stove aud wishing it were spring.
Mr.. B. Young, of Salt Lake City, il
sick nigh unto death. Mr.. Young is
= MaKrisl man ap0 va. haze a xEeat
deal Of sympathy fof HIS viz, out NOT
enough to so around.-Herald.
When boy is sitting on the sunny
side Of Il horse barn, waiting for his
father to come home and click y him,
you might talk astronomy to him for
four straight hours and not excite his
interest.
A slumbcring Detroiter is said to
have snored SO loud that the police
=" thought it was horse groaning."
We should like to know wgat the po-
lice were doing awake that time Of
night.
An Indiana man bet $40 that he
could ride the fly wheel in saw-mill,
and as his widow paid the bet she re-
marked: William was kind hus-
band, but he dil't know much about
fly wheels"
An inquiring man thrust his fingers
into a horses mouth to see how many
teeth he had. The horse closed his
mouth to see how many fingers the
man had. The curiosity Of each was
fully satisfied.
There are thirty or forty different
kinds of religion in this country, and
it worries the celestial entry clerk
to have people tumbling
into heaven in such singularly as
sorted lots.
A New Hampshire family has used
one stove. for twenty-eight years,
while a Detroit man has kicked three
to pieces within . year. Some men,
as soon as they get q little down.
hearted, go for the cookstove right
away.
Yesterday we overheard . voter
from tho rural districts say that he
chad voted every darned ticket ex-
cept the constitutional c0mmand-
mepts, but he let them alone, as he
never did know much about COM
anyhow"
A Chicago alderman tried for three
hours to think of George Washing
toms last name, but he couldn't do it.
He said he knew it was George, and
that the man had something to do
with the Mexican war, but he couldn't
further.
A gentleman took the following tel
egram to the telegraph, Office: "Mrs.
Brown, Liverpool street. announce
with grief the death of Uncle James.
Come quickly to read will. ! believe