The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1875-09-04
NUMBER 50.
LAUGHING GAS.

| Bakers are crusty lot Of fellows.
and are fond Of loa6ng. ea
Carpenters are gwen to vice-they
do so much chiselting.
1t doesn't take long for . nan With
. small mind to make It ap.z
| A rain aof terror-the vilasapsead
storms among the Western graia crops.
All honest man will bear washing.
1t is tho rascals who can not stand It.
The only men who don't get out Of
patients in warm weather-the doc
tors.
81 have bought my first lase,n WA
the remark Of 4 cobbl0r when Ia ret
I'up business for himself.
Ought baker to be considered .
needy loafer because he IL frequently
seen kneading loafi
How we done it, il the heading
Ut q Duluth newspaper editorial, Send
up some grammars there, quick.
"To bee or not to bee,n = a. the man
said when he got home and found 8.
swarm of'em settled on his front door
knob.
The best explanation get offered for
the disappearance Of Donaldson and
his fellow balloonist is that they must
have had a falling out.
A western paper had this personal
item: Those who know nice old
Mr.. Wilson Of this place will regret
to learn that he was assaulted in .
brutal manner last week, but Wa not
killed."
New Haven, Conn.,, has = cat which
goes into the water and catches ish,
and her proprietor wants her to have
u family If more of her kind. He sses
a way Of kitten living without much
labor. ..t #e
A lady living near Troy has a piece
Of soap supposed to be hundred
years old. Isn't it astonishing how
long some people keep soap In tho
house and never feel tho slightest
temptation to use it, All
A contemporary wonders whether
Cain and Abel ever had the mumps
or whooping cough. Very probably.
It's certain at all events, that their
mother had Adam.-N. +. Oons. i'd.
A foolish young man ont West, in
y newspaper Offics, desires 10 know
why the police are not turned ont in
New York and the thieves put in.
That is exactly what has been done.
Gin. Com. b neF
A village psdagogue, in despair
with stupid bog, pointed to the let-
ter A and asked him II he knew it.
/" Yes, Sir" +" Well, what is iti" II
know him very we'll by sight Sir but
rat me it l can remember his name."
A Norristown boy who found .
pocket bs,Ok containing oighty.hvo
dollars, and returned It to the owner.
refused reward of five cents for his
tronble, explaining that many ! man
has been ruined By suddenly becom-
ing rich. SIS haA Il
eve need the means for orxanis.
ing the Democratic l,arty In this State,"
said leading politician. A Western
man respondedpromptly by telegraph:
" Will ship to-day ono barrel whiskey
and one orator; invoices By mail"
Dickens believed in Spiritsalism
after asking at sesses the attend
ance of the spirit of Lindlay Murray.
and being answered by spectre, 20
whom he put the question, " Are ron
the spirit Of Lindley Murraysn II
are." .5as. .5 q.s,I gt.i 1aa i,4,
Mr.. Trantz has inst won laurels i.
the Long Branch SURF and now Mr..
Fishback, ut southampton, L. l., res
cues two persons frvm drowinR. La-
cas- says lie shall be sea.urchin
while at the seashore, in the hons
that fate will give him such an op-
portunity.
Prosperity has its sweet uses y a.
we'll as adversity, for no sooner does
a man come into = little property
than he instantly learns the number
of bis friends !; whereas, if he reu,ain-
ed poor, the chances are that he
would have died in perfect innor-
ance Of the fact.
Have You copy Of to-day Con-
mercial about7 said stranger. dron-
ping in the other afternoon. :" Yss
sir" said the editor, ' here's one : but
it's got the Editorial Notes cut ont y
"Oh, never mind !" was the unfecl-
ing reply. Gin fact, l rather prefer il
that way"
A Presbyterian minister, while mar
rying a couple of his rustic parishion-
era, felt exceedingly disooncertet on
his asking the bridegroom If he were
willing to take the woman for h;s
welded wife, by his scratcl,inr his
head and saying, cay. Pm wiIiun.
but I'd rather hae her sister.n
A ragged little archiu csme to .
lady's door, asking for old clothes
She brought him vest and = na;r of
tr"wsers. which she thought would be-
comfortable fit. The young ecan.,-
grace took the garments and exam,
ined each then, with. disc.,ns1,lata