The Concordia eagle. [volume] (Vidalia, La.) 1873-1890, 1875-10-02
FACTS, AND FANUIES

Shoals, Indiana, after standing on
coal for two or three minutes "I de-
clare | il / don't smell wooden burning
somewhere"
The man who bushes when lady
acquaintance sees him coming out OF
salAon, is not entirely lost-he may be
found most any time afterwards going
into the back door.
The Wisconsin man who had to
pay twenty dollars to prove his right TO
feuRteen OF his OWE chickens desires Tho
address OF the person VINO says this is
the best Government the world ever
saw
Victor Hugo says that imam was
the conundrum Of the eighteen century;
women is the conundrum OF the nine
teenth century," We can't guess her,
but we'll never give her up-no never.
Would you think that Gideon Wei
les, when you stand and look &C him,
ever carried candy notices in his pocket
or ever sat on the stile with his girl at
twilight and chewed gum?
-Offenbach thought so much OF his
10 witness performance of any OF his
operas. Isn't it a pity he had not the
same kind OF regard for the rest OF hui
mauity?
An American harvester won the
prize at the recent contest in Germany,
and there isn't reaping machine in
the United States bat what claims the
prize, or had the medal to show for it
month ago.
"A boy was going down Ninth ave-
nue. yesterday (; a woman opened the
front door of house and called "John
John John !" As the boy paid no st
ton to the calls a pedestrian said TO
MIN, Here, bub, your mother is call
ing you. No she amt" replied the lad,
rs he turned the corner "she's only
fathers second wife, and / want her to
understand that she can't run NO."
Mount Holyoke Seminary has sup
piled one hundred and fifteen wives for
foreign missionaries, the last two grad
mating classes furnishing eighteen.
They usually go abroad first "a teach
ers, and are speedily married by the
missionaries.
Never be cast down by triaes. Ha
spider breaks his web twenty times,
twenty times will he mend it again.
Make up your minds to do thing and
you will do it. Fear not, il trouble
surf'-s utsa---y----s- hap KS E.nnr apiFits
though ] day be dark one.
"A Cincinnati reviIer of Louisville
says: Louisville car drivers are an
emaciated set, from excessive bias
phemy. It is rarely that Louisville
girl drops her foot on the tail-board of
a bobtail car without lifting the front
wheels off the track and this wears on
the driver |"
1t has been ascertained that the
great decrease in cod6shery on our
Eastern coast is due to the DISTINCTIONS
placed in our streams and rivers, such
as mill-dams, pollution of water, ETC.,
thus preventing ascent OF alewives aud
other small fish to spawn, these small
fish being the natural food for the cod.
When some adventurous mariners
we're cruising about in the Caribbean
sea and discovered a new peninsula.
hey undertook TO hold conversation
with the natives, but the natives only
yelled back at them, "Yucatan?
YHcatan ?" ("What do you say?'1
and that peninsula has ever since been
Known as Yucatan.
The New England factory people
rave an interesting time of il. Some of
hem get five dollars a week for work
ng fifteen hours a day, and when the
lection comes they have TO vote with
heir employers or lose their places.
( they take newspaper they must
axe one which is in harmony with the
Jews Of the men they work for; but
Ortunateiy many OF them can't read.
-" Window gardens" are what the
oetical people call the rowe of flower
OTIS that the poor girl keeps in the
'indow Of her hall room but the per-
Dn Wh) has no poeticsl fancies on the
INFECT is the man who had his skull
racked the other day when one of the
eaviest of these pots came down.
The people at Cape May have time
, spend in childish amusements. At
ne residence OF a reverend doctor
lere, the other day, a Japanese tea
II was spread upon the floor, and the
nests, Rttired in japanese costume,
Juatted on the floor and took tea az
icy supposed the Japanese take it.
his idiotic performance is called, by
'ashington paper, ga very novel en-
rtainment.
She'd been 30 petulent and cross
r several days that he finally thought
a device 10 soothe her, and accord
gly remarked, in soft, velvety
ice: my love, don't you think
nd like to go down to the seaside
d take the fresh air 2" "Don't be
Of, was the sharp reply, "the air at
g seaside isn't fresh it's SALT
rookiyH Argus.
"A young man in Lancaster sent 81
a firm in New York who advertised
'eceipt to prevent bad dreams. He
,eived small slip of paper, on which
s printed 'Don't go to sleep"
"A citizen of Brattleboro, Vt, de-
sited with the cashier of the national