The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-06-05

"'Mr. D, if you'll get my coat done by
Saturday, shall be forever indebted to you.
eff that's your game, it won't be done," said
the tailor.
After Delaware girl had lowered herself
from the window to elope with yonng man.
he backed out because he was afraid OF the
minister's dog.
"Talk about keeping coal in your cellar
saws Jones, "for one, can't do it. ! find it
always has o tendency to my grateP-Noahs
Sunday Times.
The Chicago Inter- Ocean comes to us with
40 pages of supplement containing the de-
linquent tax list. It's as able an article as we
have seen in the Inter. Ocean for some time
81. Louis Times.
This is the time of year when mothers and
daughters endeavor to give the breakfast
table chat o watering place tint, while the old
gentleman eats hastily and departs promptly
to his business. Cincinnati Commercial.
yisitor-'well, Mrs. Flanagan, what did
the doctor sly about your poor husbands
deafnessp" Mrs. F.: "Bedad, Miss, the
doctor says Tim will never hear again, but
(whispers) please don't speak loud; it might
make him depressed loike!"
If the papers be not as good as usual this
morning, it will be borne in mind that the
wine OF the press dinner was better than
usual, and while it is the property OF good
vine to exhilarate at first. the after effects are
not particularly sparkling.
Professor @ Quicksilver, who oficiated at the
Press Club dinner as chef de orchestre, contem-
plates setting the impromptu verses OF Mr..
Noise, which were so vociferously received, to
German music. He experiences some trouble
in inventing on air long enough to tit.
Henry Clay once said that "mule was an
animal without either pride of ancestry or
hope of pos.erity." Mr.. Clay made mistake
There are two mules in Dubuque, Iowa, which
belong to the Washington Mills, that last year
gave birth to two colts. They are again with
foal this year.
Major Burbank, of the Republican, did
ample justice to the very sumptuous repast
Yesterday at the Press Club, and then had
the brazen effrontery, when called upon for
speech, to announce that he was "too full for
uttemnce" He was footed by the band and
deserved it.
We commend Charley Jaeger and his su-
perb band to all clubs and associations con-
emplating festive occasions What Charley
Jaeger doesn't know about cutting OH
speeches in the middle and coming to fsl-
lows assistance, just when he is cropping
around wildly for metaphor, simile, OF
other rhetorical device. isn't worth knowing.
What Grant said in the 6rst year OF his hrst
term: ~ did not want to be President. but
il was urged upon me as necessary to insure
the success of the Republican party; and see,
I am here; but when my four years are out,
mean to take long rest and enjoy myself.
believe have earned it." He changed his
mind, Springfield Republican.
An old lady, observing a sailor going BY
her door, and supposing it to be her son,
Billy, cried out to him, "Billy, where is my
COW gone ?" The sailor replied in con.
temptuous manner, "Gone to the d.,
suppose" "Well, as you are going thai
way" said the old lady, ~ wish you would
Just let down the bars
yicksburg Missy Herald: When negro
woman on Levee street was informed the
other day by meandering reporter that the
price Ct sea lions had increased fifteen pei
cent. during the present month, she elevated
her hands and exclaimed: "De Laud only
knows what is to become of poor folks Seems
zif de more We worked de oftener de white
folks go and riz de price on de nessumsaries
Of life"
The State of Louisiana is the political Ban
quo whose ghost returns every now and then
to mar the feasts Of the Republican leaders
rs they fatten on the spoils Of Office Ever
when they most fatter themselves that thi
body polite is at last safely slowed away will
the "twenty trenched gashes on its head,
there arises some accusing Nemesis to ta'
them with their wrongdoing, if not to pusl
them from their stools. -Frdnk Leslie's Illus