The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1875-03-19
SAYINGS AND DOINUS.

average Ohioan with the word "baker"
are said to be almost terrific.
THE imperfections of the diamond,
and in fact Of all gems, are made visible
by putting them into oil Of cassia, when
the slightest flaw will be seen.
IT is pleasant to note the progress of
refining influences, and the broadening
of social culture. Over the toilet ap-
pliances in north end wash-room, in
Boston, is a sign bearing the words,
"Don't wipe your nose on the towel.
"SHE is a perfect Amazon" said a
pupil in one of our schools of his teach
er, to q companion. Yes. SAID the
other, who was better yersed IN geo
graphy than history, " [ noticed she
had an awful big mouth.
Don't listsn to tales of his bounty,
Don hear what they say of his birth,
Don't look at his seat in the county,
Don't calculate what he Is worth;
But give him theme to write verse on,
And see if he turns out his toe;
If he's only an excellent person
My own Araminta, say No"
SPEAKING of the awful chiilinCsB Of
Venetian houses, Charles Warren Stod-
dard says that at the day OF Judgment
he has not doubt i'll his own mind but
that these Italial domestic refrigerators
will be the last thing on earth to get
warmed through, and it will be the first
time they were ever comfortably heated.
A GOOD story is being told of George
William Curtis. He prides himself, it
is said, on his English accent, eschew-
ing the Yankee "drawl." Therefore,
when he was over there and went to
tailor's he was not little mortified at
the masters exclAiming AIRY, show
the Hamerican gentleman the weskets."
live known many lass,
Who would thoughtlessly pass
Whole hours parading the streets;
While the mother would scrub,
And rub at the tub.
Never minding the cold nor the heat
1t is SOP 1t IL go :?
You may emile az you iihe
But it's so"
The Lords Prayer WAS recently
called to the attention Of the San
Francisco school board, and after some
discussion the chair decided " that the
Lords PRAYER is partisan aud sectar1an,
and that the use of it in our schools is
contrary to the spirit of the school law"
It's chanting and reading were accord
ingly ruled ont of the schools.
A FEW Sundays ago the Rev. Father
Martignon preached to a fashionable
audience in the Church of Notre Dame,
and in his sermon mildly remarked
that those who should frequent the new
opera-house would go to hell, without
any hope of rescue. Carpeaux's group
of sculptured Bacchus and Bacchantes
on the facade near the front door at
tracted the reverend gentleman's eyes
as he went in night-gown nelige--
without the night gown.
A BUFFALO paper prints the following
letter from one of it's old and prompt
having patrons "Please discontinue
nv paper from the time I have paid up
to- I do not stop the paper because l
do not want it, but to get rid OF an IN
tolerable old bore that intrudes himself
in my house, regardless OF time or cir
cunstances, to sit for an hour or Two,
three or four times q week, to read my
naners. and who is a thousand times
more able to take a dozen papers for
himself than [ am to take one. II the
nuisance is stopped, I shall send for
the paper again"
THE Matrimonial News, journal de-
voted to the promotion of marriage and
coniueal felicity, has wide circulation
all over Great Britain. There are more
than three hundred advertisements in
its last issue for husbands and wives:
Clergymen, army officers, members OF
parliament, manufacturers, merchants,
pbysicians, chemists, farmers, univer-
si,v men, an earls son, q reporter, gen
tlemen with expectations, and gentle
men without any bachelors and wld-
overs. Roman Catholic and Protestant,
all urge their suits through this con-
venient Journal, which contains tu!l
announcement of characteristics, physl-
cial and spiritual age, condition. prop
erty and family connections.
In general we may observe that cour-
age, of all national qualities, IS the
most precarious; because it Is exerted
only at intervals, and by few IN every
nation: whereas industry, knowledge,
civility. NAV be of constant and unlver-
sal use. and, for several ages: may be.
come habitual to the whole people. Ii
conraa be preserved, it must be by
discipline, example aud opinion. The
tenth legion of Caesar, and the regiment
of Picardy, in France, were formed
promiscuously from among the citizens
but having once entertained a notion
that they we're the best troops in the
service, this very opinion really made
them such.-Hltnle.
AN EXPERIMENT IN NATURAL, HIS
roRY.--One often reads of the dlscov-
cry of live toads in the center OF trees
or inside of apparently solid stone. A
French naturalist, M. Margelldet, has
Just published the results OF an expert
ment of that nature. On the 18th OF
Januray, in the year 1870, he caused
cavity TO be followed in large stone,
put toad INTO the cavity, and then
sealed up the mouth OF the hole with
impermeabIe cement. The other day,
five years, day for day, since he had put
the poor creature into durance vile, ne
broke open the cavity at the museum
of natural history, and found the toad
within alive and we'll, though in tor
pid condition. Nor has it since It's re-
lease taken any uourishment whatever