The weekly echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1868-1876, 1876-03-09
GRAHE AND e..

In the East Indies the ladies of the
country are subjected to the labor of
building railroads and keeping them in
order.
He lay in his little bed in northern
] Indiana. He read his little novel. He
smoked his little pipe. There was little
left of him.
AS leap year has come, good many
young men are procuring bOgusmarriage
certificates to carry about their persons
as a means of protection.
Why should'st thou fill to-day with sOrrsw
| About tomorrow,
Ny heart!
One watches all with care most true,
| Doubt not that lie will give thee, too,
Thy part.
Paul Fleming, 1909.
He was bound to be accurate, and he
described the woman's costume thus:
She wore an elegant suit of something
or other, cut bias, and trimmed end
wise"
The bronze American Girl, is to be
unveiled next summer in Elmira, New
York, town that has yet to put up its
first monument to a Sabbath-gchoOl
teacher.
The Sandwich Islanders are going to
adopt a new flag, but they can't decide
whether to take a gray horse blanket
with hole in it, or an old vest with the
back ripped out.
Aconvict wrote aletter to his brother;
a serious letter, without an attempt at
joke, which, however, concluded thus: II
must leave of, now; my feet are so cold I
cannot hold my pen"
Some people are rude enough to say
to an editor whose writing is not very
plain: always telegraph; never write;
we like your telegraph hand so much
better than your writing hand"
"A man must not keep his hat on at
place of amusement, because it will in
convenience those behind him but a
lady can pile the towerof Babylon on her
head, if she chooses, and no one dares to
object.
The DISAPPOINTMENT
Old Birch, who taught village school,
Welded maid of homespUn habit
He was as stubborn as a mule,
And she as playful as a rabbit.
Poor Kate had scarce become wife,
Before her husband sought to make her
The pink of country polished life,
And prim and formal as a Quaker.
One day the tutor went abroad,
And simple Katy sadly missed him;
When he returned, behind her lord
She shyly stole, and fOndly kissed him.
The husbands anger rose, and red
And white his face alternate grew.
&c Less freedom, ma'amw Kate sighed and
said,
"Oh, dearl didn't know twas youi"
Nothing is calculated to make a
young man more deliberate than the
spectacle of seventeen pair of striped
stockings hanging on the olothes-line of a
house ,where there is only one young lady
in the family.
One of the respectable citizens" of
an Indiana town was recently found
frozen to death with a jug Of whisky
within his reach. A man who will de-
liberately freeze to death within reach of
a jug of whisky may be able to palm him.
self off as a respectable citizen in be-
nighted Indiana, but there are other
states in the union.
Bayard Taylor says that black-eyed
women can never love as fondly as those
with blue eyes. Mr.. Taylor's experience
must be very limited, or he would know
that black-eyed woman, even if she does
not spend quite as much time in signing
as her fairer sister, can love more in FIVE
minutes than blue-eyed woman can in
year Chicago Times.
1T is told Of a map agent that On a
recent trip he was attacked by highway
robbers, who demanded his money. IA
he was too prudent to carry money in
the country, they failed to make haul
out Of their victim, But, said the
agent, II have some splendid maps Of the
country along with me, which i should
like to show you !" and in a twinking
he was off his horse, had a map stuck
upon pole, and explained it 80 efiectu-
ally that he sold each Of the bandits
map, pOcketed the money, and resumed
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