The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1876-12-07
GRAVE and GAY

out of town with their hats. san1
their photographs before they mska ~
selection of shape and color Of -
mings.
1t was little thrGe-year.oId -,
remarked that she didn't want to E'
her papa because he had "fringe On H.
mouth. "-Boston GJoJe.
We don't know that it was the ~.
zooty that affected him; but he , .t
with some violence: off that Dose w..
running for Office, it would be elected H.
a handsome majority"
Bruce had recourse to the suou
Tell to a bow and arrow, and Wasbir,
ton appealed to the God of battles bT,
when woman strikes for liberty d.
uses anything she can lay her hands O,
1t is strange that the girl who ~,
crowd herself and lover into verv no,
row rocking chair, is the same one vbn
always occupies three feet seats in
horse Cars. Louis Republican.
1t makes one sad to realize that oil
the train-robbers and bank burglars ven,
once good little boys, and sat on the door,
steps waiting for ma to come home from
the society meeting.
In 1890, not hundred years ago. al
the sack of Ismail, the Russians were q,
atrocious toward the Turks as the latter
are toward the Servians and SuwarrF
put 5000 persons to death, as Iectue
to his soldiers in the art of massacp
"A young lady of this city, who Wa
inattentive at whist, has broken off be-
engagement with her lover because b.
recommended her to "scoop her mind
up il a peanut shell and fix it on the
game.-Br00kly,o Argus
"A distinguished author says
resolved when Twas a child, never to use
a word which I could not pronounce
before my mother without offending her,
He kept his resolution, and became
pure minded, noble, honored gentleman
His rule and example are worthy Of in.
itation.
Master Tommy (heShad been very
naughty and was now amusing himself
with his scripture prints -"Her3
Daniel in the lions den" Mamma
(incautiousIy)-"Ah! what was he cast
into the lions den for ?" Master Tommy
with triumph)-"Cause he was good,
"A brave and good little Ohio boy
sat on the fence two hours in the freezing
cold of dead winter, watching a broken
rail on the railroad track, so as to carry
the latest news of the impending acct
dent to his father, who was a local
editor.
"A publisher who always gives ava!
a chrome lately purchased large num-
Der of pectures Of Niagara Falls. After
them for a time with very
poor results in the way Of subscriptions
he turned them upside down and an
nounced a brand new chrome Of "A
Prairie on Fire"
The Connecticut fossil footprints
appear to be bogus. 1t is hard to Dc
certain about anything after the laPT
of centuries. No doubt the tutuF
antiquarian as he digs about in the run
of ancient Chicago will, finding the toau
footprint of a belle, mistake it for a RS'n
tub hewn in stone, and write a BOOK
thereon.
Norwich Bulletin: A Boston
sculptor has just completed a Sfa'aT
entitled Enthusiasm" No one aro0nu
here has seen it yet, but it is said to"
of the highest type; it is generally pre-
sumed that it represents an abIe,0ooFo
female trading off her husbands oun0''
pantaloons for a china dog and two 'H's
for the mantel-piece. wars
.Bayard Taylor says that elghI !T 11
ago, when he was in Italy, Snoo'!
American could obtain baron iOF
by settling $1,000 Y5D
upon him; count could be go' ,2
$4,000. All things considered, I ls
was not high. The cold man u |
simply to buy another drove OF hogs S', ,
year to make up for the addltl0h"I
p'1 MAN spit quart of tobacco juice ,1 ID
street-car and got out. Boy got IN Civ VI.