The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1876-11-16
GRAVE AND GAY.

~ 10 nalu 'N''' Va" 4'"AJ VI England
costs the lives of fifty thousand elephant,
every year.
A Philadelphia woman, it ia said
swore that her husbands conduct va.
enough to "irrigate an angel"
Men are frequently like tea-tbe
real strength and goodness are not prom.
erIy drawn out until they have been IN
hot water.
Providence either made a terribIo
mistake, or disguised good purpose in
a most impenetrabIe mystery, when he
made the man who chews a tOothpick an
the street.
Once in a while you can find w..
man who doesn't intend to go to the
centennial, but hundreds who can't %
like to hug the idea and make some one
else feel bad.
"A Welsh widow, as she was tuning
away from her dead husbands open
grave, received a whispered offer of mar.
rage; but she softly replied that she
had already accepted another offer az she
was going into the church.
A materialized spirit in Roc5.
ester got so mad at fellow the Other
evening for turning on a light at The
wtong moment that he yelled: "Letw
of me until get the ak and split that
ours head open. He shall never leave
this room alive?'
GALLEY HEAD, on the coast of Cork,
will soon have erected the largest Ian.
tern ever made. 1t will consume ,300
feet OF gass per hour, and will be visible
during foggy weather. Its light will
equal that of 100000 candles.
"A story is told of Chivac, the duke
Of Orleans physician. He never noticed
that he was ill, being SO anxious about
the death Of others; but one day he felt
his own pulse, and said: "He's desd
man. have been called in too late
| THE DIFFERENCE
Some murmUr when their sky Is clear
And wholly bright to view,
II one small Bpeck of dark appear
In their great heavens OF blue
And some with thankful love are fNsd
If but one streak of light
One ray of Gods good mercy gid
The darkness Of their night
The impression which the Seward
statue gives an impartial observer is thai
Of man one part head, three parts body
and six parts legs. If Mr.. Seward
friends respect his memory, they will
have that statue permanently enveloPed
in a sheet from, the knees dOwn.-Broos-
lyn argus.
Nothing makes a young man %
happy as to get around to the Postothcs
after it is closed and see a letter in his
box; to have his heart whisper that it
is from her; to dream sweet and tender
fancies hallowed with loves sacredneS,
all night, and to come down in the
morning and find it bill Of ST 50 of
his last years underclOthe5.
WHAT HAPPENED wHEN THE DEACON REAtT
He shrieks: " The game stands six and '1>.
And dad has got the deal"
They sWarmed upon the tavern st0op
They peeped in at the crack;
They saw the deacon shuttle, then
The stranger cut the pack;
And the deacon grim, he winked at AIM,
And dealt and turned the Jack!
Funny monkey" said Mrs. Tar
tington, as she saw him patiently hitting
"but he sets as if he had plumbago in the
back, and I could wish there wuz m"'
hair on his reprehensible tail I cam"
yet believe, neither, that they're oui P'%
terity."
The American mind has to feed Oh
something, but an occasional chang"
diet wouldn't be bad for it. Here Isl
sample of literature from a family jour
nal: "In the distance Allen Thorn!
heard the echo of that despairing cry
but it was not repeated, and thinking"
perhaps, some fancy of his own, he Po''
sued his homeward way. All that ngn'
he paced his study, battling with I'D
love for Kate and his duty toward ENG
How could he meet the pure, inno'SL,
gaze of his wife, when his heart was d"
another's? Obi that blind, fatal ME
take, his marriage, and Kate had IoIsu
him all these years. Al last morning
came, finding him pale and worm O''
composed"