The weekly echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1868-1876, 1876-04-20

And NO more measure
The fight of time, nor weep
The loss Of leisure;
But here, by this lone stream
Lie down with us, and dream
Of starry treasured
We dream; do thou the same;
We lOve--fOr ever;
We laugh; yet few we shame,
The gentle, never.
STAY, then, till sorrow dies;
Then-hope and happy skies
Are thine for ever!
Over two months of leap year have
already winged their fight, and we don't
suppose one young man in thousand
has received a single proposal pointing
towards matrimony. This, perhaps, is,
owing more to the poor stock Of young
men on hand than to the timidity of the
girls.
There have been so many cases re-
Gently, in France, Of attacks upon lion
tanners by the beasts in their care that
the Paris police have prohibited public
exhibitions of skill in subduing lions
and there are indications that before long
such exhibitions will be prohibited
throughout France by law.
The London World wants London
hotel on the American plan, so that peO'
pie can pay so much day, and then eat
all day if they want to. Let us, too,
have a hotel on the English plan, which
permits a man to pay for as much as he
can drink in an hour, even if man,
lasted only ten minutes.
-" Say, ma, want England the
mother of this country ?" Yes, my
son; you ought to know that" DWELL
want George Washington its father ?-
Why-y-yes, of course" "Well,
ma, wot want to inquire is" You
you go right out and split that wood,
George, or I'll inquire YOU"
"A correspondent of the Woman's
Journal, writing from mid-ocean, asks:
" Can there be anything more impress
sive than this infnity of space?" Moth
ing, we should say, nothing; unless it is,
to walk four miles through a snow storm
to see your girl and then find another
fellow making love to her,
Victor Hugo preserves a blot on his
carpet, caused by the upsetting of his
inkstand, just as he had finished one of the
most celebrated chapters in " Les Misera-
bles." So man might always cherish
patch in his pantaloons, inserted after he
had been kicked all the way down stairs.
There is nothing under the sun like SEN
timent.
"A submarine carriage of 2 NEST in
genious construction has recently been
invented in Paris to cross the channel,
and for navigating deep rivers and
canals. The carriage is of galvanized
iron, and is Theoretically sealed. 1t is.
attached to heavy eight-wheeled truck,
which runs on line of rails laid down
under the ocean. The motive power is
supplied by two screws driven by COM
pressed air.
The grandest' operations, both in,
nature and grace, are silent and imper-
ceptible. The small brook kabbles in
its passage, and is heard by every one
but the coming of the seasons is silent
and unseen. The storm RACES and alarms,
but its fury is soon exhausted, and its
effects are partial and soon remedied but
the dew, though gentle and unheard, is
immense in quantity, and the very life
of large portions Of the earth. And
these are pictures Of the operations of
grace in the church and in the soul.
DO adults grow? Lewis G. james,
says they do. He has short article in
the Herald Of Heal giving the results
of actual measurements during ten years
in the health-lift, In some instances
middle-aged men have grown an inch in
height by practicing that exercise, and
several have gained three-fourths Of an
inch. Or. Cobb's Uranium grew more
than an inch in circumference after he
was forty, but then he was a Universal
list and his expansive faith may have had
something to do with the growth.