The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1876-10-12
CRAVE AND CAV

Ola hOhOl10 10 'IC equation D4ra
prescribed before a widow can sit A.
'front.' parlor window and peep tb,on
the Stats at the gentlemen going tn
returning from their business, but
generally does it the day afe, 4,
funeral.
90. The right hand and wrist Of Il
colossal statute of liberty" destined
New York harbor, has been received
New York. That is as much of Iib.,,
as they want in that city, the part IL
dips into the treasury and curls IN
whatever it touches.
odd she not return your love
inquired a sympathiEing friend Of
young man who intimated that he h,
had some difficulty with his sweetbe,.
ayes, she returned it, and that is ear
ly what the trouble is. She said i
didn't want it,"
"A Welsh judge, notorious for hi
greed of office and his want OF per,oD
cleanliness, was once complaining of b
ing neglected. My dear sir" .si
Jekyll, in his most amiable tones, "yo
have asked the minister for almost eveU
thing else, why don't you ask him for
piece of soap and nail brush ?"
The government has ordered tba
no more gums or ammunition shall
sold in the Indian country. This orde
is issued probably because "peace con-
missioner Sitting Bull sent in word tia
his command was now fully armed, n
he had no storage-room or TRANSPORTING
for any more cartridges.
The New York Times asserts tbatgF
ernor Tilden's investments were chief
in railroad bonds and stocks. 1t migi
be supposed, from reading its daily art
Giles on the subject, that he had doD
nothing else. Now, it is pretty vel
known that the tax on all such incona
was paid directly by the corporation
consequently it results, upon the shoE
ing of the Times itself, that the tax pail
by governor Tilden was not to be mes
ured by the false standard it sets uP-
Brooklyn Argus.
This is poIiceman's story: A good
pious man, who limps slightly, happened
to be out late, up town, the other night
when a hilarious young chap, with a
unIighted cigar stump, stopped him AMI
asked for a match. Il don't carr
matches; never smoke" replied tn
good man, Indignantly. :" BIB but, yo1
know, you want to get in easy, old t
low, tonight, and you ought to ha7
one for the k-k-key-hole," said the way
ward youth. At this point the police
man interfered, and the matches NAL
moved on.
"A hater of tobacco asked an old
negro woman, the fumes Of whose pP
we're annoying to him, if she though
she was a christian. Yes, bruddef
'spects I is" "Do you believe in t1
bible ?" "Yes, brudder." Do N
know there is a passage in the scriPtu5
which says that nothing uncIe'n sn
enter the kingdom of heaven" Ia
Pve heard of it." "Well, Chloe na
smoke, and you can not enter into a
kingdom of heaven, because there
nothing so unclean as the breath o.
smoker. What do you say to that
"Why, 'spects to leave my 0Fe1 u
hind me when I go dar |"
"A Scotch minister thus discourse
on the carelessness of his flock; DFtI
rem, when you leave the church ]u
look down at the dukes swans; they
very bonny swans, an they'll be conn
about an aye docking doom their 0'ap
an LAYING themselves wi the clear =" wa"
till they are a sleekit; then you Il
them cooming to the shore an 'n'
will gle their wings a bit flap an 'nt!
dry again. Now, my friends, you vu
here every Sabbath. an I lave you
over wi the gospel till ye're na,
dookit WI it. But you just gang
hame, an sit doom by your tireslas
your wings a bit flap, an ye're as "'''
ever again"
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