The weekly echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1868-1876, 1876-04-27
FACTS AND FAEClEs.

"I'M too poor to take a paper" Il
you are, YOU should be indicted by the
grand jury for obtaining a family unde
false pretenses.
THERE is a town in Maine Whree, after
three days hard work, the citizens raised
seventy-two cents for the widow of man
who was accidentally killed.
THE kangaroo has been introduced on
several large estates in France, and is
now hunted in that country as game. It
readily adapts itself to the climate.
THIRTY Indian families, with their
dogs, trappings and paraphernalia, will
encamp on the Centennial grounds, un.
der the direction Of Professor Baird.
TURKEY has fifteen immense ships of
war which cost nearly two millions of
dollars apiece. Their sole duty is to fire
salutes when the Sultan goes to the
mosque
"CAN you zee me, dearestY" said a
Chicago man to his dyingwife. lifeline,
can you see me ?" Nc" she family
whispered, "but / can smell your
breath"
WHILE an Iowa woman was struggling
in the water, and likely to drown, her
husband yelled out: New bonnet
swim for life !" and she kicked out and
safely reached the shore.
WHAT is editorial courtesy? Why, it
is when an editor is caught stealing
chickens at midnight and his brother
editors kindly allude to the matter as a
strange freak of somnambulist.
How DRoLL!-
Fourteen little thin bugs caught out in a
shower,
Scrambled quick as lightning into the near
est flower.
"Dew and honey" said theyall. "Dearmel
this is sweet!
Looks as though it really might be coed
enough to eat"
They smelled it, they tasted it,-"Yes, in
deed it's NIGEL"
Leafet after leafet vanished in a trice.
By the time the sun came, to chase away the
shower,
There were all the fourteen bugs, but who
could find the flower?
Into it the creatures went: now 1t was in
hen1--
Fourteen little fat bugs sitting on a stem!
CHARLOTTE, North Carolina, has had
an elOpement, in which the bridegroom.
was sixty and the bride thirty. The IA
Their of the bride tried to be present at
the ceremony with a pitchfork, but took
the wrong road.
THE peculiar bent of the German
mind is shown by the fact that out of
the twelve thousand five hundred and {
sixteen books published in Germany in
1875, only nine hundred were devoted to
fiction and the drama.
THE debating societies of South Caro-
lima have been offered the following pro-
blem by the Abbeville Press: (Which
is the best way to get news-by borrow
ing your neighbOr's paper, or subscribing
on time without any intention of paying
for it ?"
MoLIERE was asked the reason why,
in certain countries, the king may as
sumo the crown at fourteen years of age
and can not marry before eighteen. ut
s," answered MOliere, "beCause it is
more difficult to rule a wife than a king
lOm."
MADAM" cynically observed a gen
,leman to a leader of fashionable society
If Washington, "woman doesn't seem to
oe as much of clinging vine as she
nee was" "That's because of the ex-
RENE insecurity of the manly oak" she
eplied.
THE latest thing in soap for use in
lotel lavatOries is to grind it to powder
md place it in a small metal urn with a
perforated bottom. To do this you first
vet your hands, move slide in the bot
Om of the urn, when down comes a
hover of soap sufficient in quantity to
:leanse the hands of any one, except a
abinet officer.
THE Kearney (Nebraska) Press argues
n favor of DEMONSTRATING the buffalo,
nd says: "The animal can easily be
AIMED and made to do good service in
he harness; that while his tail is not so
andy to twist, in every other respect,
lie, strength, get-up and style, he is
astly superior to the domestic OK"