The weekly echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1868-1876, 1876-03-16
CRAVE AND GAH.

i C'y IeCSHl y lOSJ elBAJ CunuICA W uyp-
liberia in such quick succession that four
were buried together.
"A jawbone sixteen feet long is to be
exhibited at the centennial by Massa-
chusetts. Put it in the womans depart
ment, by all means.
Won Bulow praises the handsome
ears of American women. The artfuI
old stranger has already discovered that
they are open to fattery.
How man can afford to give away
an eighteen dollar chrome with pound
of dollar a, puzzles people who don't
know the immense profits made on tea.
1t is said that woman of Xenia,
Ohio, offered her husband divorce the
other day for seal-skin cloeS. That
was no sign, however, that she was par
ticularly anxious for the cloak.
! 1t is the opinion of a well-informed
New England paper that the Massachu-
sets legislature would excursion two,
hundred miles to see a hog-pen if any
one furnished free passes and gin.
..N1GHT.--
The locusts are leafess and bare;
The Oleak world is mantled with snow
/ stand in the cold, wintry aiFi
And think Of the sweet fOng-ago.
On dark, lonely house, Ger the way,
The silver stars silently CLEAN;
Alone, in the starlight, it stands
Like the ghost Of a beautiful dream.
The locusts are Ieafless and bare;
-lu The bleak world Is mantled with snow;
The light in the window is gone
The light Of the sweet lOng-ago.
Eugene j. Hail.
1t was Buchanan Read who, when a
lady at table, trying to repeat it, could
remember nothing beyond the first line of
"Let the toast be fair woman"
quietly whispered to her, "Let the toast
be, fair woman
An old physician asserts that an
orange eaten every morning half hour
before breakfast will eventually destroy
the desire for alcoholic drinks. He says
that he has never known it to fail in
efecting a cure OF the must confirmed
case of inebriety. Now, who would ask
for more agreeable medicine?
cit is better to yield little" says
some cheap philosopher, ethan to quar-
rel a great deal" He should have said,
and would have said had he been true
philosopher, that it is better to yield
great deal than to quarrel a little. The
husband and wife who bear this con-
stantly in mind may be happy, even
without baby.
This is hard. Butt comes from Won
Bulow. He said to an audience in Chi
cago: "I tell you the only reason why
I play Beethoven, Schumann, Mendels-
sOhn and all these, is because the gigan-
tic ignoramuses with the inevitable beer
glass-the German music-teacher in
America-has interpreted so many of
these badly. would rather from choice
play Wagner and List"
Ralph Waldo Emerson says: "The
essence of all jokes, or all comedy, seems
to be an honest or well-intended half
ness" This is beautifully said, and it is
just what we have many times declared.
'Alf and 'alf is good joke. And the
essence of all philosophy is a whimsi-
cal and obscure thIee-quarteness. The
fraction may not be quite right, but it is
somewhere near there. '''....
REST AT LAST
After the shower, the tranquil sun;
Silver stars when the day is done.
After the snow, the emerald leaves,
After the harvest golden sheaves,
After the clouds, the violet sky;
Quiet woods when the wind goes by.
After the tempest, the lull of waves
After the battle, peaceful graves
After the knell, the wedding bells;
Joyful greetings from sad farewells.
After the bud, the radiant rose;
After our weeping, sweet repose. TO-
After the burden, the blisSful need
After the furrOw, the waking seed.
After the flight, the downy nest .
Over the shadowy river-rest
The late king of Siam had eighty
one children, and he wanted all of them
to be educated in English. Mrs. Leon
owens says of the Siamese potentate: