The weekly echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1868-1876, 1876-05-25
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ashamed Of you When 1 was your ACE
/ could read as well as can now ,
+" Yes, but you'd a different teacher n
what we've got"
Esquimaux theOlogians reverse ea-
ven and hell, placing the penitent and
saved in world underground, and keen.
ing the sinners above, where they srs
frozen.
| "A STRAY CURL
It hung s'er her shoulders divinely,
| A curl of magnificent geld;
/ thought, as il lay there upinely,
OF tFesses that German girl sold
envied the curl so reposing,
Like sunshine or ambient pearl
But while was dreamily doing
1t fell with quiveFing whirl-
| And that curi-ahl my dream was then
ended
It lay there aghast on the floor.
While its owner in ignorance wendell.
Mid silence, her steps to the door!
The requirement Of four months
county residence as a qualification to
vote is said to disfranchise six hundred
Methodist ministers every year in New
York.
Minnesota possesses a singular mur-
der law, under which the most deliberate
murderer, if he pleads guilty, escapesthe
gallows, though he may be hanged if he
stands trial and is convicted.
You may never have thought of it,
but it is utterly impossible to get down
right angry without raising your voice.
Control your voice and you are sure to
control your temper.
Some mean fellow, after saying that
there is one physician to every eight hun
dred inhabitants, adds that they begin
this way, but after awhile there are not
many inhabitants.
Jones was heard to pathetically re-
mark, as he came past the corner Of
Main street, ooh, if were only box
Of starch should get nearer to the bos-
oms Ofmen and other people than I shall
ever get as I amp Starch is apt to have
stlttenlng effect on things.
Extreme old age is childhood; extreme
wisdom is ignorance, and so it may be
called, since the man whom the oracle
pronounced the Wisest of men professed
that he knew nothing; yea, push a cow
ard to the extreme and he will show
Cypress a man to the last and
ne will rise above oppression.
The spirits materialized George
at a scance in Indiana the
other day, and when one of thespectators
asked him whether he was really the
great hatcheter, our first president re-
olied. "Dot ish der kind of Hans ich
lm."
..AneCdote of Lord Macaulay's re-
memory-When he was less
han three years old his nurse sang
Sing song O sixpence" to him. Dur
ng the course of a long and busy life,
or more than fifty years, no one sang it
o him again, yet he was able to repeatit
whenever called upon to do SO.
Annie Besant, the English radical
eroine, has started a petition to parlia-
1ent praying that no further grants of
honey to or for the royal family or any
lember of it shall be given under any
circumstances whatever. The signatures
ave run up into the neighborhood Of
ghty thousand, and, when presented,i it
ill be the largest petition ever sent to
nat body, ......
Wood burns becauseit has the proper
;uff for that purpose in it, and man
eComes renowned because he has the
ecessary stuff in him. Renown is not
} be sought, and all pursuit of it is vain.
person may, indeed, by skillful con.
lct and various artificial means make
'rt of name for himself bat if the inner
wei is wanting, all is vanity and will
ot last day.
He who never relaxes int spOrtive-
sss is a wearisome companion, but b
are of him who jests at everything
lch men disparage, by some ludicrOus
ISOLATION, all objects which are pre-
nted to their thoughts, and thereby
nder themselves incapable Of any emo
on which can either elevate or soften
iem; they bring upon their moral being
influence more whitening than the
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