The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1876-06-29
CRAVE AND GAX.7

GRAVE And GAK.Y
"A homely Scotch proverb says: "A
door plate with a mans name on it ia
very guild thing, but denner plate with
a mans denner on it is better"
Fashionable Tailor can't helm
fitting a figure like yours, sir and Pm
willing to lose money for the sake Of the
advertisement, sir Freshman is d.
lighted and pays an extortionate bin
without a murmur.
Josh Billings writes that Philoa
pliers aul agree that the milk is put into
the kokenut and the hole is neatly
plugged up but who the feller is who
duz it, the philosophers are honest
enough, for a wonder, to admit they can't
tell us"
"A tall, gaunt, Reese river, Nevada
man walked up to a bar and said, "pye
got an aged mother back in Missouri
was brought up religious; l amt prepared
to die; and what / want to know is, if
the snakes is strained out OF them air
whisky"
What do I see in Baby's eyes?
So bright! so bright
I see the blue, / see spark,
see twinkle in the dark
Now shut them tight. .~
Whatdo see in Baby's eyes?
Shut tight-shut tight.
The blue is gone, the light is hid
I'll lay a soft kiss on each lid.
Good night! good night!
The lightning struck a Patchogue
darkey on the head Saturday morning
last, but he refused to bulge an inch,
and muttered doggedly: "Dat makes
free times Use been, hit, and now
shouldn't wonder eff it huff me alone."-
~ Y Tribune.
Delightful little dog story from cul,
tured Boston: "a gentleman living at
the South End recently bought setter
dog, and upon taking him home his little
girl inquired what kind of dog he was>
Upon being told that he was setter
she asked if he would have little dogs.
No, he would not. She then replied that
when a hen sets she has little chickens,
and l don't see why q setter dog shouldn't
have little dogs"
The Rev. Charles Voysey, Of Lon
don, has preached an elaborate sermon in
favor of slavery, and denunciatOry Of
emancipation in the West Indies. He
seems to agree with Lowel's lines,
But Hbbaty's kind O. thing
That don't agree with niggahs,
for he asserts that freeing them in ia
maica has sunk them into savageism, de-
based them morally, and in every way
injured them.
"A young man called on his intended
the other evening, and while waiting for
her to make an appearance he struck up
conversation with his intended brother
in-law. After while the boy asked:
"Does galvanized niggers know much"
II really can't say" answered the
amused young man, and silence reigned
for a few moments, when the boy re-
sumed:
"Kin you play checkers with your
noseW
"No, I have not acquired that accom-
plishment."
"Well, you'd better lern, you hear
meH"
"Whyw
"Cause, Sis says you don't know as
much as a galvanized niger, but that
yer dads got lots O stamps, and shelf
marry you anyhow; and she said when
she got ahold of the old mans sugar she
was agoin' to all Of the Fourth Of July
perceshuns, and let you stay at home to
play checkers with that hollyhock nose
Of yourn."
And when Sis got her hair fixed and
came in she found the parlor deserted by
all save her brother, who was tying the
tails of two kittens together and sing
ing: -,
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