The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1876-10-19
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nave uOVnlngj 1 give Inc rest to the
poor"
"A magazine writer asks: "Do bird,
die natural death?' As birds do mt
employ physicians we can see no good
reason for asking that question.
"A law has been passed in Germany
forbiding the construction of school.
rooms with windows on both sides of the
room. It is said to be proven that rooms
so lighted are injurious to the eyes,
"A little fve-year old of Dorchester
somewhat surprised his mother, a few
days since, with the remark: "God
everywhere; he is all over me, and when
you spank me you spank GodP'
.."Peter, don't you enjoy the astro.
nomicaI phenomena these evenings?o
said a weIl-to-do citizen, residing in
West Harrisburg, to his colored en-.
pIoye the other evening. "Clar to
goodness, never tired 'em; musbmelon
is my favorite fruit"
We should not grow angry amidst
testing and bantering, for we make our
selves enemies thereby; nor in discus
sions, because they then change into dis
putes; nor in instructing, because in
struction then becomes our antipathy;
nor in prosperity, because it adds to the
envy with which others are flled.-Plu.
tGrck4
Mrs. Astor, when she wants to feel
dressed, wears 81, 100000 worth of dia-
monds at time, and when a hotel clerk
or minstrel end man passes her his
usually magnificent cluster just shrinks
and folds itself up until it looks as if he
had only spilled drop of mOlasses on
his shirt-front.-H aaVkeve.
"A little miss, writing to her father
on the first day other entrance at board
says: 1.-THE first evening we
have had prayers, and then singing and
a passing round of bread, which did
not take, not being confirmed, I thought
had no right to take communion.
Afterward I learned that bad lost my
The Watkins Express is responsible
for this. "A few Sundays ago we heard
a preacher of the gospel. who holds forth
over there in Chemung county, make
use O. this vigorous comparison: "A
hypocritical christian can no more get
into heaven than a raccoon can climba
stow pipe with a tea kettle tied to his
tall"
The food alarmists' having scared
many persons out Of the practice of
using brown sugars by reporting that
they were in the main full of a species Of
mite, a would-be scientist is now trying
10 make US believe that refined sugars
are poisonous. What next, gentlemen?
We await patiently further discoveries,
and in the meantime are thankful that
" we still live :"
Mrs. Golightly Fishing for a COM
Mr.. McJoseph, beauty
s the most precious of all gifts for
I'd sooner possess beauty than
lnything in the world" Mr.. McJosePb
under the impression that he is making
himself very agreeable -"Pm sure, Mrs
3olightIy, that any regret you mag pcs
IDLY feel on that score must be amply
for by-er-the concious
less of your moral worth, you know, ana
# your various mental accomplishments.
Punch.
Laura G. Redden, or Howard
1lyndon," the lady whose marriage was
COUPLED in the newspaper with an ac-
cunt of her learning to talk after beng
deaf mute until sixteen years OF age'
a new poem in the IndePen-
ent. Doubtless it was written during
he honeymoon, for it contains TINS
'erse:
here's beautiful country that CLEANS from 'D'
Exceeding the country that Moses looked on
When his sad, dying eyes, with pathetic Pel''''
ence, $500.
From Pisgah's high top sought the far horizon,
lis the land that is loved of the lOw-leanlhS Nv,
lis the land that is loved of the lass he leans o1
or the snake never hides In the s"ee'-'
clover, -,
And clouds never darken the blue OF the 81!
In the Sweet By and by