The weekly echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1868-1876, 1876-03-23
CRAVE AND GAY.

kins, Gentle, last week, but in day or
two returned to her parents and refused
7 to see her husband again. Hopkins is
disco 'soiate.
!. That is a touching Kilkenny ballad
that begins
"Farios daughter walked down to the Nile
; Along wild her maids for to battle in stiie;
|, AS she ran long the shore for to dhry her skin
Her fut hit the bashkit that Moses was inw
This beautiful historical passage is soft
ened and enriched by age like an old
Cremona.
| 1T was a Cheyenne small boy who,
being talked to by his Sunday.school
teacher on sins and frailties of the body,
was asked: wen, my son, what have
you beside this sinful body| Quick as
thought the urchin responded: " A. clean
shirt and a nice new pair Of brooches"
The finest timber in the world is
found in the Black Hills, according to
Cheyenne paper. Some of the pine trees
are ten feet in diameter and SO tall that
the man working at the butt can't hear
the man who is chopping the top up into
cord wood.
The author of the following, Du-
buque man, to his first born, is still at
large:
Welcome, little teenie-weenie-weenie,
We've been looking for you some;
With her bluey, truey Genie.
Faith, and amt we glad she's come?
0 the little piggie-wiggie
Bless her, that it's Just no niggie!
Sucking pucky-wucky thumb!
The Greeks characterize human
follies and absurdities by such phrases
as che plows the air; che is making
clothes for fshes;" che catches the wind
with net :" che roasts snow in a fur
nace;" che holds a looking glass to
mole !" che is teaching iron to swim -
che is teaching pig to play on hute;'
che seeks wool on as ass" che washes
the Ethiopian
The Burlington Hawkeye says: A
Benton county man hid $500 in the spare
room stove. The next day his wife's
mother came down during his absence
for three weeks visit, and that spare
room was warmed up for the first time
in three hundred years. And they say
you can pick up shreds Of that mans
hair and clothes where he dubbed him
self around the country when he heard
of it, anywhere within ten miles of the
house.
Tactical RHYMES
Hear the milkmen with their bells,
Cones thought of chalk and water as their
music sinks and swells.
How they clatter, clatter, clatter,
In the early mornings light,
As the housewife grabs platter,
While her teeth begin to Clatter
With an unconcealed alright.
For the pail--ah, the pail
If to find it she SHOULD fail,
Ere the milkman trundles onward with her
share
How her husband he will shout
When the coffee is poured out
How he'll swear, swear swear.
Persons who have been annoyed all
their lives by aggressive and inconsid-
crate smokers will learn with no little
satisfaction that the manufacture of ex-
olosivo cigars is on the increase, and that
5he man who walks just ahead of other
people on the street and rolls his pol
uted cloud back into the faces of his
PETERS may at any time hear something
20 of, and find himself singed, black
med and unacceptable trespasser OH
human rights. One of these cigars re-
emily exploded in the midst of a Paris
lub, and nearly scared Frenchman to
cath, besides scorching him badly.
The Boston Post has this little story
Or the hard times: "There were no
ssets; there was not the remotest chance
f dividend. What were the creditors
0 do with this wretched individual?
1t all events they were determined to
ave something, and one of their num-
er, either previously aware of the bank
upt's lyrical attainments or moved by
intuition of the debtor
aving single face, asked him if he.
ould not cheer the dropping spirits of
hose to whom he stood indebted by
yarbling some ditty. The penniless yet
lneful bankrupt expressed his willing
ess to oblige, and in tremulous accents
iped forth the tender ballad of Then
Quill remember me- The SCENE was a.