The weekly echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1868-1876, 1876-04-06
GRAVE AND GAP.

down and believe that no one cares for
you.
The revival feeling is spreading, but
it hasn't yet got down deep enough to
affect arrearages on country newspaper
books.
There is church in Illinois, twenty.
three years old, which has enjoyed the
services of nineteen pastors, and it is not
satisfied yet.
Massachusetts drinks more lager
beer than any of the forty-one states and
territories, the aggregate for last year
being 7O9,9 29 barrels
-" When a woman gifts to despise a,
kaliker dress" says Michigan farmer,
cts about time for the family to break
up and divide the property"
Rev. DR.. G. X. Marshall, of Vicks-
burg, Miss, has been instrumental in
furnishing six hundred artificial legs to
manned southern soldiers.
When Persian woman talks to her
husband in a loud tone of voice, they
shut her up; that is to say, they send
her to jail for thirty days. ...
The government has abolished the
sunset gun at indianapolis; but the sun,
strange to say, keeps going down as usual,
except, perhaps, a trife later.
Being stopped by highwaymen one
night in the city hall park, he said: "Gen-
tlemen, haven't got any money, but
I'll give you my note for three months"
"A Kentucky judge has decided that
a man has no right to harness his wife to
a pillow, no, not even with a mule. And
yet women complain that they have no
rights. ....
There is brilliant future fol the boy
who, when he sees a ton of coal coming
to the house, rushes to his mother, asks
for the peppermint, rolls on the floor and
groans, and says he has the cramps.
They are going to explode $4,000
pounds Of nitro-glycerine at He'll Gate
next year, say the New York papers. It
is not wide enough at present to accom-
modate the travel from New York and
..COeL ANY NICE
A hundred weight of ice for paper dollare!
Nowl In the middle of this bright wintare
On end stands the hair of the, h0usekeepare,
As she thinks what twill be in the midsum-
mare,
For ten cents lump, weighing three pounds
spare,
Clipped in the presence of the purchasarel
The time for man to stand firmly
by Jobs example is when he washes his
lace with homemade soap and begins to
paw around over the chairs with his
Eyes shut, inquiring for a towel, quick.
and is told that the towel is in'the draw
9r, but the keys are lost.
1T was Cheyenne small boy who
oeing talked to by his Sunday. school
;eacher on sins and frailties of the body,
vas asked: "Well, my son, what have
you beside this sinful bodyT" Quick as
bought the urChin responded: "A clean
hirt and nice new pairof breeches."
The recent trial in St. Louis has
'rought out the story of the old French,
nan who had been tried for theft and
cquitted. As often as the offense was
brown up to him he would reply: "Ze
epe (the people, he say yes but re
courthouse he say me- Aha By CARP
When anybody asks you why ladies
equire such alarge amount of pin money,
efer them to the following figures: There
re now eight pin factories in the United
tates, which make about 47,0OO,OO0
ms daily. In addition to these, the
npOrtation of pins reaches 25,0OO,OO0
ally.
Cashmere shawls are mere drug in
ndia. When Wales visited the Ma
arajah, the tent outside the house was.
lade of cashmere shawls, and the rooms
the house were carpeted and the walls
raped with them, while the dais and
he canopy were shrouded with those of
he most beautiful pattern and immense
alue. 1t was better than an opening
~ at spring bonnet grab.
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