The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1876-11-30
HUMOROUS SQUIBS,

There is a big profit in salvat;o
1t is free, but Talmage wants $1O0Oo
year to go to Chicago and peddle it oDt
"A young man in Jersey City w.,
urged to marry, but he replied %
don't see it. Ny father was single mo,
and he always got along well enough
If you intend to do a mean thin
put if off till to-morrow.-GsO. y
Chids. Never put off till to-moro,
what you can do to,day.-Thomos ,El
ferSOn.
An Indianapolis debating society bs.
lust decided that the execution of Cbu,
/. was unjusti6able. The prospects q.
the Stuart family are beginning to lod
up.
Mrs. Coggin, Of Massachusetts, ag9
one hundred years, who could carry One
hundred pounds of meal two miles Ia,
Just gone to meet her sturdy g1sDd,
darents.
When you reflect that at picnics
hundred years ago it was the custom 70,
the girls to stand up in a row and let The
men kiss them all good-by all this en-.
thusiasm about national progress seeDs
to be a grave mistake.
"A gentleman having a horse that
started and broke his wife's neck, neib.
boring squire told him he wished to
purchase it for his wife to ride upo
"Ao," says the other, II will not sell it,
l intend to marry again myself"
Brigham appeared in court and
when the judge ordered the sheriff to
sell $4,000 worth Of his properly to pay
the alimony of his nineteenth wife, the
old man sighed 90, my Ann Eliza you
are pulverizing me awfully fine"
..Oil of cinnamon will cause the dis
appearance of warts, however hard, large
!
Or dense they may be. The application
gives rise to neither pain nor suppua,
ton. I removed thirty off my hands
with five cents worth Of the oil.
A Boston preacher said to his con,
gregation the other day, in reference to
Mrs. Woodruff, that there are 1.-TWO
Victorias in the world, one at the topI
and the other at the bottom Of her sex;
let us sing. My soul, be Onthy guard.
."DiG I not give you a foggingthe
other day ?" SAID schoolmaster to al
trembling boy. Eyes, SIR" answered
the boy. "Well, what does the scrip.
lures say upon the subject?' 81 DON'T
know, SIR" said the other, Except tb|
in that passage which says, it is more
blessed to give than to receive
The most deliberately unchrlsta1
thing we have ever noticed in a newsPS
per was that of man who adyertisesD ID
a country paper that three days drink
saved will buy man a suit OF cIo'n"
at his store. Now, are we not toughr@
see that the inside of the platter Is mn
looked after before we go to looking
after theout side.-E'r,
About twoO'clock thismornlngamal
rose up at Virginia faro table, "ne'
he had been sitting and losing for hou5'
and laying twenty on card s"Id' as liz
drew and cooked derringer. III tnN
don't win I'll send you TO- LIZ
dealer raised his eyes, and looked lIon
under the broad brim of his sIoucn l'
into the muzzle of the pistol. He dldn
even change color, but careIeSSly r.
marking. ooh, if that's all there + "
beat we may as well go on" Ana ~, D
did. The twenty won.- Irg'n'9 q"
Chronicle.
An inebriate, some little TIME O1 ,,
rot into car and became very 'Fo"''
some and annoying to the other FE 81
sengers, 50 much SO that it was PF0 ?;sG
to eject him; but a genial and AD'
hearted reverend doctor, who was ";2 !
passenger, interposed for him, and S0cN',
him into good behavior for thorema ..so,
of the journey. Before leaving nOS low h.
he scowled upon the occupants o. wv Nv
car, and mrtterod some words o. %
tempt; but he shook hands w'rm ny. WI" NY
the doctor, and said, "Good day. by "
friend, see you know what it Is 70 '