The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1876-07-13


want God to get it for nothing.
That was a coneeit both poetic and
natural which lately found expression in
the question Of very young gentleman
while viewing the beds of beautiful va
riegated violets around the old arsenel in
Central Park: "Papa, is that where the
butterflies grow"
IA CANTANNA."
From that bundred.citied west,
West that grows like weed possessed.
Ranges down on all my doors
Country cousins, countless scores:
In pOsish, in pOsish
To enjoy the exposish;
Come to stay, come to stay, ..
While loud voices rise and call
Put some more cots in the hall; :"
Weltering my children cry,
Sweltering, my children cry.
AS they wonder to and fro:
Well, this is indeed gOl"
While their guests of both the sexes,
Move about from day to day,
Doing buildings and annexes.
The whole number of PRESBYTERIAN
churches organized in the synod of the
Pacific since 1867 has been seventy-three:
in the synod of Colorado, forty-threes
making, in both synods, one hundred and
sixteen. During the same period forty
two church buildings have been erected
in the Pacific synod, and twenty are now
being built.
"A noble Indian of Wisconsin carries
about with him the following certificate
written for him by some obliging white
man: "This may certify that the bear
er is an aboriginal cuss, in whom there is
no guile. He never lifted a scalp nor
robbed hen-roost in daylight. He is
the father of some of his children, and
uses no cologne. He has that noble at
tribute of his race, an untutored mind.
His squaw has gone to the spirit land,
and he wishes to visit that earthly land
Of spirits, where troubles are forgotten at
the rate of ten cents a spirit. He re-
spectfully asketh aid of the pale faces
No orders for groceries received"
The San Francisco Bulletin says.
The mammoth roses raised this spring
in the west addition are eclipsed by 3
foreign production. On good authority
it is stated that a rose was recently
plucked from bush at the royal horti.
cultural gardens, in Honolulu, which
measured twenty-eight and a half inches
in circumference. This rose bush blooms
only once year, and the blossoms are
nearly all OF an equal size. The bush
was brought from England in early days,
and from it a greater portion of the
bushes in the island have been raised.
Col. L. J. Proctor, for many years
lessee of the Mammoth Cave, and Mr..
R. @. Hazlip, of Edmonson county,
have COVE to Philadelphia, and will take
with them a rare collection of Kentucky
curiosities, consisting in part of the
American mummy, the discovery Of
which in Grand-avenue cave last year
created such a sensation; number of
eyeless fish, stalactites and stalagmites,
and last, but not least, large number
of splendid specimens from the coal and
iron fields of Edmonson county, With
which they hope to attract the attention
of capitalists to the great mineral re-
sources of Kentucky. ...
John Paul has invaded Paris. and
the impression he gets of men and things
are altogether pleasing. The French
man, he tells us, is not a big feeder. He
breaks his fast in the morning with lit
tie coffee and good deal of bread and
butter Along toward noon, if raven.
susly hungry, he SEXES on a radish or
perhaps the hind legs of sparrow but
tor dinner-ye gods, what a gorging is
there Two spoonfuls of soup, the back"
bone of smelt, morsel of meat the
size of saddle-rock oyster, mushroom,
an onion, a Glove Of garlic, a smell Of
cheese, a gallon of red wine, and he's
ready for an opera or the theater. The
Frenchmar can cook dinner but when
it comes to eating enc, Why, bless your
soul, an Englishman can eat all around
him. Yet, duJat though he be at dress
ing fish or a fowl, the Frenchman does
not dress himself well. His sleeves are
too short, his skirts are too narrow, and
he has altogether skimpy look. WI J
be attempts to be elegant he il only d