The weekly echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1868-1876, 1876-04-13
GRAVE md GAF.

isn't whisky that kills. When mans
teeth strikes a tumbler there is friction,
and friction Jars his nerves and wears
him out.
The Rothschilds could give eighty
FIVE dollars TO every man, woman and
child in the country. There, now
don't get excited it isn't certain they
will do it.
Women are turning their attention
to the insurance agency business. AT,
ter this there is nothing left for their en-
ergy to cut its teeth on but peddling
lightning, rods.
"A CHILD's GRAVE
A little mound with Clipped headstOn9,
The grass-ah me = uncut about the
sward,
Summer by summer left alone,
With one white lily keeping watch and
ward.
The owner of a pair Of black eyes
assures us that the prettiest compliment
she ever received came from child Of
four years. The little fellow, after look
ing at herfor moment, inquired naively,
" Are your eyes new ones %
.."Bridget," said O'Mulligan to his
wife, otis cowld ye have. A drop Of
the crathur 'ud do you no harrum.'
" Och hone" said Biddy, " I've taken the
pledge; but we can mix me drink
Jenny, and force me to swally it,"
There is to be no shortening put
into coat tails this spring, and pants
will be baggier than ever, to accommodate
those gentlemen whose legs are built on
the silt plan. Dog-eared collars, cut so
as to show the binding of the undershirts
will be popular.
When the Memphians sent word to
the country that poetry would be re-
presented in their Mardi Grass process
sion, and the newspapers came back
with the word "poetry' changed to 'POv
erty," they were slightly and justifably
irritated.
.."I have my own 'pinion on zis tariff
question:" remarked a seedy looking
individual on State street last evening.
" What is your opinion?" asked a gen.
tleman standing near by. "My 'piniOn,
zur," replied the man, "is Eat every
felIer's got his own right (hic) to go on a,
tariff e wants to-"
The scholars in a Chinese school
never put bent pins on each others seat.
They are not civilized enough for that;
but when one of them shuts the lid of
his desk down on the pig-tail of the boy
next to him, the owner of the queue in
dulges in some frightful tea-box language
when he attempts to rise from his seat.
In Indiana is a public singer whose
name is Jane Juliette Isalina Araminta
Musadora Peeks. How that name viii
look on a tombstone And how would
any poet laureate celebrate the demise
of those five English children, of whom
the first was Imprimus, the second Finis,
and the others Appendix, Addendum,
and Erratum?
A young minister, somewhat dis
tinguished for self-conCeit, having failed
disastrously before a crowded audience,
was thus addressed by an aged brother:
eff you had gone into that pulpit feel
ing as you now do coming out Of that
pulpit, you would have felt, on coming
out of that pulpit, as You did when You
went up into that pulpit"
TELL HER So.-
L" o my bonnie, brown bird, in my sweet, lit
tie nest,
Why silent and sad, with no laughter and
song?
Of all the dear brides love thee the best,
And know that thy love is as tender and
strong"
A ripple, a trill, and a gay little strain,
With fresh ruffied plumage TO make her
more fair,
If ever you ask me such questions again,
Look into your heart, for the answer is
there"
" You love me, yet tell me so seldom you { o
My heart gets to doubling and sadder l
grow;
The Joy that it gives me if once you but
knew,
think You would always keep telling me
so."
The best wine has its lees. All
mems faults are not written on their
foreheads, and it's quite as well they are
not, for hats would need wide brims;
yet as sure as eggs are eggs, faults of
some sort nestle in every mans bosom.