The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1877-05-18
CONUNDRyMS.

CoNUNDRU,Is.
Why are some people like eggs
Because they are too full OF them
selves to hold anything else.
What is the difference between a
cloud and q beaten child '-One
pours with rain and the other roara
with pain.
What is that which no MAJ, wants,
and yet which, if any man has, he
would not part with for untold
wealth ga bald head"
What is the difference between Il
crOcllery dealer and cabinet-maller
One sells tea sets and the other sells
SetteeS.
Why is either House OF Congress
like Il person afflicted with the inilt-
| enZa g-SOmctincS the ayes (cyes)
have it and sometimes the nose (iOSc.)
What is the difference between Il
tunnel and Speaking-trumpct ?-Onc
is followed out and the other is hOl-
| lowed in.
TO what port is a man sailing when
he is like an impOrtunate lover -
When he is bound to Havre.
What class OF men are always open
to conviction ?-ThOSc who have
violated the law.
Why are troubles like babies .
Because they get bigger by nursing.
Why is the peacock like the figure
1T is nothing without q tail.
When do two and two make more
than four when they make %.
Why is Il note III bank like Il blade
of grass 2--It natures 10y falling dine
(,lew).
How many peas are there in Il
pint !-One p.
| Why is Il man WHO let's hOnsea
likely to have - good many cousins =:
Because he has ten ants.
| What is the difference between an
auction and sea-sickness The one
is the sale Of effects, and the other
the effects OF u sail.
| Whose hest works are most tram
pied on "A ahOemaEer's, because
| good shoes last longer than bad
ones.
What trees are those which, when
burnt up, are exactly what they
were before '---Ashes.
Why is your shadow like false
friends t.---Because it stays by you
only in sunshine.
What is that from which il you
take the whole, Il part will remain :
Wholesome.
Why does; q sailor know thers, is 4
man i'll the moon because he has
been to sea.
When il. u man given to lying com.
PEELED to keep his word !--Whcn no
one will take it.
The Popes' health is improv ing, hut
his physicians canton him against
over-exertiOn. The coming iestivi-
ties ut Rome, with the Immense
crowd of pilGrima who will he there
will be 4 heavy tax upon the veuera.
BILE pontitf, as he will have to receive
delegation after delegation and con-
fer his blessing upon them. On the
21st day of this month the Pope will
celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of
his episcopatc, and on June Il, the
thirty first year of his pontincate. On
May Is the eighty fifth anniversary
Of his birthday will be observed.
Pilgrims from the whole world are
now proceeding to Rome to partic-
ipate in these anniversary celcbra-
tons.
The Philadelphia North American,
one Of the leading Republican papers
of the North, says: "CnlCsS some
change shall occur in tho agriculture
of the country the prospect now seems
to be that tho South, which, before
the war, was dependent upon the
North for it's necessary articles of
food, will come before the main reli-
al,cc of the Northern Atlantic States
for vegetable products. 1t already
commands our provision markets 10
All amazing extent, and yields at the
present time u steady surplus of
grain. Should that section he able
to obtain the entire command of two
immense crops as cotton and wheat,
1T would in less than ten years re-
gain all the losses of emancipation
and civil war;
a Baltimore paper asserts that the
carpet.baggers expelled from the
South sare looking about to estab,