The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1877-02-15
GRAVE and CAV

who said she should like to 20 n - p
to have her portrait painted bv avn n'''ns
the old masters. '"0 u
-" Hark from the tombs y ;o,..,.
sound. IT'S DR.. Schliemann's cr Jn!ou'
mortal men, come view the ground v y ss
old Agamem doth lie." Ds's
To indianapolis belongs the bo...
of having invented a fne-tootb oo1r
which can also be used as a gtove.bon uno
and tack-hammer.
..Danbury News: Nothing lot.
more cold than a ladder. PeonJo ntD
own them should attend to them at ona
A we'll ladder filled in and banked Nv
will save One-half in fuel used.
An Indianapolis girl hung I'D he,
stocking, and the boys for fun threw ~
a reaper and mower, and two barre, 4,
gans. Their motto was: "Thougb Inst
to view, to memory dear"
SAID she: dear, it is just twelve
years since that Christmas-eve when w,
washed my face with snow and kissed
my tears away" Said he: els tbot
all?
AT a recent reception in WASHING.
ton the wife of a western senator asked
who was our minister to Ireland An
attache of the English legation repIied
that it was Monsieur O'Donovan Do
Rosa.
Judge Graham, at the Old BAILEY
on one occasion forgot to pass the sen.
tence of death on a convicted prisoner
Being reminded of the omission, }s
graVely exclaimed Dear me! I b.,
his pardon, I am sure
Vanderbilt obtained his start in life
by pleasing a gentleman whose horse he
held at a hotel door, and admiral Fara.
gut in boyhood was adopted by commc,
dore Porter in recognition of kindness
shown by the father of the former to the
latter when Frustrated by sun stroke
"A colOred man named Pickett, re.
siding at Akron, Ohio, has lost lis wife
and pastor together, they having eIoped
in company. The sad feature OF the al.
fair is that the unfortunate Pickett az.
them off himself, and furnished then
with money to keep them comfortably
for several months, the understanding
being that they we've to secure for bima
valuable inheritance in Oshkosh, Wis.
1t is absurd to think that the adop,
ton of professions usually regarded as
masculine monopolies unsexes woman,
1t only makes them business like. Here
out in Montgomery county, there is a
lady lawyer. She is or was married
And the other day a client went to her
office and found the door locked, with
the following notice pinned up on the
"Gone to my husbands fune
raj back in thirty minutes"
"A Springfield, Mass, mother
troubled to manage her numerous chill
1ren, sent to school with an older one
little tot under the school age Of five
years. The teacher sent him home again
A few days after the little fellow came
again as before. "He can't come; he
ISN'T FIVE years DID," said the teacher
e Yes he can" persisted the older
brother, mother says he can come TO-
lay, COS he was five years old at i've
o'clock this morning"
..Colman was once out dining where
the only Lady in company was the dow
ager of lady Cork. Puns were the s@
pie Of the entertainment. Mr.. O0'
man." said Lady Cork, "you are soagET
able that you shall drink glass OF chaI'
oagne with me-" Your ladyshlP'
wishes are laws to me-" returned CO'
nan, "but, really, champagne does DU'
agree with me-" WhereuPon JeA!D'
who was present, called out, "FaD'
Colman, you seem more attached to 'D'
Cork than to the bottle"
Sunday night he said to the partner
If his joys and sorrows: "Suse' "
morrow is new years. Many and mNI!
. time in the past have sworn OIL nav
not%" You're talking" she ansS',
ID. with dreamilY retrospective eye