The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1877-06-02
TRUTHS and TRIPLES.
SARCASM

SARCASM.
Icalled one eve last autumn
On a demOiSelle g. tres beau ~
In conversation grave and gay
The time passed pleasantly away
Till the hour had come TO go.
Then a pensive mood came DER me:
remarked, with many a sigh,
"Ihe frost and cold Will soon be here.
The landscape change 10 brown and serS,
And all things green VIII dbs-"
She looked sweet, sympathetic,
And the tears stood in her eye,
AS she murmured in a voice divine,
Placing her lily h nd in mine,
"Pm sorry, but-GoOd bal"
According to the Danbury New
etiquette, you shsuld "never fish for the
last oyster in your soup" But when
you are at a church festival, and the last
oyster in your soup is also the first,
etiquette must 60 under and the oyster
must come up.
There never was a time when the
insurance business was SO safe as it now
is. All that a man wants to do after he
gets insured is to die right quick before
the company does. But he doesn't want
to be tooling around, living and having
a good time.
Among thu papers of a thief arrested
in New York last week were found writ
ten the following truths: Vice is only
laziness, and law-breaking an attempt to
dodge the law of labor" ".The chief
cause of crime is the desire to obtain q
living by some easier means than honest
toll"
.."I an convinced that the world is
daily growing BETTER" remarked the
reverend gentleman to a brother clergy
man "my congregation is constantly in
c~reasing." Eyes" interrupted the
brother, who happened to be a peniten-
tiary chaplain, "and SO is nine" And
there the discussion on the early arrival
of the millennium dropped.
An intelljgents Burlington hunting
dog, that had a rather busy time last
season, went down to a tin shop one day
last week and had his hind legs and
back plated with sheet-iron. And now
when he sees his master looking at the
gun he smiles and remarks that he is
ready to hunt in front of the best fancy
shot in Burlington.
"A Lon6on letter in the N. Y. Times
has this curious item: MI. Ward Bra
ham, the brother of the Countess Wal
degrave, died suddenly the other day at
his beautiful residence, View Island,'
on the Thames. There is an old law
that carrying a corpse over any plot Of
land or through any place or passage
creates a light of way. A ~neighboring
landowner barricaded his property
against the passage of poor Braham's re-
mains, which lad to be taken some miles
roundabout to the adjacent churchyard."
The old-time fancy for. distributing
wedding favors is again in vogue in Lon
don; directly after the ceremony and
while the newly-married pair, with the
more immediate relatives, are singing
the register, the bridesmaids dispense
them. The gifts designed for the lady
guests consist of small bows of white
satin ribbon tying little sprays of jes-
samine those for the gentleman are q
spray of oak-leaves and acorns without
ribbon, while the bridesmaids tavors
have some distinctive mark, such as a
spray Of forget-me-not. Their boquets
are the gift of the bridegroom, and are
sent before the ceremony with the locket
or other s%OuuSeiir which he presents them.
He also furnishes the bride with her
flowers for the occasion.