The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1877-09-08
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TO A LYLE ORE tUsr A WEEK OLD,
Only a baby, Only baby,
'LhOut any hair, treiF mons at all
Cept Just a little Wh.HtafT 700 good Tor,
Fuz here aud there. Only "FquaA2
Only a baby, Only a babr,
Name you have none, Just ii weeA old
baTetooted and dlmPi-d, What are yOu here Tor
5Wee1 little one. You little scoGH?
RABY's REPLY.
Only a baby! What qm dood for
What should | bel Did YOU say ?
Lots O big folks EOer So many sings
Been little like me. Ebery day.
Amt dot any hair! 'Toursa I squaif at times.
rs, l have too Sometimes | bawl;
S'pos'nl hadn't, ley daesn't spant me,
LESS 1t TODD drow. 1Rus I'm 50 small,
Not any teeth Only a babvi
Wouldn't have o:te: rs, gir, ats so;
Do,it DIT my dinner N II you only TODD.
tHaWln d bone. You'd be one, too
What am I here for? ATS all Ive to say,
Ats petty mean; You're MOS too old
Who's dot a better right Dess IL into bed.
'TeVer you've seen Toes dittin' told.
A st. Louis school-boy gave his
teacher this excellent definition of
responsibility" "Goys bastwo buttons,
for their s'spender8 SOS to keep Their
pants mp. When one button cores off,
why, there's q good deal of responsibility
on the other button"
Secretary Evarts, the ether day, sent
a sentence to China, and tie emperor
has had 1t printed in all the school books
as an American puzzle With the remark
that 500 will be given 10 the person.
who will point out the exact point where
the middle loop begins.
Good society is the sub-structura
upon which is built good government
and national prosperity. Its chief char
acteristic5 are purity. charity, learning
and neighborly affection. From this,
basis radiate the joy, the peace, the in
dustry and the progress which makes the
better type of mortal life.
In Guatemala, South America, the
destruction of forests in the neighbOEhoodt
of cities is being attended with disastrous
effects. The harvests are less ia quaint
ty, and less to be relied Upon new forms
OF sickness have sprung up the weather
is more capriciOus. The want Of wood !
fuel and other purposes is most seri-
ou8ly felt. Near Sensutepec, in San
Salvador, a large extent Of forest ground :.
has been destroyed to plant a sort of
and since then storms which be-
'Ore were very moderate. have assumed
l most violent character. The eucalyp.
us globulus is now being planted.
..Amos Fish, of Albany, who, at his
LETT $4,000 to charitable institu-
ions, and to his wife one dollar a day, is
eported to have said: 81 buy a shank of .
'eef from the butcher, which cost me ten )
My wife makes enough soup
this to do US one meal, th,n the
neat cut from il afterwards makes two
l6re meals, or one days food for ten
Isplit the bones and get tta mar
for cooking purposes, and my wife,
nds sufficient fuc! in the bone itself to j
o considerable cooking. Then in An z
OIL box | save the ashes, which ! use 4
IF manuring a few plants that realize
n me six cents each" It.appears that
mos was never a striker, and that he &
as good to his tenants.
"A young American who had been in
for a year studying medicine was
isited by his father. Like u dutiful
m, he parades the author of his being
'nscientiously through the city, and
out to him his social and archi- n
'ctural lions. Finally they halt before
and manipulated building, sur
'unded by a massi4e grating. What
llace or thinguu4my is that lcrdly
lei" asked the old man. Hanged
10" replies the youth, ".but there is .
'rgeant-de vile; I'll ask him." audl g
companied by his sire, he crosses over
the Office and puts the question I
That, gentlemen" says the municipal Z
calmly and in a clear, official z
ne, Z" is the medical school !"
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