The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1877-04-07
ODD NOTES.

AAc AcWcSt huu mOSL expensive uT6sS
trimming is made of parrots feathers.
1t is wiping away tears, not shedding
them, that proves you're made of the
right stuff.
The salary of the president of Swift
erand has been increased from $4,000 to
50 200 a year.
The girls complain that the Russian
officers can dance nothing but an incom-
prehensible polka.
IF you believe in blue glass, just
wait a while. In a few weeks you can
buy cart loads of it dog cheap.
az live by my pen," said a poet,
wishing 10 impress a young lady. "You
look as if yeu lived in it." was the reply.
There is at the present time in the
Mexican treasury the sum of seventeen
cents in specie. It has slipped into a
c~revice, and cannot be got at.
The asylum for worn out employees
will be erectedby William II. Vanderbilt,
on the late Commodore's farm at Low
Point, about twelve miles below Pough-
keepsie. *F9
1t won't be long before some long
haired poet will break into impassioned
song about gentle spring. The public
is hereby cautioned against any act of
violence; treat him gently, but firmly.
When the Breton mariner puts to
sea, his prayer is; "Keep me, my God
my boat is 80 small and thy ocean 80
wide" Does not this beautiful prayer
truly express the condition of each ofus?
Boarder-."Thi tea seems very
weak, Mrs. Skimp." LandladY-"It
must be the warm weather. l feel weak
myself. In fact, everybody complains"
She is pretty-too oft it's been sung
And her dimples are wondrous fair,
Like mother-of-pearl IA each little tooth,
And golden is her hair
But whit of the cattle,
What of the tatCle,
What of the sharpness Of her little tongue p
AT the last Harvard examination forty
five per cent. failed in algebra and fifty
two per cent. in English composition,
though but sixteen per cent. were lacking
in Greek grammar.
French potatoes, a novelty in the
New York market, are arriving in mod
crate lot of from fifty to one hundred
barrels. The duty is fifteen cents, gold, a
bushel, and at the reigning price of four
dollars per barrel there is a profit.
The Presbyterian church at River
Bend, Dakota, is almost entirely Indian.
The pastor anu. elders are Indians, rs are
also n hundred and twenty of the
members. Twenty years ago all these
people were aboriginal Ragans.
johnny was billing his ma how he
was going to dress and show dEwhen he
was a man. His ma asked, "~5Nhnny,
how do you expectto get yourliving when
you get to be a man ?" Well" said
Johnny, "TIl get married and live with
my wife's pa"
A new dance has been introduced
into Paris. It is called "The Boston"
Though not described, the Chicago Jour
nal thinks it presumable that it is n
step forward and hitch eye glass, two
steps back and repeat, nose up, toes in,
all hands around and waltz down stairs
to a lunch of cold beans.
Sydney Smith wrote of Miss Mark
ham; Gin carving a partridge splashed
her with gravy fI9m head to foot, and
though I saw three distinct brown rilIs
of animal juice triekling down her cheek,
the had the c~omplaisance to ave- that
not a drop had reached her. Such cir
cumstances are the triumphs of civilized
life.
Samuel WiIliston, the first manu-
facturer of buttons in theUnited States,
is still living, seventy years old, and
worth $6,OOO,O 900. He has made half
the buttons used in the world, and has
never yet made a suspender button that
wouldAold its grip and not fly off and
rattle across the floor every time q man
to pick up his hat in church.
He was the first man who manufactured
a tin button that looked enough like a
silver five-cent piece to fool a short
deacon with a contribution
basket. -Hatokeye.