The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1877-03-15
TRUTHS AND TRIPLES

Among the attractions at q chm,
fair at Baltimore is a walk under a
sea, guided by girl who personals |
mermaid as closely as nature and !,
corum will permit. Price, ten cent ~
.."Good morning, Donnellyl Ibe,,I
your daughter has baby; is it bow !
q girl ?'' "Shure, Miss, and its mvssl5
as doesn't yet know for the life of ma n
I'm grandfather or a grandnoths
bedRd."
"A little girl philosopher who N
taking lessons on the piano, illustrat.,
the rule of home government by sayiu,
MA, she works the pedals, but "a i.
makes most of the music"
"A lazy fellow, falling a distanc, al
fifty feet and escaping with only few
scratches, a bystander remarked thai
he was "too slow to fall fast enough ,0
hurt himself"
- 1t is well to know that the caustp
effect of lime accidentally INTRODUCES
into the eye may be entirely neutralized
by the use OF cold sugar-water. Tbs
lime and sugar form compound that
has no action upon the eyes.
The objection TO insuring his life
made by veteran gambler, ~ don't LIKE
to play game where I've got to die toll
win," is thus delicately paraphrased BY
fastidious writer: MEN instinctively|
dislike the contemplation of a eontract
in which death is d necessary incident
to give it value to their estate"
Now that Duke Alexis has come, wnere|
is the beautiful American Girl with whom
he isto fall in love, while the royal father,
on hearing of it, gets very angry and goesl
around tearing his robes and throwing
his crown at the heads of the trembling
courtiers? There must be one some
where. There always is one. Its in The
piece and cannet be left out.
Speaking of slang, girl, thirteen Or
fourteen years old, was heard YESTERDAY
calling to boy scross the street Say,
Johnny We've got the boss society
our school now. Its just bully, and
don't you forget it." And yet she was
a member of one OF the highest depart
ments of the public schools. -Noruci !
Bulletin.
."Jake," said the blushing damsel to I
a lover that her father had forbidden the
house, 81 don't care if your feet are big /
i love you just as much" "Wal,
Sally, / don't mind SO much about the
size of my own feet, but / wish your
dads were little smallar ] should
feel little mole confident, you know,
about staying"
"A tramp was arrested in New
Jersey last week, taken before mag
lstrate, and sentenced for three months
The justice, in explaining the sentence
that, while there was ne evi.
dence that the prisoner had been guilty u
Of any crime, he thought it prudent to
commit him, as he had the wild, bag
gard look Of man about to start
nswspaper.-Brooklyn Argns.
Mr.. Dorkins hurried into the house
md exclaimed GIVE got another, my
lear-a good one! If you were on the
op of church spire, on the back Of
goose, how would you get down." Mn.
0orkins thought she'd jump down, slide
Town the lightning conductor, fly down
IN the goose, fall down, and then give it
Up. "Why, if you wanted to get down.
you could pick it off the back of the
,oose," and Mr.. Dorkins, exultantly-
They are taking evidence in d. y
7orce case for cruelty. The husband is
inder examination. His vile, prostrated
With grie(, is weeping bitterly, covering \
Ter, face with her handkerchief. '"kow,"
avs the judge, care you not ashamed to
lave thus brutally treated your wife,
ender young woman of twenty-five y
The wife suddenly raised her head. u
'eg your pardon" she sobs, "twenty-
our only" And she again gives way to
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