The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1877-07-28
PLEASANTREES.

Was DOLn1uO
The White Mountain hotels are
open, and fy-fshing has commenced--in
the b~utter-dishes and milkjugs.
There will be no class day at Har
ward this year, in consequence of dissen-
sions among the college societies.
"A North Carolina paper speaks of q
baby which was born black and subse-
quently turned to white. They usually
turn to a lively yeller.
.."Isn't your husband a little bald ?"
asked n lady of another. "There isn't
a bald hair on his head" YVES the hasty
reply of the wife.
The Pekin Gazette is one thousand
years old. The editor has never had a
visit from the man who has "taken your
paper since it started"
AN indiscriminate slaughter of dogs
is threatening. All right; but remem
Der that every dog killed leaves several
hlndred feas to be cared for and amused.
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rope don't get in enough mountains. If
there were one more range, people would
feel certain that there was not enough
level ground in Turkey for a croquet
party.
Deacon Jones, just deceased, had a
very red nose. His widow thought it
very personal in the minister to begin
his funeral discourse "AnOther shin
ing light has been taken from our con-
gregation.
Philadelphia, Bulletin: Some men,
dazzled with sudden riches, imagine
themselves born aristocrats, and it is this
kind of a man who BUYS a very high
priced thermometer, thinking he will
have better weather than his neighbor.
1t is easy enough to keep a goat out
of the 1ower-hed. Drive a stake in the
center of the bed and Tie the goat to it
by a rope that will reach just beyond
the margi=s The perverse quadruped
will never allow the rope to become slack.
1t makes a fellow mad to buy a do
lars worth of postage stamps, fold them
up and place them in your pocket book,
and when you need them find the bunch
glued together in such a shape that the
entire mass would not carry an open Cir
cular to the next town.
An old bachelor was counting a
widow, and both sought the art to give
their fading lair darker shade. "That's
going to be an afectionate COUPLE" said
a wag. "How 500" asked a friend.
Why, don't you see that they are dye
ing for each other already?" was the
reply. i
Here's another warning. a man
refused to stay at home after IN early
supper and help his wife whitewash the
back yard fence, and his black hair
turned white in less than a minute. His
wife's painful awkwardness with the
whitewash brush caused the sudden
change.
"A Russian engineer has invented a
bomb-proof tower, which is moved about
by steam, and in which artillerists sit
and pelt tie enemy with. destruction.
By the tim, the next war breaks out, the
warrior viii 1T in a rocking chair in tie
front parlOr of a hotel and talk bis enc
mics to death with a revolving telephone.
The sublimity of impudence was
displayed in a BARRIERS shop. One ofthe
customers sees a dog of ungainly aspect
opposite, ~intently watching him.
why does hat dog look at me SO ?"
" Why, sir, occasionally my hand slips,
and l am SO unfortunate as to snip off a
bit of ear" "Eh! and what then Z?
il" Why, then he eats it,"
springfield, I'll. has a female den
fist. She is said to be a lady Of gentle
extraction.-M Y. Commercial Aduer--
Such a woman is bound to pull
life-peaceably if she can, fore
iply if she must.-Norrist0wn Herald.
Such discouraging talk is calculated to
make the young feel down in the
.outh.-Burtngton Hawk Eye.
But | pass" said a minister, one
in dismissing m theme of his
to take up another. "Tken /
make it spades!" yelled a man from the
who was dreaming the happy
away in an imaginary game of
1t is needless to say that he
vent out on the next deal, being assisted
~ one of the deac2ns with a full hand of
;lubs.
The World says that in Paris colored
costumes are in vogue for evening wear
gentlemen, the customary suits of
GLENN sables being silently abandoned
0 buffers and walters. 1t will not be
ong before people will see no particular
ont in Punch's famous interview be-
ween two guests in full dress at an even
ng party: "Beg pardon, are you the
ono, sir; are you ?" 81
AT the Episcopal diocesan conven-
in session recently at Chattanooga,
he Rev. John B. Mcconnell, colored,
eIivered an impressive sermon. This is
le first instance in the United States of
Golored clergyman preaching to a white
aggregation in the Episcopal church.
ishop Quintard, who presided over the
invention, was a chaplain in the on