The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1877-08-25
Il n GAY.
From a tombstone in Cornwall, Er

Father and mother and l
Lie buried here aSunder;
Father and mother lie buried here,
And / lie buried OH yunder.
1t is supposed that Kosciusko fell
on Freedom, or else why did Freedom
shrek when Kosciuske fell@
..Contributor-"WEy have yea not
inserted my last article? Was it too
long," Editor--"N No, it was toonarIow."
Recent Investigations prove the as
sertion that one baby with a large biscuit
will make the couch of wearied industry
more uncomfortable than fifteen prize
mosquitoes.
.."Somebody has invented an India
rubber fsh-worm." Thus are the poor,
unoffending sucker, horny-head and cat
fish destined to fall victims to their mis-
placed confidence in the honesty of man!
AT East Burke, Vt there is a man
who will not speak to a For
twenty-five years he has conversed with
none but women and minors. AS fast as
his sons come Of age, he ceases to talk
with them. y
"A distinguished japanese traveller in
this country writes home: "The chief
branch of education Of young men here
is rowing. The people have large boat
houses called colleges and the prin-
cipaI of these are Yale and Harvard.'
"A definition of the meaning OF the
word Hsuspicion" was given the other
evening in a Partisan drawing room. eft
is a sentiment" said the speaker, (which
ineites us to search fer something which
we do not wish to fird."
"A st. Louis paper having published
the fact that there is great suffering in
impecunious Chicago, a Chicago paper
r~etorts, expressing the hope that no relief
for the sufferers will be sent in the form
of drafts IN St. Louis banks.
The question OF what to do with
West Point graduates is quite generally
discussed by the press, and possible we
can throw no light on the subject, but
there is need of an increased force to
combat the savage Colorado beetle in
this vicinity.-Ro Sentinel.
"A Western paper has improved ON
the original plan, and now says: "No
communication will be published in this
paper unless accompanied by the full
name Of the writer and a five-dollar bill;
these are not requested for publication,
but as a guaranty of good faith"
"A little Greeley (Col.) girl who was
picking peas had gathered eight gallons
during one forenoon. She says of alittle
girl IS years old: A She cried for hal
an hour because I lbd picked a gallon
more than she, and While she was crying
I picked another gallon" Such is life.
W-w-hoop (hic)! T-three oh:
cheers Firth July (hic)! L-let the old
b-bird scream! W-w-hoop! Wbash'ng-
ton (hic) boss old ch-chicken! W-what"
and here the policeman clapped his
hand over his mouth and threw him on
to a wheelbarrow, and put him in Il little
room with grated iron doors.
The opium-eater may reside in a
maIarious district, but be will not suffer
from misasm; or he may live in the
midst OF an epidemic of some contagious
fever, but he will be among those who
escape. The opium eater almost always
dies of opium; he survives everything to
die of his fayorite drug.-Dr. Me- he1son.
.."Gambetta," said the London Times
two years ago, twill be the first, in the
event of a republican triumph, to talk of
order, the first to tolerate disorder; the
first to invoke the law, and the first to
permit its violation the first to de-
oun the scaffold, the first to allow its
er~ection-and possibly the first to as
cend it,"