The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1877-05-26
TRUTHS AND TRIPLES.

Man is more than constitutions
Whittier.
No man is so great as mankind
Theodore Parker.
Poor pensioner on the bounty of an
hour Young.
Grace is to the body what good sense
is the mind.-R0chgomcauM.
Mems evil manners live in brass;
their virtues we write in water.-Shak-
sped1e.
-. Menare generally more careful ofthe
breed of their horses and dogs than OF
their children William Penn.
There is nothing SC good to make a
horse fat as the eye of his master.-D-
OgeneS.
Never marry but for love, but see
that thou lowest what is lovely William
Penn.
Nothing so prevents our being natu-
raj as the desire of appearing so.-Roche-
f0ucaud. ~
Marriage is a feast where the grace is
sometimes better than the dinner.--COE
ton.
The mind is its own place, and in
itself can make a heaven of hell, a hellOf
heaven.---lftOn.
1t is vain for a man to be born for
tunate. if he be unfortunate in his mar
riage.--Dacier.
We measure minds by their stature
it would be better to esteem them by
beauty.--J0ubeTt.
Go down the ladder when thou mar
riest a wife; go up when thou choosest a
friend.--Rabbi Ben agar.
Il think few people are aware now
early it is right to respect the modestyot
an infant.-Rn,4iet Martineo".
The proprietor of a young ladies'
academy utterly ruined his business by
causing to be inserted in a large number
of newspapers a picture of the building,
with two girls standing on the balcony
with last years hats on their heads.
..Hip-pockets for lapdogs!are the latest
innovation in ladies' dresses. With a
dog in her pocket, a seal on her back, a
bird in her hat and kids on her hands
and feet, the we'll dressed lady is but
little short of a walking menagerie.
Fashions for the kitchen Cook-LOr'
Jane, I wouldn't be bothered with them
trains every day I only wears mine on
Sundays. Jane--That may do for you,
cook, out for my part, I likes to be a lady
week days as we'll as Sundays.
.."You 5idn't laugh at my stupidity
before we were married; you always
J said I was a duck of a lover" grumbIed
g. complaining husband. eyes, that's
! So" replied the wife; "and a duck of a
r lover is always sure to make a goose of a
husband" d
..Jonesville IN. W has a girl worth
counting. She was sitting with her lover
when she heard a mysterious noise in the
house, excused herself, found burglars
) upstairs, got the old gun and blazed
, away-and not till then did the lover
) suspect anything unusual was going on
, 1t was an agricultural editor who, re-
| ferring to potatoes, wrote eastern
! Jacksons." And it was an intelligent
! compositor who, setting it up, made ii
l read, "e!tiDg jackasses." The intelli'
gent com 5tositor is now seeking a position
as a Now York harbor pilot.
An Iowa youth invested 81 so in
: New York firm to discover Chow tc
appea in society,"" The receipt he re-
J ceived by return mail was short, simple
and easily understood: "Always keer
your nose clean, and don't suck more
than one finger at a tine."
q ..Bayard Taylor speaks disparagingly
q of the popcorn and withered figs upor
: which the train-boy feeds the American
n traveller. If Mr.. Taylor had been read
ing "Red-headed Mike OF "The Hunt
er's Bride" either of which entertaining
! romances he might have bought of thi
same train-boy, he would not have 81
!. 4nuch time to find fault with his Victuals
!. The will of the rich man of the futur
will read: "To the respective attorney
of nv children l give my entire estat
and worldly goods of all description
e Personally to the children and to my be
loved wife I give all that remains.
n This instrument will satisfy the famil.
and save the trouble of proving the OLE
, mon insana.