The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1877-03-01
GRA VE AND GAY.

"Ves not h h
about going to war has neve,L..I q
around by a second lieutenant q p
The times are 90 hard tb.t
man says he has parted with CIV n d
giant wardrobe except the arm bo,, o. S4
old WRistcoat. ~
Canned tomatoes mixed viii 81
crumbs, butter, eggs, onion Wv, y. Ie7
pepper, and baked in small 5st ID
oyster shell, are almost a. poo5 =, q
fresh baked vegetable. ParsIev
added. ye
The requests to large e5D,. :: q
institutions in this country, 6r ~.
year just closing, have amounted : o o5
100000. These gifts have INV, Il
been to the higher class of coIIe,s-
universities, and their grand arg 9.o = ~
is good testimony in behalf Of III, Dc c
try, as pointing to the iDteIi,
wealth and Practicability Of il, 5Si.
thropists. sur
The depravity of man, j, , .,c,
tinuous working evil. It is ab,s dI
all good works; and the sooner = ne
Pensed with the better. Hsa
ing, corrupting, ill-disposed M, d 5
costly to the people beyond COM 5 be-
ton; and yet hayward people en- :.
it as friend, pay its bills, and # eT
sink into the pit of perditissl S Sa-
pravity's great store-house.
"A lady short time back pre-. X Z Z
a telegram at London postofice tn
message was enclosed in an enyeJoDa vas
receiving it the official at once pn,a ~ VI
to open it. "What are you about rev
claimed the lady. The clerk emil ur,
that he could not send a message Vi tch b
first seeing it. "Then," observed no,
lady, angrily, edo you suppose I'm
to let you read my private affair
won't send it at all !" And fotB M
she founced out of the Office in di
..McDonald's peak on lake Sud rer
a great pyramidal rock of granite mas
hanging the water, has fallen. It sc.
ured at its base one hundred feet in t.
conference and rose to the heig Y E
two hundred and eighty feet Ok
towering rock or shaft was called son
Donald's peak, in honor of a HI nce
bay company factor who is credited tua
to the top of it in 1922 ia
Jumping into the lake to win a vag port
ego. ny
Mr.. Evarts said in his address q d
unwilling of the statue Of Daniel ~
3ter: "I should say of Mr.. Webster = ~ =,
if there were one single trait coDPid az
in him and pre-eminent as COM ' %
with others which have made for I Wv !.
selves great names in history tT o.
be the abundant charity Of bbna as -
He never assumed for himself inp 9
or in public speech =
superiority. He never tolerated i tbo
and he never practiced, 6or
evil speech or evil surmise."
"A little girl, FIVE years Of ag isul
equally fond of her mother and chi
mother. 1t being the birthday pr
after, her mother said to her. my d "
you must pray 10 God to bless my
grandma, and she may live t0H a
3D." The child looked with some root
prize at her mother, who, on perez at v
t, said: "WelI, will you not P' rOcl
God to bless your grandma, and ID wat
nay become very oldF" "Ah' man ters
,aid the child, "sbe very old aIr'a' reall
would rather pray that she may % wO
very young. gazil
Among the many good thing Prde'
BY Rev. Mr. SpurgeOn in his iee'a 'lnc
Eccentric preachers, the follow owe
count Of Billy Dawson will Dc nd
,iated: On one occasion buy pIera
preaching about David's en0Oul US per-
Goliah; and after picturlng ''',4, ugh'
challenge of the PhiliStlnes an' Wo'
lance Of David, he took Ous' IfSlC
and having made q oct
It, put in an imaginary stone saa u Oh
it with such apparent re a ~ me-
force that, Just as the stone IS S,.S ~ MOI
Sammy Hicks, the village -, ~" 'Pe'
shouted, CHATS right, Bill! ~ Ime