The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1878-03-08
SCHOOLS our.

SCHOOLS OUT.
Did you ever pause and contemplate
that particular and peculiar phase OF.
human nature developed by the extsss
tent school boy when released from
study and ddisciplinc---when ssschool Is
out" and he is on his way home.
Ordinary humanity, when released
from the tolls OF the day, is prone TO
seek rest and relaxation The boy
scorns oil such effeminate ideas. He Is
composed of but three ~iegs,
arms and yell, and the yell Is the big
gest part of him. His legs and arms
have been kept In irlSsome compulsory
quietude all day, and must now be
exercised. His voice has been seeth-
ing and swelling in him for hours, and
must have vent.
As soon as he is clear of the schools
house steps he stops and deliberately
yeils yell that Is earsplitting, but
which has no more object, meaning or
direction than the midnight vocifera-
tion OF a mule, and yet it appears at a
full run with his arms flying about
like the scintillations OF pin-wheeI.
He is no respector OF persons and Is ut
terly Indifferent as to whether he runs
down smaller boy, spins an aged
citizen three times around or mashes a
girls hat over her eyes In his head
long career.
sMercy on us! Ifthat boy was only
mine I'd" but just then her own boy
flies past, falls over a dry goods box,
bounces up, kicks at another boy and
is chased across the street, then around
the corner before she can get the q You
Robert? !? with which she Intends to an.
initiate him, out of her astonished
throat. s
There is but one thing that has q
soothing effect on boy when he is on
the way home from school. He car
see his old man further that Prof. Hal
can see hay stack with telescope
and the moment that parent dawns
upon his vision he becomes as proper
as model letter-writer and the neatly
modulated voice with which he wheed.
les the author of his being out of a
nickie on the spot, is a lesson for future
ambitious savings bank and passenger
railway presidents.
The amount of racing, jumping, pull.
ing and hauling and bowling that a
school boyycan concentrate into tram
sit OF two squares is positively astonish-
ing, and the preternatural coolress and
quietude with which he takes his red
face and painting breath into the kitch-
en- and asks il supper amt most ready
Is human conundrum that calls for
unqualified admiration.
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One of Lord Beaconsfield's ordinary
deviations from truth has been his
denial that he ever wrote or had any
thing to do with magazines or news
papers, for both of which, the latter
especially, he processes to entertain the
most profound contempt. This favorite
fiction OF his was exploded long ago, by
the production of positive proof. An
other of his fibs was the denial that in
early life he was s.solicitor's clerk''--
about the lowest occupation heretofore
that any respectable young man could
engage in. This now has also been
proved, by the production OF deed TO
which he was one OF the attesting wit
nesses, when he signed his name
l"Benjamin D'Israeli, clerk to Messrs.
Naples & Co., Solicitors, Old Jewry. -
Probably neither he nor his employers
ever dreamed, as he sat upon the usual
stool in their outer Office, that he would
one day become the ruler of the nation,
or, more properly speaking, the ruler
of the nations Queen, for that he GER
tainiy is just now.
A contemporary down at Morgan
City urges the removal Of the capital 10
that burg because OF the abundance oi
catfish, which it says Is good brain
food. 1t may rot be generally known,
/ but stIch ia n facf that tho ffG etfaff