St. Landry democrat., 1878-04-13
WAITS AND WHlMS.
The Cock and the Sun,


A cock sees the sun as he climbs up the east,
"Good morning, Sir sun, it's high time you "p
pve been calling you up tor an hour at leas, of
phl ashamed of your slowness at fhiS Hh'" ~
year!"
The sun, as he quietly rose into view,
Looked down on the cock with show oil nae
scorn
You may not be aware, my young FRIEND hus
That I rose once or twice before you, Sir, were
born"
The pleasure Of talking is the mex
tinguishable passion of woman, coeVai
with the act of breathing Lesage.
&C. Vanderbilt, jr,, is as yet quite
uncertain which hurts him most, his
fathers will or his brothers won't.
1t is said that the latest mania OF
pottery decorators is to paste pictures on
bald heads and coat them with varnisb.
Canon Farrar says that Hell Is Il
temper, not a place" If he has that
kind of wife, why doesn't be apply for
divorce?
"A negro 1eamster in Nashville de-
clares that he must either give up driving
mules or withdraw from the church, the
two positions being incompatible.
-" Do you see any grapes, Bob p
eyes, but there is dogs" Big dogs,
Bob ~ Yes, very big" "Then come
along grapes are not ours, You
know"
-" That's our family tree" said au
Arkansas youth, as he pointed to Wig
orous hemlock. :" A good many of our
folks have been hung on that tree for
borrowing horses after dark"
-" We'll, swan, Billy" said an old
farmer to all undersized nephew who was
visiting him, "when you take of that
'ere plug hat and spit two Or three times
there amt much left of you, is thar q
-. In the species with which we are
best acquainted our OWL am
far, says writer, even as an observer of
human life, from thinking that youth is
the happiest season, much less the only
happy one.
Said him to she: "What is the dit
ference between a hill and pill - Said
her to he: zone is hard to get up, and
the other is hard to get down. It is old
but good" Said him to she, "Do you
allude to the hill or the pill?'
. MISTAKEN.
The young men paced the parlors.
While she cleaning her teeth;
And he thought OF the needed dollars
| Which the old man had 10 bequeath
The old man sat on the counter,
With his head between his hands,
And rejoiced that the girl had lover
Who would help him meet his demaniR
definitions artful aid "What ia
junction. nurse?" asked a seven yenr
old fairy, the other day, of an elderly
lady, who stood by her side on railway
platform. "A junction, my dear" all
swered the nurse, with the air of q very
superior person indeed, "why, it's q
place where two roads separates.'
.."Why haven't you got marrisd be,
fore this time of life"' querulously asked
an old man Of his nephew. "Well,
uncle" replied the nephew, "I'm sure
it is not my fault. ! proposed to three
girls only last week, and, on comparing
notes, the whole of 'em unanimously
rejected my offers"
The resident of Washington territory
having heard that another man had
settled in the western part of the territory
Immediately applied for admission into
the Union as state, and has promised to
elect the other man to the Legislature, it
the other man will pledge himselfto vote
for him for United States senator.
THE CHILDREN.
All what would tho world be to us
II the children were no more7
We should dre1d the desert behind us
Worse than the dark before.
What the leaves are to the foI est
With light and air and food,
Ere their sweet and tender iuic
Have been hardened into wood
That, TO the world, are children;
Through them it feels the glow
OF brighter and SUMMER climate
Thst reaches the trunks below.
"A Scotchman who had gone back 10
his country after long absence, declared,
after going to the kirk, that the whole
kingdom was on the road to perdtion.
The people, he said, "used to be re-
served and solemn on the Sabbath, but
now they look as happy on that day as
on any other."
Grandmother Miller, of Brooklyn,
one hundred and six years old, says
"Father fined the rebels, as they called
EN- then. member when peace was
declared, though. | WAS about twelve
years old when mother took me over to
New York to see Gen'l Washington and
his army come into the city. 1t was
about November somewhere, in 1888.
The general and the army came down
from Harlem | remember he rode
splendid horse, and Gen'l Knox was with
him. I threw bouquet in front Of his
horse, and he bowed to me and smiled.
The troops were awful ragged, some OF
EN-, and my father WAS one OF 'em,'
Fighting Whale.
A correspondent of the Raleigh Oh