St. Landry democrat., 1878-08-03

lhaL Time SO IOnulY lOy'd,
When last we heard the sweet bells chime
AS thro the tslds rov'd.
Yes, lille then seemed one pure delight
Though now each spot looks drear;
Yet, tho thy smile be lost to sight
To mem'ry thou art dear
To memry thou art dear.
LAWYER HART was SO affected by the,
acquittal of his client on the charge of
murder, in Colusa, Cal, that he wept
for joy and tainted.
THE height Of polteness is passing
round upon the opposite side of lady,
while walking with her, in order not to
step upon her shadow.
SOME persons are always speaking
words of encouragement. The Spring.
field Republican says cit is mark %!
genius to perspire freely"
WORK is necessary to success. Even
if it should be your good fortune to have
it rain pottage, you would have to hold
out your dish or 60 empty.
EDMUND YATES says that some one
sent him mourning card recently with
this inscription on it: "Epitaph for
Beaconsh eld-Give the devil his Jew.
They INST; that 1s she went to the store
And made him turn his department DER.
Till he vanished behind the good and then
Sic pleasantly said she would call again.
THE poor man out West whose wife
| dealt him triplets the other day, looked
at them gloomilv and exclaimed: ''Three
of kind and nothing in the pot lust
my luck!"
VISITOR to Sunday school, addressing
the children: What is the ostensible
object of Sunday school instruction ?"
| No answer. Visitor: " What ia the os-
tensible object of Sunday school instruc-
tion?" Small boy lin a feeble voice.,
Yes, sir"
'I SHOULDN'T think there would be
such word as breakfast" remarked a
young linguiat to his mother the othar
morning. "Why not, dear t' asked abe
because, ma," replied the h'v, ''it
! amt natural. Things never break .Ast---
they break loose"
COLLEGE professor Ito Junior who has
been taking advantage of bis absent
miudedne's) "Yourg man, | find On
looking over the records that this makes
the fifth time in two years that you have
been granted leave OF absence to attend
vohr grapdmother's funeral"- Harper's
| Bazaar.
ROBERT BOYLE believed that the
sound of a drum made of VOLTS. skin
would break another made OF sheepskin,
and that harp strung with tox,eut
strings, would make hens fly away. His
philosophical writings and even those of
| Lord Bacon abound in superstitions Ot
this kind.
A YOUNG lady OF the age OF /, who is
deservedlya pet OF her household. but a
little exacting, and given to bemoan
hi If as being rather neglected and
''sat upon" iu her family circle than
otherwise, said the other day" " Nobody
ever cared for me, for even when | was
born my mother and all my sisters were
away at the seaside"
THE promises OF Jesus are not to us
like the legacies OF one long dead they
are not the words merely Of great
philosopher, like the Grecian sage,
whom death has severed from all personal
contact with our modern life. They are
the assurances of living and present
though unseen friend; and, when 70
accepted, they are full of power VIM
NJ. Taylor
THERE is no ridiculous nonsense about
the honest Deadwoodians, The most
vigorous waltzer at dance there last
week excused himself at hall-past IL be-
caus, he had sage coach to rob at II.
What a rebuke this is to our giddy,
procras mating. selfindulgent votaries
of pleasure. That man is bound to rise
even if the whsle community have to
pull oD the rope.
lam Mrs. jerks with steel gray eye,
Nth limb, Of the law am more than n.y.
min the tricky, bamboezle the sly,
| 10 no raw recruit in the Amy.
teach the witness how to Drance,
Retreat advance
With mocking glance,
With ap orlb shiver the legal lance,
Hurrah for the high jerks party.
For I'm Mrs Jenks with chin that is firm
make the luminous lawyer SOU rm
He should go to school Tor another tenn,
Then enlist five years in the army.
THERE is on either side of the equa-
tor a zone of perpetual flies. Farther
north is the zone of migratory flies,
while still farther north is the happy re.
zion where flies are unknown. II is in
centemplating the distribution Of fIieH
that we perceive why the E+quimaux
cling to their frozen home. Superficial
n rsous have often asked why don't the
Esou;max leave the Arctic regions and
come south to comfortable climate?
EVERY fool does not sport diamond
ring There are not rings enough TO go
round Nor is every man who wears
diamond ring fool. But it does seem
"a if all the biggest fools are sure to baqe
a diamond ring. The diamond iiug tool
~ not content with flashing his treasure
in the enyious faces OF the public
Nothing less than writing bis name o.
the car windows-on the hotei m''r0fs1
on every available glass F''F'ace--"l''S SRI
isfy him.
THE wIFE's soIILo4uI.
r;,oe Was when much he loved me:
When we walked out, al c's OF day, lhhS'e
Tho verDal breeze, and get some lGe-cream
At Mrs Browns scented With vanilla ,,,.,
Vail do remember how, then. as nome we WaiRtn
with careful bands he drew my mantle fohhu NE
lest a. he raid the evening dew sheu;d mar
His little rueky -dimple's tagila heslih
Although he knew iutl we'll that ccuia
Swipg over the garden-1ate I'LL H1dn1sh
Without catching cold or lit 4
Barrel Of -four over fVe-rall iente'
Yea then his eye Iooksd kindly on ine me-,
Wnsn my heart was sad. How How ssnder,y '1a aa!oed
He wiped my fearful eyes when we iea'he'
That no circus was eomir 6 our WY ,.
That suumer! How best the evenings 100
when uiDtry blasts hewlins round
NV father 8 dweiingl ,a,
~ It was sweet, tie daily task performed
On the sofa, pesr the cheerful fre TO sit
wa ",tn rianutai niln -EoI Ci'y Derrick
IF you want to be miserable, thing
ef vonr self. how much you have loS':