St. Landry democrat., 1878-08-10
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In the midst of life we are in debt.
Never bother bee when he is busy
=" A soft answer turneth away
wrath, y but you can't fool tramp that
way.
! The weather is favorable for man
to earn his bread by the sweat of his
brow
Somebody has said, "a man devoid
of religion is like horse without a
Bride"
Edgar Fawcett wishes that oman
could make love like bird" He does
Edgar, he does like a GOOSE Hawk
eye,
i The time a boy begins to think his
mother doesn't know enough to select
his clothing for him js q dangerous period
in his history.
Love is deaf as we'll as blind. If it
wasn't, how could the tendrils OF
woman's affection wind themselves about
the man who talks through his nose?
Jonah ought to congratulate himself
on how much safer he was in the whales
belly than he would have been in all
iron-clsd man of-war
There was man in our town vino
didn't advertise, that's why so lively
from bis store the sheriff. flag now flies
+ Whitehall Times.
"a suppose, said little ive.year-
old, in her quiet, thoughtful way, IL
suppose there are men under ground
that push up the flowers, don't you,
mamma?
"A good listener. Enthusiastic young
lady" You are fond of music, Col
onel?' Colonel F." Nusc2 A~-yes,
think l may say ! like-aw, noise Of
OF amy Kind -
IF you are bent on getting into
quarrel, you will not have to search long
for all opportunity. There is proverb
which runs, "Who wants to beat dog
soon finds stick"
If you wish to preserve continual
harmony in your family, the great secret
lies in being sometimes blind to things
you do not care to see and deaf to things
you do not care to hear.
Passing the early radishes at the no.
tel table, an amiable guest empties them
all into his plate. "Ili, there, you
cries another guest: scme of US like rad
ishes, too.' "Net half 40 much as do
pbilosopbically replied the first guest.
The "Beautiful Blue Danube
waltzes through 1900 miles of country
where one-half the people never change
their shirts, and the other half never
battle. Ia dumty thum, te deet to
deet
In the commencement exercises of
the Western Female High School, in
Baltimore, the Rev. DR.. Wilson prayed:
"Oh, God, grant that not one of these
young ladies may be victims of unre~
Quilted love-"
"A little maid of some eight or nine
summers, while eating ice-cream on a
veranda on Chestnut street last evening,
electrified the others similarly engaged
by remarkiDg Mercy, how it tickles
my teeth''
An indignant man who had chased
a horse-car long distance had only
breath enough left to say to the conduc-
tor that he "never need fear the fato Of
Lots wife, because he never turned to
look behind"
"A little Cincinnati girl, when asked
what God had made her TOR, replied,
" To wear red tedder in my hat" Many
an older person of her sax has, TO all ap-
pearances, pretty much the same COLI
ception of Heavens designs.
- The things which the people ale
willing to give us are the things we DO
not want. When Lincoln was sick with
the smallpox be said to his attendant
Send up the Office seekers. At last I've
got something for each enc of them
.."Oh! how dreadful said an Old
lady in London, reared in an atmosphere
Of conservative clericalism, when, the
other day, Mr.. Gladstone was pointed
put to her at the funeral of distln-
,ujshed friend 8" trust he isn't come
TO make disturbance"
"A quack in neighboring village is
N nroud when a patient does not die
hat he takes him out and exhibits him to
he astonished and admiring multitude.
)f course. his exhibitions are few com
jared with the professions of bis under
aker.-[ Chester Journal.
"A little boy hearing some one remark
hat nothing was quicker thsn thought
lid. II know what is quicker than
,ought." "What is it, Johnny :?
,ked his pa. Whistliug,' said Johnny.
When 7 was at school yesterday
bistIed before thought, and got licked
+ it, too"
Al popular store famous for the
ompt and polite attention of the
,rks a woman of perhaps thirty years
IS examining some goods, when young
N stepped towards her, and inquired,
any one waiting upon you? "Why,
Lie Icar, M rriaI thu