The Louisiana cotton-boll. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], Attakapas, La.) 1872-1883, 1878-07-25
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In the midst of life we are in debt

.Iu the midst of life we are in debt.
Never bother bee when he is busy.
=. Women first appeared on The stage
in England in 1861.
Red napkins should only be used
with red cloths.
"a soft answer turneth away
WRATH 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
bride"
Edgar Fawcett wishes that IMAM
could make love like bird.' He does sd
Edgar, he does; like goose HaSk
eye. ia
The time a boy begins to think bic d
4m0ther doesn't know enough to selest
his clothing for him is a dangerous peried
in his history.
Love is deaf as well as blind. 4lf
wasn't. how could the tendHls 0f
woman's affection wind themselyeA aslasA
the man who talks through his nese
Jonah ought to congratulatelfplsgl
on how much safer he WAS in theAFAss
belly than he would have been 81
iron I'D man Of-war. f38
There wss man in cur towh khos
didn't advertise, that's why so HYsls
from bis store the sheriff 8 flag now isap
-TWhitehall Times,
"A little urchin being asked, "What
is Rhode Island noted for 2" replied, "It
is the only one of the New England
states which is the smallest"
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 ho-
tel table, an amiable guest empties them
all into his plate. "Hi, there, youl
cries another guest; some Of US like rad
ishes, too" "Nst half SO much as | do
pbilosophicaIIy replied the frat guest.
The Beautiful Blue Danube"
waltzas through 1900 miles of country
where one half the people never change
their shirts, and the other half never
bathe. Ia dumty thum,. to deet! to
deet!
In the commencement exercises OF
the Western Female High School, in
Baltimore, the Rev. DR.. Wilson prayed;
Goa, 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
yeranda on Chestnut street last evening,
electrified the others similarly engaged
by remarkipg: Mercy, how it tickIes
my teeth p
Am indignant man who had chased
a horse-car a long distance had only
breath enough left TO say to the conduc-
tor that he "never need fear the fate Of
Lots wife; because be never turned to
look behind"
"A little Cincinnati girl, when asked
what God had made her Tor, replied,
" To wear red iedder in my hat" Many
An older person OF her sex has, to all ap-
pearances, pretty much the same con-
ception OF Heavens designs.
The things, which the people are
willing to give us are tha things we do
not want. when Lincoln was Aiek with
the smallpox ne said to his attendant
.sSend up the Office seekers. AT last I've
got something for each enc Of them"
.."On! how dreadful" said an old
lady in London, reared 10 an atmosphere
of conservative clericaIism, when, tho
other day, Mr. Gladstone wa, pointed
out TO her at the funeral Of disiio-
guished friend trust he lsnt come
TO make a disturbance
"A quack in neighboring village is
so proud when patient does not dio
that he takes him eus snd exhibits him to
the astoni,hed and admiring multitude.
o. coarse. his exhibitions are few com
pared with tho PROFESSIONS Of his unief-
taker-[ Chester Journal
"A little boy hearing some one remark
that nothing was quicker than thought,
said, al know what is quicker than
thought" +" "NFhat is it, Johnny ?'
asked his pa. Wnistling," said Johnny.
i" When WAS at school yesterday
wbistIed before Thought, and got licked.
for il, too"
It was little hard on the bog, for
be meant we'll and bad a sincere admira'
ton for the girl They we're sitting st
the tea.table with company OF others
and a. be passed ber The sugar he mn:
INJURED in an updertone: Here IT -
svest, Just like you" The compliment
wss q Iittlo awkward, 20 lse sure. but be
meapt IL, end il sssmei more thsn cruel
WIEN. r1omeut later, having occasion
TO pas She butter, she draWled, Here
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