The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-03-31


kisses
How long, dear love, how leng2
Too gay inIune youanight be to regret me,
AnI living LIPS migfE WOO you to1erget me
But alb, sweetheart, / think you would re-
member
When winds were weary in your aife's De-
So lsng, dear love, so longl -
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Last winter Boston lady sent an.aeder to
Worth for an evening dress, with instructions
that it should be made tres decOttete. The
great man eabled back that he WASH II making
dresses that way .at present. to which Inllady
returned, make it.as low az possible" The
gown arrived all in due time; 1t was free DE-
collete and II was soon worn ct large enter
tainment, where 1t at once attracted the atfen-
ton OF a noted wit, to whom the lady was
well knowIl After O quiet survey OF the
premises ths gentleman tnIns aa TO her with
responded. "Mr. Worth addressed me, Mr..
-."-IBoston Saturday Evening Gazette.
The London Times recently published q
telegram from Queensland stating that Lazy
Kennedy (wife OF the Gopeynor) had given
birth to twins, the eldest being q SON." Some
DAYS later It was called upon to make a re-
traction. Reuters Telegram Company ex-
planned thet the message received trom Aus,
but being informed Chat Sir Arthur Kennedy
was unmarried, Geographic repetition was
demanded It was then learned that the
words really telegFaphed from Queensland
were: Governor loft Queensland turns first
sod" abiding to the opening OF new rail- !.
way This Is one Of the most remarkable
OF newspaper errors on record. %
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A statement In recent English paper Of
the captures by the Russian armies in Europe
and ASIA from the time war was declared
until the armistice was signed. shows some
rather astonishing achievements. The army
OF the Danube and the army In Armenia has
captured 20 pashas 163, 500 officers and men,
1863 guns, $4,000 muskets, 25,60O tents, a. 900
horses, several hundred Thousand small arms,
lances and immense stores OF ammunition,
rice, breadstuffs, salt, etc. This will be a con-
venielt basis to commence q war with Great
! Bfitaiu on. The arms, too, are OF the best
description of English and American make,
while KfMpp furnished aTgreat portion OF the
artillery. ., .-.s. ~
Ice did not become an article OF commerce
until the present century; but already, In the
United States alone, 200 is invested In
the business Of gathering and selling it.
Large shipments of Ice are made to South
America and Asia the European nations sup.
plying themselves with ice from Norway.
There has been q remarkable increase in the
use Of the article in the United States since
1s45, when only $4,000 tons OF it was used. In
the year 1876 the consumers bought 2,5O0,OOO
tons, and probably 5000, 600 tons was cut
At the conclusion Of a festival last summer,
an excellent teacher, DESTROYS Of administer
ing trifling moral lesson, Inquired Of the
boys II they had enjoyed the repast. With
sponded Eyes, sir" "Thean, ' asked s the he e e
cellent teacher, III you had slipped into my
garden and picked those Strawberries with
out my leave, would they have tasted as good
as now!, Every small boy in that stained
aWhy not? ' "Gause," said little SThionmna;s
with the cheerfulness of conscious virtue,
"then we shouldn't have had sugar and cream
with EN-"
Cotton seed oil manufacture is becoming
marked industry in the South. There are
now seven large mills in New Orleans and
others at Baton Rouge, Shreveport, Natchez,
Vicksburg, Dallas, Memphis, Nashville, and
even st. Louis and Chicago. A ton Of seed
while the refuse cake, worth $40 per ton, is
valuable as feed for domestic animals and for
fertilizing land. 80
Bubbins has had more trouble with his
monograph. There was a sewing society at
his home the other day. and the monograph
Kept up q lively conversation that evening
about the needs Of the heather, and the faults
OF the neighbors, until midnight. Then Bub-
bins oorked it up, and In less than fifteen min
utes it exploded, and destroyed about half the
parlor furniture. There are limits to the
capacity OF the photograph.
time when the menagerie band plays and the
elephant walks around the ring. but If you
want to see a fOur-stOry ecstasy, step into the
bedroom of girls reflections. when she
tightens up her corset.string and lets out her
frock-hem of budding womanhood for the
first time in life.
Httsburg must be Q queer place to live in.
The Inhabitants Of Fifth Avenue, a hillside
street in that city, complain that their street
Is gradually sliding down hill, and the peo-
pie living further down the slope have .peti-
from the danger Of having their houses
smashed by the descending thoroughfare
High ritual Is on the increase in London.
Thirty-nine churches now celebrate the daily
communion, against IL last year; $40 have
istic vestments, againt IA 80 display candles
ON the altar, and since 1867 the use OF incense
has been extended from churches to l6
"Hurrah! hurrah" cried young lawyer
who succeeded to his fathers practice, I've
it, exclaimed the astonished parent "why,
we've supported the family on that for the
last ten years"
Professor o. Ito new comerl-"J, what is
the gender Of ouum?" Ut is neuter, sir
no, It Is masculine; no, you can't tell what 1t
is" Professor O.-'Why can't you tell?'
J.,"Why, sir, you can't tell the gender till it
Is Matched"
1t is suggested that at the next presidential
election the people vote on the question
whether there is a future punishment. We
are afraid there would be too much ballot
box stuffiing on the negative side of the ques-
ton, and Satan would be counted out"
The remark I'll let you knowr' has al.
ready become quite familiar in Alfonsos fam
ly though In most every case the person
addressed hasn't the slightest desire for the
information. l al s.
The English language is inadequate to ex-