The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1878-11-09
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A st. Louis clerk ID named Gasbih.
Unhappy man. Every body dispu tee
him. sfa
The happiest people after all, are
those who work the hardest, and fed
the best.
When mother turns up her trump
across her knee she usually plays .
lone hand. y -IT
He who works for notoriety had
rather be insulted, than not to be
noticed at all. fA3lUAs (
The handsOmest compliment you
can psy TO = woman .ef ssnAs il. "
address her - such. ,.,t,o,nu
Passing arrange! When two Pc
destrians, unacquainted with each
other, happen to meet.
A Vermont paper promises some
miscellaneous" reading now that
the election is over. yrlls.rr
We conceal hatred easily, love
with difficulty, indifference with the
greatest difficulty Of all.
Lawyers are never more in earnest
than when they work with will
that is, if the estate is valuable.
The sky is just now bronzed by
john; when the earth is whitened
By Jack We shall all feel better.
1t is strange but melancholy fact
that the less water there is on. the
bar the more schooners 60 over it.
When the commander OF the ark
served out the food for his passen-
gers he made Nos-ration. a
The first paragraplier that says
anything about stoyepipes should be
made to either "shut up or put up"
The Chicago girl Gays "Mamma,
Just look yonder at that man we took
for stranger. May never. if he
wasn't papa last year." .sieL a II
Jennie Lind has been arrested and
sent to Jail at Kingston. She has
known what it Is be 8 Swedish night
in-jail. =. .t0aU eisSdI
An Indiana girl Gays she finds
nothing soagood fer the complexion
as rubbing her face ON u young mans
vest. The young man must be in
side of It thought. - 3rH5 ga
An English lady who, in defiance
of the law, married the brother of
her dead husband, is in the habit Of
abiding to her first spouse as cher
poor brOther-in- law" 81 a'g0S
The woman who doesn't put an
any preserves this Call will miss the
torture that some woman will eK-
perience about Christmas time, whom
thoy open jar after jar only to find
every one spoiled. ,raaL 60
A leopard and q fox had a contest
as tn which was the fner creature If
the two. The leopard put forward
his numberless spots; but the fox
replied, "Iti Ia better tn have . ver-
satile mind than a variegated body"
When are the clouds like jockeysf
When they hold the rains. Why Is
a sailors hand like the sky at night.i
Because les tarry. Why ia darkey
in the bushes'an aid to q bright up-
derstandiugi Because he is 4 black
in-brush. i7efeno.f
A difference between the sexes is
thus noticed by Uncle jim: A wo-
man never IL more happy than when
she has four men waiting on her all
at once, but more than one woman
fussing over man at a time makes
him feel dredphull uncartin.
Is is printed that there is . girl
down east who cuts two cords of
wood per day, attends to all the
household affairs, drives home the
co VS., can lift barrel of cider, and
occasionally whips the school master
when none Of the boys are able to
do it. u a't.s
A Lewiston pauptr, living at the 5
city almshouse, says On exchange.
recently offered mp the following
prayer 20 Lord! 'biess the boss Of
this house; be with him daily, and
with all bis'n; but especially, o,
Lord we ask Thee to make differ
emit arrangements in that cook
room !" "a s4ar .aofg ..,....
He was in a confidential mood
when he Went kanss she other night
ON the ferry brat, and sod Ia sfhe
gentleman citing ,.bH b3si "rm
happish man in New York. Idcnowe
man shent. I'm gonehome, an il
sittin' up Vii ticker. au'
il she's gous to bed, III Ticker any
way. I'm bount' have .shome fun"
Mrs. Coshell came down town yes.
terday morning, and alphabetically
said to her husbands employer:
'.Cosliell is not well to- dav: You must