The Louisiana cotton-boll. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], Attakapas, La.) 1872-1883, 1879-12-04
FyEnY-DAT SPICERIEs.


FYERT-DAT SPICERIES.
People who converse at the top OF
| their voices are not high toned.
The most extraordinary feat Of bill
lizards on record has just been performed
at Moscow by Il young japanese, who
won, in twelve hours, q game of 5000, in
the course of which he once scored l,SU0
"carombIes' in succession
OLIVE LOGAN says: Il saw George
Eliot walking in the Regent Park the
other day. How sad and i'll she does
look, to be sure. hear her physicians
say she must never produce another
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ciety was lately discussing: Which is
best for the Iaboring men, to work for
wages or part of the crop" An old
uncle spoke the sense of the meeting
when he said: "Bofc was the best eff dcy
could only be brung togedder somehow"
"YoU seem to cough with more diff
Guilty than on Yesterday" said a friend
to Curran during his last illness. Do
I?' replied the witty lawyer. "Thats
odd enough. I've been practicing all
night"
MILE x, of the cs-Lcgeries, re-
ceived q letter from a gentleman the
other day which invited her out to sup
per. The young lady instantly took her
pen and wrote the following reply:
"1Ionsieur: l return your letter without
reading it. Furthermore, | want you to
understand that I never go out to sup
perp'-Freach paper.
"AHAt" said old PunlOyer, as he
picked himself up from an awkward
tumble over a bearded browser, II got
my fall over goat rather too early in the
season."
"WHArdo they always put D. c, after
Washington for?' asked Mrs. Quilp Of
Mr.. @. " Why, my dear, don't you
know that Washington was the Daddyof
his Country?' said Quilp, with smoker.
THERE'smany a girl caleda "daisy"
before marriage, who, after a few years,
looks like a faded old "buttercup."
There NAV not be much poetry about
this assertion, butit's the truth.
"NoTHING is made in vain!' exclaims
the divine, but the next moment, as an
aggregation Of silk lace and feathers
sWeeped up the aisle, he realized that
something is maiden vain. s.5-
LET the next spelling reform con-
vention be held in Maine, and adopt
measures to reform the spelling of the
lakes of that state. Some of the lakes
there onIyzajquarter of a mile in length
have names half a mile long, The re-
formers might wrestle with Lake Ma
Observation-Disclosures
~ m harin Nth ho,.g5ofq5rYl HDSHId
SIDNEY SMITH was a man who could
not let slip a chance to make a Joke, and
he did it eyen when the subject in hand
was ofothe gravestH John Bishop Selwvn
departed for New Zealand. Smith took
him warmly by the hand and said
though there was the trembIe of sad
memories in his voice: "Good-bv, nv
dear Selwyn; I hope you will not dis
agree with the man who eats you"
A CURIOUS mode Of trying the title to
land is practiced in, Hindostan. Two
holes are dug in the disputed spot, in
each of which the plaintiffs and de-
PENDANTS lawyer put one Of their legs,
and remain there until of them are
tired, in which case his client is de-
feated. In this country it is the client,
and not the lawyer, who puts his foot in
it.
A MINISTER once told Wendell Phil
lips that if his business in life was to
save the negroes, he ought to go South,
where they were, and do it. "That is
worth thinking Of" replied Phillips;
"and what is your business in life?3
"To save men from going to HE'LL re-
piled the minister. "Then go there and
attend to your business!" said Mr..
Phillips.
Mrs. DAVIS sold her dwarfed sons toa
Snowman in Knox county, Ohio, twenty
seven years ago, and has seen them only
rnce since. On that occasion, having
oepented Of the bargain, she went with a
sheriff to recove them; but the show
mar tucked them under his arms and
fed to the woods. They are particularly
wanted at home just now to look after
some property that has been left for
them.
YESTERDAY afternoon q young gen
tleman came to town with a pair of oxen,
and in the course of his ~wanderings he
came across a fine hydrant that had been
opened to clean out the pipes, He
stared at the gushing water in oead
silence for a moment, and then gave the
alarm by s~hrieking: "Gosh a hemlockl
Here's a hitchin' post sprung a leak
worse than a sugar maple"
THE shirred fan basque revived during
the summer for thin dresses is now seen
in the thiekest winter stuffs, which are
made soft and pliable enough to permit
these voluminous gathers without add
ing much bulk. Sometimes there are
three pleats spreading out on each
waist line; other dresses have the
shoulders and neck shirred also. Some
waists have the fullness only in front,
while some others reverse this, and CON
fine it to the back. The oyer-skirt worn
with such basques is usually shirred
down the front, and often there. is q
broad cluster Of shifling in Che middle
Of the back.
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