St. Landry democrat., 1879-02-01
WAITS AND WEfEMS.

GOOD locomotives are down to ,uoo,
from $24 600 three years ago.
WHISKY is about the only enemy man
has succeeded in really loving.
HEAVEN gave women tongues to ask
questions with, and eyes to give answers
with
LIFE, like the water of the sea, is not
quite fresh and sweet till it rises toward
heaven.
IHE woman who contjdes to one man
her part'aIity for another seeks advice
less than an avowal,
HE New Orleans Picayune says that
the city is well drained, SO far as it's
treasury is concerned.
The borrowing fend, who is always a
little short of change is an enemy to
whom no quarter should be shown.
EVERY man is miserable sinner in
church, but out OF church it is unsafe TO
say much about ii, except to q small man
ANaristocratic papa on being request
ed by rich and vulgar young fellow
who wanted to marry core ofthe girls"
gave this rather crushing reply: Ger
ta'nIy which would yo1. prefer, the
waitress or the cook ?
HORSE talk, such as that INDUCED in
| by the sporting b&ronet in the Jealous
Wife is now fashionable in English So
ciety. "Aw! Introduce me to that little
FLY standing beside the Id cob in black.
She pace, well"
How MANY make crOwd?' asks,
the irquisiti7e man Of the Edinburg
| Herald. Well, we reckon, on Sunday
evening, that the presence Of the father
and mother will make the largest parIor
awtully crowded to the young couple
Gowanda Enterprise,
THERE is no poet but Burns. Colonel
lngersolt is right. 1t is only the heart
that IL born in poesy and s"athed in
poetic fire that could sing:
! ow dang the geuch that caaed the dykssido hail
Ye na nae tint the meikle STRIKE drown;
| Ae lippen jouk gaed couthie ilk the wall,
An meal peck ding the aud lang-shaed spune,
Huntington Ho,ckeye.
The Princess Louise recent Y visited
the Grosvenor Art Gallery, in London,
and was much interested in its fine COL
! Lections. To some of the pictures how
ever, she took such exception as even to
wonder how they could have been hung
at all. Now, just look at that daub
there; how could you hang such thing
as that?' she said to Sir Coutts Lindsay.
"Well," he replied, that is one Of smy
own"
A MEAN-sPIRI1ED Ohio man took a
fourteen>pound club with a knot on the
bad end, and got bis friends to put him
in coffin and place it in vault. BY
the gray of the dawn two solitary figures
were seen coming along the highway into
| Cincinnati One of them went lamely
to the Ohio Medical College with a lump
on his head that lifted his hat of, and
the other went to quiet home, with a
spoiled club under his arm and the glad
light Of a happy smile shedding the
light of peace and duty over his honest
countenance.-B Burlington Hawkeye.
''SUPPER is now ready in the smoking
car" shouted the brakeman, and young
man from Hartford, who was on bis way
to San Francisco, got up and went for
ward to see what the brakeman meant.
He went into the smoking car and found
a party of Bavarian emigrants cooking
two kinds of g c5ee:e and three deneml-
nations of s4usages On the stove. He
came out very psle and gave the brake
man half a dollar to stand on the rlat>
form and burn matches under his nose.
"Wss it very bad??" an old gentleman
a.ked him, when he returned to the
coach. "Sir," said the young man of
Hartford, "you'll never smell anything
ike it until you have been dead about
six months. - Hawkeye.
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