The Louisiana cotton-boll. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], Attakapas, La.) 1872-1883, 1879-12-11
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NATURES gIazier-Jack Frost.
ARE boob-worms good for bait?
A FINE sight-the sight of rife.
NoBoDY's child Joshua, the son Of
Nun.
A PRFss Agent-thc young man who
throws his arm around his girls waist.
Z FAT man in summer is like one
groping in darkness; he feels his weigh.
LIKE a lobster, the best law has a GER
tain Objectionable clause.
THE phylloxera insect is inflicting
great injury in the vineyards of Lom-
hardy.
THE successful manis he who looks out
| for number one, and adds lot of ciphcrs
to himself in the shape Of wcaker-minded
20 lie. AID yoOls.
The amount of deposits in the saving
banks of the United States is estimated
at 81 500, 900 900.
The practice Of cooking food for cows
is rarely followed now. ltsccms to have
been more laborious than profitable.
A MAl's word is the main spring of
4, g character. Once break the main
lna.ring, and, like a watch, the man runs
S5pwno.
TIE Norristown Herald tells a good
story about q ruralite who purchased an
alarm clock one day last week, and re-
turned it the next afternoon. He said
that it made such an informal racket
in the morning that he Couldn't sleep.
NEATNEss of attire should commence
in the schoolroom. A young lady should
dress Just as carefully for school as for
church or society; school is society, and
to appear at school in a partial toilette
| is mistake so serious as not only to war
rant, but to call for corrective criticism.
ANNA DICKINSON says that no man,
however gifted--not even Dante, Shaks-
peare or Goethe-has ever drawn the
true portrait of true woman, and that
this was the principal reason why she
wrote plays for herself" She probably
| thinks that none but a waman knows
woman.
Gently at Belfast, with her clothes drip
ping like water-spOut On being ques-
toned as to her condition, she said she
understood the lady Of the house wanted
q wet nurse, and she had come ready fox
service.
BABY's christening robe is made Of
Valeneiennes lace and embroidery, with
shoulder knots and a sash of white satin
ribbon The important name is not
whispered, but is engraved on card,
which the godfather presents to the
"How shsll we stop the strikes?" asks
a New England paper. Well, with your
right generally, and keep your left we'll
up in front of you. When you can't
stop q heavy one, it is allowable to
dodge it. But if you really don't know
how to stop them, keep out Of the ring.
Huntington Ha1ekeye.
PEOPLE in Lawrence, Kan, sdJ that
the best farmer of that vicinity is a
woman. She was left widow ten years
ago. with a bit of land and fourteen
| Children. She now owns three large
| farms, two of which she has given her
bows. Mrs. Mary McCutehen runs her
farm with the aid of her children and
without much hired help. This is q good
example of what has been done IN the
midst of what are called hard times IN
| Kansas by a woman left with family OF
| children and no resources.
| A RECENT issue OF the Louisville FosE
contained the statement that all the hogs
in Elkton had been drunk the week be-
fore. Thereupon majority of the Posts
| Flkton subscribers discontinued the
paper, and notified the editor of their in
| tention to commence libel suits. The
unfortunate man came out in two col
umn leader next day asserting that he
was willing to take his oath on stack
of bibles that he only meant four-legged
hogs, and that branded cherries thrown
into an alley had led to their downfall