The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1879-02-15
WAITS AND wHIMs.

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canard" is because one canardly believe
it, you know. S's
AN Irish newspaper calls the murae,
OF her i've children by an English widow
wholesale matricide."
What is the difference between ~,
weather and the babyg One never rains
but1t pours, and the other never na;rs
but itroars.
1HE wise man placeth the stock Of his
gun to his shoulder befoie he firetb hut
the fool looketh down the barrel to soc
the bali start.
a CELEBRATED philosopher used 10
say, The tavors of fortune are like steen
rocks-only eagels and creeping things
mount to thesummit.o
dHE Norristown Herald has solved the
conundrum, "Why was Washington like
newspaper many" Answer: Because
he couldn't tell iie.o
A RHODE ISLAND fisherman claims 10
nave Landed a turtle weighing twelve
hundred ponnds-but he couldn't have
landed in his own state.
The Detroit Free Press, notwitb.
standing its new dress, suddenly dis
covers that the weather ia too deucedly
careless Buffalo Courier.
:" HUBIsM " is assuredly intuitive. A
little Beacon street four-year-old asked
his aunt if she thought he could be as
happy in heaven as in Boston.
TT is nothing to inherit fortune.
Why, we are getting so accustomed to
fall air that we begin to regard it as
common.--[ Keokuk Constitution.
THE pensive Indian, as q work of ma.
ture is grand and noble, but as work Of
art how useful he is to the toiling tobac.
conist - Hackensack Republican.
FROM the open windows OF Pine
street house, Friday noon, their foated
the air of the "Sweet Bye-and- Bye" and
cooking onions Danbury News.
THE ladiesof Japan are said to gid
their teeth, and those of the Indies to
paint theirs red, while in Guzerat the
test of beauty is to render them sable.
The French government has ordered
three hundred of Paul Boyton's Life
saving dresses. The money thus received
will enable Paul to keep afoat ior
awhile.
SAID q lady to the famous actor, Gar.
rick: II wish you were taller Mad
anne" replied the wit, chow happy1
should be to stand higher In your esti-
mationp
"A BURGLAR,PRooF vault to keep the
janitor in, along with the combination
he holds to the money safe, is recon-
mended to New York bankers.--L Chicago
journal.
MAAMA--"We'd better go in, darling,
it threatens rain" Harry oh, then,
it won't" Mamma--aWhy?D Harry
Papa always threatens to whip me, but
he never does
III may add to sthe interest which j.
being revived in e Down on the Old Su-
vance River" to know that it has alli-
gators eleven feet long, Cincinnati
Breakfast Table.
WE are tickle as people in our love
OF popular songs. We first admire, then
run the thing in the ground Finally
we wind up by abusing tho author
New York Commercial Advertiser,
s'WHy should be afraidg Am J not
soldiers son1gp said little fouryeai
old Afghan in the bazaar Of Peshawatrto
an English tourist. who said NDont
be frightened--I want to sketch you
PARsoE (sternly) How could yep
came to church to be married TO q man
in such d state as that ~ Bride lWeep
ling)-eItwasn't my fault, sir. 4 never
can get him to come when he's sober.
The best way to test friends ia TO ffy
to borrow q dollar toward the close q
the week.-fNew York Express We
know q way twice as good as that. Ivy
TO borrow two dollars Boston arasef