The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1879-07-09
gocAI INTELLIGENCE

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SUNDAY was the hottest day of
the seasonal 2 o'clock P. M. our
thermometer boiled up to 81.
"A friend of ours has been fish
ing; he caught none, but succeeded
in drowning multitude Of worms.
The Gallinipper down the way
continues to buzz, but is quite harm
less since his fang has been taken
out.
No good fishing creek nearer
than Flaggon. There, we are told,
the fish are biting finely. Let US
all go.
"A PROOF of the hardness of the
times is that almost every third man
you meet has one or more patches
on the seat of his breeches. 'Tis a
fact.
SATURDAY morning VIC saw an
old darkey pass with three dogs at
his heels and large ring tailed coon
on his back. He had been after his
weeks rations.
Thar model of French garden
ers, Angelus Van Leary, Is as regu-
lar in his morning visits with fresh
and succulent vegetables as the NOR
ming star. Try him.
War traits distinguish the
fowls Of the air from the fowls of the
earth2 The fowls Of the air carry
the food to their young, and the
fowls of the earth carry their young
to the food.
The man who carries a slice of
Limberger in his pocket, must not
think it strange if his friends try to
avoid him and buzzards anxiously
hover over him to cultivate his ac-
quaintance.
--THE bald-headed old gent who
was struck with an idea one day
last week, is slowly recovering
though still wearing sticking plaster
on his Uranium. An idea, if original,
with bald heads, is always dangerous.
Bald heads, be cautious!
The colored lsdy who on last
Thursday morning. showed such a
striking affection for her liege lord,
is yet on the look out for the woman
whom she says wronged her, to adj
minister similar proof Of her re
gard. "When Greek meets Greek,
then comes hetug of war;"
We are informed that q large
telescope is spoken of as soon to be
erected in the observatory of Ward
No. l of our city. An old and ex
perienceh astronomer will give ST.
ries of lectures on the revolutions of
the Heavenly bodies; also he will! in
strucL the youth on the use of the
compass-free of charge.
81 We regret To state that most of
our boys, big and little, are daily
seen, some on the sly and some
openly scratching matches on the
seat of their breeches to light ciga
rettcs with. Boys, our advice is.
quit before you get TOO. far gone; IL
is filthy and vulgar habit-a grow
ing evil.
--FRoM the appearance of the side
walks on Sunday morning one would
think that all the cows In the city
were staked on their border, and that
they delighted to get on them when
nature called on them for relief
Some of their reliefs have the size
and depth to reach over the ordinary
shoe top. 1t is a nuisance, and a
stop should be put to it.
NO public demonstration on the
Fourth, not even the explosion of a
FIRE cracker was heard. Is it lack
of patriotism or hardness of the
times that no eagle was spread on
that day? As for ourself we are pa
triotic, and were determined the day
should not pass without our accus-
toned jollifieation, and not anything
to work on, and the day far advanc-
ed, we caught dog, tied an empty
coal oil can with few pebbles in it
to his tail and started him. The
dog ran and yelped, the pebbles rat
tied as the can swayed to and fro,
and the boys and ourself hurrahed.
Thus the glorious 4th was celebra-
ted by US and the Juveniles.
AN INc1DENT.--Some time ago one
of our most worthy merchants sold
a pinewoods man a bill of goods,