The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1879-03-01
WAITS AND WHITES

WHISKY is about the only enemy m,n
has succeeded in really loving.
HEAVEN gave women tongues Il, a..
questions with, and eyes to give apsw.r.
with.
LIFE, like the water of the sea- Is moi
quite fresh and sweet till it rises ,owors
heaven.
TIE woman who confdes to one ma,
her partiality for another seeks adv;ce
les than an avowal.
TIE New Orleans Picsyune saws thai
the cisy is well drained, SO far as \.
treasury lis concerned.
The borrowing fend, who il a)wavs-o
little short of change. lis an enemy Il
whom no quarter should be shown.
POVERTY Htares many a man IN a.
face; but, says the Elmira Gazstte tho
corner loafer does the business tor tbo
women.
MATRTMoEY is q holy institutior
Not only does it unite man to his hest
friend, but itfurnishes a good Lying for
thousands of'divorce lawyers.
notwithstanding papa ON being REQUEST.
ed by q rich and vulgar yonng fellow
who wanted to marry sol Of the girls v
gave this rather crushing reply. ssrar.
tainly; which would yoL prefer, the
waitress or the cook ~
1T is mighty poor consolation to be
worth hundred millions, and then be
Jerked head FIRST through glass covered
coffin, with rope around ones neck
and thrust in bag and carried off by a
lot of poor devils not worth sixteen dol
lars in the aggregate Il Peck'e Sun.
THERE is no poet but Burns Colonel
IngersoH is right. 1t is only the heart
that is born in poesy and swathed in
poetic fire that could sing:
low dang the gleuch that caaed the dyfeside kali
Ye ma hae tint the meikle strike drown;
Ae lippen jouk gaed couthie ik the wall.
An meal-pock ding the aud Iang-shafed spune
Burlington Hasckeye
4" DovEY," he said, /" think / was
telling, you, sitter i came home last
night, about the necessity of some re-
trenchment in our expenditures, was
notg" g Well, really, I've forgotten,
john" she answered, nonchalantly;
"turn on the phonograph and see."
He turned it on. and all it said, was
q" Whazzer mazzer - (hic) - mazzer 7
Whazzer mazger?"
A MEAN-sPIRITED Ohio man took
fourteen-pound club with knot on the
bad end, and got his 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 lump
on his head that lifted his hat of, and
the other went to q quiet home, with
spoiled club under his arm and the glad
light of happy smile shedding the
light of peace and duty over his honest
countenance.-[ Burlington Hawkeye.
"SUPPER is now ready in the smoking
car" shouted tine brakeman, and o young
man from Hartford, who was on his way
to San Francisco, got up and went fof-
ward to see what the brakeman meant.
He went into the smoking car and found
q party of Bavarian emigrants cooking
two kinds of cheese and three denemi'
nations of sausages on the stove. he
came out very pale and gave the brake
man half a dollar to stand on che piaf'
form and burn matches under his nose.
sWas it very badg" an old gentleman
asked him, when he returned to the
coach. tSir," said the young man q
Hartford, f'you'n never smell anythlng
ike ituntil You have been dead aboat
six months. FL Hawkeye.
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