Louisiana capitolian. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1879-1881, 1879-10-04
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OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE PARISH

When alone watch your thoughts ];
in your family your temper; in company
your tongue.
When you meet lady in company
don't refer to the time when you used
to carry her to school twenty years ago.
"'Tbou will not be mine 7" 81 cannot
George, lowest another" Enough /
start for Yazoo City tonight. FAREWELL
Herald and Presbyter.
A woman was told to "make oath" in
Anew Haven court. She blushing by said
"damn it," and protested against the
rigor of legal necessity. Il Susan A. An
thony.
It is generally tho man who doesn't
subscribe for paper, who sends the cdi-
tor communication pitching into some
body or something, and signs it "Many
Readers"
The young lady whose lover wrote her
that he was doing duty on the tented
field afterwards ascertained that instead
of fighting Indians, he drove team for
q circus.
The Buffalo Express insinuatingly
shrieks that the "sun never sets on Da-
vid Davis" and it is lucky for the sun
that David Davis never gets q chance
to sit OH it.
"You army chap" as tho girl said to
her military lover.--[ Philadelphia Sun
day Item. "Thafs where yon soldier
self" he wrote back when he eloped
with another girl Ottawa Republi
can.
First Boy-"Where yer bin, Billy ="
Second Boy-"Been fishin'." First Boy
--"Ketch anythin' 7" with an anxious
expression ON bis face. Far-seoing Sec
ond Boy-"No. But expect ter when
/ git in the house."
A fop asked friend what apology he
should make for not being one of the
party the day before, to which he had u
card of invitation. "Oh, my dear sir"
replied the wit, "say nothing about it,
you were never missed"
A fOrty-day husband, on whom the
memory of the honeymoon already seems
to have become pOwerless, wants to
know why his wife is like q small pie.
Do you give itup' "Because," said the
unfeeling wretch, "she is now q little
tartw
A Brooklyn maiden is suing her hus-
band for absolute divorce, on the ground
that he is not German Count, as he re-
ported himself to be when she married
him.-[Capitolian. A maiden suing her
husband 7 Oh, Jastremsld!- Pelican.
Plain enough-be was no count.
Two girls who lately ran away from
Long Island arc thus graphically describ-
cd by their father: Laura, aged 10,
dressed in % straw hat; Florence j.,
aged Is, blue suit" We tremble in
view of the possibility of the fair Laura's
straw hat blowing off, Pewec Mctho-
dist.
Did our young readers ever think how
little it trikcs to stain their character
A single drop of ink is very small thing
yet dropped intoa tu,nbler of clear water
it blackens the whole; and so the first
oath, the first lie, the first trivial, yet
they leave dark stain upon your char
acter. Look out for tho first stain.
1t will be remembered by readers that
some time ago negro prisoner, while in
the charge of an officer and when near
Osyka, jumped from the train while
manacled and made his escape. Some
time after, the corpse of negro was
found in the swamps, near Osyka, and
it issnpposed to be this negro.-Sentinel.
ooh, my darling, your voice is as m.-
steal to mo as vcsper-bell, whose tones
fall softly on the pcrfumcd evening air.
Speak again, and say those words, my
beloved, could listen to your voice I'M
til the stars are extinguished into ever
lasting night. Oh yum, yum, yum"
The incoherency of the last three
words is what gets away with us.-Har-
ry w. Beecher.
A drunken lawyer going into church
was observed by the minister, who said
to him:
"Sir, Twill bear witness against you
on the day of Judgment
The lawyer sleaking his head Will,
drunken gravity, replied:
have practiced twenty-five years at
the bar, and always found the greatest
rascal tho first to turn States evidence.
1t was hard on the boy, for he
meant well, and had sincere admira-
ton for the girl. They were sitting at
the table with q company of others,
and as he passed the sugar hcmurmured,
in an undertone: "llcre it is, sweet, Just
like YOU" The compliment was little
awkward, to be sure, but he meant it,
and it seemed more than cruel when, o
moment later, she had occasion to pass
the butter to him, she drawled, "Here i,
is, soft, just like YOU"
A young lady who had been invited tt
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