The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-06-25
AMONG THE WICKED MEN.


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AMONG THE WICKED MEN.
Uneasy lies the man who has already been
caught at 1t once Or twice. Popular Science
Monthly.
| The rag business is picking up-[Scientih.
American And the old bone business is going
to the dogs Popular Science Monthly.
4 New EDglands dead, New Engand's dead
on every hill they lie.-[Old Poem. Same way
with the living New Englanders.- Boston
Post.
| The house flies held their regular annua
convention all over the country the first of the
month, and unanimously resolved to adopt
last years platform without any changes
Oshkosh Christian Advocate.
'sThe only real bitter tears, says some one
..are those shed In solitude" You may bet
your life that philosopher never saw ten
| year-old boy coming out OF the wood shed In
company with his father and a skate strap
Ralph Waldo Emerson
! We don't believe these spots on the sun
| have any influence on the weather at all, we
don't care what the astronomers say. We be-
| lieve they are pasted on the sun just like the
/ ver-colored spots on clOud-blue meat
hound, for ornament and variety.-IS Scientific
| American.
! "Well, how do the fish get along this
weather." Gov Gear asked one Of the Iowa
the cold-blooded reply. And now an intelli-
| gent people rise up and demand the instant
decapitation Of that of1iciai-N. Y. Times.
A new exchange, the Centervlle Vidette,
| reached us the other day. 1t faces the world
with the startling motto, "Ce nest que lie pre-
mer pas qui eonte.' And would you believe
| 1t? The paper is SO small they have to issue
q supplement to print the motto on.--lS. f.
Chronicle.
| Kate Claxton is going. But perhaps 1t
will be just as well for man OF our weight
| to ascertain how far away from Burlington is
Mr. Kate Claxton before proceeding with any
| family jokes. 1t Ii all right, but that man
has such an unsociable temper.--INew York
Times.
They are pointing with pride, down In Ken
lucky, to O farmer who appropriates the
yearly produce of one acre of bis farm to buy
Ing reading matter. Yes. and puts nearly
every foot Of the other 149 acres In tobacco,
the animal that he is. A nice example, that
is, to boast OIL Temperance Journal.
There are 212 fire insurance companies in
Massachusetts, and when mans house
catches fire In the old Bay State he runs as
hard as his legs can carry him and retains q
lawyer before he gives the alarm. Why"
We didn't say why, we only said he did it.
Insurance Record.
fare sulphur matches popular in this coun-
try?" asked the young man from the East,
sneezing and coughing as he lighted his cigar.
"WelI, no. replied the native. mot very.
They might be, but the champion, down
stairs, Is 30 far ahead OF anything else that
there don't appear to be any use for any one
else training against him. Hasn't been a sui
phur match played out here since I've been in
the country.'-[H Herald and Presbyter.
The Mikado Is introducing the old-fash-
toned, regularly ordained lager beer into ia
pan, and Is trying to teach his people to
adopt tt as q Temperance" drink. And next
to the pleasure that must be afforded by
IN n ftUp n H
yell Iweip' as fiercely as though he were
yelling for bowl OF poison for his dearest
enemy, will be the convulsing happiness OF
hearing him, two or three hours later, try to
shout thickly but cheerfully. "Sem 'em mup-
pagin FL Temperance Journal.
LOVES MELoDRAMA.
Act one, they meet, as In pleasing dream
Act two. he'll treat to soda and ice cream:
Act three, his cash. alas Is nearly played;
Act four, his girl grows cold sedate and staid,
Act five, Just as his love is ripe and mellow
joaquin Miller.
Act one. he meets her at the croauet ground;
Act two. to see her at the house he CALLS
Act three, most rtgu' arly he comes around:
Act four. head over ears In love he falls:
act FIVE. his manly passion h. declares
And for an after piece pa kicks him downstairs.
II. B. Aldrtch.
"Certes,' quote the honest farmer, pausing
In the midst of his hay field, "the world is for
all Of us sufficiently broad" wherefore could
as thimble being alone with the farmer in a
twenty acre field, should of all that roomy
solitude find for himself no abiding place, save
only up the inside OF the farmer his trousers
leg. And it was so that when the humble bee
got himself we'll fixed up there and pulled
himself wide open and began to work both
sides with full head of steam on, and the
cylinder cocks open, that the world it was
hardly broad enough for the farmer to flour
ish that one leg around In. And he was sore
vexed and swore bitterly.-[Os Christian
Advocate.
THE sKEET.
He comes; the fierce invader comes;
His only cry is blood. be-lood!'
Into the droWsy ear he huns
And he laughs at slaps that fall and thud.
He wriggles through the wire-screen door,
Beneath the canopy he craWls;
| He gluts his greedy thirst for gore
Ere he gets pasted 'gainst the walls.
''Yon cannot shut me out" he cries,
Through cracks and keyholes in Gomez
| And round the dark ened rom he flies.
And softly asks. Are you to ham?'
When slumber holds your wearied frame,
| He tends to business all the same
| And liauidates his little bill
-tSidney Lanier.
The Springfield GILL Journal thus sums M
the results Of the judicial election in that
State on the second instant: "The Supreme
Court remains unchanged, all the old incum-
| bents being reelected. OF the fortv-four cir
| cult judges chosen In the thirteen circuits Of
the State and Cook county, twenty-nine are
reelected and fifteen are new men-excent