The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-11-30
CURRENT llUMUR.

Good doctors are liable TO be raped up I'm
their business.
J Talking 81 Nine. T., eoqnettIsh and SPITE
FIJI; 'sHow old Is she2' "A5 old us she says
others hrsl'
i Kisses by telephone taste like boiled
china egg on toast. ~ Y. Commercial Adj
vartlser.
4 Fighting Zoo Hooker once pati $4,000 for q
painting. On NIL othsr subjects he seemed TO
i be perfectly sane.
standing Hear," said mn old lady, show
tdreadfal. I suppose tho Indian agents have
stolen all his clothes"
IN Sweden brid., has her pockets filled
With bread Carames' are good enough for
tho girls In this country.
No dictionary can equal the ehild's definf-
ton Of chaos. Vt is % h,reat pile Of nothing"
she said, "and nowhere to put IT."
He beoometh poor ,shat dsaleth with
slack hand" but he that sltdeth four aces up
his sleeve gettsth to biml self riches
| Bsd-head persons III q recommended By
ono who knows how 1t Ii ! himself TO have q
spider painted on tho top OF their heads In
tly-time.
A newspaper reporter who died recently
left large sum OF money behind him. In
| fnct, no left all the money there was In tho
world.
i The naughty boy that sticks PINS Ia his
family new must feel that there ls paiEf1l
necessity for religious uprising anong his
relatives,
No American 10 ever guilty Of meeting
another without seking. well, hOw's busi-
ness I" And 1t doesn't matter II ono Of them
| Is h hanQnan.
"Chlcago has chlc.' says the Cincinnati
| Commercial, In y complimentary mood. Very
true, but the English way Of spelling that
sort Of chic La cheek. ns
One of the things which money brings.
| Besides selt-adulatf0n,
Is z front church pew, with an excellent REV
| Of thu entire congregation
Darling. Kiss Ny Eyelds Down." IL the
latest moonshine song, and he kisses them
down, and up, aud crosswise, and then settles
Oh her lips as steady thing.
Martin f.. Topper ssks: where are the
pure. the noble and the meek Z" Don't knew
where they nre In Eng!and but In this eoun-
try they ore running Tor Office. 81
The new mlnce pie Of 1879. 80 opens the sea-
son with u new Ingredient that hasn't been
analysed yet. 1t looks Ike leather parngs,
| but tpstes more like tobH 60 stems. lt PROM
| lses to become very popular.
| When you see evidences Of hair on the lap
! pei Of young NUNS coat. and the concave
side OF his sleeve worn -threndbare 1t To toll
erhbly safe to conclude that he has been hug
ging something moro than deuslon.
| A bald. header professor, reproving youth
for the exercise Of his fists said, rive fight
with our heads Mt this college, The young
man reflected moment and then replied,
"Ah, SEQ; you buttBd oil the hair off"
An hour passed on-tbe turkey woke:
| Tnnt bright dream was his last.
| He woke to die mid ire and smoke,
| Mid bns Ing spoons and carvsr'B stroke.
| And bright blades flashing fast.
| "Two ladies' without any character!e wne
the loud announcement of stupid usher at a :
fancy ball, who had been told to announce
persons In the character assumed, and who :
saw that the ladies III question were Ia ordi-
nary attire.
| A three year-oM little girl was taught to-
close her evening prayer durioR the Temporal
ry absence OF her father, WITH And please
watch over my papa 1t sounded very
sweet, nut tf1b IuUtttuF II amusement Hsay@
be Imagined when the child added, "And
you'd better keepan eye Oh mamma, too"
A bug scientist says "the bumblebee gives
ont two very distinct sounds, which are an
octave o. each other-a grove sound when it,
| flies and n sharp sound when II alights.' The
bug scientist Is right. The s0uad given OUT
when the bumbebee aiahts- on girls neck
lis about seventeen octaves sharper than
when the insect merely fiies.
An unlncky IrishnAn Is imprisoned for an
infraotion Of the law, His faithful wife Visits
him and finds him greatly cast down. With
the intention OF cheering him up, she says.
| "Arrah, be aisy, Paddy: shure, yell have an
B,ddy he gToans, the isil an upright ledge
! want, tits won that'll lane d little"
well, my son" said q good Eatured father
to an eght-year,old son, the other night,
What have yoa doas today that may sal be set
| uoWH bS u RCDN1 ueSlf 0hVe pOuk 10y
five CENTS" replied the hopeful. "Ah, ahl
that was q charity, and charity is always
| right. He was an orphan boy, was hel" Il
didn't stop to ask replied the boy. II gave
him the money foe licking q boy who upset
ray dinner basket"
| A very ugly gentleman was requested by O.
| beautiful woman TO accompany her to q paint
er's studio. where. having whispered few
| words to the artist, shs left him with prom
| lse OF presently coming back. The gentle-
man asked the artist what he was wanted for.
! II thought you knew, SIR replied the paint~
or, that I'm taking that laay's portrait In
the character Of d saint being tempted by the
devil, and thnt she wishes you to be good
| enough TO sit for the tempter.