The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1879-05-03
WAITS AND wHImS
10 A LITTLE erET


Little girl, you s~c very fair;
With rosy cheeks and flowing hair,
Your eyes are bright, your heart IA va-,.
and words AKA music IRON your tonr,.e
Little girl, i love you well,
How much my verse can never tan
But If the truth must be confessed.
love your growD-up sister best.
"A Thermometer gains motorists /.
degrees.
The meAn man is always msaner NJ
himself than to anyone else.
"A pistol is not half so dangem.,
when the owner is not loaded.
The Bennett Arctic expedition win
leave San Francisco during june.
-. Almost al of us are generous h 1
fault, If the fault happens to be our ON, \
The sausage is the only species n /
ground hsg that does not hibernat !,
winter.
..Hudibras calls mRtrimony per,s,s
fever. beginning with heat AMI endn
with frost. :
The " wstoh6og's honest bark NAV
be all right, but it's the quiet dog tu
puts in the bites.
Poverty is bully if You sre afraid
of it, but is good natured enough if yos (
meet it half way.
The map who is waiting for sons \
thing to turn ups generally finds it wha
ne steps On barrel-hoop.
For fifteen years no governor n
North Carolina has served ont his al /
term.
One writes illegibly to hide his baI
spelling, rs one contents ones self with
half smile to conceal poor teeth.
The man who sighed for the winsE
Of 3 bird did not, apparently, know tha
the legs we're much nicer eating.
Modesty is q priceless virtue; b
if, like the paint on 8 woman's cheek, (
is only "put on" it loses its value.
1t is inferred from the hesoism wit
which Spartan women used to eneourss
their husbands to go forth to battle tia
they looked well in black.
-" Science" says DR.. Holmes, "n
good piece of furniture for man to haw|
in an upper chamber, provides he Id
sense on the ground floor"
.,,A million little diamonds
Twinkling on the trees,
And all the little maidenB said,
"a jewel if you pleased"
But while they held their hands outStreitha
70 catch the diamonds gay.
a million little eunbeams came,
And stole them ali away.
"A man was desirous TO call his uI
by the name of Asa, bat his wife, nd
liking the name, he told her that, ifsh
would let him have his way that tins
,he might name the next two.
~" SAM" said one little uschm y
snother--" Sam, does your sehoolmsRt
'ver give you any rewards of merit
u s'pose headoes," was the reply; "b
gives me hckin' regular every day, aii
'ays I merit two"
"A pair Of dra wers- straws in leHG
'de.--LPuck. a pair of papts-W
logs after q long chase Philadella
chronicle. a pair of aippers--twOss
II Albany Argus. a pair OF ahoo's-.s
women chasing a hem. Rochssa
Democrat.
Amelia waved her fan with glee,
and, being in g playful mood.
She gave the airy toy TO me,
And babe me fiirt ii If could.
The pleasant toll quick began,
But jealous pangs my bosom hurtj
~ Madam, Cannot fist fan,
But with your leave III tan a hist"
"A correspondent wishes to know
70 are the author of the 6 An,eie'
encyclopaedia" Well, mono; patsi
city the author of 1T. We killed y
anvasser, however, ii that is what ~
lean.-- Hawkeye.
1t is all very well to talk abonteca'
my, but the difficulty 10 to get anyihlq
economics. The ! tile baby who pa'
Is toes into his mouth lie almost y
My person in Ihese hard times W
manages to MAKE both ends meet.
=" Can O man belong to brass D''q
nd be a ,chfistianf" asks an exchass
We see no impeachment in the way. BY
ne is given to practicing at hume !
a utter po.ibility Tor the man 1--WE
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