St. Landry democrat., 1880-11-27
ALL SORTS.

| ALL SOhIS'
In asking a man to settle a DliI' tho
| thing is mo sooner said than dun'
! Contentmont is better than riches
| but YOU may be ever so cOnteht an"
! you'll want the cash just the same.
\ South Hill debating club is "rest'
/ Iin3 with "Can Il community exist WILL
out womcne' We think it might e1lst
! FOR awhile, hut then it wouldn't kno"
! what was going Oh.
! He who was never tempted, let him
not be high minded, but fear, LOT ne
| may be surprised in that very instant
! tempted at all.
! The editor of the Popular Monthly
wrote a ten-Da.e article on early lls-
| ing" the other night and tlen went 10
! bed and slept until three O'Clock ne1t
! day. Consistency, thou art breastpln
The starkville Journal says some one
| has made Il calculation and found tnat
taking an average OF the whole country
Sl.24 worth of fence is required to pre-
vent S1.65 worth OF stock destroying
S2.i5 worth of crops.
| \ couple of lovers went together from
! Rpon, Wisconsin, to Fond du Lac, and
! telcsraphcd back to the girls parents::-
"May We 2ut married. Please wire
| consent Immediately, rs ceremony Will
| be performed this evening anyhow
! \ barber OF Mystic River, Connecticut,
cnu breathe for q .ilne without the use
| of mouth or nOstills, us COMMUNICATION
| is kept lip between his lungs and the at
- ft,n
is the case, he gives demonstration,
when indulgiDg in cigar, by exhaling
| the smoke through the same channel.
4 young artist who lives in q board
! iDg-housc wants to know how he can
learn to play the violin without distur-
| bing the other boarders. "Soap your
! bow, young man, soap your bow, and
bathe the strings twice a day in sweet
| oil. Then you can sit up all night and
| play overtures, and nobody will mind it."
| WoMAN FIRsr.--"Yoa will admit,
doctor, said a witty lady to a celebrated
| doctor of divinity, with whom she was
arguing the equality of the sexes" you
must admit that woman was created
before man. Well, really, madam"
said the astonished divine. II must ask
you to prove your case" "That can
easily be done, sir. Wasn't Eve the
| first maid ,"
The Shastcrs, or lIindoo scriptures,
forbid Il woman to sec dancing, hear
music, wear jewels, blacken her eye
broWs. eat dainty food, sit at a window,
or view herself ut Il mirror, during the
absence OF her husband, and allows him
| to divorce her if she has no sons, injure
| his property, scolds him, quarrels with
| another woman or preSumes to eat be-
fore he has finished his neal.
On his way to his apartments he stop.
ped under the window ola pawnbroker
on Sixth avenue, and with violent
attention of that cstimable tradesmaD.
who, putting his head out Of the
window. fretfully asked the busi-
ness of his visitor. 81 want to know
the time," cried the curator, "What do
you mean by waking me up to ask such
a stupid question !" roared the
pawnbroker. Stupid question ~
| howled the curator, clngine fo
| lamp post. Il like that. Where else
should ask for the time-havcn't you
got my watch !'-[The Hour.
II ACKNOWLEDGE THE CoRN.r-This
| is eho ~ eiu vi sAC pu1d5c l. 1CkOOWI~
edge tho corn In 1928 Mr.. Stewart,
member of Congress, said in a spccci,
that Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana sent
their hay stacks, corn fields and fodder
to New York and Philadelphia for sale.
Mr.. Wicklitfe of Kentucky, called him
to order, declaring that those States did
not send ay-stacks or corn-tields to
New York for sale. "Nell, what do
You send - asked Stewart. "Why.
horses, mules, cattle and hogs.- "Wefl.
what makes your horses, mules, cattle
and l!nss:' You feed one hundred dol
lars worth of hay TOT II horse. You Just
animate and get on top of your hay
| stacks and ride off to market. How is
| it about your cattleo You make one of
them carry fifty dollars worth of hay or
grass to the Eastern market. How
much corn does it take, at thirty three
cents a bushel, to fatten hog r"
"Wby, thirty bushels" "Tben you nut
thirty bushels into tho shape of hog and
make it walk off to the Eastern market.n
Then Mr.. Wickliffe jumped up and
said "Mr. Speaker, acknowledge the
corn"