St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1880-12-11
ALI. SORTS.
The mysterious trunk has been fouhu
Poupcville papers please copy

The mysterious trHhh i''
Poupcville papers please copy
An Editor ont West was i'll prison loi
,;I.ai;nr a iustice of the peace, anu
when lie departed the jailorr, ASKED a5nal,,nsi la
~ Owe the prison a puff LOshkoSh
Christian Advocate.
4 Philadelphia man WHO oeGdt oe;ted Tho
piece of bark in his sausage visi,eaa nea he.
butchers shop to know what hau " "
come Of the rest of the dog.-lSclentihc
American.
When A man says 81 hear NOISE; ~
Dronablv never occurs to him tiiae 'n.
IS nothing in this wide world that any
body can hear but a nolsc.-l lieioo''
Spencer.
"What is the first thing to be done III
case of fire ," asked Professor oteaIuIe.
Sue the insurance company, plo,fftth nf tthe
answered the boy at the foot OF th9
class, whose father had been burneo
ont once or twicc.-(Thc Nation.
al wonder, uncle" said Il little glIi,
of men will ever yet live to oe ,, @ o"o
or 1000 years old ?" No, my child" res,
bonded the old man that was triea
once. but the race grew so oau tnat
the world had to be drowned. .'-lfe"
wauhcc Methodist.
".l new way to nay old debts; - lrst
Gentleman: "Oll, | am all llSht nov"
I've cleared off all my. debts" oeconu
Gentleman GLOW did you manage
ihatp" First Gentleman Easiest
thing in the world borrowed hundred
and paid Oft everything. u Indicator.
The New York Tribune informs US
that "CIemistttes are worn with nearly
all stvles OF dresses, and there IS great !:
variety in designs and materials. we
would like to know how Whitehall Reid
who ia a bachelor found this out =:
[ChicagO 1nter-Ocean.
LA ma" exclaimed eoigeously-
tired young lady, in a lond voice, on an:
excursion boat the other day, rs she d.,
rtct.il her mothers attention to the
camp-stooI, ''thcm's just like the CHAIR
We SAW in loorup! aud then she sat
mn2uidly down and began to play with
her diamond ring Congressional kec@
ord.
"loung Naturalist isanxious to he in<
formed whether there is ANY significaz
ton in the bark Of Il dog" Son, it the.
dog is strange dog and OF the bull va
riety, and is close up on your rear for
tfcations in Il lonely orchard at mid
night, then YOU may wisely conclude
that his bark contains enough siynifi-
cance to second a motion to ADJOURN
Exchange.
Here, lend us IL hand, somebody
cried good little Billy, struggling to
climb over the back fence to run away
to the circus. And his kind father who
happened to be near and heard him,
came up and lent him hand about the
size of sugar cured ham, sixteen or
seventeen times. And the next time l.e
runs away to the circus Billy will try 20
get along alone.
+ Just before the election an Irish voter
in SAN Francisco told his employer that
he was going to vote against Garfield
because OF the Chinese letter, "DoE't
You know said the employer,
that letter is a forgery
every Intelligent man is satisfied that it
is" "Begorra," replied Patrick, "thas'a
the very reason l can't vote for him.
] can't conscientiousiy vote for aly
man who would write forged letter.
! tArgOnaut,
There was once a very smart man,
| and he met a man who was not smart,
and said to him: "See here. | am AN
awful smart man. l know everything
and can do anything; yet my pocket,
my purse and my stomach are a trinity
of emptincss-thre in one, and Pm she
one while you go clothed in purple snd
fine linen aud have your ribs regularly
adiposed. Now tell me, why is this -
And the man who was not smart an
swered and said he did not know but he
supposed it must he because the market
was overstocked with smart men.
Make your own moral.