Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1880-02-28
EVERYDAY SrJCERIES.
HALF fare-a muIatrO.

HALF fare-a mulatro.
TIE amount of money man leaVeS
f. the kind of funeral pile his relSslSS
take the most interest in.
AN irish iarrier once sent q bill to .
gentleman with the following item.
"To curing your honor's horse that
diei, Us"
"ART must anchor in nature, "said q
fashionable belle when she slipped and
ss, down in a mud hole and stuck there.
-.IeuJenrMe Herald.
Tar New York Express throws up its
hat and 7hou,s "Ouray for the Indians"
Come, young wan, you ought to be lit
rie Nee ker.-Roct!and Courier.
"GoIXGv "This, saad an auc:lOneer.
holding up well known volume, us
book hy poor and piOus girl OF poor
and pious poems"
"DiCEY, will you take some of thas
Lu,Irr.' Thank you, ma'am; be.
long 10 the temperance sOciety-caut
take anything strong" replied Digby.
GRANT made the greatest effort of his
life al Plt,>burg. He said: 81 am
pretty good on the smoke myself, but
riitshurg beats me. > Wheeling Leader.
a COUNTRY paper makes the follow.
ing correction: Z" For Its a poor mule
that won't work both ways in yester.
days issue, please read, 'It's y poor
rule, ETC."
lr is very difficult to find fault with
Gear little three-year-old wkO buries
his head under The clothes and sings:
Now l lay me Gown to sleep Pop
goes the weasel"
TIE li-ht cf experience has shown,
lis - more fatal, alas,
For man :" clrcle>>y blow in the gun,
Than Ills 10 blow out the gas.
THE betrayed dollar is one that findA
itself no; able 20 pass for more than
ninety cents after it has been stamped
"In God We Trust. ."-Ncw Orleans
Picoyune.
ANOTHER American girl is to marry
robIeman. Why is it that our girls
refuse to support their own countrymeni
There is lack OF patriotism some
where-A.idnta Constitution.
"THIs IS a hard, cruelty hard world"
writes q cynic. Yes, it is, it is; and Of
an lev morning one never knows how
soon he'll lose his footing and como
down on it.
"PRFss me clos" =" said Kate Last eve
lis bliss TO sufiocate"-
With thee I'll suffer, Kate"
"GEr out of this" shouted an irri.
tated merchant to mendacious clerk,
"this is the third lie have caught you
in since ten o'clock this morning" ""Oh,
WELL" said the new man, "dOn't be hard
on me. Give fellow time to learn tNe
rules of the house."
A GREAT many boys and girls fall
desperately in love with each other,
and rave over disappointed hopes, be-
fore they are old enough to tell the
difference between the heartaohe and
the collie. Very few such cases prove
fatal.-SteubcnriHe Herdtd.
A DANBURY man sent q boy with .
bill for seven dollars, to be collected.
The boy got the money and came back.
The man gave him ten cents saying,
"Here's for your trouble" The boy
took the coin aud asked, "Ain't you
going to give me something for my
honesty."-Ddnbury Ne,cs.
HERE is a little domestic.economy
comedy from England: Clergyman
" SO hear you've got married again,
Jacobs" Jacobs" Yes, sur;'I thought
as how winter was coming on, and
Betty, she'd got one blanket, and got
t'other, we might as well make it . pair
and be more comfortable like"
PROSPERITY, as the world goes, is like
bar of hot iron. A great many grab
the thing, and some people finds it too
heavy to hold without splitting on their
hapds.-Osuego Record. We prefer to
souse the iron as sure means to secure
the prosperity--of our hngers-Erratic
Enrique. BE sure to select pig iron il
you wish to make the souse q success.
PHILADELPHIA is the largest wool
manufacturing city in the world, and
on Philadelphia looms more yards of
United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland.
The man gives in charity from hii
superfuity; woman gives when she has
not enough for herself
Pill take the responsibility" as q
dOting father said, when he held ont his
arms for the baby.
THE very latest style of female stock.
fDg is bound way up on the top side
with little band of gold lace, and We
amt married either, and the late wev
spell had nothing to do with it. We saw
EN- on real bona jide l-ine.-NeD
York Disp1tch
THEY met 'tvD In . crowded strssA
Their hearts were in q hutter:
He glanced into her eyes and th6neht
There was no fair rebutSer.
She sent back . responsive smile,
He knew at ence he'd found hsS,
mutual recognition came
And forthwith surrejoinder.
They stroll along the shady walk.
Their beings With fond love elate,
Until they reach the fair ones home
And halt beside the garden gate.
Try not TO par" the maiden sid,
An ancient witt won't calm U.s.
should you essay 70 enter there,
You'd hear the old ss1ndrn,1s"
-keokuk Gaze ONv
OF all the poets who do not look like
poets, Robert Browning may be said TO
look least like master of verse. He is
stout, comfortable, prosaic, and fine look
ing in figure and face: he looks, in
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