The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1880-02-22
CURRENT HUlMOR.

| Nnnn hia weskit tor a he'd:
IVY thala's yer aky=hlua humha2lne,
I'm sure It's liicet'n any seen,
A sweeping muddy crossings clean,
Wv won't n do to turn the mean
llngenarous "nlI brute
An umbrella Keeps Lent bang! Afial
dark James, get al express wagon md de-
liver him Ia the doctors as "unclalmah.'
Since the fuennista ,Ilapntse,l the Pnnnl-
aeot river has frozen over, aud the lee gather.
ers have harvested n hundred thousand tons
We regret tn annullnra that the old Lent
Jokes 1T Last year are about to he returned
aud without interest. Philadelphia Bulletin
hen doesn't mingle In promlseilolls 81
| claty. ahe has her own exclusive set Itfln.
| pinnati Saturday Night.
Aud sn, hy the way. does tho washerwp,nan
And The line ~ Tie latter Ia the longest
| INuriiatown Herald.
Herbert Spencer avs that many peraona arc
| deferred from reading large books for fear ot
| their size. This suggests that the Bible he
published In Chicago as n serial.
| A st Louis reporter aaya 'Theoflore Jiltou
never emles except with his eyes Perhaps
he complies with the request. Drink to me
only with thine eyes
| When an actress II nineteen she should get
n paragraph W that effect published. and II
| will he going the rounds nf the back country
| weekles ten years later.
i
Father Time Ia married, not because he Is
1 called Father, but haeatlac he la AZ often
taken ny the forolook Andlewa's Bazaar
The poet Tennysan Is worth 81 900 oon and
| we don't 600 what use there was In his writing
| Come not when | am dead They II he on,
| hand. every one of them, when the will ts
| opened. Cincinnati Enquirer.
When white man kills another he Is hung
when q red man commits u murder ha il
taken on a trip to Washington. Detroit Free
Press. Truly the red man has ~ hard time
Of II. keston Fost.
There ia some good in Mark Twain There
Ia one little spot on earth for which he proves
ho has some consideration by refusing to toll
where ha was born bousvile Courier
journal.
There was u cocklight In Windsor last Sun
day and ono ~ tho mon lnet a rooster This
| was hoeause the fight was on Sunday. The
other rooster was not killed, J'hia wns be-
cause- however. we are not to he dragged Into
argument [Danbury News.
No ono knows who Invented the fashion IN
society Of turning down tho corner of 4 vlslt-
ing card but tho fashion III turning down
the corner of n street was first thought OF by
the man who owed a small bill to the trades
man he saw coming. New York Telegram.
Frontier settlers apprehend disastrous
raids from Indians who have entered Texas,
and n band Of fifteen men. snnt To intercept
the Indians. has not been heard from" aaya .
Texas paper 1T seems likely that those mon
have intercepted the Indians.
An old lady, after a long lilo of observation,
remarked that ''she has always noticed that
In the summer time. when II was not needed.
the sun ts always as hot rs All oven, whi y In
tho winter, when tho warm sun would he very
agreeable. ii Ia ns cold aa an leo house,
Mamma -"Well. Johnny ! shall forgive
you thia time and tia very pretty Of You to
write n letter To aay you're sorry" John
ny "Yea. ma: don't. tsar II up pease,"
A T,,I,t 1
will do for tho next time.' Exchange.
Smythekins came In this morning radiant
with IA now pun-nnwi forat,oih IA II there
were pun extant which had not got wet In
tho flood. lle sat down nervously and serib
bled this. "Fo Edison Arc you shoer of sl,r-
eess2 OF c-horse-shoe are.' Even tho errand
boy fainted.-lNew York Evening Mail.
Some of tho papers are making II terrible
blow about u doctor who made nose out Ut n
mans lngers. Just rs II 1t was something
new. The truth Ia, and amy topper will vo,leh
for II. II mans three fingers will soon make u
uoso If ho follows IL up close enough without
any professional aid. Il Des Moines Register
The following message intended to break bad
nowa gently waa eent To tho widow Of n man
who had just boom killed by q railroad acct
dent: "Deay Wndnm Your husband ia una
voidably detained Tor the present. Iomor
row an undertaken will call upon you with tho
full particular" Andrews Baztr.
The editor of the Mount Sterling fKy)
Scorcher the other night had call from 200
masked mnn who requested hIm to publish
their warning against the horse thieves of the
country. He said H. was ngainat his rule to
publish anonymous communications, but he
thought he could make nh exception In this
instance Courier Journal.
A Chinese student mt Andover wrote In n
ladys album the following version OF II we'll
known poem
How doth tho little sting bug
Improve every sixty minutes
All ths day,
90 pickeo W sting bug Juice
From flowers Just got busted.
Mrs. Fanny kemble cllngs 1t Is said to the
ancient dramatic traditions, caring not for
innovations. She was asked lately by Baron
ess Burdett- Coutts If sha had soon Mr.. ir-
wing IN the part Of &hyforh Yes" she said.
II have And what do You think Of the
performance 7" insisted the Baroness. 'In
my opinion" answered Mrs Kenble. "lf
Shakespeare could see 1t he would rewrite the
part