St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1880-10-23
ALL SORTS.


ner, is Ass, $685. 800.
An Indian sqaw sometimes MAKES 2,
her lords wig wig-wa'm.-[Cincinnat oa''
urday Night.
A man who is always hunted by the
Sheriff may be chased althongh no' a'
philosopher Jenkins says: IL d
woman can't love a man for MS VlrIueS
she will adore him for his cusedness.
Did Won ever think that men are
the biggest fools in creation, ana tnaC
the women enjoyed the tun OF le''ins
them remain UNCONSCIOUS or IL:
The y. B. on Boston mans cara
of invitation to dinner means NO NO
Beans The, stomach must therefore
be appeased by other delicacles.
Iowa has 1,745,149 cattle, 694.794
horses, 356, 1856 sheep, and 2,466, ,9oo swine;
Iowa being a good corn State, Is hoteo
for it's hogs.
The young lady who married man
employed in a bank applied tor al-
vorce when she discovered that 1t was a
sand bank.-keokuk Gate City.
Miss Dickinson is for Garfield, and
Miss Kellogg for Hancock. But doesn't
this seem to divide the vote OF Louise
Anna ?-Andrews' American Queen.
After all other varieties of fish were
created, Nature had two quarts OF
bones left, and in order to make use OF
them she built the shad and told him to
get.
No matter how poor people are
nearly every one can afford to keep d
pair of hOrseS-one for clothes ana thc
other for wood.-Baltlmore Every Sat
urday
The French lady who said to her
maid Nine o'clock . ! must begin to
undress for the ball." understood the
true inUardness of modern fashionable
dressing.
A South End man asked Il one-armed
organ grinder it he was a survivor OF
the late war, and the organist reglled:
Hang it, do act as though [ was
killed in it."-[ Boston Transcript.
A man |caped from third story
window, in Philadelphia, to escape from
but that was nothing he said to what he
would have suffered if he hadn't jumped
Tile Womans' Rights Society re-
Gently discussed the que, ION: when a
man and woman are matse one, which
one is 1.-THE man or the woman ~
The debate is said to have been very
brilliant, though not very conclusive.
The wise man of the buffalo E1-
press thus sagely moralizes Cruelty
to any living creature shows q bad
heart. The boy who delights in tortur-
ing wasp with pin will surely come
to some bad end if the wasp has a fair
show III It's business movements"
Among the languages Of civilized
nations English is the most widespread.
1t is the mother tongue of about S0,000,-
600 people; German Of between 50,00O,-
| 900 and 60,000,000; French, of between
100000 and 50,000,OOO; Italian; of 49,
600 and 60,000,000.
1t is astonishing how completely
some people can be absorbed in their
own thoughts. A prominent Galveston
candidate who gives up the whole of his
mind politics met Il church Der, who
remarked that his church had just got q
new organ. II hope it will support the
regular nominees" was the absent
minded repiy.-GalvestOn News.
The Galveston News tells of fond
mother who nearly died with fright
when she was told that something aw-
! full had happened to her son. When
I ,,,fo hot In Ia.
note she subduded her shrieks and said:
"Is that all ? I thought he had been
eating peas with knife"
! ''That rule is poor is n saying
THAT will not work both ways
The simplicity of its working
Commands the highest praise.
| The application is human,
! And rules in every house:
| For mouse is afraid of Il womalt
And woman is afraid of mouse.
-Hackensack Republican,.
One of our country cOntemporaries
in his thirst for knowledge, makes the
GLOWING reasonable request: "The
writer of the anonymous communica-
tion sent to us last week will please
send us his name. Not for publication,
but simply to let US know who the man
topublish such lot OF bosh. - City Item.
1t has become so common for women
to be valarOus against burglars, that
husbands of irregular habits, on enter
ing their homes unsteadily at night are
in danger Of personal injury. Within
a few days a man has been shot by his
wife for burglar at Peoria. one at
Nashville was stunned with club, and
one at Washington had his nose broken
with a chair.-Agents' Herald.
-"Doctor,r said "a lisping fashionable
belle who had graduated at half dozen
boarding schools, to a friend of ours
who had just been introduced to her at az
evening party-"which do you prefer
tholidity of intellect OF brilliantly
Thum admire tholidity but ath for me
ath Shakthpeare thayth in his Bride OF
Abydoth.'I prefer tholidity and bril-
lianthy combined The doctor sanl
into tho nearest chair exhausted, an(
the would-be bride still Abydoth il
!, single blessedness.
The Galveston News has the follow
S ing anecdote "How is your son comm.
$ on - ooh, ! am having a power o
4 trouble with him" whats the matte
4 now ?" "Well, you know, | couldn'
send him to school, because thanks t,
Governor Roberts, there are no fire..
schools, and could not afford to sen.
t him to private school," eyes, | know
: that is so.' "Well, | sent him ava,
4 from Galveston to the frontier, and, a
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