Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1880-06-05
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music but they hook too many bars.
CAN any one improve his condition by
wAini:.g? Ii no., whine not.
" Ny bard II is Light" remarked the
Ii tie man CARRYING a big torch in the
procession.
WE are told that liars shall not pros
per, vet Jules Verne has made $25O,00O
ont of his original books.
"IoU'IE a man after nv own heart"
as the blu>hing maiden confessed when
her lover proposed marriage.
ITs twice as much work to spade up
ground for garden purposes Is it Is to di:
il over for bait
JUDGISG from the tone Of the Chi
cago papers the II. Louis girl is Obliged
TO go up stairs sideways.-Danoufy
N.Ws.
TAKEN together all the beauties OF
art and nature do not begin to interest
the lnduisitivc female 50 much as the
view she gets through keyhOle.
"PLEAsE to understand" said the
honorable Billy, the other day, m
not such Il fool as look" No" said
Dun, lIil N'uii bt too uiuNh'
4 MAN has invented a chair which can
be adjusted To- so different positions.
1t is dc>igncd for boy 10 sit in when
having his hair cut.
I. "THEY have women tramps out IN
Iowa." and soon they'll lie monopollzine
that business, and poor man will lie
obliged to work for living.-OH C"y
Ierrict.
A New JERSEY colorcd man, whose
wife had left him, said: "She would
come back if l frowed her some sugar;
but | amt frowin' no sugar, do you
heah?
Ir is time.honcred custom in
Quincy, Fla, TO saiute newly married
couple 10y firing 4 cannon. This is to re-
mind those present that the battle Of life
has fairly begun.
WHEN boy falls and pecls the skin
off his nose the first thing he does is te
get up an yell. Whena girl tumbles and
hurts herself badly the first thing she
does is TO get up and look at her dress
~ DON'T wish to say anything again''
the individual in question" said 4 very
polite gentleman, "but would merely
remark, in the language of the poet
that to him truth is stranger than fic'
tion."
THAT was a triumphal appeal of the
lover of antiquity, who, in arguing the
superiority Of old architecture over the
new, said: "Where will you find any
modern Luilding that lasted SO long az
the ancient?'
THE Whitehall Times is mean enough
70 tell this: "When the professors AT
Vassar College desire the young ladies
to be good, and prepare to become
angels, they tell them that all female
angels are permitted to slide down Oh
sunbcams.'
A YOUNG man in Maryland started
out with horse and lance and battle-ax
to champion damscls in distress. He had
not gone five miles when red-headed
school, ma'am pulled him off his steed
and rolled him in the mud.
WHEN young and tender school girl isn't thinl.
ing,
Ol the tine when she will he allowed To vote,
The chances are that she is coyly blinking.
COyly blinking
AT sonic young man In a zebIa oveIcoat,
OvercsIt.
-N,w Harm Register.
A YOUNG gentleman in a lager beer
restaurant up town is known to be in
love and to have given up eating. A
sausage being placed before him the
other day, he was seen to toy with il
awhile. and when he was asked what he
was doing he said he was carving her
name on the bark.
The mule sio.i on his OF fore leg,
hence all but him had fed,
Ard kicked a fierce gun cot on keg,
Right oD its bottom head.
The keg II hurst with grievous sound,
The mule, oh! where was hef
! Go ask him, for he stood his ground,
' ''' ~B,ootlya Eagh
"PA, will you get me pair of skates
IL prove that dog has ten tailsv'
ayes, nv son." "Well, one dog has
one more tail than no dog, hasn he p
ayes" "Well, no dog has nine tails;
and if one dog has one more tail than nc
dog, then one dog must have ten tails.
Hand over the skates, please"
Ir is wonderful what fools boys are.
A charming widow of our city owns q
nice bov. and a man from st. Paul wants
to be appointed deputy father to the
lad. 1t was only last Sunday that while
tie st. Paul man was strolling down
Chestnut street with the lad, he asked
"Bub. does your mamma bang her hairf'
and that foolish hoy answered, 80, no.
but you ought to see her bang dad''
head. Guess the minister didn't know
everything when he told pa to prepare te
die Prepare! why he was aching tt
die"