St. Landry democrat., 1880-10-09
ALL SORTS.

III is Lflt man W III
| is every inch a king (achlng}.
When were eges first laid IN EDs-
/ land .-In the time OF Hen. l., OF course
! According to the recent census Il'o
growth of Texas exceeds that or any
other State in the Cnion.
| -Frcc5les are not so bad. 1t is sald
one girl does not object to seeing theh
on another girls face.
Five things observe with care; OF
whom you speak, to whom you speak,
how, when and where.
! During the 12 months ending June
! so, 1880, nearly eighty millions OF specie
were imported into this country.
Steam and horse railroads in this
country require 100000 men to labor on
Sunday.
No woman should ever give
plump "No" to an offer OF marriage.
Hold Oh to even poor one and use IL as
bait.
We see that by the latest postal
laws and regulations onions can
be sent by mail at the rate OF one scent
apiece.
Such is the strength of brigandage
in Italy that 5000 rural policemen are
kept on duty in order to make the pr1n-
cipal routes safe for traffic.
Many persons wish for death, when
! it is far Oft but the inclination vanishes
when the boat upsets, or the locomotive
runs of the track, or the measles set in.
A Michigan girl has been arrested
for carrying a revolver. This is right.
No female should be allowed to wear
bangs in her hip pocket.
-Apothecary: "You want this pres
crlption filled, sir, | understand" Pat
rick :"Divil a bit OF it, SUR It's the bot
tie | would have filed"
dad, il it is so ;njurious to smoke,
why don't chimneys get sick and die 2"
The old gentleman merely replied that
| he wished he had a trunk strap handy.
The only newspaper edited and
!
the Montgomery Advance-is Demo-
cratic in politics.
The Texas Pacific Railways main
line will be 1000 miles in length, when
completed. and will also lave 400 miles
of branches.
| -'lIow long shah girls be courted -
asks paper. "Not later than 2 o'clock
in the morning, we think, excepting
when it rains. Cor the old man has the
Some philosopher is of opinion that
the things which arc seemingly tho
most trivial are often worthy OF great
attention. This applies to Il wrinkle in
ones stocking, We believe.
In a trade against education a.
Methodist said: Il thank God for nv
ignorancc:n Bishop Ames lin the cbairl
feplled: llien, brother, you have q
great deal to thank God for.''
An old lady in Texas, says she
could never imagine where all the
Smiths came from until she saw in a
New Engiund town a large sign with
the words-"Smith Manufacturing Com
pany."
| Everything in nature indulges in
amusement. The lightning plays, the
wind whistles, the thunder rolls, the
snow flies, the waves leap and the fields
smile. Even tho buds shoot and the
rivers run.
| When Dr.. H. and Lawyer A. were
walking arm in arm, q Wag said to a
friend "These two are Just equal to
one hlghwayman." "Why 2" asked his
friend. Because, it is lawyer and a
doctor-your money or your life ~
The richest young lady in the IT
5. is Miss Catherine Wolfe, of New
York, and she has just erected home
and lodsing-house for newsboys and
other street arabs. Her millions nnm-
Der about fifteen.
"A California Justice in q moment of
anger, said that the lawyers in a ease
on trial before linn were no better than
horse thieves. Then he apologized. and
fined himself tea dollars for contempt
OF court.
w omen are naturally suspicious,
You may have got a hair on your slonl-
der from holding a six-year old girl. lint
your mOther-in-law will back y0nr
wife in doubling the statement every
} time.
! Teacher with reading class-Boy
(reading): "And as she sailed down tho
river" Teacher-"Why are ships
'she'!7 Boy (precociously alive to tie
responsibilities Of his sex): Because
they need men to manage them. Pom
ular Science Monthly
Rattlesnake poison is now used in
homeopathic medicine it is of a straw
, color, has an acid reaction, and it's Dron.
critics are Psychological. Before the
venom is extracted from under the fano
the snake is chloroformed, and eaci
snake yields about twenty drops of the
, poison.
a bunko swindler was eating q
hearty and expensive dinner at a res
taurant at Lexington, Ark. A farmer
whose last cent he had Just won, en-
tered, and said: you've robbed me OF
all my money, and Pm hungry. Buy
me meal.h The gambler refused
"Then you shan't eat either" cried the
farmer, and shot him.
a man rushed into the office Of the
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