The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1880-04-01
CURRENT HUMDR,

a SUNDAY school scholar was requested to
learn Matthew XIV. ID ID, when he astopished
the teacher by jumping up with the exclama-
ton: "Oau't be done; 'tant In the blucksr
NJ, aged four (her kitten being dead. M:
HAS pussy gone to Heaven, pnpaY p: "No,
darling" M: why not2' P: "rhey don't
want cats in heaven M: would they
scratch the angesr
A Berlin dispatch says that Prince Bismarck
has sprained his arm. The Injury ts not seri-
Gus, but painful. We thought the Chancellor
would get hurt If he didn't use smaller beer
mug Syracuse Herald.
Fifty thousand women are needed in Ari-
IONA at once, and no questions asked.-TNew
Haven Register. Then they won't go. They
want to elugrate to place where there'Il be
one question asked Boston Post.
A Scotch child, six and a half years OF age
when repeating his prayers, objected to mako
the usual petition to God to bless him and
make him q good boy, iustifylug himself by
saying, "No, wanna; / asked Him already,
and He dldna' dot"
The Chinese are tirst-rate cooks. They I'M
derstand the que-u-inary art. Yes, dear;
that's just what | said-they understand the
Coo!l-nary art. Yes. Peter, you're right;
they dress In summer clothes In winter time
that Is what | ssid-they understand the
cool-an' airy art Andrewss Queen.
An article upon the human figure says that
"the proportions of the figure are six times
the length of the feet" Coming generations
Iady's shoe, will remark incontinently:
There were giants In those days." and mem
tally reconstruct q race OF women ten feet
tall.
When q Toledo man wants to get new hat
for an old battered one, he goes to hotel and
just before dinner let's some one with O new
hat see him fold up q $40 bill and put 1t under
the leather OF his hat to improve the tit. and
then be leaves his tile on tho rack while he's
dining and when he comes out It's gone, and
the new one Is in place of 1t, and later In the
day a man who has had trouble for trying to
pass SO bill Is looking for some one to kick
him for blamed ass.
young mother. despairlng Of ever teach
and thinking that perhaps the child knew
more than she would admit, said, Now,
Kate. won't try to teach you to-day; you
shall be mother, and shall teach me my let
said Katie. "Yee, my darling" Lets be-
gin them" was the response. "You have
been q very good child to-day, and you may
have whole holiday and Katie shut up
the book and ran off laughing.
Scene: Smokipg-room of the Rally Club.
Time, midnight. DrGmdtis PERSONA. Brown
and Robinson. Brown "a happy bachelor:
"Wai-taw! Another of those sixpenny cigars,
and just one more-as before, you know.
x Yes, Robinson, rs | was say ing, a
truly shocking state of affairs that over In
Russia. Terrible fellows, those NhiIists.
The poor Gar; why, It's bad enough to be
shot at In the street. but, by Jove. you know,
things are come, to a pretty pass when one Is
blown up In ones own housed" Robinson "a
much married man): "Ah my dear fell
(looks at his watch; sighs rises, and pre-
pares to depart home). The Gar of Russia
Is not the only man who Is blown up In bis
own house" (Sighs again, exit. Curtain).
The typical American of the highest order
will-so the English journal Of Science tells
| us-be In the near future a union Of the coarse
and fine organizations tn" soltdity of the
German, the fire Of the Saxon, the delIcacy
OF the AmerIcau-sensitive, impressible,
readily affected through the avenues of in
| tiuence, but trained and held by will of
steel; original idiosyncratlc, learned 10 this
that he knows what not to do with more of
witness than OF excess In strength and
achieving his purposes not 50 much through
the absolute quantity OF his force as in It's
| adjustment and concentration.