St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1881-09-10
VOICES OF THE NIGHT.


Ere lamps 60 out. my wife doth call:
"Remember dear, to wind the clock.
When boots are of, and for the day
All irksome cares seem put to rout,
I hear wife's voice from dreamland say
'.Be sure you put the kitten out"
When stretched between the sheets I lie,
And heavy lids have ceased to wink,
From trundle-bed there comes cry:
al want dwirki want a dwinkr y
Gentlemen in Waiting-Credit-
ors.
An exquisite young lady calls an
OK male cow"
Many man who thinks himself
a great gun is nothing more than a
big bore.
When a young man wants to pro-
tect young LAZY he naturally puts
his armor round her.
A schoolboy says that when his
teacher attempts to show him what
is what" he only finds out which is
switch.
Teacher: "What is the de6ni-
ton of EirtatioH ?" Intelligent
young pupil: III Is attention with
out intention"
a young lady in Wisconsin re-
fused an offer of marriage on the
ground that her father was unable to
to support large family.
When you find that a man is
smarter than you are, call him u
conceited puppy and a fool. 1t will
ease your mind aud won't hurt him
any.
Salt water bathing being injurious
TO the hair, elderly fair ones at the
watering places usually lay aside
their locks before starting to the
bath.
"Your meal is ready sir" said the
waiter 70 Hayseed, just from the ru-
raj districts. "Meal think I'm q
boss? Get me some corned beef
and cabbage, young man."
Young lady: "Is there anything
that will remove a moustache from
a girls lip?" There is. An ugly
old man will sometimes yank it
away and sling the owner over the
fence. But it will come there again,
you bet"
Elderly lady st Long Branch:
I'VE do not bring our jewelry to
the seaside, although we have q lot
at home" Louisa: "Neither do
We, although we have whole store
full at home; and some OF the tickets
will not be up for two weeks yet"
"You old vulture, you!" she ex-
claimed, when he limited that five
bonnets a year we're enough for any
woman. Next day, when he re-
Tented and told her to order sixth,
it would have made an angel smile to
hear her sweetly call him Birdie,
The manner in which the lah-de-
dab young men of the period
uncover the billiard-ball sized knobs
that stand to them in lieu of heads
when meeting ladies, can only be
equaled in grace by the. financial
secretary of an organ-grinder when
he removes bis head-covering for
the purpose of making an assess
ment.
On Coney Island verandah the
other day three hundred or more
Brooklyn gentlemen were prone
nading with as many Brooklyn
ladies, when some wag yelled,
"Look out, your wife's coming!"
Thirteen couples continued PRONE
mailing. The others slid around the
back way and took the first train.
A clergyman at the Worcester
Assizes, in the trial of a case that
related to the soundness of a horse,
was asked by a brow-beating bar
rister: "Pray, sir. do you know
the difference between a horse and
a cow" II know, SIR" replied
the clergyman, ''the difference be-
tween a bull and bully; the one
has horns and the other with a bow
to the barrister) luckily for me,
has none."
A promising youth recently sur
prised his father by asking:
Father, do you like mother?"
"Why, yes; of course "And she
likes you?" ''Of course she does"
Did she marry you because she
loved your" Certainly she did"
The boy scrutinizei bis patent close
lv. and after long pause asked: