The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1883-11-21
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Old Mother Hubbard
Went to the cupboard.
To get her poor dog bone,
But when she got there
The cupboard was bare,
And 50 the poor dog had none.
She was in great stew
To know what to do,
For of money sic had not cent;
SO sho sold her last suit,
So buy meat fol the brute,
And up town in her night gown she
went.
The ladies who saw it,
And the string to draw it,
Declared it the incest thing out.
So now on the street,
Looking ever so neat,
In their gowns they go rushing about.
The Royal beauties of Europe
owe much of their personal attractive
ness to tie influence of Ayers Hair
Vigor, which keep the hair fresh and
bright
PEARLS are not disease Of the
oyster, says an authority on tbs SUBJ
ject, but little grains of saud which,
becoming encased in the oyster, are f.
nally covered with a smooth deposit,
which is the pearl.
AN old Nimrod down in Texas
fired at a fine buck. This aroused an
other, and the two flew toward each
other under full steam. They collid-
ed, one Of them springing twenty feet
in the air, and then both fell dead.
-THE pretty story Of the dove that
few through a Western church window
and perched on the head of the bride
at the time of the ceremony, losses
something now that it leaks out that
she had had the dove in training for
six months.
-NILLsoN says PATHS voice holds
ont remarkably we'll for woman Of
her age. Patti only hopes she may be
able 10 sing as we'll at Nillson when
she is as old. Gerster remembers the
pleasure both those singers gave her
! when she was a little girl.
JACOB Sanger, of Grant county,
Mo-, while riding a mule by night, be-
: came entanglea in telegraph wire
which had sagged nearly to the ground,
and was thrown by the mule and in
jured. He sued the telegraph compa-
t ny for damages and has obtained a
verdict for $4,000.
--GLANcISG over scrap-book col
$ lectioh of Presidential Thanksgiving
!, proclamations, it is observed that our
country has, for many years, enjoyed
d an unbroken line of t!bountiful-. har-
: vests" Peace has dwelt within our
$ borders, the old turkey gobblers crop
q has been tuii Of fatness. and the "a
l mine wolf las tied before the giblet
$ gravy ana cranberry sauce nightmare.
-IHE husband Of the fat woman il
q said to be ic)nsolable over her death
q Poor man! The law whieh allowed
him to marry one woman of 500 pounds
e does not permit him to wed three OF
g four women of ordinary weight to take
}. her pl CO and maliet life with onl
t, one Or two hundred pounds of wife
o would be lonesome existence com
9 pared with past in which he had en-
II ljoyed such vast matrimonial posses
sions.
= MONEY was urgently needed by a
church at Blanford, Mass, and com
mittee, with the pastor at its head de-
)" vised a novel scheme. A challeng,
y was sent to number Of young men a
a Westfeld to come out and hunt SOUR
u rel all day, and at night eat suppe,
L in the church, the party which het
" killed the least game to pay 81 eacl
re for all the meals served. To the sur
1t plise Of the church members who hat
s joined in the hunt the malksman f.on
s. Wes,f Id | Q t them; but the Spring
W field Republican is authority for tn,
charge that, when it came (, a count
a number of squirrels that had BEEF
shot several days before wero fraudu
lently introduced, SO that the churcl
came out financially victors.
IS 81 have something particulars
say to you, Miss Edith" said Elmer d
/ Garcelone, as he drew himself wher
'. he could watch the freight play i
al her fase. "Well, I've been expectin
$. -somethingof the kind" reptile
q Edith, and she tried to stare a liv
ID coal out Of countenance. "There's
change-come over my prospects-pr
I'd no longer the wealthy Elmer de Ga
e. celone, who paid you court at Saratog
90 the past season. sDon't mention il
I know all. / have determined that
: shall still be true to you" Heaven,