The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1886-01-09
HUMOR.

hOAuV1S
A COW has two lips, but cowslips and
tulips are not at all similar Merchant
Traveller.
A CYCLONE is like a waiter. Tt car
ries everything before it.-CarI Pret-
GETS Weekly.
A RESTAURANT patron, like a dead
eagle, is measured from tip to tip"
-Barbors' Gazette.
WHEN the heart is full the lips are
silent; when the man is full it is differ
ent.-TeroS .SJtings.
II isn't to be relied upon that every
pharmacist won make good farm
assistant. -YOnhers gazette.
"BE it ever so humble, there's no
place like home" sing the disappointed
otficeseekers. Brookhy7t Times.
GATHER wisdom by oren ears and
eyes, and 1t thy mouth be an exemplar
of the early closing movemcnt.-Bar-
Jers' Gnzettc.
THE longest word used in Eliot's In
dian Bible IS etappesittukgussun
nookwehtunkquoh. 1t makes a first
CLASS clOuIicS l'He.-St. HNt HeTutu-
A $ IENTIsr studied geology,
Hl7 wife studied pIlco1 olJgy.
Their chIidrtu d.. ST
1IiObIt ald the r:St.
but wi, hook and In learn ichthrology
-lonH' fonbu"tof.
DIR. WARArNS theory explains ti.>
anX .ety If some people to reach the
pole. Who can blame man for want
ing to get back to Eden?-St. Paul
Herald.
The new Bible expression, 20 sheol,"
may do for the clergy to eApatiate
upon, bat It can never b. recalled Ike
the old %urd when Il man Uses hi,
thumb. tC~ u w-driyer.-NelU
man Itaepende1t.
"ARE you going for business or
pleasure?' sad a gentleman to his
friend about to depart for Paris. For
pleasure. -. cs your wife accompany
you?' Il to, yoI l was going for
pleasure. "-LoatOn Post.
A SCIENTIST says that the number of
stars seen by t4e naked eve is not moro
than l,JU0. All the same, there are
occasions when man is willing to
wager that he saw 40, 600, 900. 900 stars
with the naked eye-to say nothing OF
few million comets and meteors.-
NOITistOUn Herdid.
AFTER an enthusiastic lover spends
two hours hard labor over letter to
his girl, and then mars its beauty by
spilling drop OF ink on it, he first
swears III d scientific manner for u few
minutes, and then draws Il circle round
the blot and tells her it is kiss, and
she, poor thing, believes it.
Cali AZ ua," said The man to the grocer
You must call some othet day.
4 And the sIocer quietly folded The bill
.. mn" g. ,ntlY stole away.
Now, wond, r.. thought the grocer,
e Il, he bustei and cannot pay
He certainly seems TO be honest;
1t $ too bad to lie that way.
The grocer went with his wife that night
To s. Il tHo-Sllliing play,
r And in the ave- dollar private box
Sat The man who could not pay.
-IOtetO 1urFtcda.
HER SILENCE.
She moves in myster. .ons way
Ignoring callers, d.sy b, day:
With tlrm resolve and solemn face
With quiet air and Queenly grace
Following up each irm endeavor,
Seldom couv crsing-Sm milling never.
Her meals she cruncheS All alone,
what. think yOd, ma. itS til = maiden fatr
Move with sa and solemn air?
w by does she never sinile again
On aught IN RANGE # mortal ken?
ts Ask OF her dentist, he can tell
he underst andS hes reason well:
He knows what all her rriefs about
Hs All her front teeth have been pulled out!
s-ChtcdpO II .tG .Nn.t.
Brown BREAD.