St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-06-08
MISCELLANEA
Goes round on tick-The clock,
Down in the month TIL

n Cultivated eaf-An ear OF corn.
| A strong attachment-The constables,
The cobbler's motto-"Never too late +
mend"
1t takes strong man to hold his own O,
sea voyage.
Everybody sticks out his tongue at it
The postage stamp.
A picture in your imagination is, o
| course, enclosed in frame of mind.
The Washington market poultry. raiser
contemplate the formation of Cochin club
"What do you do in school now vii
lieT ''Wish | was out of it, most of tn.
time"
When corn pops it gets ghastly white
1t is much the same way. with bashfu
young men.
An old salt who saw an incubator worl
for the first time said it was the most won
derful hatchway he ever saw.
There is difference between the lips O
young man and the lips of young wo
man, but sometimes it is a very small one
How the masses in our cities can be til,
most effectually reached with the Gospe
is engaging thought of earnest, intelligen
Christians.
Cities receive the largest proportion anc
the most immoral elements of immigration
and sin of every species luxuriates in thes,
centers of life.
The following conversation took place
in an otice-"Did you ever realize any
thing in the German lotteries {" Yes
sir. tried five times, and realized that
was an idiot"
81 married for love-" said one 81 mar
ried for money, l admit" said another
"What did you marry for, aunty?" 81
married forever, and that's what precious
few do nowadays. y Western Rural ana
american .&ockman.
blowing twice and other labor. This is
generally admitted to be the cheapest
method of increasing the vegetable matter
and the fertility OF soils in common farm
ing. And this, it will be seen, requires
some little capital. - North Carolina
Farmer.
Ii you would be charitable, gather help
less orphans. Surround them with some
thing of loving and defending father
hood and motherhood. Give them food,
clothing, warmth, shelter for the body and
instruction for the mind, and carry them
to Jesus.
Such an institution in Dallas would do a
land office business, in fact be "a thing of
beauty and a joy forever" What enter
prising citizen of Dallas will conf a favor
and start up factory as suggested? The
Rerleao guarantees him ste ady job.-Dal-
las RevieU.
A perplexed German tailor, who had
made garment for a youth, aud found
hims elf unable to dispose of the surplus
which appeared when trying it on de
clared vociferously that "De coat is goot
It's no fault of de coat. De boy is too
slim. "-Presbyter5an Journal.
l love young man who is straig ht-
forward. Ask for what you want If you
wish to marry rich mans daughter, or
borrow five hundred dollars from him, ask
him for it it amounts to the same thing
in the end It is always better to aston
ish man than it is to bore him. -Burdette
Very many. if not most of the crosses
and troubles which men experience in this
world are those which never come to them.
As to crosses, the bitterness is usually
lost in the bearing, while troubles antici-
pdLCu dlC OllCu uCdF1SI Idu IIOsc IlCu
actually come to US. ''Never cross bridge
before you come to it, is safe rule to
follow.-Sabbath Recorder.
Kentucky paper advocates starting
canning factory, the product of which
would be canned croakers ;" that is, for
every town to send their croakers to the
factory to be put in cans and Theoretically
sealed. There are enough here in this
city to glut the market and keep the fac
tory employed year.-Lynchburg i'd
rance.
Marion, rejected Mr.. Darringer last
evening" 'Why, Kate?" "He was en-
tirely too profuse." Impossible A lover
couldn't be-" "And he was as gushing
as he was voluminous. He praised my
eyes, hair and complexion. He" ooh,
Kate, that was just lovely" 'fBut his
grammar, Marion. That was the hidden
reef which wrecked him. He said Your
eyes u.s." and all that. Goodness ! ex-
pected him to say "Your nose are love
him, and it makes my heart ache to think
about it-but can never marry him. No
never. "-Dstroit Free Press.
If parents were to encourage their child
rem to pay more attention to the reading of
newspapers by subscribing for and taking
one or more of them into the family, they
would soon discover how much faster the
children increase their stock of knowledge.
Books soon become monotonous to the
child, while the newspaper is fresh every
day aud week. and is looked for as prom
ised present The home paper is the poor
mans library, and tie childrens font of
knowledge. Any man can save enough in
one month to supply his family with read
ing matter, in shape of newspaper for
one year.
1t is related of clergyman, who was
the father of a charming and beautiful
daughter, that one day, while preparing
his Sunday discourse, he was suddenly
called away from his desk on a mission of
mercy. So imperative was the summons
that he left unfinished this sentence: II
never see young man of splendid phys-
que and the promise OF glorious manhood
almost realized but my heart is filled with
rapture and delight" His daughter hap
pening to enter the study, saw the sermon
and read the words Sitting down, she
wrote underneath "Them's my senti-
ments, papa, exactly. "-Boston 1ra0eIer.
The war against the grasshopper plague
has begun in real earnest in Minnesota
Probably the first thing done will be to
plow the land wherever the eggs are
found It is estimated that there are five
thousand acres on the Perham prairie
which will require this treatment. Last
wear nothing was done until the hoppers
Matched, when a reward of 81 bushel
was paid for catching them, and in this
wav over seventeen thousand bushels were
eau ht. Colonel Dawson, OF perham' mas mas
samples of the eggs and parasites. Inc
latter are very numerous wherever Inc
eggs are to be found. The Cletherall
prairie, which is about thirty miles from
Perham, which was afflicted last year
will also be plowed and treated IN the