The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1893-10-21
VII N WISDOM.

who is an enemy to himself KAN S
Horn.
A foul spot is soonest discerned in
the fairest cloth.-Rest Islander.
Many a fond parent does not go to-
sleep until after the bawl is over
Boston Globe.
When the suspicious man sees a bal
loon sailing away toward the clouds he
is justified in thinking there is some
thing up.-Troy Press.
Actress wonder what ! shall do
this season to keep myself before the
| public. Sister Actress-Why don't You
try acting:-Washington Star.
The fool speaks glibly from a vast
| and V aried inexperience, but the wise
man holds his tongue from fear of tell
ing all he knows.-Rest Islander.
This poor one thing do-instead
| of repining at it's lowness or its hard
ness-I will make it glorious by my SUI
preme loyalty to its Acknowledgement.
AS the sword of the best tempered
! metal is most flexible, SO the truly gen
erous are most plant and courteous III
their behavior to their interiors
Fuller.
Another lie nailed murmured
the lawyer as he looked at the Back in
20 minutes sign he had just fastened
to his office door, and then departed for
the races.-Buffalo Courier.
-Proprietor-What in the world is
the porter rushing through the halls
calling Fire. fire. for. Clerk-So the
guests will forget to grumble about
having none in their rooms.-Inter
Ocean.
Shelf can hardly be questioned
that every woman is more or less of a
mind-reader. He-Do you think you
could read mine? Shield rather not.
Mamma is a little particular as to the
character of my reading. Boston
Globe.
The Boy Knew the Men-'Johnny,"
said his teacher, IF your father can do
a piece of work in seven days, and
your Uncle George can do it in nine
days, how long would it take both of
them tie do it??' They'd never get it
done" said Johnny. They'd sit down
and tell fish stories. philadelphia
Record.
lllCIC - CaiNC any ioIAy "a NASS
more epidemical among the sons of
men than that ridiculous and hurtful
vanity by which the people of each
country are apt to prefer themselves tC
those of every other, and to make their
own customs, and manners and opin'
ions, the standard Of right and wrong,
of true and false. The Chinese man
darins were strongly surprised. and al
most incredulouS, when the Jesuit.
! showed them how small a figure theil
empire made in the general map Of thu
world Lord Bolingbroke.
A cLosE GALA whisper.
II summer the fat man may be styled
very warm friend.
: "THE hammock fell with me last night.
"W as Jack hurt!'-Life.
IF brcvity is the soul Of wit. all we win
are short oushtto be very jolly.
/ JoHSN1E-"Papa. when you set the hel
, on picked eggs will she hatch out picked
chickens!"- Harper's Young People.
2 4 TABLE acrobat-The lumber.
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: IT isn't the illiterate man who makes IN
mark in journallsln.-Buffal Courier.
e 4 FALLEN meteor has a very downcast aE
$ pearance III its w hole in the ground
P~icayune.
T III world, unlike other great wheels. a
ways rolls over the man who lags behind il
) Galveston News.
NOTWITHSTANDING its prevalence, the tor
nado will never become popular as u III
tional air. st. Pau Pioneer Press.
WE doubt if the ignoramus often referre
to said: Il will drown, nobody shall hel
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