The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1894-09-15
PlTH AND 0bikT.

One strawberry doesn't mako :
shortcake.-Truth.
-Whines and licl<ers 60 together
Rural New Yorker.
A working majority is the only kind
to be depended upon.-Chicago Herald.
Some folders can play u tune on
one string, but it never makes any body
want to dance.-Ram's Horn.
-.'They say that for an old bachelor,
Jones Is putting good deal of ire
into his courtship." That's natural.
He is sparkling an old flame."-N. Y.
Press.
Snow, professor, what do you really
mean by small talk?'" Prof. Grim
''That which causes large trouble" -
Truth.
What lovely white chip hat that
was your wife had on to-day. BagleyV'
Eyes. And it took the price of five blue
chips to pay for it, - Brownings
Monthly.
I'VE have caught our defaulting
bookxeeper,' said one merchant to an
other. ''Then he is now spotted
adder" replied the lattcr.-Pittsburgh
Chronicle.
A Matter of Scarcity.-Sentiment
Maiden-''Oh, what is SO rare as day
in June?'' Her Practical Beau--''A day
TIVE eight."-Arkansaw Traveller.
-Disobeying Fashions Decree
Fannie-''Have you ever felt tie pinch
of poverty?'' Nanny-''No. What is
it like?'' Fanny-"Nenrine your old
silk dress with the tight Sleeves
Judge.
-''Chinner is a great tallxer. isn't
hep" HE is 'Wouldn't you like to
know as much as he lSnows?'' ''Well.
1,,,f T RI fs,1
as much as he thinks he knows. N.
y. Press.
Who taught the natives of the
field and wood to shun their poison
and to choose their food-prescient,
the tides and telnpests to withstand:
build on the wave, or arch beneath the
Mrs. Slabs-''I see it says here thai
insanity in every country is more prev
alent among unmarried men than mar
ried persons!'' Mr.. Slabs-''Yes; that
proves that marriage brings people to
their senses. '-Hallo.
Old Soal-''I believe. to a certain
extent. in the theory of the transmit
grasion of souls: but it is belief that
causes me untold misery How SOP.
Old Soak-''Because of the chance I
run of becoming fish. '-Brooklyn
Life.
-Teacher-''I suppose. Mr.. Lein-
stein, you want your son to learn
arithmetic. addition. subtraction and
the rest?" Mr.. Leinstein-''Eell. he
wants to learn blenty Of addition. hut a
very leetlc subtraction Will do."-Hrcok-
lyn Eagle.
The Tables Turned. --''What's the
matter. Tom? You haven't been your
self for three days. well, the truth
is Dodgers gave us such good dinner
on Tuesday that I ate without think
ing, and since then I've been thinking
without eating. Bazaar.
-Jinks-''Do you put your flannel
shirts away in camphor to keep the
moths away?' Winks-'No: ] just
have them washed Jinlss-''Hovv
will that prevent the moths getting
into them?'' Winks-''Why, they arc
small the moths can't find them
lnter-Ocean.
Jack. you must stop quarreling
with Jimmie Thomas said Mr.. Hicks.
''Well. 1 was right said Jack. Il
don't believe it, - said Mr.. Hicks. ''What
his papa knew more with his little fin
ger than you did with both hands. -
Harper's Bazar.
Why He Evaded Her. What
makes you always go home by a back
street?' inquired a young man of GINS
De Smith: sit is several blocks out Of
your way II know that. but my best
girl lives on the avenue, and I do that
to avoid her." ''Why do you want to
avoid her?" ''Why. if she saw me go
ing home to my meals twice day she
might get sick of me. Seeing me only
twice a week keeps up her interest. you
court. Texas Siftings.