The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1897-12-11
MoOnlisht Idyi.

II was q night that would make a poet
trot out his Tyre, and bring o IL
notes of the most enraptur1ng meiouy'
If he didn't break q string or get the
contents of a slop-jar from an upper
window. It was such a night as would
make lovers delight to walk abroad ana
recline on door steps. talking OF love
and the expense Of matrimoay, till the
old man pops out his turbaned mead
and wells: @Young man, meander, and
gal. YOU 90 to bed!" 1t was a good
night for meditation and chicken roosts,
and n poor one for the body-snatchlng
branch of surgical knowledge. All
nature, including the police, was 10
peaceful repose, except reporters ana
the concert halls on State street. In
a certain locality naught was heard
save the braying Of the faithful watch
dog and the occasional yell OF a street
car driver, as he stirred up the mules,
or whistled a belated huekster OH the
track, or, in plain, square-toed En-
elish, it was a beautiful moonlight
night. and the dog i'll the front yard was
bowling as though the entire seven
devils that left the woman were In him.
The young wife tossed about
~aervously ON her couch, but couldn't
get to sleep to save her. VI
a sudden she would sit bolt up
right in bed, rearrange her back-hair,*
replace her night-cap, give her elbows
q witch, ike a soldier without armst
getting ready to double quick it to
quarters, and then she would flop back
into a horizontal position, bury her
nose in her pillow, and remain as
motionless as a farmer spelling out a
hand-bill, for an interval nearly as long
as it would take the Pride of Bonner to
get around the ring. Then she would
flop over, give a kick, first with one
foot, then the other; then with her
elbow she would jab her husband in
the ribs, and want to know if he was
asleep. If he had been, the probability
is that he was wide-awake at that in
slant. Then she would go back to the
beginning and do it all over again,
winding up by taking out her ear
rings and putting them down on the
floor, where she would be sure to step
on them VIXEN she got up in the morn
ing, giving diversity to the performance
by changing the order, and now and
then introducing a few variations with
heels and elbows, and finally, away long
III the small hours, when the early
milkman was out cursing the cows and
thawing out the pumps she gave a
founder like a fish trying to swim on
with words of honey and tones of vine-
gar.
Hubby, DEAR" with more elbow
jabbing.
What is it, love? % replies the man
of much patience.
i can't get to sleep, dearest, to save
my life;" and if the gas were lighted he
could see that her under lip is droop-
ing.
WELL, that's too bad, hon. No more
can l." replies the man, with resigna-
ton in his voice.
She remains silent for q couple OF
minutes.
Il say, precious"
"What is it, darling?"
I'm, not asleep yet, love-"
"There's two Of us awake, then, nv
dear, says the man, with the veracity
OF tAnortatlon.
Il cant think what makes that dread
full dog keep up such a horrid bowling.
dear. l could go to sleep at once if he
would only keep still and let me-"
More dropping Of the neither lip.
DID you feed him to-day, nv pet ?"
He-with newly awakened interest.
Yes, indeed. precious. III: can't be
hungry;I gave him all he could eat
She-with animation he ghtened bv the
JOY OF her tlloughtfulness.
What did You give him, arling?"
Why. dear, | gave him some of those
boiled dumplings we had left from din
ner. But why do you iua,p out of bed
so suddenly, Herbert, dear?s
why, love, that's what's the matter
with him, and we might as well get up
and read, for we won't get n wink Of
sleep tonight, unless they kill him be-
fore sun-up. You should have told. me
this before, dear, and I would have
went out and shot him, ended his
misery, and got q good nights rest"
The e~ndearing talk came to a sudden
and unceremonious end.
The rest of it was hanging on a chair.
Without his gun.
. Maud S.
Sarcasm for milking.
Chicago Ledger.
A SCIENTIST, lecturing in Philadel-
phia on coal. says it takes a prodigious
amount Of vegetable matter to form a
layer Of coal; that it is estimated that
the present growth of the world would
make q layer only one-eighth Of an
inch thick, and that Il would take
l,0DO,06 years to form q coal bed 100
feet thick. Tie United States has an