The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1873-02-21
wise and othervise.


MEN Of color--Panters.
No chain is stronger than its weakest link
AN article you can always borrow
Trouble. ,e
The worst thing "under the canopyr
"A musketo.
YEsTEp interest," Money in the waist.
coat pocket.
He who foresces calamites, suffers them
twice over.-Porteus.
BE not the fourth friend Of him who had
three before and lost hem.--Lapase.
Duties fulfilled are still recognized as a
debt, for wholly enough is never done.
Resi- satisfied with doing we'll, and leave
Others to talk Of you as they please
Pgitagoras.
EVERY base occupation makes one sharp
in its practice, and dull in every other
Sir P. Sydney. a sf
We cannot control the evil tongues of
Others, but q good life enables us to despise
them .--Cabo. t ao
HAPPY is he who knows how to place the
lamp of the past so that its beams shall
light up the future course. 5
A YOUNG fellow, fond of talking, remarked.
am no prophet. True, replied a la5y
present, no profit yourself or any one else,
/ RISE for information, said member of
legislative body. | am very glad to hear it,
said bystander, for no man wants it more.
Why is coal the most contradictory
article known to commerce Because, when
purchased, instead of going to the buyer it
goes to the cellar. s''''
No MAN is admitted to Georgia prayer
meeting until the presiding elder searches
him for concealed shot guns and carving
knives. Mss7E a5f ~ jioa wgs i9
WONDER whittier these clouds are goingi
said a poetic contributor TO o magazine
editor pensively as she pointed with her
delicate finger to the heavy masses that
foated in the aky outside the editors
window. ! think they are going to thunder,
said the editor.
A WITNESS being called upon TO give evil
dence in court of Connecticut, respecting
the loss OF shirt, gave the following:
"Mother said that Ruth said that N ell said
that Poll told her that she see man that
see a Roy that run through the street with
a shirt all checked, checked, checked and
our gals won't lie, for mother has whipped
them thousand times for lying" haea
A PRACTICAL joke was once attempted to
be played ON Erskine as he went one day
to Westminster Hall, with his ample bag
crammed full of briefs. Some waggish bar
rister hired Jew boy to and ask him If he
had any old clo' to sell. "No, you little
Hebrew imp" exclaimed the indignant
counsellor, "they are all new suits r
A WOMAN once called upon Alderman
Binns in great haste, and being quite indig-
nant at an expression which had been used
to her. addressed him thus Alderman,
Mrs. Shocks, my next door neighbor, called
me thief. Can't / make her prove it2P
"Well, said the alderman, after moments
deliberation, "you can, but you,had better
not y s89 e ~ gs1 ea3 " ,sa WV
AS canal boat was passing under q
bridge, the captain gave the usual warning,
l.Look outp when little Frenchmau, pop
ping bis head out Of the window, received
severe Ihump. He drew it back in great
pet and exclaimed "Dese Americans are
queer people. Dey say look out when
dey mean look inn nras a4' iH@'a oaf
A oRANMARrAN corrugated the heat in
somewhat the following style "Hot, hot
ter, hottest hottentot, hottentoter, hotten-
totest hottentotissimo, hottentotissimus1
hot as an oven, hot as two ovens, hot as
four ovens, hot as h-Twell, as seven ovens"
How pleasantto contemplate such weather.
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MERIrED PROMOTION. u. d. Frost'
for many years Superintendent Of the
Mississippi Central Railroad Company and
for the past two years General Superintend-
ent of the Southern Railroad Association,
has been recently promoted to the Vice
Presidency of the latter. The Holly
Springs Reporter, in commenting upon this
deserved promotion, very properly says:
aThis is deserved compliment to one
ofthe most popular, efIiciept and jealous
railroad men Of the country. While we
regret ofcourse, theremoval Of Col. F. from
the immediate control Of the lines of the
Association, we.caa butrejoice at his pro-
motion TO position to which his super
eminent abilities fit him. The erecent action
, Of the Directors Of the Association Is also
high compliment to the State which claims
coi r. az ma ~ her worthieet citjzens.z-1