Mississippi Democrat. (Hazlehurst, Miss.) 1875-1???, 1875-12-01
0UR CHR BASKET.

There never was but one woman
who didn't believe that her husband
would take q second wife IL she died,
and that woman got killed on the
cars
Another "brilliant wedding" The
young man with q flower on his coat
Ii 10 marry the young woman with
the habit of saying The ds-yah."
A Pennsylvanian named Wlngcrt
cut his toe of because of an aching
corn, and then hung himself because
Of the aching of tho amputated toe.
Patti has So many diamonds that il
takes one man constantly 10 watch
them, either al homo or abroad, and
double care is taken while travelling.
The price Of squaws has declined
on the approach Of winter. One can
now be purchased for seven dollars
in cash and pound Of powder.
Politics In the same all over. The
man who runs for Constable il just
o. soundly abused by the papers as
he man who runs for Congress.
@What does Good Friday mean 7"
asked one schoolboy Of another.
"Yoa had better 60 homo aud read
your Robinson Crusoe," was the
whitening reply.
The Princess Frcderica, daughter
Of the ex-King If Hanover, Is said
90 DO without doubt the most bcauti-
ful princess In Europe. She Is the
devoted companion Of her blind
father.
A Dutch assessor says il Is posi-
lively amusing how cheap property
becomes as he passes up or down u
street II falls soventy-ive per cent.
whenever he enters q house.
IL your horses have the cpiEoot,
Dissolve a teaspoonial Of crystal
chlo~te Of patash in a bucket OF wa
ter, this amount making q morning
dosc for four horses.
Tho Rev. Henry Morton's sermon
on Seventeen Reasons Why Men
Don't Go 20 Church" il likened by
wise people 90 that famous song with
400 verses. Tho first reason why
men don't go TO church n because
they don't want TO, and the seven
teonth reason 10 the same.
Various American artists who
have been living aud working abroad
during the past ten years have ~
turned home, convinced that Amer
can cities afford better market for
their work than all Europe.
The St. Louis Times revives dear
old memories by rcmarking: There
arc young men who cannot hold a
skein Of yarn for their mothers with
out wincing, but will bold one hun
dred and twenty-five pounds Of a
neighboring family Tor the best part
OF the night with patience and do
eility that are corninly phenomenal"
Bdwin Booth has discovered some
thing new, during his confinement
from his broken arm, which he will
introduce into his impcrsonation OF
@lIamlot." Ii il, that in IIamlet's
time no such thing a. velvet was
known, and Hamlet's dress on Booth
hereafter viii be stripped Of velvet.
An old ship, with history, Il 10
be raised from the Sacramento river,
where she has lain for some fifly
years. This Is the bark Globe, 2g3
tons, that sailed on q whaling cruise
from Nantucket 10 the Pacific In DE.
cember, 1922. Her crew mutinied
and murdered Capt Worth and his
officers In 1924, then fed 20 the Mul.
grave Islands, but the vessel was re-.
covered and the mutinecrs taken
back 10 Nantucket and hanged.
A young gentleman lately attend,
cd the circus for the first time. and
on the Sunday following was taken
by his grandmother 90 church. lie
gaEed around In some woDderment
for few moments. When the or,
ganist began 10 play he turned 10 his
grandmother and said s;randma,
will there be q circus, "a can see q
lionfs aWhy, no, Eddie, this II
church" well" replied the little
fellow, I'll Is circus music, anyway"
A young fellow entered n church
and took bis scat, keeping his hat on.
An elder noticing II requested him TO
take II OF. HIS request not being
scmplicd with be spoke 10 the young
man second tune, and seeing he still
hesitated, the elder gently lifted the
hat on. when, 20 his chagrin, out
rolled quart Of hickory nuts, max
ing more noise than was consistent
with decorum. Man." quietly said
tks youth, asee what you have done"