The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1875-12-23
OUR. DESSERT.

Bridges seldom outlive their piers.
Queens of Arts-Female graduates.
A girl of in-bread usefulness-Sal-
lyratus.
"BeIles call q great many people to
church.
A man who sells himself cheaply is
apt TO feel cheap.
a b~ald-headed hunter will chase q
hare all day.
A good wife is n good thing, but q
bad husband beats her.
Writing masters, however poor,
are forever lourishing.
1t is all tire same to a hen whether
her egg is lost or mislaid.
\ commercial firm goes up when
its business goes down.
Ii couItship is bliss it does not fol-
low that matrimony is Il blister.
A word to the wise is sufficient.
The idea suggests short sermons.
John Morrissey strikes his oppo-
nents rs being a very strong man.
Ii man thinks he would feel bet
ter of, by all mean let him go off.
Passage to Europe is always cheap
est when people do not wish to 60.
The photographer is q negative
sort Ola man, any way you take him.
A man should keep on good terms
with himself, aud never get mad with
u fool.
''She stoops to Conquer" was writ
ten before the days Of the piu-back
skirts.
What two letters of the alphabet
indicate very cold weather! | G
(cy.)
Why don't Sweden have TO send
abroad for cattle? Because she keeps
her Stockholm.
Set a man down on a red-hot stove
and he will rise like Il ph9niX from
the ashes rise suddenly.
'1hc quality OF mercy is not s,rain-
ed but the Quantity is often squeez-
ed remarkably small.
Goodness would be more popular
if men could understand that it is as
prOItaDIe mere as hereafter.
What is the difference between a
belle and a burglar? The belle carries
false locks and the burglar false keys.
In the State of New York the man
who ties his horse under a shade tree,
also ties him under a penalty of ten
dollars.
Why is coal the most contradictory
article known to commerce? Be
cause when purchased it goes to the
cellar.
Considerate father-"You should
eat Graham bread, my son it makes
bone" "Responsive youth-"H'm-
I'm bout all bones now"
a Russian proverb SAYS: "Beforc
going to war. pray once; before GO
ing to sea, pray twice; before going
to get married, pray three times
A Milwaukee editor has had re-
turned to him Il book borrowed TWEEN
ty-seven wears ago, and begins to
have hopes of humanity after all.
From the journal Of an IIenglish
tourist in America: Talk habour
their Yankee Doodle! Their nation
al toon is the ~spit-toon!'
1t was IN Irish editor who said
that absentees were the curse of Ire
land. and added that his unhappy
country swarmed with them.
"No Dolly" said a little girl to her
china baby as she was going out yes
terday afternoon, Il tant take on
down town id me-'ou amt dot no
pin-back."
"My native city has treated me
badly" said a drunken vagabond,
" but / love her still" "Probabl,,"
replied a gentleman, her still is all
you do love-"
Two old crows which perch on a
tree in Dudley, Mass, every after
noon. and cav until hundreds of 9th
ers are collected, are called Moody
and Sankey.
A wife will hardly aver notice
whether her husband has his hair cut
or not, but let him go home with a
strange hairpin sticking in his over
coat, and she'll see it before he reach
es the gate
We don't know how many daily
papers Rev. Or. Lorrimer takes, but
he stated in a recent lecture: al
there is any II thing for which the
human race is pre-eminent, it is for
profound and solid lying
The maddest man in Wisconsin is
John Leigh, of Oconto. He was a
candidate for member of the Assem-
bly,, and being a conscientious man,
voted for his opponent. who was
elected by iust one majority.
1t is now asserted that the angels
of Heaven are all men. We have to
give up our seats here. and walk off
into the mud, and submit to all sorts
of vanities it looks reasonable that
there should be a change some day.
A milkman was awoke by a wag IN
the night with the nnounccmen that
his best COW was choking. He forth
with jumped up to save the life Of
his animal, when 10! he found a tur-
nip stuck in the mouth of the pump.
A young fellow once offered to kiss
a Quakeress. 'Friend," said she,
"thce must not do it," "Oh! BY
Jove! but l must" said the youth.
"Well, friend, as thee hast sworn.
thee may do it; but thee must not
make a practice of it.
A fond father wrote: at generally
takes twenty years of training to
eradicate the word nice from a wo-
mans vocabulary. The falls of Nj
agara, the Psalms of David and the
progress of the human race were all
nice to my eldest daughter until she
got married"
Ea Foil in Oar