The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1876-08-17
OUR DESSERT.

The baby's little ~game-Bawl.
A place for reaection-The mirror.
hsummery measnre-The thermom-
eter.
Deception one cannot see through
A glass eye.
There is q great falling-of OF little
bows who try to ride on the
Of q street Cal.
Vhy may a tipsy man fall into the
river with impunity? Because he won't
drown as long as his head swims.
A Georgia man is suing another for
ono ceut's damage to his nose. Not
much scents in that.
A thief in Evansville, Ind, stole the
contribution box out Of a church. lie
evidently went there to prey.
II shall follow her soon,' said u sad
eved man ut the grave OF his wife.
Within a mouth he was following an
other woman.
"Madam," said a gentleman to his
wife, 'let me tell you facts are very
stubborn things" "What a fact you
must be-" quoth the lady.
A wag, noted for his brevity, writes
to u friend to be careful in the selection
of his diet. He says: Don't eat g
cumbers; they'll W-up.'
Sarah-"John, can't dress up for
dinner this weather. What is the cool
est thing I can get into?' John-"Sa>
rah-toga!" and Sarah got into her toga.
1t was rather personal in a California
newspaper man to chronicle the pur~
chase OF n mule by u brother editor as
"a remarkable instance of ~self>posses'
sion."
When the Thermometer indicates
Linety and nine. you may have noticed
that a man can get his choler up much
more easily than he can keep his collar
up.
Probably you have heard why a miu>
lister delivering his peroration is like a
ragged boy? Because he's tor'ed his
close, you know. 1t is hardly apparel
case, however.
marie! what's that strange noise at
The front gate?" "Cats, sir" Cats!
Well, when l was young cats didn't
wear stove-pipe hats and smoke cigars"
Times are changed, SIT.
Men, SAYS Adam Smith, are natural
ly unsentimental. A man will scoop
the bottom out of an egg without think
ing that the mother of that egg is, per-
haps, a hundred miles away, in the rain.
An impecunious individual was heard
to mutter, as he finished reading a rail
road handful headed, Through with
out change" That's the road l shall
take; no fault to find with themterms."
A Kentucky schoolmaster whose wife
was one of his pupils had occasion to
punish her one day. The next day the
school-house door bore this inscriptions:
'School closed for n week; schools
master ILL.,"
A little boy was strewing salt upon
the pavement for the purpose of remov-
ing the ice, when a lady passing ex-
claimed, "Well, I declare, this is real
benevolence." mo, it amt" said the
boy; sit is SALT"
Five or six months of married life,
remarks a veteran observer, will often
reduce a naturally irascible man to snch
a condition of angelic humility that it
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pair of wings.
"Gen1'men," exclaimed an old Con-
necticut salt, as he grasped the brawny
arm of a Yale College oarsman and call
ed the company's attention to its mus
cular development, ''gen'pmen, thar's
intelleck for yer"
A thirsty topper, in a bar-room, flung
down his sixpence and then filled his
glass to the brim with whisky. "Hold
on!" exclaimed the bartender, in appa-
rent establishment, ''there is a chrome
gous WIN Gilat uIinh." ~Ha ts~,i-e ~@~
portion of a cigar box, he politely hand
ed it across the counter.
John Henry, reading to his wife from
a newspaper: "'There is not a single
woman in the House of Correction
There, you see, don't you, what wicked
creatures wives are? Every woman in
that Jail is married." 1T is curious"
said she; "but don't you think, John,
dear, that some of them go there for re-
lief"