The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1876-07-20
OUR DESSERT.


A sequel to the recent excitement in
iard-The earthquake in Greece.
What species of love is never recipro.
Gated? A neuralgia affection.
A polite way of putting it-Troubled
with a chronic indisposition to cxertion.
Why is eve teacher of music neces,
sarily q good teacher? Because he is a
sound instructor.
When the young ladies hand you a
card nowadays with the cabalistic let
lers 7. NJ. G. A. it means ''you may
call again"
"If you wish to visit the tomb OF
your country's father inst Jump into my
carriage" said a Washington hackdrly-
er to Dom Pedro.
Those striking Berlin c~omposifors
ought to try and settle their troubles by
calling a conference at Ems.
1t is given on the authority of Il New
Orleans paper that there IL in that city
q hog with his ears SO far back that he
cannot hear himself squeel.
The new Centennial handkerchief is a
small American flag. This would seem
to involve o direct blow Mt the stars and
stripes.
Bismarck appears to be still going it
bird in church matters. The Arch
bishop Of Cologne has just been de-
prived of his See.
Here now, none of your slack" as
The potato bug remarked when a Jersey
farmer came at him the other day with
q handful of lime.
An Irishman having been told that
the price of bread had been lowered,
exclaimed, "That is the first time ever
rejoiced at the fall of my best friend!'
mike, and is it yerself hat can he
nfther tellin' me how they make ice
crame?" I'm troth | can. Don't they
bake them in cowld ovens, to be sure?"
Irate landlady (warmlD-''Really, sir,
this accounts been running so long"
Impecunious lodger (coolly)-"Run-
ming, has it? Then, perhaps it would be
as well to let it rest a bit!'
Anecktie vender who got his choler
up and turned choker, was fued three
dollars and costs for a breach of the
peace the other day i'll Norwich, Con-
nec-tle-cut.
European capitalists as a general
thing are represented rs very much
down on the war feeling. Agood many
of our citizens too are daily down on
the wharf, ceiling.
A Yankee, describing an opponent
whose person was extremely thin, says:
II will tell you what, sir-that man
don't amount to a sum in arithmetic;
cast him up, and there's nothing to
carry"
lis fishing with angle worms . cru
elty?" was the subject of q recent de-
bate in d Wisconsin lyceum. We should
like to see q ver-bart-'em report Of that
discussion.
Isn't this q triae paradoxical? Elev-
en- young ladies have just been made
Bachelors OF Arts at Elmira, n. y.
Now, let them turn abont, and go for
the ARTS Of bachelors, as we'll.
Richard Grant White says there is
no such thing as sin our midst" but
we would like to know where he would
locate the pain that makes paregoric o
popular beverage among the young.
A minister travelling through the
West some years>ago asked and old lady
on whom he called what she thought OF
the doctrine of total depravity. "Oh,"
she replied, 81 think it is a good doc
trine, if the people would only live up
to it,"
A colored preacher, in translating to
his hearers the sentence, The harvest
is over, the season is ended, and thy
soul is not saved" put it, DE corn has
been cribbed, dere amt any more work,
and de debil is still foolin' wild dis com
munity."
"What on earth am / to do with that
incorrigbie son Of mine?" inquired Ri
anxious father of q friend. Dress him
in n shepherds plaid" was the reply.
why, what possible benefit would that
be- demanded the wondering parent.
lit would at least, be a way Of keeping
him 10 check"
In the examination Of an Irish case
for assault and battery, counsel, on
cross-examining the witness, asked him
what they had ut the first place they
stopped. He answered, -Four glasses
of ale" ''What next?" ''Two glasses
Of wine "What next Zone glass
OF brandy" What ne1t?' "a fight,
Of course"
"Well, how DO you like the looks of
the varmint?' said Il Southwestern to a
down Easter" who was gazing with
round-eyed wonder, and evidently for
the first time, at q huge alligator, with
wide-open jaws, On the muddy banks of
the Mississippi. "Wa'al," replied the
Yankee, "he amt what ycou may call a
hansum %critter, but he's got a deal of
OpenneSS when he smiles"