The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1876-06-01
OUR DESSERT.
An improving sight--Sergeant Bates


An improving sight-Sergeant Bates.
In what key would q lover write a
proposal of marriage? Be mine. alb!
A Understandable pomadc manu-
faoturer.
Ekonomy don't konsist in saving in
discriminatory, but in saving judicious-
ly.
An Irishman once ordered q painter
to draw his picture, and to represent
him standing behind a tree.
There's no special style of engraving
engagement rings. A spiders web
with a fly in it is q very pretty device.
If we may believe the Western pa
pers, when the land is tickled with a
hoe it laughs with potato bugs.
Florida has a volcano in an impene-
trable swamp, and the alligators loaf
around and tickle themselves that they
have a big thing.
Mr.. Beecher last Sunday expressed
:he opinion that ''the Lord will protect
his own" That is why he wears a
lightning-rod over his chimney.
A granger writes to n rural paper to
ask chow long COWS should be milked?'
Why, the same as short cows, of course.
Practical Jokes don't go well out m
Arizona. The man who came on over
an editor out there the other day, meyer
came two.
A shrewd old Yankee said he didn't
believe there was any cure for downright
cure for laziness III a man. but, he
added, eve known q second wife to
hurry it some
Servant-"Please, sir, we amt got
no bread, and the baker says he won't
trust you any longer!" lrate Hlber-
nian-t'The name baste! No bread?
Bedad, then, I must have toast!"
IL these hard times, when borrowing
is so difficult, we'd like to know wheth-
or distance still keeps up its tlme-hon
ored habit of lending ~enchantment to
the view.
DR.. Hall says that people sometimes
take cold through their ears. This ex-
plains why a Milwaukee man always
stuffs his ears up with horse-blankets
and buffalo robes in damp weather.
A subscription paper was lately circu-
lated with the following object in view:
1--WE subscribe and pay the amount set
against our names for the purpose of
paying an organist and a boy to blow
the same!"
An Irish agricultural journal adver-
tises a new washing machine under the
heading, every man his own washer
woman" and in it's culinary department
says that potatoes should always be
boiled in cold water"
New Mexico is to be admitted into
the Union under the name of "Monte-
yuma" A more appropriate name, con-
sidering the prevailing weakness of the
inhabitants, would be ''Threecardmon-
.tezuma."
A woman in Manlius, N. Y, recently
presented her husband with three
bouncing babies. In these days of Wo-
mems Rights that's the Manlius' act
we've heard of in a long time.
Afashion chronicler says: cold lace
is more fashionable and more worn than
new" Old clothes are more worn"
than new, too, and it is hoped the time
Will soon come when they will be more
fashionable.
What a mother lacks in skill she
makes up in enthusiasm when she cuts
her boys hair. The back of his head
may look like thunder, but every scol-
lop is a bright vision of devoted atfec-
ton to the understanding mind.
An elderly Wicklow maiden, who had
suffered some disappointment, thus de-
fines the human race: Mana con-
glomerate mass Of hair, tobacco smoke,
confusion, conceit and boots. Woman
the water, perforce, on the aforesaid an
imal.
A train carrying q clergyman and five
or six youths who kept scofing at relig-
ion and telling disagreeable stories.
The good man endured it all, simply re-
marking as he got out: eve shall meet
again, my children" "Why shall we
meet again?" said the leader of the
band. "Because I am a prison chap
1ain," was the reply.
4 young lady, when invited to par
take of the pudding, replied: "No,
many thanks, my dear madame By
no manner of means. / have already
INDUCED the clamorous calls of a cray
ing appetite, until the manifest n of
internal fulness ~admonishes my stay;
my deficiency is entirely satisfactorily
satisfied"
A Texas editor, after an interview
with an unusual and unwelcome visitor,
writes: Hereafter Texans and Others
having like business, will please send a
postal card, as it disturbs our equanim-
ity to have SLOUGH hats and six-shooters
invade our sanctum." That editor must
be an importation from the Eastern
States. A Texan TO the manor born is
not disturbed by civilities of this sort.