The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1876-09-28
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It. Pei ia Maine editor.

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New Bsdfor, has bnt cne whaler left
uchoolmaster.
The man who makes a striking remark
is too often apt to re-hit-erate it.
NJ. Darwin will doubtless be paiuod
TO learn that the Sheriff of Kershaw, S. c.,
has levied on a monkey to satisfy debt.
Prof. Of Rhetoric: "lEhat important
change came over Burns in the latter part
his life ?" Senior: He diod."
Tho Binghamton trapper who has caught
three hundred muskrats this Winter, e%-
presses musk ratification at his success.
"There that explains where my clothes
line went to - exclaimed an Iowa woman
as she found her husband hanging in tho
stable.
All the axes and bucksaws forn1 in tic
ruins Of Pompe;i are Of hight mako, as Y
constructed for WON ms use. Those Old
ancients knew their little business.
watering place correspondent writos
that every few bathers bathe at the West
End" whereupon Mrs. Partington saya
she chad an idea tAey bathed all over"
An Ohio farmer who hasn't r brass roos-
ter swinging on the top of his barn as
weather vane can't expect his daughter to
move in good society.
'Idiot r exclaimed l,dy coming out OF
the theatre one evening, aa a gentleman
acc dcully stepped on her trailing skirt.
(Which one OF us ?" blanaly replied tho
man.
my lecture" aail 4 California orator,
l, ! ut that
instant, and he announced: the meeting
stands adjourned %
Dearest, will yon accept my hand p
said he. Il prefer to play my own, and
draw to a GOOD pair" said she. Schenck
did it; with mis- little pamphlet.
With pair Of top boots and an Ulster
overcoat, man needs no other clothing
little care is necessary at first to keep
the coat buttoned up.
Congressional Procoelings "Mr, Morton
addressed the Senate at length in favor OF
seating Mr.. PinchDrek on his credentials
Seating him on his what ?
First Boy-'I say, Jimmy, there's no
water It's frozen e!ervwhere. Second
Boy-"Bully Maybe we wont have to
wash ourselves till the middle OF Spring J.
A Mr.. Chew was recently arrested il
Philadelphia, having three living wives
from Which he has er been united,
Each wife had a Chew u. back her. See?
Some Of the colorcd folks of Cleveland
thought civil rights meant free rides on
the Street lrs, ani they had to be stood
ON their heads and argued with.
Miss D. sends us a poem entitled, ~
Cannot Make Him smile,' We cannot
publish it unless she gives us the name OF
the youn; man. All the young men We
know "snlile.
A core 5rondcnt Of the E llt:more Sun hat
fou III in Florida a young girl named
Neuralgia. She was christenei after Il
bottle OF patent medicine which heEmother
esteemed.
"Three AMI sixpenco per gall" ex-
| claimed Mrs. Partin- ton, looking over the
Price Current. "Why, bless me, what ia
world a coming to when gals are valued at
only three and sixpcnce
Patient, to doctors after consultation -
"Tell me the worst, gentlemen; am | so
ing to die ?" doctors-''We are divided on
that question, sir; but there is a majority
OF one that you viii live"
Young lady - Are you good runner.
Mr.. Du.lboy ? Mr.. Duilboy-We,l. noc
very tirstrtte. ! WAS one. in mile race.
and they gave me three-qu rters OF the
distance start, but I-aw-l did not wiz.
A seedy-looking individual was heard TO
say to friend: MY dear fellow, can't
YOU lend mea black weskit for sholt time?
NV aunt Betsy died q few days ago, and
want to take short mourn"
More happy by far is the man with catarrh
Than the one who is perfectly we'll;
He is one Of those who are saved by the
From many horrid smell.
Julius, why didn't you oblo7g your
stay at the Sprin ss?' * Use. Mr.. Snow.
dey CHARGE too much" "How So Julius p
"Wy, de landlord charged dis colored in
dividual wild stealins de spoons
The electric telegraph.-"Wife, 1 don't
see, for my part, how they send letters on
them, ere wires without tearin' 'em all to
/ bits LA me, they don't send the pa
per; they just send the writing in fluid
state"
"Where's the molasses, Bill?" said
red-haired woman sharply to her son, who
had returned with an empty iug. None
in the city, mother. Every grocery has a
/ larre board outside, with letters chalked
on It, N. o. Mollsses.
"Now, there's finished gentleman for
vou," said n fireman. as he Sazed upon
/ the pieces of the engineer that had been
scraped up and gathered TO his fathers,
after the last attempt to run a train Oh
nothing.
Colorado item "L,tely a mountain
lion made raid on ranchman 5 house in
Left Hand Canon. lie tore the family dog
70 pieces. He pulled the tddle-strings
out of the family cat. He finally succum-
bed, however. to the family rifle"
A paper in Southern Illinois regrets that
it went to press zone dly tGo early to re-
cord the death of John Bates This is
not ouite as cool rs the paper which said;
"Just as we are going to press John Smith
is being run over by the cars"
man at the Bergen tunnel the other
morning h ,iled u fellow laborer with, $50
we've rot a baby at yer house. what is it?
5oy." NO "Wen then it's u gyurl."
Faith, Stllu lHe utIiS SHteN laInSA, SoAiS-
body's ben telling ye.'
At the trial of one Putnam, at Virginia
CITY, for leading in idle and dissolute life,
District Attorney Campbell defined bum
,neras am .'aggr = tted, concltcn tied, con-
glorcerated, segregated, contaminated,
id loafer." Tnis decided the jury al
once, and they found Putnam guilty,
An Indian came to a certain agent ii
the Northern part of Iowa to procure som
whskey for . younger warrior who h@
been litten by rtttlesnakc. "Fourquarss!
p'i.d The agent. with surprise; las muc
as that." Yes replied tho Indian
-four aL,rts-snake very big.