The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1876-02-10
OUR DESSERT,

About the worst go Imaginable is
the lumbago.
TO do business a mar must have
dollars and sense.
What's in aname? ID. Scaver drives
a ST. Louis milk wagon.
AJdc simile OF the high Cs In mn-
sic is reached by treading on a cats
tail.
1t is difficult to tell how much n
fish will weigh by looking at the
scales.
Why is the job-stone like a green:
horn? Because it is often emposed
upon.
Did YOU ever know n country
town that hadn't the best brass band
in the State?
A young man has sued his barber
for cutting off his mustache. The bar
Der says he didn't see it.
Where is the man who could have
once purchased Manhattan Island for
a dollar?
The man who "fell into rapturcs'
with a pretty girl, was got out with
considerable difficulty.
The little New York beggar boy
overshot the mark when he wiped a
tear away and said he had three
mothers to support.
There may be. as Shakespeare says
there is, "a tide in the affairs of men,
but in the affairs Of women it is all
tied-back.
There is n nan in Indiana who
takes thirty-two newspapers, aud YOU
might as well try to ride a whirlwind
on n side-saddle rs to attempt TO I'M
pose upon that a
A lazy fellow falling a distance OF
fifty feet and escaping with only "A
few scratches, q bystander remarked
that he was too slow to fall fast
enough TO hurt himself.
Go out, Young man she's not
here" said a Pennsylvania minister
in the midst Of his sermon, to Il youth
whom he saw standing hesitatingly
in the doorway.
A Montana Justice of the Peace
doesn't splurge any when he marries
q couple. lie SAYS: "Arise, grab
hands-hitch-six dollars!" And that
is all there is to it.
A Minnesota Sheriff carried a bull
let in his head. ten wears, and when
thew removed it recently, he became
foolish. They are looking for some
one TO shoot him again.
al tell Won, Susan, that | will COM
nit suicide if you won't have me"
"Wcll, Thomas, rs soon as you have
given me that proof OF yOur affection,
| will believe that you love me-"
"That clock. stranger said a Mich
ipan farmer, twas the best kind of a
clock up to six months ago, when my
daughter began to have beaux, and
now the blamed thing is always two
hours SLOW"
A Missouri lawyer successfully de-
Tended q highwayman, but charged
him an exorbitant fee. The highway
man paid it without a murmur, but
stopped his counsel on his way home
at night and recovered the cash.
A gentleman of rather d%iminutive
size, according to the ordinary law
of compensation in such cases, mar
ried q regular maypole of a partner,
who o~vertopped him about two feet.
AS he led her up to the altar, the
minister lost his presence of mind,
and called out: "Who bringeth this
child to be baptized ?"
A jolly doctor called on n lady on
his way home from 4 dinner party, so
full that he couldn't count her pulse
beat. Conscious of the cause of his
difficulty, he. in a moment of irrita-
ton, blurted ont. "Drunk, by Jove"
and rushed out of the house. The
next day the lady sent for him and
said that she lamented that he had
discovered her condition, and begged
he would keep it a secret.
"What's de 'casion of dat big smoke
over dar ?" inquired II colored man
of another at the market yesterday.
Fire, sah,' was the answer. "And
what's de 'casion of de fire p "Com-
bustshun." And what's combust-
shun?' "My friend" replied the 9th
er, crossing his legs, "dar's heaps of
things in dis world dat NJ niger ev-
CT knowed or ever will know, an
well change the subject to g%ooscber-
ries."