Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-04-19
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

''Allen, you said Sally kissed you ;
did you. kiss her back?" ''No; ]
kissed her face"
Old newspapers put the finishing
touch to knives, forks and tinware
better than most other things.
4 Virginia woman of twenty-eight
is grandmother. She was married
at the age of thirteen years.
An old sailor bosstingly said, II
began the world with nothing, and !
have held my own ever SINCE"
The girls who have been hunting
for titled husbands abroad say that
honest counts are as scarce there as
here. -. .r-,r
A woman is very much like ket-
tle-she sings away, then stops, and
when you least expect it boils over.
A Connecticut man has named bis
colt eight to Seven" 1t was the
most winning name he could think
of. .
The Virginia negroes oppose the
appointment Of Mr.. Frederick Doug
lass 'sbecause he is such stuck up
nigger.'
Shake and brush black garment
every time it is worn. Nothing spoils
a poplin, wooden or black silk sooner
than dust.
Brownsville, Pa, has ninety-six old
maids, one street alone having forty
three. They ought to call that street
Maiden Lane.
Among the latest departures for
the Black Hills have been one hun
drcd and eighty-five barrels Of whis-
ky from Frankford, KY.
When l die" said married man,
II want to go where there is no snow
tshovel" His wife said she pre-
su1sd he would.
" Preabilities: When you see 8
~ man going Ame at. 2 O'Clock in the
morning, anu know his wife i.
:" waiting for him, tits likely to be
d. stormy.
I'll About this time of the sar put
your nose into the cellar starwav.
ol and see how anxious your cabbss,
lg and potatoes are to be put over d
s alley fence.
r As Frank stood watching the du
q, whirling in eddies, he sxclaime
al ma, l think the dust looks as
ae there was going to be another lit
at boy made"
ID That was good prayer which t
er old fashioned Methodist minister I
c. tered: &c, start us right, because
to we get started wrong We are hard
turn
as The editor of an up-country par
at is candidate for county judge, a
he he will be elected too if his delinque
nd subscribers will stand by him a
vote for him. VIII they?
ng A correspondent OF the Richmo
'lr Dispatch suggests that the Legis
he ture pass bill allowing any man
al Virginia named Bradley to change
er name upon his own motion in cou
n The Cincinnati Commercial ask
H. ''Why is it that editors never conn
C. suicide?" The Burlington Have
tn has investigated this subject itt
od and thinks it is because the druggi.
OF won't sell strychnine on long tin
A ten-year-old miss of Cayug
Kinds county, Mississippi, stands
feet in her striped stockings, kic
the beam at one hundred and ninet
five pounds, and sports six fingers
# each hand, and six toes on ca
foot.
p. A conscientious pastor of Co
gregational church in Chambridg
Mass, the Rev. D. o. Mears, h
is asked that his salary be reduced fro
So, 800 to So, 900 because Of the pl
Sc vailing depression in business.
Lives there man with soul
dead, who never to himself hath sal
t. I'll pay before L 60 to bed, the de
e I owe the printer? Yes, there g
some we know full well, who ney
IN such tale could tell, but they,
fear, will 60 to-well, the place whe
Y is no winter.
He had been in the habit of MAXI
ur very frequent calls on very ACRE
able lady of his acquaintance, and
of enteriug the psrlor one evening,
said, "Well, Miss Sims, here l {
again, you see, as regular as the few
rs and ague," "Oh, no." said 81
very demurely, ''that comes on
en- every other day."
=, LIFE IN THE WEST.
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