The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1877-03-08
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New BSdford has bat cpe whaief Ni'-
EcAoolmastcr.
The man who makes q striking remark
is too oftca apt to re-hit-erate IT.
NJ, Darwin will doubtless be pained
20 learn that the Sheriff OF kershaw' ,. VI
has levied ON q monkey to satisfy d9ot.
Prof Of Rhetoric "What important
.L,pee came over Burns in the latter part
his life e. Senior; Ike diei,
T5e B;nshamton trlpper who has caught
thre. hundred muskrlts tins Winter, OK
presses muck ratification at his success
"1Lere that explains where my clothes
limo won't to - exclaimed AL Iowa woman
as she found her husband hanging in the
stable.
All the axes and bu5ksawa found in the
ruins of Pempeii are Of light make, as II
constracbed for woman's use. Those Oh
aucients knew their little business
A watering place correspondent writes
that VERY few bathcrs battle ut the west
End" whereupon Mrs. Darlington soy'
abe had an idea they lathed All over
An Ohio farmer who hasn't q brass roos-
Ter kN lnnllS on lilt b't' VI H''
weather vuue can't expect his daughter to
move in good society.
idiot - exclaimed u lady coming out CT
She theatre one evening, as a gentleman
acciden,ly stepped on her trailing skirt.
(Which one of Us ?" bllndly reptile! the
NAN.
NY lecture" said a California orator,
will lie brief A turnip hit him at that
instant, and he announced; the meeting
stands adjourned!'
Dearest, will you accept my hand ?,
ruid he. Il prefer 10 play my own, and
draw to a good pair" said she. Schenck
I'D it, with his little pamphlet.
With a pair Of top boots and an Ulster
overcoat. Il man nee,ls 40 other clothing
\ little care is necessary al G1st 20 heeI
the coat button,d up.
Congressional Proce ,dings "Mr. Morton
addressed the Senate ltlength in favor Of
seating Mr.. PinchDIck on his credentials"
Seating him On his what +?
First Boy say, Jimmy, there's nc
water. It's frozen everywhere. Second
Soy-"Bully Maybe we wont have to
sash ourselves TIL the middle Of Spring -
A Mr.. Chew was recently arrested in
Philadelphia, having three living wives
from which he has ! yer been united
Each wife had a Chow to-hack-her. See?
Some of the colored folks of Cleveland
thought civil rights meant free rides on
the street cus, and they had to be stood
VI their heals and argued with.
Miss D.. sends us a poem entitled, u
Cannot Make Him smile" We cannot
publish it unless she gi;es US the name OF
the young man. All the young men we
know smile.
A CORE 3pondcnt Of the Baltimore S"n has
found in Florida ii youag girl named
Neuralgia. She was christcned after a
bottle Of patent medicine which hermothci
esteemed
Three aui sixpence per gall" ok
claimed Mrs. Darlington, looking over the
Price Current. Why bless me, what is
world a coming to when gals are valued at
saly three and sixpence""
Patient. TO doctors after consultation -
~Tel me the worst, gentlemen am l go
;pg to die % doctors-"We are divided on
that question, sir but there is a ma jority
Of one that you viii live
Young lady Are you & good runner,
Mr.. Du!lboy Mr.. Du.lboy-We!l, not
very f~rstrate. l was one. in Il mile race,
and they gave me thfee.qulrters OF the
distance start, but I-aw-l did not win.
A seedy-looking individual was heard to
sov to a friend My dear fellow, can't
YOU lend mea black weskit for Il short time :
Nv aunt Betsy died u few days ago. and l
want to take a short mourn"
More happy by far is tn. man with eotarrh
Than the one who is perfectly well
lie is one Of those who are saved by the
From many u horrid smell.
Julius, why didn't you oblong your
stay at the ~Sprinss?' * Use, Mr.. Snow,
dcy Charge too much HON SO, Julius?'
oJVy. dc landlord charged dis colored in
diyidu4l wild stealth de spoons"
The electric telegraph.-"Wife. | dont
see, for my part, how they send letters on
them, ere wires without tearln EN- all tc
bits." LA me. taey don't send the pa
per; they Just send the writing in a tuid
state"
where's the molassos, BIZ" said a
red haired woman sharply to her son, who
had returned with an empty Jug. None
in the city, mother. Every grocery has a
lorse board outside, with letters chalked
on it, N. O. Molasses.'"
"Now, there's a finished gentleman for
vou," said a fireman, Us he gazed upon
The pieces of the engineer that had been
scrlpcd up and gathered 10 his fathers,
after the last attempt to run a train on
nothing.
Colorado item Lately a mountain
lion made 4 raid on 4 ranchman house in
Left Hand Canon. He tore the family dog
to pieces. He pulled the fddle-strings
out of the family cat. He finally succum-
bed, however, to the family rifle.
4 pnper in Southern Illinois regrets that
it Went to press cone day too early to re-
cord the death of John Bates This is
not quite as cool as the paper which said
Just as We arc going to press John Smith
is being run over by the cars"
Aman at the Bergen tunnel the other
morning hailed a fellow lAh0rer with, Sc
we've rot Il baby at yer mouse, What SlC' "
joy or a gyurl ?" Guess p A it's a
ooy." NO "Well then it's q gyurl.'
Faith" said the delighted father, some
body's ben telling ye."
At the trial Of one Putnam, at Virgins
City, for leading an idle and dissolute hfe
District Attorney Campbell defined a bum
meras am aggregated, c9ncatenated, con
glornerated, segregated, contaminated
id loafer." This decided the jury a
once, and they found Putnam guilty
An Indian came to a certain agent IL
the Northern part of Iowa to procure somt
whisLey for a younger warrior who hac
beenbittcn by a rattlesnake. "Fourquarts!,
replied the agent, with surprise; "as muct
rs that z" Yes" replied the Indian
-four qulrts-snake very big"
P0PULAn NAMES or STATES
Virginia, the "old Dominion"
Massachusetts, the "BIy STATE"