The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1877-09-13
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ratns.
Cnmberland coaB-coal that comes ~
water.
4 GOOD friend that is always round
A silgordollar.
E,nec.ation stood too long on tip-toe,
and got q sprainod ankle by il.
Somebody says Eve wa lrish-oc-
oonaa el,o was the first rib -on-man.
The attempt to make omelets out OF
''eeg coal" has finally been abandoned.
WHY is a pigs tail like q carving
knife? Because IL flourishes over a ham,
When n man drinks like a fish II IS
not to be- wondered that his hoad swims'
Whom is the easiest time to reid the
book Of nature? Whom autumn turns
the leaves.
WHY is dew like q falling STAR? One
is mist on earth; the other is missed
from heaven.
People losrn wisdom by experience.
A mai never wakes up his second baby
to SEQ it laugh.
ooh for a thousand tongues!' said a
G..le urehin who Ind crnwleI inside OF
sugar hogshead.
What two sciences are employed by.
teamstors in driving their oxenf daw>
ticulture md Gec-oloSy.
A Pjttsburg maj bought q horse by q
ohotorraph. This was certainly getting
the carte before the horse.
This is what | call capital punish
mentl" said a boy when he was shut up
in n closet with the cake and preserves.
A modes. old lady characterized her
csnino when she applied for license MS
"a boy dog OF the black spaniel va
rioty,"
A cotomporary talks about the blind
Leing able to distinguish colors. Pos
sibly they may be ablo to discover
blind mans buff"
There has boon q strike among tho
work people Of the Providence corset
factory. We presume the work was
stayed In consequence.
An old maid always eyes single gen
tleman (says a vile Old bach) Iustas she
does a dog in dog days-wonderIng
whether he intends TO bite.
An Ohio man has christoncd his
daughter Glyccrino. He says It VIII DO
easy to prefix Nitro" if her temper re-
semblos that of her mother.
A man named More proposed to q Ia
dy by letter, and she asked time for
consideration, closing her letter in a L.
s., thus: "No More at present.
A Western woman having been spo&-
en- of as ''having one foot in the grave"
a wicked Journalist remarks that there
must be q big hole ont there some
where.
A fashionable young lady dropped
one of her fnlso eyebrows in n church
pew, and badly frightened a young MAJ
next to her, who thought it was his
mustachc.
"John," asked a doctor of the apoth-
ceary's boy, "did Mr0. Green get the
medicine l ordered?" 81 guess So"
said John, "for l saw Grape on the door
knob this morning"
"Do you think your father Is going
TO move ont soon?" inquired the owner
of n rented honso of the son of his ten
mt. "Rockon 3d." was the reply,
"wo've begun using the window frames
for frewood."
It shocks n Wisconsin woman awful
ly, about a week aftor she has read OF
her husbands destruction by grasshop-
pers, to hear a familiar step on the
stairs aud his we'll. known voice asking:
'Hanner, have you got them brooches
of mine patched yet?'
The Rev. DIR. Howard, chaplain to
the mother Of George III. Rector Of st.
Georges Southwark, was always in ar
roars with his tradeslnon, and was oft
en- pcrplexol to keep in good temper.
lie once took for his text, "ltave pa
tlenco and / will pay you ALL" After
Ailating at some length on the virtue OF
patience, he said: ''And nowI come to
the second part of my discourse, which
is, and now [ will pay yon ALL bnt
that l will defer to q futuae opportuni-
w.