The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1877-07-12
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Tbs silver question: "Can you lend
me n quarter
The hardest kind of chssm to get
ovef-Sarcasn.
Isn't All aim without a nam synony-
mona with an ominous Anonymous?
Eihu Burritt can drive a strange dog
ont Of his ward in thirty three Language
es.
Kansas keeps uobly in the van OF
civilization. Her State Treasurer is IN
Jail.
Crockerv dealers always delight III
seeing other people do a smashing BUS
mess.
A famine is limited at in Bosnia. Gen
cral Starvation is n hard man to fight
against.
E.I have a ~pardonable desires to i've
elsewhere said Il mar writing to Inc
President for Il consulate.
The extreme height of misery IS 4"
small boy with a new par OF Iuooe'
boots and no mud or slush IN reach.
An English woman advertises her
snIf M corl-cutter to the royal family.
She practices on the h8hf' fantastic
toe.
Soaling>bees are being introduced
20 Russia. Sometimes they get through
with as many rs two words IN an even
InG.
'r,2ugl Prince Arthur has been re
fasad. they say lie feels as happy as n
,uan who has drawn a barrel of tionr at
a radiA.
The Louisiana negroes have taken to
killing alligators for their meat. Just
what the alligators have heretofore
killed the negro for.
A Michigan Indian observes: "Big
crop crauberries-big whisky. Small
crop ccauberries-oue glass pop and no
roots ue.;t winter"
The way the king of the Sandwich
Js}auds carves a chicken is to take hold
Of both legs, draw q long breath, and
rul, for all he is worth.
J. man in C~ollinsville, CT. sold a COW
10 a widow, AMI before delivering the
enimal ne took off the brass horn-tips,
thereby saving SIX cents.
!. Newton man fayors the presence OF
the bible in the public schools. lie
writes US that the holcy book must be
kent IA the skools at eny cost"
Before his marriage Broughne prais-
el the artistic manner III which his wife
. "uangsd'' her hair. Now he complains
az the crus! manner il which she bangs
his head.
Uyou have a good sister, love and
cherish her with all your heart. II You
have none, why, then love and CHERISH
the good sister Of some other man with
all your heart.
\ gentleman rode up to a public
house in the country and asked; "Whc
is the master Of this hOuse?" 81 am.
sir, replied the landlord, my wife has
teen dead about three weeks.
A man hid in a public doorway, an(
Jumped out and kissed his wife. Sh'
didn't whoop and yell, as he expected
hut remarked, Don't be 80 bold, mis-
ter folks around here know me-"
There are few sights more inspiring
than the spectacle Of a small boy shoot
lng along III alley-way with about f0u
feet Of q bulldog fastened to his trow
sers and floating in the breeze behin'
him.
\ correspondent, being in the privat
office of Washington pawnbroker, SAY
Il fashionable lady come in and pawn
diamond cross worth 1920 for $3.50
lie doesn't state what no was aoin
there.
leasing, the German author, WAS, j
his old age. subject to extraordinar
fits of abstraction. On his retur
home, one evening, after he had knocke
at his door, the servant looked out {
the window to see who wa, therN NJ
1ecognlzlng his master in the dark, an
mistaking him for a stranger, he Gale
ont, The professor is not at home.
''Oh, very well" replied leasing; IN
matter-IU call another timc!'