Mexico weekly ledger., 1878-11-07

Summer seems to have sunk its in
! dividuahty.
Debasing the currency-trading ]
off for a drunk.
Ben Butler was elected-to stay a
. home-hurrah.
You can always tell a gentleman b.
where he spits.
The counterfeiter's yarn is
"queer" story.
How to get ahead. Steal into
! cabbage patch.
"It stopped when the old maj
died''-his breath.
He WHO wrongs another wrongs
himself most of all.
Never pay the man that you car
put off till tomorrow.
That person who is good to himself
is good to all the world.
Professional knitters are always
able to tell a good yarn.
Every dog has his day, but the
nights belong to the cats.
The Western wits call bigamy
Utahlizing the female sex.
Never spend your money when you
can get things for nothing.
Out in the Black Hills, jack rabbits
are called narrow gauge mules.
There can be no genuine soul
growth in a surrounding Of filth.
Nothing Is troublesome to you that
other people do for you willingly.
For what port is a man bound dur
ing courtship? Bound to Havre.
The cat is the most reliable poet
it can always depend upon its news.
When angry, be sure you can handle
your man before you call him a liar.
Gas companies are getting scared
up about she proposed electric light.
Yourg man, learn to think, and
two-thirds o. the battle of life is
won.
Twice stew are four, said the oyster
dealer, and he charged four accord
ingly.
The ''sweet bye and bye" is now
spoken of as the ''saccharine fu-
ture. %
Do not despise a twenty cent cigar
or a So dinner because another man
pays for it.
Never trouble yourself to do for
another what he can do just as well
for himself.
Never buy What you don't want,
simply because the man says he is
just out of it.
Mending blue stockings with white
yarn makes them d darned sight too
conspicuous.
The man who was kicked out Of the
house by an irate parent didn't laugh
in his leave.
Never strain a point in writing. If
you do you will have to sharpen your
pencil again.
Thoughts that burn -- amateur
poetry when the editors waste basket
is overlooking.
A knight Grant of the nineteenth
century-running to get a pitcher of
beer before bedtime.
BY the use Of the m~icrophone you
can hear the rope walk or the butter
fly, or the gum drop.
Thunder will sour the sweetest
milk, and sour words will spoil the
sweetest disposition.
Hop bitters-seeing a fellow with
his hair parted in the middle waltzing
with the girl you like best.
A mark was left upon Cain; but
the umbrella was, for some inscrut.
able reason, left unprotected.
Two prisoners broke out Of the
Columbia Jail last Sunday. The last
we heard they were still at large.
Putting a bent pin in q chair ia a
very amusing practical joke. It never
fails to excite a mans Instability.
The paragrapher that was hanged
said to the crowd around the gallows,
"This life is but a hemp-tie show"
Remember that it costs more to go
to a high priced theater than it does
to take a back pew IN a free church.
Hungry Traveier-First of ali,
have you a sole2 Irish landlady; A
sowl, is it'll Now, do I look like a
baste2
No one need be discouraged Ii he
only remembers that he will always
be worth s25, anyway-to medical
students.
What is the difference between q
successful lover and his rival? The
one kisses his miss, and the other
misses his kiss.
Instead Of answering a fool &C
cording to his folly it would be as
well to quarantine his mouth and let
conversation rest.
To whine and fret, and worry, and
make others feel miserable 10 the
great aim of life with a few who had
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