The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1878-04-11
Om nesserf.

A word to the wise is sufficient; but
nobody is wise.
If money is tight avoid tit onght
to know better.
viii complications in the (y) east af>
feet the rising of the sun?
Which is the fastest way to raise
strawberries? With a spoon.
We may not possess a castle in Spain.
Int we have q Cochin ChiHa.
OF course brewers love brunettes Not
nrless the brew nets q fortune.
IT looks as ii next years army of
tramps would be composed of Turkish
bondholders.
A baby, according to the French, is
mn angel whose wings decrease as its
legs lengthen.
Bristow to the Bostonians mo PEG
nle with beans like these, and brown
bread, ever lost their liberty
The Turkish braid is the latest novel
tv for hair dressing, but the Russian
girls say you cant pla>it on them.
Marriage? Pooh. don't -shun-
it," exclaimed the maiden aunt. I'm
deed they don't" replied her lovely
niece.
Father-"Whv don't You say yer
grace, Charley?" Charley why
COS I don't like the looks of them ia
ters."
~allow-t tails never go out of fash
ion; but it seems to us that newspaper
renders never swallow tales as they
used to.
The telegraph tariff between France
md Germany is four cents a word. Ger
many gets the most for the money-in
bulk.
Knotted damasses are seen among the
lot of new goods-Fashion item. This
probably refers to those clerks who
part their hair in the middle.
\ Factions old gentleman who
Thought his two sons consumed too
much of their time in hunting and
ehootinga styled them Nimrod and
RamroG.
You can get a very good idea OF ma
tural selection" its practical workings
by viewing of a celery glass after it has
been. once around the table.
Somebody has to devise q quicker
way of taking off an umbrella and put
ting on m ulster, or there will have to
be q weather reform, that's all.
"Clereymen, remarks an exchange,
like railway brakesmen, do q great
deal of coupling" All, yes, and then
the coupled ones do all the switching.
Tell your mistress that I've torn the
curtain" said q lodger to a female do
nestle. Every well, sir, mistress will
put it in the bill as extra rent
A grave answer, Djctor-"Thomas.
1ld Mrs. Popiay get the medicine I or
dered yesterday Thomas-"I b'leeve
SO, sir; 1 see all the blinds down this
morning"
lady Ito little girl Of -four Sears)-
"What are you going to call your new
doll?" Girl (heaving a deep sigh like
some anxious mether)-'I shall kall it
Rosa-if it lives"
King Victor 4wed but 50, 900, 900
when he died. When the new king
said he would tread in the footsteps of
his father certain tradesmsu resolved:
You can't do it at my grocery"
A Washington lady has applied to be
appointed constable. 1t is the only
way in which she will be able to catch
Il a
Every sixteenth couple in Vermont is
divorced, and the probability is most
Of the other fifteen would be too if they
could.
Oil has been struck in the Black
Hills. For the benefit of gentlemen
who have been interviewed by the ma
tivcs Of that region, we hope it is hair
oil.
a cautious Chicago lover wrote let
ters to his sweetheart in ink that would
speedily fade out so that when she de-
sired to use them IN a breach of prom
Use suit they were only blank paper.
The mar who comes to the depot two
minutes behind time, and sees the rail-
road train scudding out at the other
end, derives no satisfaction from the
proverb, Better late than never"