The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1878-12-12
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On the rail "a scoldipg women.
Fine day-Monday morning at the
police court.
Johnny stole one pancake and got
elk spanaches without stealing.
The dollars of our "daddies" is pa.
pa a money
In driving hen women is slow
but shoe her.
Oft in the silly night--somebody
snores.
The eel is right in fashion, with his
eelskin coat
A brilliant future-When We have
che electric lights.
Sound advice is that which you res
ceive through telephone.
Mending blue stockings with white
yarn makes them darned sight too
conspicuous,
Gen. Kepokoltschitsky. of Russia,
complains that newspapers will persist
in spelling his name wrong.
It is sand that eating onions will keep
4he lips from chapping. 1t will GER
tainly keep the chaps from the chaps
lips.
A Cincinnati gambler accidently
swallowed diamond which he was
wettirg with his lips. He is only an
Other ease of diamond in the rough.
The wise mau placeth the stock of his
gun % his shoulder before he tireth,
bat the fool iooketh down the barrel to
see the ball START
"Where are You going9" asked a.
little boy OF another, who had shipped
on the icy pavement. "Goin9 to get
up" was The blunt reply.
Grandfather: "My son. which would
you rather have, when you 60 home
a little brother or sister?" Grandson
"Well, / would rather have little
pony
What's Biography. Bil?" "It's a
nothin' about, by cute chaps that's
never seen EN-" Bill got govern
ment situation.
William Augustus, to sleepy room
mate: Come, John Henry, why don't
you get up with the lark, as 1 do?"
John Henry, grimly: Been up with him
all night"
''See here. boy, this makes the sec
ond time I've called for you Didn't
you hear me the first timer" "No sir. D"
Then how do you know l called you
twice?"
The other day at the Tombs court a
prisoner was upon his trial. and at the
conclusion of it he was told that the
jury had found him guilty. Exactly"
replied the culprit; chats my convc-
ton"
Mamma. said little girl. pointing
to the telegraph wires. chow do they
send messages by those bits of wire
without tearing them all to pieces?"
They send them in fluid state, my
dear, was the reply.
A boy who went after chestnuts on
the Doth ult. broke the Sabbath. his
right leg and his suspenGers.- Norris
town Heald Mississippi boys never
have any such luck They return home
safe and sound, and fairly loaded down.
Alexander selk:r.," plaintively re-
NAH ei man who had qeen Ginning
around trying to borrow some money,
mad a darneG sight more friends within
easv r.ach than have" A. he wept
So he thought of The middle OF next week,
sad wish'd he was in it.
A lady WHO had been teaching her
little four-year>old the elements of
arithmetic, was astoundeu bS his runs
ming in and propoundlng the following
problem: Mamma. if you had 'h~ae
Butterflies, and each had bug IN his
ear, how many butterflies would you
have?"
Did you ever see an elephants
skin?' asked teacher in an infant
school 81 did, shonted six year
old at the foot Of the class. ''Whece?'
inquired the teacher, considerably
amused at his aaruesmess. ''On the
elephant" shouted the prodigy. gleeful-
~.
A little boy in Sunday put
" pOStl Ilo no iaNy "oo
telling her class how God punished the
Egyptians by causing the first born of
each household 10 be slain. The little
boy listened attentively, and, at the
proper interval. inquired. What
would God have done if there had been
twins?'
1t was in stumptown Sunday.school
"a visitor, who was interrogatiDg the
children. asked the question: 'Why
was Lots wife turned into a pillar of
salt?" There was small boy; with
preternatnral growth OF head. piped
ont. II s'pose it was because she was
too fresh.
"'How many rods make a furlong?"
asked a father of his son, fast urchin,
AZ he came home one evening from
school, "Well, l don't know, was the
reply of young hopeful: but l fancy
you'd think one rod made an ncher if
You got such tanning from old Scrog
gins this afternoon, as / did," The
parent stood aghnst