The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1878-11-28
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GOSSIP OF THE DAY.
Bret Hart is thirty-nine,
Dan p,klor :, o;Ix IL

ching of beauty" because she, az he
SAYS. sis a jaw forever"
Blyard Taylor says he is very fond of
Spiritual thiugs-the kind you suck
from jug, You know.
Paul Boyton, the wonderful swimmer,
is in France, and he is having swim-
ming old time ..
Christmas is near at hand, and the
average turkey strokes his beard and
muses. over the fate in store for him.
Barnum has new curiosity. 1t is a
woman who never trims the nails of
her right foot first.
"Coal OIL johnny who used to
splurge around with twenty millions of
dollars, now saws wood for living.
Verify oil wealth is vanity!
Twelve men and two women each
claims to be the author of Beautiful
Snow" It's sno,o matter who wrote it,
it's an ice poem.
Judge Smiley,of Summit, never swears.
When fun loving small boy sets pin
in his chair he simply says, "blast it,"
and instantly all is serene again.
Walk up like man and pay thy prin-
ters bill, so that thy days may be long
in the land which the Lord thy God
| hath given thee.
1t requires man of no small intellect
! fG rock the cradle, read a newspaper,
and listen to his wife's gossip about
the new neighbors, al! at once.
Ben Batter says he wants peace.
/ ten thought he would govern apiece
of thls country week or two since,
but the people of Massachusetts thought
differently.
Let no misguided person come to
this Office with poem of the scourge,
or the latest discovered cure for yellow
fever. His end, should he come, will
be sad and mournful.
"Another telegram for Mr.. Tilden!'
yells the boy as he PUSHES iuto the Elk
Governor private office. Exit Sam'l
j., pale and trembling.
Ia. 5,lil.tl Herald has Just pub
lished the fourth of July address de
livered at Liberty by Mr.. Thompson.
II will publish the Declaration of indie
pendence in day or two.
They are having rousing old revival
of religion up in West Point, Tenn.
The minister and members Of a church
at that place had free fight all round
the other night.
james Watts, OF Raymond, sat down
and smoked on keg of powder the
other day. James has fewer legs and
arms to carry around than formerly.
and that's Watts tie matter with Watts
Frantz, of the Brandon Republican,
alludes to the Rankin county Board of
Supervisors as "our bully Board OF
Supervisors. Of course they feel
somewhat COW. ed by his sarcasm.
A Hazlehurst man adyertises for a
gentle mule. We would respectfully
inform him that the days of miracles
and of gentle mules are past. We
never saw but one gentle mule aud he
was dead one.
Inc puIuurs "oing sPrins
poetry for fuel. We have long been
of the opinion that the brilliant eff
fusions of our romantic Young men
and maidens would at last receive
their due appreciation.
Ola Williams Acres, of Bolton, Miss.
is the father Of thirty-one children
Strange isn't it, that though he hash I
foot of land, he yet has many 4 cFe&?
Some rooa paragraphcr will probably
! smile at this joke.
George Francis Train says that it is a
very easy matter to cure yellow fever,
but we notice he didn't offer to come
South and cure any of it. George is
, one of those fellows who is remarkable
for saying great deal and performing
very little.
Wade Hampton has broken his leg;
Grant is in Europe, and Hayes pros
poets are very Hasey. What's this
country going 10 do for Il President,
anyway?
Susan 3 Anthony is getting wrink-
led and grey and uses more cosmetic
than ever 1t won't do Susie, old girl.
All the Laird's Bloom of Youth in the
world won't save you nowt YOu can
law around and abuse the men while
YOU are Young, b1G when old age fast>
ems his claws in your back you've got
to bend,
The St Joseph, Missouri, Gazette,
furnished this reply to a lady who de-
sired to know whether striped stock :
ings would be EXTENSIVELY worn during
this season: "We are really unable at
present to state whether striped stock
ings will or will not be much worn this
season. The weather has been very
me 1IJt1y anu tICIcLotC VIC liut IL iih
possible to make any observations that
would lead to any definite conclusions
III regard to the matter
"Wbo will kiss my cherry lips"
writes Elizabeth Akers Allen. the 'sweet
singer" of The Christian Union. We
will Betsy, you Bet! just come down
South and we'll show you what we can
do in tho kissing business! We will
kiss you by the yard, mile, day, week,
month or year! Come right along
that is ii you are handsome and don't
eat onions. 81.
All, let mo investigate. the interior of
this wonderful structure, said Brook
haven man as he took up large speci-
men of hornets uest the other morn,
ing Before he had completed the in
vestigation he concluded that perhaps
he had better postpone it indefinitely
He islnow investigating the interior of
a bottle of iniment and science has
for him lost all her charms.
Jonas Stringer. of Magnolia, simply
looked little displeased when his first
boy proved to be girl; he didn't let
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