Mexico weekly ledger., 1878-11-07

OF q rope.
Savings banks are now dubbed los
ing banks.
The greatest strike of the day
O'Clock.
Something of a wag--the tip of
dogs tail.
Now is the winter of our discon
tent upon rs.
The richer a man makes his food
the poorer be makes his appetite.
Women are funniest when they sa,
nothing. Women are seldom funny
He who dares to he and always &C
the man, is a credit to God and him
self.
The "Tammany ticket in Nes
York was badly beaten by the fusion
ticket.
Almost any idiot can vote, even i
he has no idea of the effect of hi
voting.
The theater has in sill ages beef
the first lesson learned by the begin
ners invice.
Better be q red ant with no sugar
within reach. than an old maid at /:
dancing party.
George Washington wasn't always
the first even in war or in peace. HI
married a widow.
Thirty-ene States held elections
Tuesday, and in twelve Of these gov
errors were elected.
Massachusetts, sat down on Der
Butler Tuesday with renewed empha'
sis. Kearney did it.
Cats originally came from Norway,
and nobody would have cared if they
had originally staid there.
Coal oil is no revivalist, but it con-
verts fifty women into angels where
the minister converts one.
Butler told the people of Cape Cod
that bloated bondholders we're to
blame for the low price of cranber-
ries.
1t takes less to educate a child to
be a good citizen of use to the world
than to crafty an appetite for to-
bacco.
The third and last session Of the
Congress will begin on the
I'd of December and close ON the 4th
Of March.
Selfshness is commendable when it
us to take proper care of
ourselves, with proper regard for the
of others.
Burbank, OF the New Orleans
wrestled five weeks with
the yellow fever. He is one of those
banks that dom break.
1t is better to stub ones Toes and
than never to walk, but folks
who think high, and step high, are
not SO apt to stumble.
If what murderers, who die OH the
yallows, say is true, what a lot of
there must be in Heaven with
red marks around their necks.
An Irish shoemaker lately advised
customer, when he complained of
new boots being tight, not to put
them on until he had worn them for a
day or two.
Of a dull student a professor said {:
suppose he is made like ether
but L will venture to say that
it would puzzle an anatomis; to find
scholar-bone."
Sergeant Sanders, of Parkersburg,
is so years old, and says he has not
slept for fifteen years. If he could
sleep SIS hard as he lies he would
never wake up. ~
"Sandy, what is the state of relig-
ion in your town. "Bad, sir, very
There are no Christians ex-
cept Davie and myself, and I have
my doubts about Davie.
A Chicago pork packer whose pew
rent was raised to S25, exclaimed,
"Great Casarl Here's a nice state
of affairs-the Gospel going up and
going down. What is to be-
come of us?"
The people of Saline county are
wild over the new c. G A. Railroad.
They think it's ga big thing on
wheels" The editors up there sit
on a tie pile day and night to see the
iron horse snort and watch ssthe
wheels 60 wound"
"Are grapes healthy3" asks an
exchange. As a fruit, opinions diff
Ger. George Washington, Christie
pher Columbus, Noah, Napoleon the
First, and Mary, Queen of Scots,
ate grapes, and they are all dead
now.-Draw your own conclusions.
Olive Logan says that man existed
over COG, 900 years ago And she
tells the truth. We conversed with
a man the other day who was born
just about that man years ago. He
said the Nationsl-G reenback. Labor
party would carry the county this fall.
"Why does lightning SO rarely
strike twice in the same placer
Professor Workman asked the new