The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1878-10-17
GOSSIP OF THE DAY.

Mrs Myra Clark Gaines 10 not ye,
out of law suits.
"A Tennessee paper publishes the
Lords Prayer as an item of news fol
its readers.
Blessed is the man who in these days
Of idlc show desireth to live within his
income.
A Hazlehnrst man is SO stingy that he
saves the lather from his shaving cur
to use in washing his handkerchiefs. 81
The boy that will vilely and mali
ciously saturute cat with turpentint
and then apply fire to the combination
is not far from the galows.
Texan newspaper offices have two
sets of stairs. One for the excited
politician to rnsh UP, and the other
TO the terrified editor to sneak down.
Don't caress yonr wife and children
in public, and snarl and growl at them
at home. This proves you to be both a
hypocrite.. and dog. and don't you for
get it! e5
That three tougued Georgia girl is
dead. Now suppose that she had lived
and grown mp and married, wouldn't
she have given her old man particular
fits? We shudder to think OF it'll
Will. 8. Hayes. the popular ballad
writer, will soon publish song Begin
ming with the following lines: 'tFold
me to your bosom pet; for the old mans
ewes are shet!"
There are only six handsome girls IL
Yazoo City, Miss. and it makes q mar
feel bad to observe how the young mer
of that place slide around aud try tt
look cheerful and contented.
Neither Webster's nor Worcester's
dict onary contains q word that car
properly describe the anguish Of the
young man who discovers that his col
lar has become unbuttoned in church
during service.
The wise girl tucketh up her sleeves
and goeth into the kitchen and helpett
her mother; but the foolish girl loung'
eth about in the parlor and readeth the
latest novel or bangeth away at the fes
tive piano.
Our "City Fathers have assembled
and have passei an ordinance forbid
ding all trains to stop at this place. We
expect them to meet and have the tele
graph wires pulled down in day Oh
two. There's nothing like little eau,
ton, you know. sst
A Beauregard man married and bur
led the nine daughters of Copial
county farmer, and the old man was
compelled to move off to keep the
aforesaid Beauregard man from marry
ing the old lady.
Thirty years ago Philip Brown, OF
Magnolia, held up his hand and sol
EMMY swore that he would be Presi
dent of this country in less than than
ten years. Philip Brown is now ped,
ding peanuts on board an Ohio river
steamboat
Richard Smith refused to marry his
affianced because she bore the name
of "Euphrasey" We don't blame you
continental, Dick. The man that
would marry girl with such name as
that deserves to have his hair pulled
out by the roots. 80.
When Dennis Kearney has beer
beaten to death with sandbag; Hen
nv Ward Beacher run back ward through
a threshing machine and Bob IDgersol
compelled to repent and join the Baptist
church, then and not till then. will
peace and prosperity dawn upon this
sorely afflicted country.
In the Island of Cyprus when Q
young man feels like marrying be
doesn't fool around about it for three
or four years, counting, sitting up Sum
day night, wasting the old mans oil
ETC. He simply marches to the girls
house, knocks her down and drags hel
off We have long been of the opin
ion that Cyprus was far ahead of Amer
lea in this respect.
Will some one pity our benighted
condition and inform MS what kind Of 6
gander Michi- gander is?Now don't ev
cry goose of q paragrapher rise up and
give us foul answer. We are not such
chicken as to be hacked by hen 9
conceited upstart who imagines he car
answer the question.
How the men do change! When Mr.
Samuel Clark, OF Lexington, married
Miss Angelina DAWES he called her his
Darling Angelina. One year s;5ul
marriage it was "Mrs Clark. y Tive
years after, ''old soft head. He nov
refers to her as {" that old cat. What
the future has in store for that woman
cannot be conjectured.
! There are only two men in the office
of the Brandon Republican, Frantz and
Collins; and correspondent writes that
it is really painful to observe how
Frantz win swear and swear at Collins
when he pies form and how Collins
will swear back at Frantz and splnrge
around and yell "More COPY until
the very old waste-basket trembles in
terror.
Wouldn't it be nice, though, if the
dead could return to life and read al
the good things the obituary writers
are saying about them? That's th.
way of this world, though. A fellow
never receives any praises worth men
tioning while he resides here; but jusi
let him die, and then see how the ole
bypocrites grab their pens and lie-ane
make him out to be a perfect angel