The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-11-13
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elephant but we cant a ny. nt
ttOh. look, Louis. Fred just sen.
me this sweet Ii tie puppy vas
no lSind?'' eyes dear; but It's J"St
like him" .o1 "a
The man who was moved 20
tears" complains OF the dampheSS OF
tho premises aud wishes to be NOV
ed back agai". ,un
An Irish newspaper says IN
tim absence of both editors. the pup
l;sbcrs have succeeded in securing
the services ofa gentleman to ed''
the paper this week. -,
What's eggs this morning.
..Ergs. of course says the draief'
well" SAYS the customer III
olad of it. for the last | bought oil
YOU were all chickens"
II am astonished. my dear Young
lady. ut your sentiments-,yon make
me ~starty'' "Well, sir, ! have been
waiting for you to start for the last
hour" -.
The bashful young lady who fain-
ted when the butcher spoke OF a leg
of = mutton. has recovered suiil-
GENTLY to stuff herself witha breast
of veal.
',There are two things SAYS an
exchange, "tlat Il man don t IKE 10
admit-that he has been Tilted by Il
wnmar and that he drew Il blank in
a lottery
A faithful brother in a Fairchlld
(Conn.) church receatly pr; yed for
the absent members who were pros
trated ON beds Of sickness and chairs
of w~ellness.'
When an editor heads a leader
~ vital issue the proofreadeI
changes it to Il "victual issue and
saws strange what blamed fools
there arc trying to edit newspapers.
A GOOD old negro was burned to
crisp recently somewhere down IL
Georgia. The text of the funera
address, oddly enough, was; swell
done thou good and faithful ser
want
Rural Etiquettc-Guest: Don,
Won know any better than to wall
into my room without rapping.
YOU see | am all u~ndressed.' Ser
want: "Oh! You needn't excuse
Yourself, num- don't mind
Very i~nnocently an Irish news
Daper concludes an account OF al
imposing ceremony: The process
sion was very fine, being nearly two
mics long, as was also the praye
of the Rev.Mr McFadden.'
A lazy man, having Il wife nam
ed Hope, whose custom twas to pul
off her husbands boots every eve
inc. and was wont to exclaim OF
such occasions: "IIow truly 1t /
said that Hope is the yanker of tn
sole"
Mrs. Shoddy lately puckered u
her mouth genteelly, and told gen
tleman friend that one of her level.
daughters was Il blunctt, and tn
other Il bronze.
Hug -" was discovered writ
ten in a delicate female hand on tn
cuff of q Muscatine young man; an.
that young man still sticks to
that it was only lug. %"
Women some how get over child
ish notions that men never outgroV
Some men colearate the anniyersar
of every birthday as long as the
live, while women quit doing 50 a
most as seeu as they grow up.
recitation room scene-Profe>
sor in history to non-attentiYe sen
Tor; Mir, how long did the )
wears war LAST n. a s.: "Abou
IG wears, | think, sir Applaus
on the part of the attentive seniors
A Young man of one Of the frs
families of Syracuse went to a wf
tcring place. When he returned a
acauaintance asked him whetht
there we're medical springs at I'll
resort. "Springs-aw-yes,l belleN
there were And whatwas IL
property of the water, cathartlc {
diuretic?'' We'll, WEAKLY, l don
know. my dear boy, l did not taste
but from the smell l should say
was emetic."
"Got left, did you?' well. ain
I here" he responded. Then Oh
said he could 90 across the brld9
and catch it and another told hi
when the next train would go, al
made various suggestions. III
chap looked at the disappearlr
Grain a few moments, when som
body asked: where were YOU g
ing?" Then the wicked fellow sal
OIL was not going on it, b
there was q fellow on that ira
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