The Yazoo sentinel. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1878-1916, 1879-12-18
MAIFS AND WHY'S.

ONLY those, according the Elmira Ad
veTtiser, with warts or blemishes on their
forehead, wear banged hair.
GoLDES-LEGGED green beetles, that
look like painted cockroaches, are seen
on some of the new bonnets.
BLACK surah petticoats, bordered
with kilt plaitings, are TO be worn this
winter, il is said
VERY long and absolutely plain silk
waists Of plain or brocade silk are made
for young ladies to wear in, the evening.
A DAVENPORT lady is about TO sue for
divorce on the ground that her hus-
band "has no style about him"
A MEMBER of a London ladies' club
was requested 10 resign for kissing her
brother in the dining-room.
HooPs are coming into fashion again.
Hoops are things to put around women
to keep them from bursting with vanity.
"JoHN! John" shouted the farmers
wife, the butter won't come. Run.
quick, and get me another sack Of
hair"
IT'S not at all surprising that Adam
fell. He had Eve constantly about him
talking about a nude dress, and she had
one every day.
In discussion with temperance
lecturer, topper asked: If wafer rots
y3ur boots, what effect must it have upon
tle coat of your stomach?
"YEs, Mr.. Barkeopcr; L am not like
the rest who, when they owe you money.
never show themselves any more; | re-
main faithful to you. Giv's 'nothes
bottlep
PRoFEssoR-"Now, / ask you, as a
practical miner, what spade do you think
is the very best? Third-year man
(scornfully)-"Why, the ace, of course.
(Sensation.)
An exchange has an article on q How
to run newspaper" This should be
read only by editors, as every other per-
son in the world knows just how a news
paper ought to be run.
KNOWLEDGE is the right bower, and
one of the showiest cards in the pack,
yet in the game of life, cheek is the
little joker that is oftentimes the
winner.
"MoNEY docs everything for a man."
said one old gentleman, pompously.
" Yes" replied the other one, but
money won't do as much for man as
some men will do for money"
Mr.. THOMAS thinks it is one of the
most touching things in life to hear
Western hog singing to its youngest,
" There's litter in the mire, baby mine,
baby mine"
THAT was an observing fellow, If he
was but six years old, who said, 'Papa,
wish you'd quarantine against Tom
Jones comiE here every night to see
Jennie. It's got to be too epidemic"
THE Boston Post has invented a new
gun for the use of the didn't-know-it-
people. The Post explains
that cit lets the charge out at the
breech."
RUSSIAN ladies have just begun to
take part in boat races. In Saratofr the
irst prize, a golden bracelet, and the sec
md, golden breastpin, were aAiudged
10 the two young ladies who ham led the
rudder. 49,
A CHINESE maxim says: "We reoujre
our things from woman-that virtue
iwells in her heart, that modesty plavs
On her brow, that sweetness flows from
Ter lips, that industry occupies her
The girls ought to be comparatively
Iappy. They are wearing bows hats
'oy's ties, boys cravats, and it is bintea
nat they contemplate a raid upon an
ther important part of the males sp-
arel-according to DR.. Mary Walker.
A YOUNG man who had lost bet Of
he oysters with three of his friends. said
g wouldn't pay it unless he was four
lew. he has since made a bet with
Inc OF his friends, and says he in ten
lew this time, if he loses. Later: He
eclares two of the bets of, and when he
'mes to lose ard pay, it will appear
lat he eight sts%
A WRITER in the August Ge1ltlemG4ts
Idgdzi7le says that it is true of nations
J of individuals that a sheer is almost
J unpleasant to bear as q blow, and
lat he is not sure that Dickens Amer
an Notes did not do moret to estIange
Y time the two countries than the
labama difficulty.
A LONDON gent, walking in Dublin
II the first time, got into easy CONVEX
tion with native, and chaffed him
winding up with this
mart observation: Nov, tell me, Pat,
here you would be if the devil got his
ies?" Pat replied with feigned sim
lefty, Sure, then, I'd be Slone, yer
onor."
AT social gathering in Ireland the
nversation turned, by some accident,
on marriage. One of, the girls, ad-
essing handsome young man, quite
as she explained, said: IF
we're you and you were me would
We married long ago."
YORKSHIRE trainer recently ne
aled his method of meeting conjugal
rm. His plan, he said, was to keep
snce aud nod his acquiescence to every
ng, no matter what was said by his
'use. Yes" remarked one Of his
ends, "but then she has it all her own
y" "Just SC" replied the Tyke,
h satisfaction; ''and nothing snnoys
so much. There is nothing women
he like a walk-oyer."
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