The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-10-09
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When a mans temper gets the
host of him it reveals the worst OF
him.
II is always the smoke from the
other mans cigar that is offensive
to the Young lady.
The difference between a Il
tran and is that the mousetrap
can't set itself
The coiner Of pennies takes a
common cents view OF things,
although he does mints matters.
Judging from the last remarks of
criminals the gallows turns off more
Christians than the churches.
Saratoga in the English language
mean the region of the big hills"
In plain English it means the re-
gion of big hills.
A poor but high-spirited woman
I'm Chicago pounds an old raT on the
kitchen table eNey morning to
make the neighbors believe she has
beefstead for breakfast.
1t is n mean man who would fool
n fish by wearing a white choker
and clerical coat when strolling
aloar the banks of Il brook on
Sunday.
"Smile when you can,' is the la
test thing we asked to do by those
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. beings, the
poets No one a smile when he
can't.
Nature believes in correspond
ences. When she endows a man with
an o~verpIus of cheek, she gives him
plenty chin to 90 with it.
When in passing a stately man
sion the only thing out of order is
the front gate it is evident that
there is Il marriagable daughter in
the house.
No matter how bad and destruct-
i've a boy may be, he never becomes
so degraded or looses his self re-
spcct sufficiently as to throw mud on
q circus poster.
The hottest man is handsome in
the eyes ola three-year-old, especi-
ally when reaching home handicap
ped with a sugar horse and q pound
of assorted candies.
johnny says his mother makes a
great cry if his sister goes out with
ont her shade-hat. She don't want
her to get freckled; but she dosen't
seem to care q bit how much his
father tans him.
Why-what is the difference be
tween q la eating an army biscuit
and a mar sitting on pier along
the Delaware river? Answer-One
is enjoying war fare, and the other
is enjoying wharf air!
A young woman applying for the
situation as teacher to a village
school, being questioned by the trus-
tee as to her qualifications, replied:
Il amt much of an arithmeticker,
but is an elegant grammarist."
The English peerage.-For math-
ematicians we may state the form
ula" thus: The eldest son of Peer
of the nth grade ranks next below
a Peer of the XIth grade. and next
above a younger son of a Peer OF
the Nth grade a Duke being con
,sidered as of the first grade"
His biggest tooth had just been
pulled; and, when he went out, he
calmly handed it to the ivory litter.
1.-TWO dollars, if you please" said
the foreepist. eight dollars, you
mean," sweetly responded the vic
tim. 'You filed that masticator
with$l0 worth ofraw coinage two
months ago; and if you haven't
cheated me, it's there yet.
"a pretty style of hair dressing
for the morning." says a fashinoable
journal, "is to wave all the hair"
We agree with the above. In the
morning it is not'only q pretty but
a useful fashion for women to
snatch all their hair off the back of
the chair, where it has reposed du-
ring the night, and wave it around
the room to chase out the flies.
A Tennessee darkey preacher
held forth recently as tollows:"Y
girls call your sweethearts "dar-
lings," and you men call yours "dai-
SEES" and you girls are afraid to
come up here for fear some other
girls will get off with your "dar-
lings," and you men for fear some
other fellow will get away with
your 'daisies," and, said he, "be-
tween this darling and "daisy"
business lots of you niggers are
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