Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-09-18
PITH AND POINT.


principal.
Uneasy lies the foot that wears
the corn.
A hair on the head is worth more
than dozen in the hash. |
If poverty is q disgrace mended
stockings are darned shame.
Hogs may be planted IN any kind
OF soil they take root anywhere.
The watch lacks self-respect; it is
always trying to run itself down.
When mans temper gets the
best of him it reveals the worst of
him.
Major Moe, one Of Barnum's
| dwarts, died few days ago at Hart
ford.
The ordinary life of a locomotive is
80 years. The locomotive never
marrles.
We never heard of man so mean
that fly wouldn't become attached
| to him.
Fullness under the eyes denotes
language. BARRIERS are the most affiic-
ted in this respect.
"What will the harvest be?'' asks
an exchange. Well, just wait till the
harvest bee crawls up your trousers
legs, and you'll find out.
When an honest hen is laying the
foundation for u family and doing all
the hard work, some absurd rooster
is ready TO do all the growing.
A pretty girl down east is "mind
reader" She said to bashful beau,
the other night: "Hall. 1 believe
you are going to kiss me-" She was
right.
The maddest man in seven counties
is the farmer who worked like hero
to save drowning man, only to find
that he had rescued llghtning-rod
agent.
There is one thing to be said for
the fly-he seldom departs from his
summer stoppi1g-place without leav-
ing small mark of his appreciation
behind.
A young lady graduate may in af-
ter years forget the title Of her essay,
but she will always remember how
her white ''pekay" dress was made
and trimmed.
; The following laconic epitaph,
8 carved on a Spanish tombstone,
should be remembered: Il was well,
l tried to feel bettel, took phvsic,
t and here | am
I. Mrs. SEoddy lately puckered up
! her mouth genteelly, snd told a gen.
tleman friend that one of her lovely
daughters is "blunett, and the
}, other Il "blonze."
One reason why Texas lawyers dc
not bully witness on the stand Ii
;. because q Texas witness would as
t soon begin shooting from witness
: box as anywhere else.
= A Maine political speaker men
:. tioned somebody as a Shyl0ck, ant
an auditor asked who Shylock was
+ ''If you don't know the orator
: scorntully replied, you'd better &C
i home and read your Bible. "
y Il would box your ears" said :
4 young lady OF Bellefaste to her stupit
- and tiresome admirer, eff 81
i what?'' he anxiously asked, "It,'
J. she repe ated, II could get a bo,
4 large enough for the purpose.
o A gentleman was in the city las
}, week trying to introduce paper shirt!
It for summer wear. We don't know
j. but it seems to US that a shirt mad,
t, cut of story paper would have to'
.e many tales.
A woman who comes into churcl
. half an hour late in order to show OF
:. her good clothes, should be LOOKED
. upon mildly. She is simply maxim,
Il room IN Heaven for two women il
" calico.
r. We know girl who will wrestl
+ with croquet mallet in the hot su
If for hours and not complain. Blu
:, lust ask her to hold on to the woode
n end of 8 broom for few minutes an
of she'll have a fit.
IN Lightning struck tree in Georgi
is to which mule was tied, splIntere
n it to klndlings and melted the buckle
to on the halter, and yet that mule wa
en browsing ON the fallen limbs whe
d. hunted up. Are mules -condu'
IN tors?
III A bald-headed professor, reprovin
e. a youth for the exercise of his fist
We said: "We fight with our heads 4.
a. this college," The young man r.
he hected a moment, and then replied
&c "Ah / see, and you have butted yol
y hair all off,"
e, Singular, isn't it, that when ma
MS gives his wife dime to buy box
he hairpins or gum ring for the bab'
be it looks about seven times as big :
when he planks it down on the b
for little gin and bitters for Il
\, stomach's sake.
An old bachelor being i'll his sist
ed presented him q cup of medicin
r! "What is it?' he asked. She al
lie swered, SIT is elixir asthmatic, it
he very aromatic, and will make ye
he feel ecstatic." Nancy" he repiie
ng with smile, "you are very siste
,m matte"
Ter The relationship of man and W
for man in rsiny weather, according
Of. the Albany Jouanal, is easily disco
on cred. If they are lovers, the womi
6e will have all the umbrella, and Il
to man won't care fig how wet he get
he But if they are married, it is just t
ON opposite.
The "Who does the vast amount
nut money required to pay the interest