The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1880-11-27

The present political canvass will be
known hereafter as the Fac Simile
Campaign.
Mount Vesuvius, the unruly "crater''
is on its ear again, and tearing up
things generally.
The good housewife is at present ell
gagged in fixing up slove-pipes and
getting her fall SCOT.
Which kind of fruit did Noah take
into the Ark u? He took pairs OF
every kind.
Stopping II busy man on the street
and taking up his time is simply
highway robbery.
He is not only idle who does moth
ing, but he is idle who might be better
employed.
The youth who thinks the world
his oyster, and opens it forthwith finds
no pearl therein.
In memory's mellowed light we be-
hold not the thorns, we see only the
beautiful flowers.
TO be comfortable and contented,
spend less than you can carn-an art
which few have learned.
None more impatiently suffer in
juries than those who are always most
forward in doing them.
Kindness is slowed away i'm the
heart like rose leaves IN drawer, to
s'Veeten every object arolnd them,
and bring hope to the weary-hearted.
If you only knew how little you
know it would not be very long be-
fore you knew ii great deal mora.
When King David remarked ~
have said in my heart all men are
liars,' he evidently referred to the way
in which election probabilities are
patched up.
a beggar held out his hand. 81
havn't a cent" said the gentleman.
81 did not specify the coin," respon-
ded the mendicant.
A little girl noticing the glittering
gold filling in her aunt's front teeth,
exclaimed "Aunt Mary, wish | had
copper toed teeth, like yours"
In philosophy, as in nature, every
thing changes, everything changes its
form, and one thing exists by the DIES,
tructiOn of another.
Whoever looks for friend without |
will never find what he
seeks. We love ourselves with all our
faults, and ought to love our friends
in like manner.
A beautiful answer was given by
little Scotch girl. When her class
was examined she replied, "What is
patience?"-"Wait wee, and dinna
Isn't it kind o'curiOus that no Wo-
man goes to the telephone to answer
,he ring without wondering if her
lair is all right and her train in the
proper shape?
A strolling theatrical company was
It the dinner table. A waiter APP
,roached one of the members and said:
Soup" "No, sir ~ replied the guest.
Il am one of the musicians"
at like hot weather best" said
girl, "because it makes
"a and ma so sleepy that they don't
ONE bothering around the parlor the
lights have male company"
A woman may be loved for three
hings; for her superior intellect-a
owe serious but rare: for her beauty
love vulgar but brief; for the quality
f her heart-a love lasting but mo-
OtOnOus.
1t does seem as if the the fates were
cad set against Alfonso. He wanted
boy, but his wife gave him only u
tile bit of girl and to crown it al,
he poor little thing was born without
tooth in its head.
Professionalism is the more deli
ate of the senses ?" Sophomore
The touch" P.-"PrOve it," S.
When you sit on tack. You can't
ear it; you can't see it; you can't
lste it you can't smell it, but it is
lere."
A member of church being par
cular about the new minister, is said
have prayed aloud at the late meet
lg of the Kirk elders, "Send us not
4 old man in his dotage, nor a young
ian in his goslinghOOd, but man
it'll all the modern improvements"
1t is better not to ask too many
IestiOns about the future. A curious
lsband-that is husband who was
70 curiOus-asked his wife, "My dear, !
hat kind of stone do you think
icy will give me when I am gone"
ne answered, cOyly, birthstone,
,hn.n 4
The terrible power of early educa-
On to shape mans life is illustrated ]
: this proverb, taken from the
lanish :-"What is sucked in with q
e mothers milk stays until it runs
It in the shrOud. u
Pride is as loud a beggar as want,
id a great deal rancier. When you
I'VE bought one fine thing, you must n
" ten more, that your appearance III
ay be all one piece but it is easier
suppress the first desire than to
tisfy all that follow it. +,
If you have any real greatness, you
mt 90 far before the world will find
out. Small men insist that they
2 great, while great men can afford
keep still. The Talmud says that
III kinds of wood burns silently ex- Ty
pit thOrns, which crackle and call
/, we too are wood ?" 81