The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1880-08-26
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Iron affected by i fog is m~istsrusted
Only = dtsession Of ttms-ssking the
hour.
A two foot ruie-don't wear tight
shoes as ElAatf et38
Every dog has his day bat the nights
belong to the cats. Il
The frog IL an emblem Of hope; he is
%eternally springing.
When Yen ssk some single ladies',
how old they are their rageis manifest.
The Jackson woman who set her
head on fire knows what it is to be light
headed.
"Constituentcy. thou art n jewell
remarks the candidate when he is re.
turned to Office.
There is a colored man employed at
the jackson postofic, and they call him
a black-msiler.
Amau is supposed to be in his prime
at forty, unless he knocks his prime
out before that time.
Al woman cannot become a success
full lawyer. She is too fond OF giving
her opinion without pay,
What a pity the census WAS not taken
during melon season, when half our
population was doubled mp.
A town in Oregon is named Looking
Glass, and lots of women are going
there. It's ~ place they like to see
themselves in.
Joseph gave Phoebe an onyx ring.
whereupon she said the gift was entire-
lip onyxpected.
Like a piece OF steel that man is
the strongest and most elastic who
always retains his temper.
Manufacturers of plaster know
enough to advertise. That is the only
way to make anything draw we'll.
The conductor who divided his col>
lectious with the company claimed that
it was a fare arrangement.
There's many a man whose highest
ambition is to successfully contest a
seat on IA nail keg in a corner grocery.
They have "a dark night at Vancouver
where Elisha Munsell, - colored man,
has been knighted by Queen Victoria.
People who never borrow trouble
sometimes have q good deal of it stored
away in the house.
There is a fortune in store for the ge>
Mus who shall produce q boiler iron
shoe for the small boy. Something
warranted to last two weeks.
Johnny says he has stndied chemis-
try enough out of school and in, to
know that an ox-hide is an exhilara-
tor.
Agreat many dramatic writer's are
coming out with rlays these days
coming out of managers offices with
plays under their arms.
You can never convince a man whose
lawn has been trampled down by 6
crowd but that there are sometimes
more than three feet in Il yard.
The fact that nature ouiy put Oh . el'
bow ia ~ mans arm. is sufficient to in
dictate that silr never Intended hira Il
fasten the collar hutrnn on the back o
his SHIRT
IfItb .trfta ~ ~,il"g.ri. i!tnt there !
one church that not.f 49, . III 'rtRaP
on it, why wasn't it brought to the Gen
tennial and exhibited among the othe
wonderful curiosities.
There is q fortune in store for til
miliiner who shall devise a bonnet tina
can be worn in any part of churc
and always present It's trimmed side t
he congregation.
"Sooner or later" says q Frenc'
writer, everything is found out Jus
so. A married man, for instance, i
generally found out later abou
three hours later than he should be
P.'s wife adores plants and flower
of all kinds. She has converted he
drawing room into a veritable forest
''At night, said she, the other day
''my husband is a little afraid. he
never comes in here unless he is arm
ed.
Another wonderful violinist has beer
creating u Juror in England and or the
continent of Europe. His name is NJ
MnsIn, and he is M-Musin large as
semblies.
Excited Bates man during game be-
tween Bltes and Bowdoin)-"Oh! dang.
he had ought to went. Young lady
lis that a Bates STUDENT" Bowdoin
man-"No miss, that is their professor
in rhetoric"
Upright legislator-"What. sir! You
take me for one who can be bribed?
You insult my sense of honor. But in
case I really was such a man, how much
would you give?'F
When a man wants to make his enc
my unhappy he poisons his enemy's
dog. Bat a woman chooses a very diff
erent way to make her enemy unhappy.
She buys some new clothes that her
enemy can't agord, and sits il. front of
her enemy in church.
A three year old boy at the north end
of the city was recently playing with a
donkey, who kicked him in the leg.
The little fellow went home crying to
his mother, who asked him with which
Neg the donkey kicked him. aud be-
tween his sobs the boy answered: ''rhe
leg which had the tail on it,"
story of William Tell.
He was captain of an archery club.
and one OF the best shots with the
bow and arrow in Switzerland. That
coantryy wa then under the rule of the
tyrant Gesler. One day Gesler set his
plug hat on . pole for men to salute.
and ordered that every mar in Altorf
slouid make obeiance TO it or die.