The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1880-05-28
PASSING SMILES.

music but they hook too many bars.
GAN any one improve his condition by
whiniLg2 II not, whine not
Ny burden is light remarked the
little man carrying a big torch in the
procession.
WE are told that liars shall not pros
per, yet Jules Verne has made $256,000
out Of his original books,
lou'RE man after my own heart"
rs the hlushing maiden confessed when
her lover proposed marriage.
IRIS twice as much work to spade up
ground for garden purposes as it is to dig
il over for bait.
JUDGING from the tone of the Chi
cago papers the st. Louis girl is obliged
to 60 up stairs sideways. DaHbury
Neacs
TAKEN together all the beauties Of
art and nature do not begin tointerest
the lnquisiliye female SO much as the
view she gets through keyhole.
"PLEAsE to understand" said the
honorable Billy, the other day, I'm
not such Il fool as look" No" said
Bob, that would be too much"
A MAN has invented chair which can
be adjusted te so different positions.
II is designed for a boy to sit in when
having his hair cut.
= "THEY have women tramps out in
Iowa" and soon they'll be monopolizing
that business, and poor man will be
obliged to work for Il liying.-Oa City
Ierrick.
A New JERSEY colored man, whose
wife had left him, said: "She would
come back if j frowed her some sugar;
but | amt frowin' no sugar, do you
leahg'
IT is time.honored custom in
Quincy, Fla, TO salute n newly married
couple by firing cannon. This is to re.
mind those present that the battle of life
has fairly begun.
WHEN boy falls and peels the skin
off his nose the first thing he does is to
get up an yell When girl tumbles and
hurts herself badly the first thing she
does is to get up and look at her dress
II DON'T wish to say nything against
the individual in question:" said very
polite gentleman, "but would merely
remark, in the language of the poet
that to him truth is stranger than fic'
tion."
THAT was triumphal appeal of the
lover Of antiquity, who, in arguing the
superiority OF old architecture over the
new, said: "Where will you find any
modern building that lasted so long al
the ancientW
TIE Whitehall Times is mean enough
to tell this: "When the professors al
Vassar College desire the young ladies
to be good, and prepare to become
angels, they tell them that all female
angels are permitted to slide down on
sunbeams"
A YOUNG man in Maryland started
out with horse and lance and battle-ax
to champion damsels in distress. He had
not gone five miles when red-headed
school ma'am pulled him off his steed
and rolled him in the mud.
WHEN tie young and tender school girl isn't think.
Isn't thinking,
OF the time when she will be allowed 70 vote,
Lowed 10 vote,
The chances are that she l. e0yly ,,ll,g, ,S,li9lh,ing,
At some young man in a zebra overcoat,
Overceat
-FslO Hdpsn Register.
A,YoUNG gentleman in a lager beer
restaurant up town is known to be in
love and to have given up eating A
sausage being placed before him the
other day, he was seen to toy with IL
awhile, and when he was asked what he
was doing he said he was carving her
name on the bark.
The mule stood on his OF fore leg,
| WHENCE all but him had fed,
And kicked fierce gun cotton keg,
Right oD its bottom head.
|. The keg IL burst with grievous sound,
| The mule, Oil where he2
| Go ask him, for he stood his ground,
And still kicks muleiully
brooklyn Eagk.
"PA, will you get me pair of skates
| if | prove that dog has ten tailsp
eyes, my SON." t'Well, one dog has
one more tail than no dog, hash hep
ayes" "Well, no dog has nine tails;
and if one dog has one more tail than no
| dog, then one dog must have ten tails.
Hand over thefskates, please"
IT is wonderful what fools boys are.
! A charming widow Of our city owns a
/ nice boy, and man from St. Paul wants
to be appointed deputy father to the
lad. Ii was only last Sunday that while
tire st. Paul man was strolling down
Chestnut street with the lad, he asked: !:
eBub, does your mamma bang her hairY"
and that foolish boy answered, 20, no,
but you ought to see her bang dads
head. Guess the minister didn't know
everything when he told pa to prepare to
die. Prepare! why he was aching to
die"
DAVE" Ben, if I was to lose de blade
out of dis knife and get anoder put in,
would it be de same knifeT'
hen" Yes"
Daye-Well, den, if / was to lose de