The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1880-06-24
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A Low story--the basement.

A Low story--the IN
Dead issues-old newspapers.
The home stretch-putting up n
clothes line.
If a ship arrive in port a second late
they dock it.
The loafer and the Wall Street broN
ker love to get a corner on the street.
If any one asks credit of a photos
Igrapher he is likely to get a negative
answer.
Moral swuashun IL a good thing to
kaptivate lambs with, but IL good for
nothing on mules, only to fesoon
the klub with.
Peter Observation-Disclosures is q
Norwegian doing business in k%andiyosi,
Minn. Nhbody ever bothered him by
punning on his name.
An observing man has discovered o
similarity between a young ladies' sens
mary and a sugar~house, rs both refine
what is already sweet.
Authors are spoken of as dwelling in
%attics, because so few of them are able
to live on their first story.
Life on the plains" a book just out
won't be much of a success. Only six
Indians killed in the first chapter.
In reading the personals and depar-
lures in the newspapers II discovers
that distinguished visitors, like loose
powder, go off with a puff.
A French provincial playful, in set
} ting forth the particulars of a new dra"
thieves will be played by amateurs OF
: the city.
a Atthirty we are all trying to carve oul
: names in big letters upon the walls O.
n this tenement of life; twenty years AT
Y ter we have carved 1t, or shut mp GU.
f iacknife.
If When a Georgia man gets too veal
g to split a watermelon open with an AK
Il his relatives begin to look around an'
see what's the best they can do on
headstone.
"What," says an inquisitive young
lady, us the most popular colon 10
a bride" We may be a little partlcnla
u IN such matters, but we should prefer
white one.
If Bismarck insists on his resigna
=, ton the Emperor William knows on
address. Up two flights of stairs. an
)r knock at the right hand door. Don
Ut kick the PANELS.
See mammal exclaimed IA littl
l. one, as puss, with arching spine ant
N elevated rudder, strutted around the ia
lie bic, See, kitty's eat SO much she can
A. shut her tail down"
III A couple of plumbers are talking O
=" buying Niagara Falls this summer an
IS presenting 1t to the Government. 1t !
+ understood TO he n sort of bride offer
the signal service.
No II should make sport of low
The chap who can t love for all he
worth when young, is the man whot
grocers COMPEL to pay cash down whe
t he is old and bald>headed.
He why, You see, the fact is, m
II dear, | knocked your medieval teapo
It off the top shelf and broke She
Id "Oh, my prophetic soull' My teapot
h. He bitterly mo merely my head!
:, Heavy swell-[to a customer of tn
house Il think | have seen you beior'
to Your lace looks very familiar to me-.
Is Customer-"Yery Likely, sir; | was Ion
is IL ~st4erItf 5 officer. LGent coliapsea.
y A young m.n who plunged into til
~ water auu rescued 4 maldtn who b"
sunk to the bottom, was rewarded d
III her hand. Sine couldn't dount his al
s. lection; she knew he was ready to div
a Ter her
q Emerson says everything good
VI man leans on something higher. I'm
ID ersson was right. We have seen a ma
IS lean on a telegraph pole and the onl
D. good il him was beer, at least h
n said it was good.
cS As the time for the farmer to use hi
he mowing-machine and other labor-saV
10 ing contrivances draws near, he doc
ii tors grow cheerful and provide then
= selves with plenty of lint and bandage
. ready for Immediate use.
One of our Boston butchers has gon
stark mad. He was heard to remar
to a customer today: No, sir, this ]
10 not spring lamb; it is mutton" Th
II Oldest inhabitaut has been in to sa
that he never heard anything like 1t l
all his experience.