The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1880-07-22
Orr Hessert
Meet me by moonlight a Loan.


Meet me by moonlight Loan.
Caught on the fiy--The spider.
A man my be right and yet he left.
Something to add mire-A streets
sprinkler,
Mice are an gnawful race.
Loves labor lost-A prevented eiope-
ment.
The editor feels bully when he is COW
hided.
The way to make large hole in your
pocket is to incur large rent.
When two goats meet by the head
tits a button mill.
Two heads are better than one-but
not on the same pin.
How did you find uncle Johne' I'm
apple>pie ORDER" "How is that'
"Crusty."
Some one inquiries; "Where hav"
all the ladies' belts gomez" Gone to
waist, long ago.
Those who put their money into the
telephone stock make a sound invest
ment
What age did Captain Marryat?-N
Y. News. At the 'av' erage of course.
How can ones heart ever be in the
right place when it is always on the
left side?
Adam, in his day, was forced to oc-
oupy the ground for his bed. AS didn
live in the cottage.
thank the Lord that there is one
thing in this world that money kant
buy, and that is the wag ov dogs
tail.
HE that gathereth in summer is a
wise dealer" was not written OF the ice
dealer.
1t is said that care will kill cat; but
, very few people care enough for cat
TO try the experiment.
Some one APPLY describes the opera
rs that sort of music where they
squ al and go up, aud then choke and
come down.
A COW passed by, limpiug badly on
one foot, and the smart man remarked
tersely, "Corned beef.
Base ingratitude-B Borrowing a mans
breech>loading shotgun and suing him
for damages because it went off at the
wrong end.
A medical journal is discussing the
question, how long we can live on pigs
feet Pigs sometimes live on them
three or four years, or even more.
"She never told her love"-because
her young man, anticipating something
of the kind. hasn't called to see her
since leap year opened.
A compositor who "set up" the toast,
"Woman-without her, man would be
a savage" put the stops in the wrong
place, and it read, Woman, without
her man, would be a savage
1t was Chicago woman who first in
vented the ida of placing canary bird
stuffed with sawdust in place where
cat would have to work two hours to
get at it.
CAN'T that lovely critter. john
slid Jerusha, rs they stopped opposite
the leopartl's cage. "Wa-al, yes" said
John. but. then. he's dretfully freckl-
ed, amt he?"
The latest sweet thing in the song
line is entitled kiss Me Quickly.
Birdie Darling" 1t is described as
serio>comic- serio part probsbl,
beginning upon the arrival of the old
man.
The Buffalo Express having evidently
passed through the mill says: "a mar
can live on music and poetry until he
is married. but after that he must be
another kind"
In distant Anglo Saxon times, girls
father gave his prospective son-in-lav
shoe as an evidence of transferred
power The custom is kept up unit
this day, though the shoe very fire.
Quently contains foot.
A contemporary, congratulatinf
another, says, "Hele is ourssS" W.
do not want to mention any names. bu
desire to say simply that we have al
opinion of journalist who will holt
out single finger to one of his fratern
ity.
No real generous man would go to {
spiritual seance given by lady medi
UNI, and just as the ghost is walking
about (whiie the medium is tied in the
cabinet), exclaim: There's rat right
by the ghost" 1t spoils the effect to
have the ghost yell and gather up its
skirts and run.