The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1880-11-19
pITH AND POINT.

AND now Indy Godiva il said to be q
myth--a bare falsehood, NJ it were.
AcroRs should Do watched closely on
election day. They are professional re-
peaters.
SOME one inquiries Where have all
the ladies' bolts gomez" Gone TO waist
long ngo.
III n mule had as many legs rs u cock
roach this country wouldn't be 50 thickly
populated,
THE bobtailed horse spends his whole
existence III lamenting his lack Of ter
minal facilities.
A uoMroslroR who cannot Hgreo with
his wife says he must have taken her
out Of the wrong font.
WnY is the discovery q the North pole
like an Illicit whisky manufactory? Be-
cause it's secret still.
IT requires but short time for n
young lady ont shopping to learn all the
countersigns Of the dry-goods trade.
"IcASNor think, Gays Dick
What makaH my ankles grow 80 thick
You DO not recolect, 2 says Harry
How great calf they have 70 carry"
TuE ME SAYS it was Il Bloomington
man who hit The nail on the head, hut
| he munned the loss of u thumb by the
transaction.
From Adam they took a ribhono to
mako fair woman. Eair woman has
been made mp with ribbon ever since.
| Bl0oniligtoH ED0.
PHYSICIANS now saythat the telephone
Is injurious TO the ear. We presume
/ it's the strain Of listening and hearing
nothing that does the harm.
one Of the first acquisitions received
from i newly-appointed railway station
agent was "Send me gallon OF red
oil for the danger lanterns.
In Texas there is township called
Gin, and in it town called Brandy, and
the name q tho postofiice is Rummy.
No State could ask for anything better.
A VERY disagrecable old gentleman
dies, A nephew, charged with the duty
of preparing his epitalh, suggests !:
deeply regretted by all who never
knew him"
CANT that a lovely critter, John ?" said
Jerusha, as she stopped opposite the
leopard's cage. "Wa'al, yes" said
John, "but then he's dreffully freckled,
amt he 2"
IL THINK, dear, the dew has COM
menced falling" he said in his softest
accents. eyes, she yawned, I've
been hoping TO hear adieu for some time.
He didn't call the next evening.
THE Whitehall Times says the fish in
Lake Champlain have been SO long with
out water that when it began to rain, fol
the first time in six weeks, they were
seen running about with umbrellas over
their heads
A YOUNG woman in Denver flung her
self into cistern, but she was fished
out. A local paragrapher advised hel
as followi: "Cis turn from your evil
ways. But he won't joke that way
when ii comes cistern.
A POET asks "When / am dead ant
lowly laid. And clods fall heavy
from the spade, who'll think Of ME ?
Don't worry. Tailors and shoemaker
have retentive memories, and you'll no
be forgotten. -Nogristoaon Herdtd.
FATE Of Tilted butcher
lie tried in drink 10 drown his cares,
Aud there found no relief
But daily grew more woe-begone-
You never sausage grief
At last His weary soul found rest,
His sorrowH now are DER;
No tickle maid now troubles him
, Pork reacher, he's no more.
ONE Sunday night we were sitting on
, in the moonlight, unusually silent, al
J most sad. Suddenly some one-a pc
etic-looking man, with gentle, Lowell
} face---said, in low tone, "Did yo
: ever think Of the beautiful lesson til
! stars teach us?" We gave vague, AZ
j preciatiye murmur, but some soullea
clod said, "No; what is it?" Ho'
to wink, +" he answered, with sad, swee
voice.