The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1880-11-25
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Turkey is the national bird of
Europe, and England attends to the
dressing.
If you do not find chestnuts plcn-
ty, it is customary TO pound the tree,
out of spite.
1t was on account Of his being
turned out to grass that he was cal
led Nip-a ~cud-nezzer.
There will be five colored members
in the newly elected Tennessee Leg
islaturc.
Miss Lizzie Dollar was recently
married TO a Southern gentleman.
. He SAYS he never wants to change
her.
A man who actually hanged HIM
self, when he only meant to fright
en- his wife, carried the joke too far.
Young wemen often keep their
lovers by tears. YES" says Grum-
wig, Glove like beef, is preserved by
brine"
An old farmer used to put jug
Mt the further end of row of corn.
and then say to his men, Hoe, ev-
cry one that thirtieth.'
Mankind is like "a board. One
side may be planned off nice and pref
ty, but you get on the wrong side,
and you'll find lots of s~livers.
There are three kinds of hair:
Badged hair, baked hare, and hair
parted in the middle. The first is
tender, the second more tender, the
last bartender.
IfDr. Tanner ever fully estab-
lished the theory that people can
subsist on air and water, it is posi-
BILE that more men will take to pub
fishing country newspapers.
Two of the principal bellies at the
Virginia Warm Springs this season
were Miss Virginia Stuart, daughter
Of ''Jeb" stuart, and Miss Julia
jackson, daughter "Stonewall Jack.
son.
A New York stone cutter %receiv,
ed the following epitaph from q
German. 10 he cut upon q tomb.
stone ofhis wife: Mine wife Susan
is dead. If she had lived till next
Friday she'd been dead shust two
weeks As a tree falls so it must
stand
A case is puzzling the doctors ut
Buffalo. Some time ago u man fell
into 4 we'll and forced into his aldo
men q large piece Of wood, which
came ont near his shoulder. Ney-
Crthclcss he is now recovering rap
idly.
The uuities not preserved: Last
Sunday a Galveston boy came home ra-
diant from Sunday school aud ex-
claimed: Il wac the only bov in my
class. All the rcst OF the boys went
down 10 the railroad TO see the circus
come in." "That's right, my
son. said the proud parent; never neg
lect your Suuday-schooI duties. But
did the circus really arrive?' "Of
course it did. Didn't 1 see It myself?'
At Newburyport, the other day,
an Englishman and Yankee engag-
ed in a game of brag. "Wcll. said
John Bull, "we can beat YOU on
guns. We ave a lnn at Woolwich
arsenal that wen it is fired, the re-
port is card in Australia" Guns"
said the Yankee, becoming excited
and jumping to his feet, gums; we
have 4 gun here in America that
was fired off in 1876, and you En-
glishmen haven't heard the last of
it yet"
He had not seen his friend for
some years. The other day he met
him coming up Galveston avenu
with his wife on his arm, accom-
panied by a little boy, and said:
81 wonld have known yo~ any
where by that boy. He has got
your mouth and chin, but his nose,
eyes and forehead are precisely like
his mothers. ! never saw
such c resemblance" The boy was
an adobted one. Tableau.
Enough money has been poured out
in kerosene oil, wasted in club uni~
forms, burned M IN fireworks, and
drank up in various things this month
to have insured new winter honnets and
domestic tranquility throughout this
land from now until next easter. Think
of that, good woman, and east it in his
teeth when he comes home to his sup
per, and ask him if he expects The
President to buy vou deceut clothing
instead of the ~disgraceful rfgs that
10Y keep you away from the blessed
privilege OF the sanctuary every Sab
bath.
How to Make Farming Pay.