Mexico weekly ledger., 1881-12-15
MORSELS OF MIRTH.
A garden partv-Satan in Eden.

A garden party-Sstan in Eden.
Turning points in life''-street
corners.
Motto Of man who doesn't pay
his debts: ''Never give up"
Can q man, with fire in his eyes,
commit cold-blooded crime?
Ask woman how old she is If you
want to see her show her rage.
Sitting down on a hornets nest is
stimulating, but not nourishing.
If mans aim in this world be good
the chances are that he will miss fire
in the next.
| When young man wants to pro-
tect ayoung lady he naturally puts his
arm aronnd her.
Many phool haz passed thru life
with fair success bi taking bak seat
and sticking to it.
"We both scratched for living"
scid the old hen to the editor. He
told her to shear off.
Some women are liks shot guns.
They would not attract attention were
it not for their bangs.
No woman should borrow the hus-
band of another, because it is not
good for man to be loan.
cit is never too late to mend,"
which Is why the cebbler never has
your bools done when promised.
| A homely young girl has the con-
ISOLATION of knowing that if she lives
to be forty she'll be pretty old girl.
Patrick on the zebra-''Phat kind
of baste is that-the mule wild his
ribs on the outside of his skin entire
lyv"
''You're a dear GIRL" he sighed,
after paying for two dishes of ice
cream and three-fourths of a pie for
her.
The lumberman floats his logs
down stream and introduces them
to the circular saw as bis buzz 'em
friend.
When in conversation a man ab-
ruptly says, 'Beg pardon!" he means
that he wishes to do all the talking
himself.
The young man who gave up
drinking to propitiate his girl wisely
concluded that miss is as good as
a smile.
The prayer, "Give me neither pov-
erty nor riches,'' is interpreted in
Chicago to mean about quarter of
million.
Don't tell man he lies. 1t is vul-
gar. Say that his conversation sug-
gests to your mind summer re-
sort circular.
"There's always room at the top" p"
way the grocer filled the measure
with potatoes.
When six young ladies sit down to
talk about new dress pattern 8
small boy with tin horn is a refuge
for the weary.
The clam has larger mouth, in
proportion to its size than a human
being, yet a clam never talks about
its neighbor.
When a man says he makes his
living by keeping country tavern
isn't it sort of declaration of inr
dependence?
1t is mean man who will fool flies
by having the wax figure of a bald
headed man In his room to attract
f them from him.
Jones says that after trying fo1
years to photograph his girl on hi:
heart, all he got from her in the enc
, was negative.
Women BARRIERS are multiplying
, If they have pretty mugs they will
no doubt, keep their customers in ho
water all the time.
Drug stores in Maine and Kansas
are closing up for want of custom
, it having been decided that rock an(
rye is not medicine.
The first thing that some womer
will want to do when they get t
heaven will be to hunt for broom
and dust and clean house.
, 1t is said that all fashionable sad
, die horses at Newport have thei
tails banged. The unfashionabI
, mules have their ribs banged.
, What Is the difference betweel
: laudanum and Abraham of old? On
n Is the juice of the poppy and tn
y other the poppy of the Jews.
The girl who was locked in he
;, lovers arms for three hours, explain
that it wasn't her fault. She claim
that he forgot the combination.
Nothing in this world yields large
and quicker returns on the amount
e invested than poking a wasp wit
If your finger to see if he feels we'll.
e The Old Testament will not be re
k vised for three years yet. Peopl
v will have to break the ten command
ments as they are, for the present.
"Do you think you will be able t
pull through?" anxiously inquire
~ the needle of the thread. 'Ey
Q guess so," was the curt response.
re In the good Old Testament days
le was considered a miracle for an as
W to speak, and now nothing short (
,e a miracle will keep one from speaking
Z A great many men when they 60
p church meyer think of studying I'll
frescoeing on the ceiling until Il
T. collection plate is about to be passet
D. Exchanges are republlshing dire
,e tions "How to treat your watch,
il but we don't want to. 1t costs mo-
than q poer man can afford to tre
the other fellows.
" A man in Colorado short tin
ago was sentenced to life Of solit
y, ry confinement, and the judge col