The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-08-25
Our Desert.


General Hancock will command the
troops at the Yorktown Cent9nnial.
Horace Grseley's brother, Thornton
Greedy. has bequeathed his farm. val-
ned at $40, 900, to the City OF Nashua
N. Fl.
There are lust two classes OF peopie
In this world. Half of them were the
Arst to discover the comet and the otner
half have been shot through the liver.
The Pittsburgh Telegraph has dls'
covered a way OF making iehohaoe
without lemons. Pooh! Out this way
they have neither used lemons nor su'
gar for years.
ANorth Antleboro boy named King
told his little brother to put his hand
on a block SO he could try an expert
ment." and deliberately chopped three
fingers off With an Ak.
A Richmond physician says that II
people will take q bath in hot whisky
and rock salt twice q year, they Will
escape rheumatism and colds. But
wouldn't that spoil the whisky.
The Norristown Herald defines a City
beer garden as-Two trees, a 7x9 flow
or bed. seventeen benches and six wait
ers. In a majority of cases trees and
flower beds are dispensed with.
The "Hated Saxon" has received on
good hit from an Irish M.
P. in the following "nato" Hiberni-
cism: $50 long as Ireland was silent
under her wrongs, England was deaf to
her cries.
CLARA Belle" says in the Cincinnati
ENQUIRER: There seems to be no
reason why q modest woman shouldn't
ride the bicycle, and ride it astraddle.'
Clara Belle ought to be ashamed OF
herself, so she ought.
Mrs. Gordon Cummings says that {
venerable cannibal in New Zealand
whom she visited with an obese divine
strobe down and gently predded the
reverend gentleman ill a way painfully
suggestive of Sydney Smiths joke
"Cold curate OF the sideboard.
Anew Haven voungster is O com
plete rat>trap. He catches the rodents
in his hands as they run into holes
grabbing them inst behind the ears
and the other day captured twelve GU
of fourteen as they were driven out o.
an ash pile.
Mr.. Moody has discovered another
sweet singer of gospel hymns IN Mr.
Z. F. Miller. who has been employed IN
the car shops at Denver, Col. He is
voung man, has a sweet baritone voice
and has beer singing at Young Mems
Christian Association meetings for q
year or two.
Smith, who went into amateur
farming this year, says he planted MS
bean poles two months ago and has
watered them regularly, and for all
that they don't seem to grow an inch,
and show not the faintest sign OF
b~lossoming yet. He begins to fear
they will bear no beans this year.
very sick Philadelphia man begged
for some fried shad. The doctor for
bid it. The sick man insisted, and his
friends. afraid to give the desired NOR
sci, attempted a deception: An
said the annotated victim, as he crush"
ed his teeth down on a fine comb fried
in butter 81 know this is shad.
can feel the bones.",
The following is Col, Ingersoll's de-
~scription of Santa Fe: 1.-THE city looks
ss though o high wind had blown oil
the houses away, leaving only the cell
lars. 1t is q strange, quaint. old,
sleepy, happy place. The people are
not in a hurry; they enjoy the sunshine;
they sit in the plaza and look ut the
little monument. Their houses are
really comfortable, and all the folks
seem contented."
The Galveston News claims to have
the smartest horse trader in the world
1t is easily explained; Eli Perkins wat
stopping in Galveston a little while
back, and the paragrapher on that pa,
per was introduced to Eli and heart
him lie. A newspaper man is, o
course, a Judge of the article. and I'M
mediately gave Perkins the place o
honor OF the head of the horse trading
fraternity.
1t now appears. from authentic in
stances cited in the local papers oil
over America that nine tenths of tn
soldiers wounded in the late warswer'
shot right through the liver; tina
about thirty per cent. of this mum
Der we're shot clean through the live
and back again; that thirty eight per
of the whole number were sho
exactly as the President was, onl.
with larger bullets; that they all go
we'll and are alive now. It seem
that it was not considered respectable
for any man in the army to get sho
anywhere except in the liver or neck
The officers generally preferred tn
neck,