The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1881-03-04
ENTERTAINING PARAGRAPHS.

SOME mon are never sweet on their
wives except al a masquerade ball.
RUsHEH Of wheat, Weighing sixty
two pounds, contained $50, 900 kornels.
BosToN paper charges certain actors
with Illuminating trite faculties. No
arrests we're made.
Ir ID estimated that freight train now
enters New York every fifteen minutes,
each train averaging 35 cars
BosroN servant girls always ash for
poor molasses AZ the grocery, because it
takes longer for il to run
TIM world is filling up with educated
fools mankind read too much and learn
too little Josh Billings.
A MAN troubled with sleeplessness can
cure himself by pretending TO do duty As
night watchman. Nci0 orleans Piea-
ylaic.
A la CRossE, Wis, minister prayed
for those "who were smitten with i'll
ness, and those who have gone a-fishing,
md also those too lazy TO dress for
church,
An old couple III Maine have been
married seventy-five years. What shud-
der this item will create whom il gets 10
circulating in the Indiana paperslN Y
Commercial
HE obstinancy, observes London
journalist, with which old smokers cling
To life is really marvellous; they seem
altogether to ignore the fact that tobacco
is deadly poison.
IAvATER was good observer when he
wrote: "NIstrust the man who finds
everything good, the man who finds
everything evil, and still more, tho man
who is Indifferent to everything.
AN epitaph on recently cut tomb-
stone reads:
Here lies Samantha Harriet Jones'
Whose maiden name was Sckles
Most ptenus were her dying gT0Rns,
The cause Of death was-rictleen
-NeW i0rk Commercial firtrffscr
WHEN Buffalo street car conductor
heir to a legacy Of 500, 600, the man
simply asked the loan Of five cents to buy
q cignr with. He wanted to find ont il
the lawyer was lying to him.
A PERSON who had an important case
in court sent two very handsome and ex-
pensive Hagons to the Judge. He or
dered them to be filed with costly wilma
and sent back to the donor The Judge
was pagan, however, and didn't know
any better. Such foolish stories can't be
told Of the courts Of nowadays.
SLAVERY is still recognized institu-
| fion Of Arabia, and On active trade in
| blacks is carried on in some Of the larger
| towns. Arab custom enfranchises slave
| at the end Of seven years faithful ser
vices, and on leaving his master presents
| him with one on more eamels and an out
| fit. The manumitted negroes marry and
have an even chance in life with their
former owners. There is no prejudice
against negro in Arabia.
o'EYE PEEP1NG" is the new game. Two
holes ARE made in screen. The per.
formers stand behind it and place their
| eyes in the holes, while the persons in
| front guess to whom the eyes belong.
:; NeiO York Herdld. They have tho
same game, modified somewhat, ont
| West Eye openers" ore drank, fight
ensues, in which gouging prevails and
then the person who sweeps up the floor
guesses to whom the gouged eyes be.
long.
RUSSELL SAGE is said TO be the very
/ model Of frugality and domestic econ
omy. His household concerns are con.
Quoted with systematic attention. He
weighs out the sugar, ten, coffee, and
spices, and measures the liquids required
by his housekeeper and exacts arigid ac-
count from that usual pot ticoated ty-
rant. After this the old man drives down
town and sets to work to checkmate jay
Gould on Western Union or to get away
with any stray New York Central Mr..
Vanderbilt may not be able to carry
Of.