The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-12-22

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A bad fix-Repairing a broken wins
COW with an old hat.
The next great display of meteors is
het down for the year 1899.
The aesthetics aud gamblers are al
ways striving for the deal.
The sassyest man ever met is hen
rocked husband when he is away from
home.
The man who toes the mark-the old
man who reaches out for Jane AIMS
teller at two o'clock m.
When n man threatens to give you
piece of his mind he wishes to destroy
The peace of yours.
Ii cheerful heart is continual
feast, there must be a large number OF
people who do lo5 get square meal
once year
Money often leads men astray. Some
sf them will run after dollar; but
bound dog is more avaricious. He will
follow a scent.
Fogg says that his friend Pingrey is
so slow that he never catches cold, and
couldn't within hailing distance Of the
s!owest of slow fevers.
q The way the king of the Sandwich
islands carves a chicken is to take hold
ef both legs draw long breath, and
pull fof all he is worth.
A Newton man favors the presence of
the bible in the public schools. He
writes us that 1.-The holeybook must pc
Kept il the skools atSenY cost.
A woman can dress her hair to make
herself look ten years younger, but the
best a man can do is to partly cover a
bald spot and feel that he is deceiver.
Before his marriage Broughue praised
the artistic manner in which his wife
banged her hair Now he complains
Of the cruel manner in which she bangs
Ills head.
If you have good sister. love and
cherish her with all your heart. If you
have none, why then love and cherish
the good sister of some other man with
all your heart.
Alas, that life should be so short, and
art so very long! Alas, that milk should
be so thin, and butter half so strong!
Alas. that lawyers live ana thrive, who
prove that right is wrong!
A man hid in public doorway, and
jumped out and kissed his wife. She
didn't whoop and yell, as he expected,
but remarked, Don't be so bold mister
folks around here know me-.
There are Few sights more inspiring
than the spectacle of small boy Shoot
ing along an alley-way with about four
feet of bulldog fastened to his trow
sers and floating in the breeze behind
him.
A correspondent, being in the private
Office of Washington pawnbroker, saw
fashionable lady come in and pawn q
diamond cross worth 81 200 for $3.50.
He doesn't state what he was dong
there.
Compassionate old lady: "How iaded
your horse looks. driver. Is not the bit
uncomfortably large for his mouth?'
Hickman: sit amt the big bit in his
mouth, mum; it's the small bit in bis
stomach.
A Philadelphia author camped out
last summer in order to write a book
about it. His work on Camping out
has not been commenced yet, but he
has got together fine lot Of recipes fol-
the cure of lumbago, rheumatism and
consumption.
Did you ever notice bow much more
apt your wife is to cut up paper o.
great literary and journalistic power
into dolman pattern than she is II
slash into James Grow Journal tina
hasn't thing in it that you would reaC
If you were condemned to solitary con.
finement, and had to read it or 60 mad
Nina writes us letter full of som
Der views of life. She says the presen
is dark, the future is gloomy, life is bu
bubble, ETC., etc. We are prepared
to bet that Nina is in thel habit of eat
ing pickles just before going to bed, ant
of reading the Noble-countess and>the.
Wicked-Earl SOFT of continued storie.
in the weekIles. What Nina wants il
physic and work, to bring some sun
shine into her life.