The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-05-05
Our nfssett

The centre OF observation-disclosures
If a bank cannot stand a loan it must
eventually go down.
A standing aneagement-Popping the
question over the front gate.
Good little bootblacks are shining
examples OF what boys can do.
Sometimes q man serves his country
best by making time out OF it.
"My first purchase is my last" said
n cobler, who had just set up business.
A Minnesota consumptive spends
most of his time on top of a whay~
stack.
IF word to the wise is sufficient, adj
yica to a fool is thrown away entirely.
A Vermont railroad company has
pajd a passenger who lost an ear in an
accident 81. 800.
Mr.. Shook, of Illinois, shook hands
with a mad bull, and was soon alters
ward buried.
Pat saws: "And sure, nearly livery
frind | have left in the world has been
dead long since"
The biggest fool in the world is dead.
Toldshis mother>in-law she lied. Did
it with a little skillet.
To train up q boy in the way he
should go. it is necessary to switch him
off occasionally.
4. little boy went to his father crying
ono day, and told him he had kicked a
bee with q splinter in its tail.
An exchange asks: "Of what use are
the legs of n pair of trousers below the
knee?' To roll up on a muddy day.
The price of whisky is increasing SO
rapidly that only the rich and prond
can afford to have any bread in the
house.
The Whitehall Times %innocently risks
the statement that ''the tune the old
COW died of must have been written on
beef fiat.
An experienced boy says he regards
hunger and the schoolmaster's rattan
as abont the came thing, rs they both
make him holler.
Stanley discovered the existence OF
fifteen million Ethiopians heretofore
unknown. Will some other explorer
follow mp the scent?
A San Francisco Artist has just sue
ceeded in getting a picture OF the race
horse Occident on a full run 1t must
be in fast c%olors, .hen.
Russia has one hundred and thirty
nine holidays in every year, and he
Russian who doesn't get drunk on
these is supposed to be in sympathy
with the Turks.
A Sunday-school class in Wilmington
was asked who was the author of the
Psalms. Silence, at first; then a little
hand was held up, 81 know" "Whof'
Sam"
A jacksonville, (Ky.) man says that
one reason why there are so many poor
horses around there is that people
swap horses so often the horses do not
have time to get fat.
Every woman who marries, should
nave SDIle luca vi Coohcls, puo hho
truth is that nine in ten who marry
cannot tell whether icicles should be
cooked with the jackets on or not.
A Kentucky man who went to the
Black Hills wrote back to a local paper,
saying: Golfer a premium at your
coming fair for the biggest fool in the
country, and I'll try and get there in
time"
tramp called at the house on Rail.
road Avenue the other day and asked
for something to eat. He wassso thin.
he said. that when he had a pain he
conldn't tell whether it was a touch oi
the collie or backache.
A Frenchman, writing n letter il
English to q friend, and looking in thu
dictionary ffcy the word preserve" ant
finding II meant pickle, wrote as fol
lows: "May you and your family b.
picked to all eternity"
The cows of Worcester, Massachu
chusetts, have formed NJ association
tor mutual benefit. We judge 80 a
least, from the statement in the loca
papers, that there has recently been al
organization of the milk producers.
A Bridgeport carpenter, while in
fit of anger, threw a hammer at a fel
low workman, and swallowed q screy
he had in his mouth. 1t was an I'M
fortunate affair. but it was better thai
throwing the screw and swallowing thu
hammer.