The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-12-08
Vnr Hesseff.


How long did Gain hate his brother?
AS loag as he was Able.
Blue glass windows are said to stand
n family fsht first rate.
An Indian woman is squaw: there
fore an Indian baby is sqnawling.
A German speaks of Washington
show eiety, and he isn't very wrong.
Down in Coal Nine The youth.
full miners incipient moustache.
The less man knows, the higher he
tries to climb on other peoples ladders.
We are told of grass in Colorado that
you must lather it before you can NOW.
A prominent topper says: II never
will vote again until know who is
elected"
They are holding necktie parties on
the plains. The horsethieves are the
invited guests.
Jones. did you ever see snail?'
Certainly said Jones. "Then you
must have met him"
That was daintyyoung Boston swain
who addressed bis inamorata: "Be"
witching ID"
Smidgkins says: "It isn't will you
take G. smile? now, but will you look
through ablue glass?"
Dealer advet;ses; blue glass, good
for window ana other pains. This must
include champagues,
A Danbury gi,l has just settled the
matter. She says frosty moustache is
just like plate of ice cream.
When we're walking sticks first men,
toned in the bible? When Eve presen'
ted Adam with little Gain.
Real estate is active. hopefully OBJ
served Danbury merchant on seeing
q very dirty drunkard go by.
The title of late to)k is Halt
Hours with Insects. What lively hall
hour one can have with bee!
There is backwoods shoemaker WHO
put blue glass windows in the box toes
of his clients boots to cure corns.
Husbands and fathers will be pleas
ed TO lenrn that small checks are to be
fashionable for silks this summer.
The following dialogue was over
heard the other day: He-'Araminta.
jet'adore.' She-'Shut it yourself.
Wholesale matricde' is what an
Irish newspaper calls the murder of
her five children by an English widow.
Many boy has lost his grip on his
fathers affections by beng able to beat
the old gentleman at friendly game of
cards.
Speaking Of lady's black eyes an
Irish writer says: They are mourning
for the murders they have committed.
Misprint- Her Face is Garden of
Flowers is the title of a new song:
but flowers is evidently misprint
for -four"
Prize communicative don't wo>
man like hear her husband make pnb>
lie speech? Answer (by Iady)-Be-
cause she don't
Three castor beans strung on q silk
thread around your neck will pre-
vent cholcra-it' You draw the
thread tight enough.
A creased dog cannot run fast
as boy in u cellar who hears his
mother say she must 90 down and
see if the cat is after the preserves.
Baldhcalcd men are so numerous
in Chicago that an audience in that
city is said to look, when viewed
from above, like q cobblc- stone pave
ment.
The force of habit will assert itself
A man selling the carcass of his dead
horse to a soap fat man worked hard
over the trade and laid great stress ups
on the fact that the animal was of q
kind disposition, He also lied about the
age of the deceased.
Christmas cards grow larger. more
artistic aud more expensive. In few
years young man that has only a
couple of hundred dollars to spend dur
ing the holidays will be undecided
weather to buy his girl Christmas
card CT gold watch anu chain.
"What would you do if you were l
and l We're you?' tenderly inquired a
young swell of his lady friend as he
escorted her home from church. We'll,
said she, 'f were you should throw
away t at vile cigarette, cut up my cane
FOR tireWcod, wear my watch chain un-
derilfath my coat and stay at home
nights and beg for brains.
The landlords of Yorktown celebrated
the Centennial by charging $1Oa day
for beds in the hay NOV. If it was the
ancestors of these brigands who charged
at Yorktown, ge don't wonder that
CORVALLIS surrendered. The only
worders that he dilnt have to so back
TO England in his bare feet. with a
blanket PINNED around his neck.