Mexico weekly ledger., 1881-06-02
PICKED.UP PARTICLES.
All the year round-The earth.

PICKED.UP PARTICLES.
All the year round-The earth.
Paris, Texas, is using gas made from
cotton seed.
A tramp's motto-"A little earning is
dangerous thing"
To make a good monkey-wrench feed
him on green apples.
In many families, the wife is the con-
troller of the currency.-[ Lowell Cour-
ier.
Fiction fand truth may be driven well
together when intellect holds the reins.-
Whitehall Times.
A citizen of Macon, Mississippi, has
entirely abandoned tobacco, after seven
ty years continuous Use of it.
Young men about to marry should go
armed. A Detroit girl shot and killed
her husband three days after marriage
A real Christian is man who prays
on Sunday and then helps the Lord to
answer his prayer all the rest of the
week.
The lazy boy fears that if he once be-
gins to earn his own living he will be al
ways expected to do it New Orleans
Picayune.
A certain gentleman must have been
very proud of his wife when he do
scribed her as Beautiful, dutiful and
an armful."
There are thirty thousand newspapers
in the entire world, and fifteen thousand
of them, one half of the entire lot, are
printed in the English language.
1t is estimated that men have given
more thought to some device to fasten
suspender buttons than they have to any
one branch of science or philosophy.
A Connecticut man recently said
LEND me a dollar, my wife has left me
and | want to advertise that | am not
responsible for her debts. ."- Dabbury
News.
Boston Post: ain an angry instant a
| man may do what lifetime of repent
| ance cannot undo" says Henry Ward
Beecher True, Mr.. Reecher, he may
break an egg.
Rev Mr.. Powell, of Ohio, wrote 4
book which didn't sell. He went in
sane. If it had sold, perhaps the reader
would have been insane instead New
Haven Register.
Shall the paror be abolished? Asks
the Rochester Democrat. Yes, We re-
| ply, if some more convenient sparkling
room for the young people can be pro
vided-[ Elmira Advertiser.
Beaconsfield ascrihes all his greatnes.
to woman. Adam laid all his trouble.
to the same source Adam, we ar.
ashamed of you Beaconsfeld, you are
a gentleman- Boston Transcript.
Milford Journal: An exchange say:
it's very bad thing to get rich too
rapidly. We never thought of that be
fore. Now here's another danger for III
to worry about and strive to guart
against.
James Buchanan, President of the
| United States, made an election bet il
1919 and lost it, and the deed by which
he conveyed the land that he forfeited
is, in his own handwriting, on file a
Warren, Pa.
An impertinent fop made sport of a,
old farmers large nose, mouth and chin
but the old farmer silenced him by say
ing, "Your nose, mouth an chin all hat
to be made small so at there'd be ma
terial left for your cheek
A little girl living down town wa
saying her prayers the other evening
and had just finished "Give us thi
day our daily bread" when precociou
four-year.old brother exclaimed, "Sa,
tookies, Aamy"-[Troy Times.
Before marriage,
| With wonderous care,
| She seeks the mirror,
| And bangs her hair
After marriage,
With angry glare,
| She grasps her slipper
And bangs her heir.
New Orleans Times.
Some wives are merely burdens t
their husbands But wife who ca
keep the house warm enough for he
! husband without stove ough to be
great help to him.-Butfalo Express
Yes if he could only regulate the heal
II Wadley.
Philadelphia has 125 undertaken;
who average ten funerals each per wee
all the year round. In mortuary mat
ters-counting in the obituary poetry an
all-Philadelphia can screw the lid dow
on any other city of its inches in thi
planetary graveyard.-[Graphic
A certain amount of opposition is
great help to a man. Kites rise agains
and not with the wind. Even hea
wind is better than none. No man eve
worked his passage anywhere in dea
calm. Let no man wax pale, therefore
because of oppositien.-[John Neal.
: Professor Felix Adler thinks that tn
coming man, instead of going to churcf
will join an ethical club. That depend.
J Unless the coming woman also joins a
ethical club, where religious philosoph
is dispensed, the coming man will go
church-as far as the door at least, an
wait for the coming woman to come ou'
, L [Norristown Herald.
Two young clergymen were disputin
so loudly on knotty point of theolog
that they awoke big dog that had bee
sleeping on the hearth before the fir,
whereupon he began to bark furiousl,
An old preacher, who had been quietl
slipping his tea while the disputan,
were talking, gave the dog kick, e,
claiming: Hold your tongue, you sill
brute! You know no more about
than they dol"
, Didn't Make Much Difference.