The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-07-14
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THURSDAY. JULY Think he owns
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Is the rosebud like a promissory
note? Because it natures by falling
dew.
The girl who threw mucilage over a
a hated rival correctly spoke OF her as
''stuck up thing"
MY throat is the way to my heart,
said a girl to her lover who was treats
ing her to refreshments.
Two things that go off in a hurry-an
arrow dismissed by a bow, and a beau
dismissed by a belle.
A wag said of an egotistieal writer:
Somebody should take pity on his
readers and put ont his Is."i
Canes arc now made which hold n
a pint Of whiskey. All a man has to
do is to raise Cain and imbibe.
Why does a two shilling cane and a
five cent cigar swell a young mans
head until his hat won't fit him?
According to Sarah Berhnardt, Amer
ican actresses need systematic training.
and they lack the finishing touch.
Il ought to know" said an old sail
or, "whether there's a man in .he moon
or not, forI've often been to sea-"
A mueilage factory recently burned
in Rhode Island. The sad affair cast
a g,u'em over the entire community.
There is a temperance society in Rus
STA that binds its members to abstain
from brandy until is becomes cheaper.
The man who was "waiting for some
thing to turn'up" was rewarded when
he stepped on the edge of a barrel hoop.
Why is the money you are in the
habit of giving to the poor like n newly
born babe? Because it is precious Its
tie.
"There's music in the heir" was a
fathers remark as he paced the mid
night floor with his crying son Ill his
arms.
A Baltimore girls idea of a pun was
expressed by the c%onceit that old bach
elors must live on stale bread-they are
so crusty.
w DaG Is Tie ulutltuCt CthCS '
abs ark and Joan of Arc? One was
made of gophar wood and the other was
Maid of Orleans.
A vriter.sEvs: 1.-THE brave are al
ways tender" What a co%wardly bird
the average boarding house chicken
must hGve been.
One of the first acquisitions received
from a newly appointed railway official
was ''send me a gallon of red oil for the
danger lamps
He came in, took a seat at the desk
and asked: "Well, what shall l write
about?" The editor told him he had
better right about face.
management of the Worlds fair
has been troubling New Workers. 1t is
a trouble Adam struggled with wher
there was only one worlds fair, and she
got the best of him.
"Archimedes, you say. discovered
specific gravity ON getting into his bath
why had the principle never occurred
TO him'before?" Perhaps this was the
first time he ever took a BATH"
The aged historian. Bancroft, SAYS
the reason of his robust health is that
he eats light meals and walks. Or
such premises it is safe to conclude
that a tramp will live forever.
A poor excuse is better than none
We heard of q man who justified hi:
measures toward his wife by asserting
that he end she are one, and therefore
by refusing her money he practices the
heroic virtue Of self denial.
"Here's O fly in my soup, waiter
every sorry, sir, but you can throw
away the fly and eat the soup, cam
you?' "Of course I can: you didn't ex-
pect me to throw away tho soup and ca
the fly, did your
A western New York farmer is sait
to have had painted and posted up il
his poultry house a large sign bearing
the inscription: Eggs fifty cents
dozen" This is done to encourage
the hens to lay all they can.
Ice cream!' screamed a vendor il
the ears of a c%ountryman in a brown
study. "None of your screaming ir
nv ears replied the startled rustic, as
unconscious of the vendors vocation,
he suddenly turned and levelled The
huckster in establishment upon the
pavement.