The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-12-15
Our dessert.


me a quarter"
The hardest kind of chasm to get |
over-sarcasm.
Justice is the bread of nations. They
are always furnishing for it.
Down in a Coal Mine"- The youth.
full miners incipient moustache.
Isn't an aim without hame synony-
NOUS With an ominous Anonymous?
The less a 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 NOV.
Elihu Burritt can drive strange dog
out of his yard in thirty three languag-
es.
Crockery dealers always delight in seer
ing other people do smashing bus
mess.
M my man has measured his farm
in glass goblet and found room to
spare.
A prominent topper says: Il never
will vote again until know who is
ell cted."
They are holding necktie parties on
the plains. The horsethieves are the
invited guests.
"Jones. did you ever see a snail?"
Certainly" said Jones. "Then you
must have met him."
That was a dainty young Boston swain
who addressed his inamorata: "Be~
witching ID"
Smidgkins says: "It isn't will you
take smile? now, but will you look
through ablue glass?"
Dealer advetises; "Blue glass, good
for window and other pains. This must
include champagnes.
When mans money is gone his
lends drop off like the buttons from a
pair of ready.made pants.
81 have pardonable desires to live
elsewhere. said man writing to the
President for consulate.
A Danbury girl has just settled the
matter She says frosty moustache is
Just like plate of ice cream.
The extreme height of misery is a
small boy with new pair of rubber
boots and no mud or sIush in reach.
An English woman advertises herself
as corn cutter to the royal family. She
practices on 'the light, fantastic toe.
Spelling>bees are being introduced to
Russia. Sometimes they get through
with as many rs two words in an even
ing.
There is great variety of wigs, but,
paradoxical as it may seem, you will
find many of them as much alike as
toupees
The Louisiana negroes have taken to
killing alligators for their meat. Just
what the alligators have heretofore kill.
Ell the negro for.
A Michigan Indian observes: big
crop cranberries-big whisky. Small
crop cranberries-one glass pop and no
boots next winter"
The way the king of the Sandwich
islands carves chicken is to take hold
of 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 "the holeybook must pc
kept IL the skools at envy cost.
Before his marriage Broughne praised
the artistic manner in which his wife
sbanged' her hair. Now he complains
of the cruel manner in which she bangs
his 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.
A brother a1ose in weekly prayer
meeting in New Jersey and said Breth
ren when consider the shortness of life
l feel might be taken away suddenly,
like thief in the night"
A gentleman rode up to q puplic
honse in the country and asked, "Who
is the master of this house?" Il am,
sir replied the landlord, my wife has
been dead about three weeks.
4 man hid in a public doorway, and
jumped ont 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 Shoots
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, beng in the private
office Of Washington pawnbroker. saw
fashionable lady come in and pawn
diamond cross worth 81, 200 for $780,
He doesn't state what he was dong
there.
Compassionate old lady: "How iaded
your horse looks. driver. Is not the bit
intentionally large for his month";"
Hackman: at amt the big bit in his
mouth, mum; it's the small bit in his
stomach