Mexico weekly ledger., 1881-12-01
M0RSELS OF MIRTH.

Cup in arms. "A baby.
Men of color-Painters.
Family ties-9 children.
Flash language-Telegrams
Black Friars-Coiored cooks.
An artists work is easel-ly done.
Here lies a man who beat the printer,
| Oh, how his soul doth long for winter.
The bus that crossed the ocean
Columbus.
| NOTTINGHAM open bunghole with
out barrel.
Where to 60 when short of money
Go to work.
Now is the time to reduce rents
by sewing them up.
Money isn't exactly tight, but it is
perhaps slightly exhilerated.
''Time is money" as the fellow
said when he pawned his watch.
The Cremation Society proposes
to do its creamating on Fry-days.
Is there anything more narrowing
to the soul than peg in the boot?
Honest ducks dip their heads under
the water to liquidate their little bills
1t makes a great difference whether
glasses are used over or under the
| nose.
The Rev. o. B. True was married
in Connecticut town the other day.
Oh, be true.
"Come around. l will achieve q
mother-inlaw at eight O. clock sharp,
is the latest.
When man begins to 60 down
hill, he finds everything creased fol
the occasion.
A Massachusetts mule is sixty
years old. 1t has kicked everything
but the bucket.
Somebody says that King Kof1ee is
wreck. Somebody else says that
all kings are Rex.
A Minnesota man makes the win.
ter seem short by giving his note
payable in the spring.
When we hear a fellow saying ny.
ther and ither, we at once commence
to form an opinion of him.
What is the difference between ar
oyster and a chicken? One is best
from the she'll, the other isn't.
A man in Peoria claims to have :
stone that Washington threw at s
woodpecker on his fathers cherry
| tree.
A jaw eight feet long has just been
unearthed up in Wisconsin. 1t is
supposed to have belonged to some
edito or's mother-in-law.
A Colorado barkeepcr, who shot :
man dead over the counter, pleads il
extenuation that an order for drink:
was counter -nlau-utau.
Mrs. Partlngton, reading Of tht
strike of the wire drawers, remarked
"Ah, me! what new tangled thing'
won't women wear neXt?'
| "What makes men fat?" asks
correspondent. Don't know, but
quart of whisky will make a man leal
all around lamp post
What doth it profit pastor if h,
gets seven dressing gowns and four
teen pairs of slippers, and has not TIL
whcrewith to 60 to market.
Those who patronize Texas stag
lines will please take notice tha
stage robbers now refuse to take sill
yer coins with holes in them.
A real estate owner, having let al
his houses but one, was asked if tha
unlet house was his last. ''Yes, las
but not leased" was the reply.
A grocer in Quincy, ILL.,, has do
mated the city forty-one dozen ba'
eggs, to be used in keeping womel
lecturers beyond the city limits.
Mercy Consolation Smith, is For
Wayne's handsomest girl. Mere
will no doubt be Consolation t
some Smith, if only a blacksmith.
We are told that the smallest hal
throws a shadow. OF course it does
1t throws shadow over your appe
tite when you find it in your victuals
"Oh, George, your sister is mic
girl, but she does dress her head II
So" YES" said George, ''but
is the fashion; there's nothing in II
you know"
Glass in geography-"Who ca
tell me anything shout strait ?
asked the teacher. Boy hear
my father say, last night, that
beats two pair
A man who dreamed that his aur
was dead, and found that his dreal
had come true, tried the same thin
with his mother-in-law, but it didn
work worth cent.
A petriiied negro was lately foun
in garret over law office in vi
: lage in Mississippi. 1t was suppose
that he undertook to study law an
, became absorbed in Blackstone.
Dandelions were in blossom O
the commons last week. Also dand
asses on the streets. The form'
depend upon the weather, the latte
on their tailor, for their appearance
A minister who came into chure
during a sudden shower requeste
another to preach for him as he ws
r very wet. NO." replied the othe
'preach yourself; you will be dl
: enough in the pulpit"
An engineer on Western Mort
. Carolina Railroad shouted to crow
of rustics who had gathered to Sc
. the first train of cars come in, "P'
E down your umbrellas! you'll seal
$ the engine off the track" The IN
l brellas were lowered at once.
= "Ain't this little high?" asked
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