The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-07-07
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Can 4 Boston school boy be a called
q Hub-bub?
Fowls are gluttonous--They take a
peck OF every mouthfui.
The how who is we'll shingled by his
parepts will shed water.
The only hand in the world when
bIesses those who grasp it is q fuii
hand.
Younc ladies are forming archery
.,nbs for the purpose of drawing the
bows.
Many have blown into the trump OF
fame, but few have filled it so that 1t
sounded.
A mar in Virginia has discovered the
eleventh commandment. 1t is: Let
them chickens alone
They eat peanuts in Chicago theatres
without disturbing anybody. The tricK
is to soak the shells.
A correspondent asks us what is the
relation of a university to an ordinary
college. 1t is a step farther.
Women generally are in favor of cor.
poreal punishment. They go any
where without their switch.
Postage stamps are great travellers,
and vet the majority OF them are found
sticking in some corner.
The New York Mail says the only
remedy for O lady of short stature is to
get spliced as soon as possible.
"I find that with light meals my
hea lth improves" said the Esquimaux
and down went another candle.
The woman who marries does well,
but the woman who does not marry
does better nine times out of ten.
The man WHO was waiting for scmse
thing to turn up was rewarded when he
4 etepped upon the edge Of a barrel hoop
No painter has ever been able to
catch the wild expectant look of a man
who is endeavoring to give birth to a
sneeze.
AZ wouldn't have left, but the people
kinder egged me on" said a man who
wasasked why he left his Kansas home
in a hurry.
Snooks says that the clouds of his
early childhood were no bigger than a
woman's hand, but q squall always fol-
lowed them.
There is a good deal of human nature
in the canary. He never feels so much
like hitting up his voice as when others
are talking.
A fascinating young lady at a party.
was asked if she ever read Shakespeare ?
"Of course I have. l read that when
it first came out"
A little Lowell boy has discovered
why Adam and Eve we're never bnbies.
1t was because there was nobody
to take care of them.
An exchange remarks that the free
use of punch often enables men to see
stars in the day time. They get into
the milky way.
81 have been present OF many relig-
ious awakenings," said the fly, as he
passed from one bald spot to another
in a neighboring pew.
A South End lady says see sdoesn't
understand the key hole of Mr.. Jones
door. It is a mystery to her. She
can't see through it.
Sitting Bulls daughter Is named
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relation to the water that Chicago peo-
pie are drinking just now.
A Canada man sued a country editor
for libel and got twenty-five cents dam
ages, and then the editor went off aud
made al. assignment.
"Do you love me still, John?" whis-
pered a sensitive wife to her husband.
"Of course I do-tbe stiller the bet
ter" answered the husband.
"People generally dream of their oc,
equations" says the Philadelphia News.
The body snateher must have a nice
time of it, when he's asleep.
An freshman who had on q very rag
CIV coat was asked of what stuff it was
made. "Bedad, I don't know I think
the most of it was made of fresh air.
This is his first season on a farm. and
he has planted ten acres with tomato
can He expects the ground will pro,
duce a heavy crop of canned tomatoes.
Six million people in this country
have bilious attacks in the spring, just
about the time a man can do the best
of work with a rake in the back door
yard.
In the counting room of a Galveston
Irishman, the following notice is up:
"Persons having no business in this
office will get through with it as soon as
possible and leave"