The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-10-26
PLEASANTRIES.

PLEASAN1RLES. I
THE friendship Of two women i nsver
4, anything but plot against ! third
WHY is it that the circus elephant
never kills the clown or ~ made
manP E
WOMEN in general nDw ~ when q
man pleads his paaaio eaoqnently he is
only half in love.
A LITTLE girl who ~ much petted
said: st like sitting On gentlemen's
knees better than on ladies' don't You,
map"
"OuR rooms are small" said she,
"but / live in my husband" eyes,
said her friend, 81 See you live in
fat"
A MAN has no remedy for his hair fall
ing of. A woman can always use hair
pins and keep on as much hair o. she
likes.
"Now, HOW many years would You
give me, sir2" "Why should I give
you any, madame? Have you not
enough already?"
AN old woman confessed that when
she was young she had many lovers.
"Ah," she said, "the sweet griefs +
knew in those daysr'
A DEDHAM minister asked one of his
female parishioners ii she was "a moth
.er in Israel" to which she responded,
"Oh, land sakes, mol 1 have never
been married !"
RESPECT my honor or tremble for
your life, she said He thought of her
husband and he ran away. "And there
goes, she murmured, ga coward who is
afraid of DEATH"
Sxyoung ladies in Utah armed them
selves with shot-guns and went duck
hunting. By sitting perfectly still the
ducks escaped injury, but several of the
retriever dogs were seriously injured.
"Do YOU pay for poetrya" asks
young lady in Ohio. We do. If writ
ten on white paper, it is worth cent a
pound. Most papers do not pay for
poetry, but we want to encourage genius
i'll substantial manner.
On an old English tombstone is the
following:
Here lies the body Of Mary Bent;
Kicked up her heels and away she went
THOUGHT at church fair-Faint
pocket-book never captivated fair lady.
A LOVER, who had gone West to make
home for his "birdie," wrote to her
Tive got the finest quarter-section of
land Q60 acres) I ever put my foot down
on" Birdie wrote back: "Suppose
You buy another quarter-section, John,
so that you can have lawn around your
foot. John made home, but Birdie
never was the mistress of it.
THE Rev. julius G. SNOWFALL some
what bewildered his congregation by
saying: "Cistern and brethren, dar will
be called meeting in this building to-
norror ebenin'." "What's de hour?"
called out member. "Yer can come as
soon or as late as yer pleases, provided
yer all get heah at o'clock precisely"
Charleston Meas.
SOME one was telling story of lion
hunt in Offenbach's presence story in
which, evidently, he took but little in
terest. "Bah!' p he said, at last, with
yawn; "the lion is much over-rated
beast. Even the timid hare can, on
occasion, be formidable to man." "Oh,
come, now!'' said every one. "Yes, I
mean what I say replied Ofenbach.
"When one has eaten too much of
him."
In one Of her poems, Ella Wheeler is
moved to remark:
Let the dream CO. Are there not other dreams
In vastnesses of clouds hid from thy sight
That yet shall gid with beautiful gold CLEANS,
And shoot the shadows through and through with
light?
What matters one lost vision Of the night?
Let the dream gol
You are right, Ella; but in the case
Of a spectacular dream, caused by too
much mince-pie or cider-one that you
are so anxious to have 60 that you would
hustle around and get it pass if neces-
sary-your scheme won't work. A good
old-fashioned pie-dream can tire out
any poet.-Chicago Tribune.