Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1882-09-07
PICkED.UP PARTICLES.

Telephone is feminine-it talks back.
Listen to conscience more than to in
tellect.-[F. w. Robertson.
The lion is not the king of beasts;
man is New York Telegram. 81,
1t is necessary to be almost genius
to make good husband. Il [Balzac.
How poor are those that have not patience
What wound did ever heal but by degrees?
-iShakespeare.
1t is difficult thing for dog with
out tail to show his master how much
he thinks of him.
No pious lady who has the slightest
regard for mans soul will ask him to
guess how old she is.
1t is with you as with plants; from the
first fruit they bear, we learn what may
be expected in the future.
1t is a great misfortune not to have
wit enough to speak well, or not enough
judgment to keep silent.-[La Bruyere.
There are three things that ! have al
ways loved and have never understood:
Painting, music and wemen.-- Fon.
tenelle. f....- ..frs.. ..... .-
Official statistics show that Australia
has supplied England during the last
five years with slS1, ,73S, 900 in gold and
bullion. @ a t,..s
Mr.. Beecher says that when doctors
are called to treat any disease the nature
of which they do not understand, they
call it malaria. g. =-
The topper has watery eyes, and re-
membering what he drinks he wonders
where the water comes FROM New
Orleans Picayune. '''
Would-be Masher-The best way to
talk to a lady to make yourself enter
tanning is to hold your jaw and let her
do the talking.-[Boston Post.
Mark Twain says there is something
very fascinating about science---it gives
you such wholesale returns of conjecture
for such trifling investments of fact.
The word "dear" is one of the greatest
inventions of the English language.
Every married man can say "My dear
wife," and no one can tell just exactly
what he means.
Rejected lovers need never despair.
There are four-and-twenty hours in
four in which woman may not change
her mind.-[De Fenod.
"Matrimony," said modern Benedict,
the other day, produces remarkable
revolutions; here am /, for instance, in
ten short months, changed from sigh
ing lover to loving sire" IS r.. y -
On the order slate ON the door of a
carpenter shop in this city passing
pedestrian discovered the following,
ssCum to---'s Licke store O Dore TO
fics."-l Rochester Herald. ..
The Sabbath is the green oasis, the lit
tie grassy meadow in the wilderness,
where, after the weekdays journey, the
pilgrim halts for refreshment and repose.
i DIR. Reade.
A contemporary says: If lady steps
into a car and finds two seats vacant
one beside man and another beside a
woman-she invariably snuggles up to
the male occupant.
Eccentric old officer to new footman:
"Now, Patrick, call me cab" Pat
who thinks this is dodge to try his sin
cerity: "Och, no, your honor It's not
meself that'll be calling you names, at
allw ...
A man living in the country finds
ightning-rods on his house to be great
protection. They keep lightning-rod
peddlers from calling and chinning the
head of the house, New Orleans Plea
yune.
The first newspaper set up i'm North
America was in Boston, on the 25th of
September, 1890. 1t was named "Publick
Occurrences, both Foreign and Domes.
tick" Only one lumber is known to
have been printed. .-a., ..l. e. s. ....'
If newspaper should contain all the
things that all its readers want il 10
print, it would have to be bigger than
bedstead. If it should leave out all that
each of its readers does not wish to read,
it would be blank paper Boston
Transcript ''''s d.
The spiritualists in this city usually
open their services with a tune on the
ACCORDION. After man has sat through
whole tune on the accordion, he is
then ready TO believe any ything, and be-
comes an easy convert burlington
Hawkeye.
"Another railroad slaughter" and this
is not the last As long AZ men live,
men will have hours or moments of SEEM
ing stupidity, and no power can guard
against it. The human mind is but ma
chinery, and liable to get out Of ORDER
Detroit Free Press. ,, t...,.
"Give me the hand that will never de-
ceive me-" sings the poet. And the
autograph" man of the Lowell Citizen
says "he wants the, cards stocked SO as to
bring the four aces into his fist" Thus
it is, that the warm aspirations of sen-
sitive and roaring genius are nimed in
the bud by the icy chill of scholarly criti-
cism. : Burlington Hawkeye.
Literary young man at party-"Miss
Jones, have you seen CRADLES Tales?'
Young lady scornfully--T was not
aware, sir, that crabs had tails" Young
man covered with eonfusion-'1 beg
your pardon, ma'am. ! should have
said, read Crabbes' Tales!" Young lady
angrily scornful-"And / was not aware
that red crabs had tails either Exit
young man.