The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-02-02
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The silver question: Can you lend
ME quarter
The hardest kind of chasm to get over
sarcasm.
Isn't an aim without name synony.
aous with an ominous Anonymus9
EIihn Burritt can drive strange dog
out of his yard 10 thirty~three Language
eas
Kansas keeps nobiy ID the van of
civilization. Her State Treasurer is in
isil.
Orockery dealers always delight in
seeiug other people do smashing bus
ilees.
A famine is limited at in Bosnia. Gen.
zeal Starvation is hard mau to fight
against.
The loafer can never reduced to his
st loaf, and made to work, while free
IN iches abound.
Il have a pardonable desires to live
esewhere,' said man writing to the
President for consulate.
The extreme height of misery is q
small boy with new pair of rubber
loots and no mud or slush in reach.
An English woman advertises her,
self as corn cutter to the royal family.
she practices on tho light, fantastic
toe
Spelling bees are being introduced
- Russia. Sometimes they get through
it'll as many as two words i'll an even
ing.
Though Prince Arthur has been re-
fused, they say be feels as happy rs a
,nau who has drawn o barrel of flour at
rattle.
The Louisiana negroes have taken to
killing ailgators for their meat. Just
what, the alligarors have heretofore
killed the negro for.
A Michigan Indian observes: Big
crop embarrassing 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 for all he is worth.
A man in Collinsville, Ct. sold a COW
to widow, and before delivering the
animal he took off the brass horn~tips,
thereby saving six cents.
A Newton man fayors the presence of
the bible in the public schools, He
writes us that the holey book must be
kept il the schools at any COST
Before his marriage Broughne prais>
ed the artistic manner in which his wife
banged 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 gentleman rode up to public
house in the country and asked; tNho
is the master of this house?' 4 am,
sir replied the landlord, my wife has
been dead about three weeks
A man hid in public doorway, and
jumped out and kissed lis wife. She
didn't whoop and yell, as he expected.
but remarked, Don't be so bold miss
ter-folks around here know me-
There are few sights more inspiring
than the spectacle of small boy shoot.
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, being in the private
office Of Washington pawnbroker. saw
fashionable lady come in and pawn a
diamond cross worth 81, 200 for $3.50.
He doesn't state what he was doing
there.
Nervousness is often attended by
mauy annoying symptoms, such as black
spots fitting before the eyes, ringing or
buzzing in the ears flashes of visionary
light in darkness. inability to look up or
about suddenly with out growing faint
or dizzy, wakefulness. vivid dreaming.
etc, all of which is permanently cured
by using Browns Iron Bitters.