The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-01-19
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Loansome Observation-Disclosures.

gar Messefi.
Loansome people-pavnbrokers.
Gospel hims- Moody and Sankoy.
OF what earthly" use are "skye'ter-
licrs.
The only corner some men get up Is a
corner in loafing,
1t is easier to return thanks than
lt RIO we'd money
The latest definition: A naturalist.
One who catches gnats.
The great American boarding>house
kitchen is mush room.
Ambitions Man-Ts there any fixed
,ule for writing pocty? There is! Don't!
The schoolmaster is very inqustive
person. He is always asking ques-
tons.
There is frequently run upon the
banks Of Newfoundland, but they never
break.
When fellow sees his hat fioating
toward sewer, side.
The inqdisitive urchin who puts his
opticto the spigotshole of q beer>baIrel
deserves TO have it bunSed.
The girl pressed the leaves but the
boy pressed the girl. The press is
mighty and must prevail.
Hiram Green says: when a woman
INDUCES her appetite, ii is pretty sur
t. make her wrapper tight.
The difference between popular Coz
o. aid Winterp!ug is thatone is NAM
ed blue and the others blamed new.
Ou,s is the principal dramatic coun~
try OF the earth at presant. We have
actin3 President, and acting Vice, Presis
dent.
There are said to be 2G3 styles of cor
sets, and yet different young ladiest
waists feel very much allkc-the girls
SHY.
Fond Parent: What do we think of
smoking boys? Don't know. Never
smoked EN-. Tobacco is good enough
Tor US.
Tommy-"Imean to be an astronomer
when l grow up?' Eflie-"What on
earth will you do with yourself all day
long?"
John Walnut of Troy fell distance
|, of tifty-three feet and got up and walk
7 ed home. They were always hard nuts
to crack.
A jersey City man who was so I'M
fortunate as to bark his shins against a
dogwood log and is now fretting about
hydrophobia.
A Vermont man has named his son
"Devil," and as the boy is like other
boys, the neighbors give the man credit
for rare good taste.
Want to know Now to tell the most
stylish dress? Get in crowd, and
mark the one that all the women turn
up their noses at,
tbs SAID the oyster frequntly gets
into stew, but it never has been as yet
reported that he jumped out of the
frying~pan into the fire.
It was worms that destroyed the cab,
bage crop. Hereafter the farmers
should plant with each head of cabbage
a live fish to eat the worms.
a bicycle rider in Boston had three
ribs broken the other day falling from
his machine. Bicycles are sometimes
not SO useless as they seem.
1t is said that the laws of New York
very 'osely resemble sausages. You
have great respect for them until you
know how they are made.
A fireman on an Iowa railroad used to
be good lawyer twelve years ago. 1t
is probable that the fate of Ananlas
frightened him from the profession.
A man never knows what it is to wish
for dimes worth of oblivion, until the
coupling"pin to his suspenders bursts
while he is in a crowd of ladies'.
Professor Swing thinks stage>kissine
is wrong. The professor is right. The
proper place for kissing is quiet nook
IN conservatory or some such Place.
Cleanliness" we are told, sis next
to godliness. Under these circum-
stances, we may assume that soap is
next to charity; as ali events, let's soap
SO or soapose SO.
When Adam was in his bachelorhood
he found his nights lonely, and always
welcomed the morn with gladness.
Still, for all that he was happier, when
Eve came.
And now they tell us bedbug bites
cure rheumatism. Another and pleas
anter way is to get in front Of an ex~
press train and try to sling it off the
track as it comes up.
i merchant died suddenly just after
finishing a letter. His clerk added in
postscript: "Since writing the above
[ have died. Tuesday evening, 7th in
slant"
"Washington's body~servaut" wasn't
present at Yorktown. 1t Was an occa-
sion when everybody was posted on his
tory qndit would take an all-thunderin g
good liar to fill the position