The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1891-10-07
THINGS WISE AND OTHERWISE.

SOS 1Ou u pay your ueDtS me
RAMS Horn.
There never was a daughter Of Eve
who did not imagine that her husband
was great favOrite with the women.
1t takes a long time for a woman to
get into the thirties, but when she does
get there she stays.-PhiIadeiphia
Call.
A Cape cd farmer says: This learn
in every gal TO play the pianner, and
every boy TO be bOOk-keeper will make
'taters s. a bushel afore many years.
Proud Banker (to poor suitOr)-If
my daughter 'cW marry you. sir, sup
pose there is no help for it. About
what time do you propose TO break into
the family, may ask?
Cannon This is a great day with
US at home. My daughter comes out"
tonight. Dumley-Don't say so So
does my stepson. He has been in sew
en- years. KOnker's Gazette.
The Higher Education: All sighed
the sweet girl-graduate, mamma and
papa pronounce so badly and are so ig-
norant Of literature that is quite hard
ship for me to associate with them.
Genial Pastor dining with the ToObey
family What would you say, Bobbie,
If | should ask your mother to let you
have another piece of pie? BObbie
with devout unctiOn) i would say
"Amen," Mr.. POundtext.
Nora's Opportunity: If Nora Twigg,
the servant girl in Oregon who recent
ly fell heir to 100000, will call at this
Office, she will hear of something great
y to her advantage. We are bache-
lOr.-1OmbStORe Warbler.
A Mysterious Dispensation: Mrs.
Bromley Ito her impecunious lord)-II
don't understand il; when goods are
cheap, money is always scarce. 1t is
like a pair of scales both of which 90
down at once. philadelphia Cau.
Not the Kind He Used: Our New
Boy Gent'man in de parlor want to
see yer, boss. 0urself-Who is he ?
Did he not send his card? Our Boy
lie gimme dishyear thing, but hits
mighty cu'ous sort O. kiard. 'Taint got
no spots onto hit, only spellin.'
Mr.. O'Flynn's Prudent Self-restraint:
Lit le Mr.. o Flynn (proudly)-It's
fOive years an more we are married,
an divil a cross worrud TO me ould
oman did liver spake yit. Big Mrs. |
O'Flynn (signi6cantly)-And ifye dil, |
'twould be the last worrud that iyer We |
would spake.
Wasted Sympathy: Rev. Mr.. Moan
ley Ito female parishioner in black
You have no idea, dear sister, how ]
grieve to see you clad in these sad ha-
biliments IF woe. The Widow -You
can't feel as bad about it as / do. Black
is so unbecoming 10 me. 1t makes me
look like fright.-Ieras SiftiRgs.
Unto the poor wretch hurrying to
suicide | should say: God hveth
thou art not thine own but his. Bear
thy hunger, thy horror, in his name !
in his name will help thee out of them
as may. To 20 before he calleth thee
is to say "Thou forgettest," unto him
who nulnbereth the hairs Of thy head.
Stand out in the cold and the sleet and
the hail Of this world, o son of man,
till thy Father open the door and call
thee. Yea, even if thou knowest him
not, stand and wait, lest there should
be, after all, such loving and tender
One, who for the sake Of a good with
which thou wilt be all-content, and with
out which thou never couldst be con-
tent, permitteth thee there to stand-for
a time-lOng to his sympathizing as well
as to thy suffering heart. ."-GeOrge
Mcdonald.
The Exhausted Graduate: Mrs. Bor-
er-SO your Hattie is going TO graduate
next week? Poor thing She must be
tired out with all those studies. Hat
ties Mother Tired! you may well say
it. She does nothing but try on, try on,
try on from morning till night. shall
be rejciced when it Is all over.
Cruelty to Animals: Judge-What
is the prisoners offence? Officer Qn-
= Croolty to animils, yer
honor. He's a stable boy, and livery
tonne ] goes past the stable | hears
HIM singin' "Annie Rooney" with the
mules all tOied up, so niver q wan av
thin could escape. Judge (sternly)-l !
will fine him the limit.
as our honesty TO be based on relig- ,
ion% you may ask. "Are we to be
honest for fear of losing heaven if we
are dishonest, or Ito put it as generous 1
ly as we may) for fear of displeasing
God? Or, are we TO be honest on spec
ulation, because honesty is the best pol
Icy and TO invest in virtue as in an un- !;
stOck%
And my answer is-not in any hesi- !
tating or difident way-your honesty !
IS not to be based either on religion or
policy. If you ask why you are to be
honest, you are in the question dishon- !;
Jred. Because you are a man, is the /.
,nly answer; and therefore to make
TOur children capable Of honesty is the
of education. Make them