The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1892-10-14
THINGS WISE AND OTHERWISE.

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looking parsonage with the crowd o
eager listeners about him? Guide
That is Euclid, the great mathemati
clan. Newly Arrived SplIt with sud
den alarm)-Say, where am / at P
Chicago Tribune.
A man was explaining to his wife
how the telephone is worked. 1T il
wonderfully simple. All you have t
do is to grasp the apparatus with onG
hand and talk with the other"
Annihilated: lie (feeling his way
to a knowledge Of her accomplishments
Can you darn stockings, Arabella!
She with distant frIgidity)-I don't
expect to marry a man who needs ID
wear darned stockings.--New York
Press.
City Editor-You'd better 20 home
and 90 to bed, Stickleback. You can't
write in that condition. Stickleback-
Can't eh? Thash all rsh, ole mansh.
Shush in condishonsh wri'sh dialec'
story'sh Town Topics.
1T was verwy annoying" said the
fox hunter. "The dogs, as we got we'll
along, caught scent Of Huntah's Point
and, weally, our whole party, before we
it, had wun down beastly soap
factowy. / had Lord Fitzboodle, Of
England, with us, and it was terwibly
mortifying. Puck.
Young Minister-Tve been praying
for. you long time, Miss Dora. Dora
(astonished)-W didn't you let me
know it? I'd have been yours af-
ter the first prayer.-New York Her
aid.
Men pay too much attention TO what
they did, and not enough 10 what they
are doing.-Atchison Globe.
A Washington woman recently re-
marked: "I've had trouble with every
one ofmy servants, and | suppose /
may always expect trouble" 81 reck-
on ye kin" replied the colored domes-
tic; Il ain yeard nothin' yit bout no
angels dat was lOokin' fur service plac-
es. ."-WashingtOn Star.
"Wiyes are blessings to their hus-
bands, Mr.. McGerk," asserted Mrs.
McGerk. "Yes, love-" was the s0oth-
ing reply, "in disguise. colorado
Sun.
A Sudden Suspicion: "Thats a
fine looking dog Of yours" "You bet !
He's a full-blOOded English fox-hound.
| wouldn't take 200-200-I wouldn't
take 200 cents for him. You the as
sessor"-Chicago Tribune.
New Cook-Pm told the missus
wants things in tn high toned, fash
ionabIe style. Sure, I'm afraid | won't
suit, for it's only plain cookin' I've
done. Old Cook-It's aisy enough.
Make everything taste loike something
ilse.-Judge.
Mistress Did you post the letter ?
Maid-Yes, sonora. Mistress = Then
why have you brought me back the 10
centimes / gave you for the stamp p
Maid-I slipped it in the box when
they weren't loOking.-Las Noticias.
No Hope for Statesman: American
Boy Pop, we're taking up political
economy in our school now. Pop "a
local statesman)-That's all right, my
boy, but it's no use. All the book
learnln' in tn country will never git
votes down to less'n two dollars
Street & Smiths Good News.
"She accepted you, then? ?" "She
did" "Well, congratulate you, but
report has greatly belied her." "lIow
is that?" at was said that she was
conceited and would be hard to please
New York Press.
"Aren't we ever to be married, dear?"
"M'm; don't know" "You don't
know? The idea! And TO think how
often you have said you we're willing to
die for me-" 80 | am, darling, but
not by slow starvation. Indianapolis
Journal.
4 have come, sir, to ask from you a
subscription for poor and aged Wild
ow." "But, my dear madam, why
should subscribe for q poor and aged
widow? There isn't place in the
house where | could put her, even if
my wife cared to have her around. -
Indianapolis Journal.
Suppose a woman is ever so misera-
able with her husband and yet smiles
and doesn Z show her grief? Does this
discipline Of hypocrisy improve any
mortal woman? Say she learns to
smile after a blow, do you suppose in
this matter alone she viii be a hypo-
crite? Poor victlml | fancy q better
lot for you than that to which fate has
handed you over / fancy there need
have been no deceit IN your fond simple
little heart could it but have been gwen
into other keeping. Suppose a little
niant worry frail and delicate from the