The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1892-10-28

ow?" "Oh, yes " 81 hear she's
going to contest the old mans vii" I"
81 don't wonder at it. She always
did when be was alive. Chicago
News.
1.-THE BRIDES father gave her
away, did he not ?" "More than
that. He threw in $150,000 to
boot."-Indianapolis Journal.
DIR. Spouter twho is rather in
clined to talk shop)-Did you know
that mankind was subject to 1900
different diseases, Miss Debut I?
Miss Debut--lndeed And to think
there were only three or four when
the doctors first began.
Proprietor-What are you taking
back there Waiter-Customer
sent this beefsteak back says he
couldn't cut il. Proprietor (examin-
ling it)-Take il back to him and
tell him he'll have to pay for it.
We can never use it again he has
bent it all out Of shape.-Puck.
Teacher-By,. reptiles we mean
such creatures as creep along the
ground. Can you name one as an
example, Adolf? Adolf-Yes my
little BROTHER Freundenblatt.
Judge Dufy-I hope / shall not
see you here again. Regular Gus
tomer-Not see me here again !
Why, you amt going to. resign your
posish, are you?
She-It isn't true at all that we
girls think e.of our graduating
dress than we do Of our essay. He
But | don't see why you shouldn't.
indianapolis Journal.
The heather in their blindness
bow down "a. wood and stone. Af-
ter they have been converted they
learn to worship gold.- Boston
Transcript.
New Reporter went down and
interviewed General Snappey, as
you ordered, sir. Editor-Did the
general lose his temper2 New Re
porter-OA, no; he had it with
him.-Light.
Sometimes a y biographical error
adds zest, as in one "l0cal which
began: "Dr. South, who is wide
Nv known as one Of the most killiul
Of our physicians" the IS having
disappeared, with the usual deprav-
ity Of inanimate things--or shall we
say with a divination of the truth
wholly unusual. Christian Union.
Professor-To what does the poet
Klopstock owe hs fame +? Student
To the fact that nobody ever reads
him.-Fliegende Blatter.
An Illustration That Failed A
staunch old Baptist took chestnut
into The pulpit one Sunday, and
holding it up began: My friends,
you see this chestnut we'll, the
outer burr is like the Methodisis,
soft and spongy, with no strength
into it. See, ] even mash il with
my fingers Sniting the action Ia
the word, he sloughed it of, and
showing the inner nut. said: "This
inner nut is like the Episcopalians,
smooth and dry, with no substance
in it. But the kernul my Christian
friends, is like our good old Hard
shell Baptist faith-full Of fatness
and sweetness. Proceeding to
give an ocular demonstration, he
crunched the chestnut between his
teeth, and then blowing the noldy
meat all over the pulpit, exclaimed
to the astonishment Of everybody
"By Jinks, it's rotten !"
War is the condition Of this
world. From man to the smallest
insect all are at strife and the
glory Of arms, which cannot be OBJ
tanned without the exercise OF hon.
our, fortitude, courage, obedience,
modesty and temperance, excites
the brave mans patriotism and is a
Christening corrective for the rich
mans pride. 1t is yet no security
for power. Napoleon, the greatest
man OF whom history makes men,
tion, Napoleon, the most wonderful
commander, the most sagacious
politician, the most profound states.
man, lost by arms Poland, Germa.
ny, Italy. Portugal and France
Fortune, thatname for the unknown
combinations of infinite power, was
wanting TO him, and without hel
aid the designs of man are as bub
bles on a troubled ocean.-Napier
Divine Providence.-[The follow
! ing extract is ofinterest, as showing
! the clear religious conceptions
which a heather philosopher sue
ceeded in reaching without th,
, aid Of revelation1: Doth any
good man fear lest the means 0
gaining food fail him2 They fai
not the blind, nor the lame: shal
they fail good man /? To the goot
j soldier there fails not one who give
him pay, nor TO the laborer, nor Il
. the shoemaker and shall such
,, one fail TO the good man7 Is God
! then, careless of HIS instruments
His servants, His witnesses, whom
alone He useth to show forth to tn
| untaught what He is, and that III
governs all things well, and is no
careless of human things? and tha
: to a good man there is no evil