The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1892-09-16

Glrl (reluctantlyl-l am very WELL
thank you. Her Mother-Now, Katie,
why don't you ask the pastor how be
is? Little Girl Because don't want
TO know.-Pharmaceutical Era.
A Unique Boy: "What a very orig
inal child little Aleck Forbes il" "Yes.
/ wish his father would have him copy
rightei. One like that Is enough. p
Puck.
0ne-half the world doesn't know how
the other half lives but the women
are trying their best TO remedy that
Puck.
He-Are you happy, now that you're
married? She-Comparatively. He
Compared with whom She-Com-
pared with my husband.
Judge-You can't complain, sir; you
have been convicted by jury Of your
peers. Prisoner-It Is bad enough 10
be punished without being insulted.-
Truth.
An Opinion: "What is your opin-
ion Of Mawson? "Well, for publica-
ton | have no opinion Of Mawson, and
privately / have even less. s."-Judge.
Mrs. Van Neering (hiring her first
butler)-And you are sure you are
fully conversant with the duties Of a
butler, and will not need any instruc-
tions? Emery '0bbs (reassuringly)
That's hall right, me Teddy. No von
shall hever know but What you've been
used to butler hall yer life.-Puck.
The inability of George Washington
10 tell a he left a gap in our national
system that his fellow-countrymen have
used every exertion 10 fill.-Texas Sift-
lngs.
Tom-Do you notice how Miss En-
glish drops her eyes when you speak TO
her? Dick-No, but | notice how she
she drops her his when she speaks to
me.-Yale Record.
IL see most Of your hair is gone,"
said Brown TO Burton. "Yes," replied
Burton, ''it left for parts unknown"
Kate Fields Washington.
Boss-What can I do for you? APP
plicant-I can do the same work your
present bookkeeper does $40 month
cheaper. Boss-Thank you. Appli-
cant-Are you going 10 let me have
the place? BOSWELL, no; but I'll
knock $40 a month of his wages, thanks
to your suggestion. Texas Siftings.
"Why, Edwin" exclaimed the tear
ful bride, "you certainly told me before
we we're married that you would gladly
give me all the pin-money / wanted p
"Yes," sand Edwin gloomily, Il know /
did; but | didn't suppose you meant
diamond pins. ."-Somerville Journal.
At the Summer Hotel: What fear
hath chilled the giddy throng? What
terror stills the merry song? What
numbs the dancers flying feet? What
woe hath come, the house to greet ?
The guests from banquet table fly with
pallid cheeks and glaring eye 1.-THE
landlord groans, the feeble clerk turns
of the gas and all is dark. OF hight
and love and mirth bereft, the lonely
tavern still is left 30 hear Miss Dell
Sartay recite how "Curfew Must Not
Ring Tonight. ."-R- ]. Burdette, in
Philadelphia Press.
Professor-Please give an example of
actions speaking louder than words.
Adlet-Wheu q man calls for soda wa
ter and accompanies his order with
wink. Brooklyn Life.
Col Gorehunter-Ah, my dear Miss
Pinkerly, this is an unexpected pleas
ure, to have you alone for q few mo-
ments. Wouldn't you like to hear how
/ got through the enemy's lines at
Chattanooga? Miss Pinkerly-I can
easily imagine, Colonel You probably
bored your way through.-New York
Sun.
She-Don't you think that women
can do great deal towards elevating
the stage? He-Yes; she can lower
her hat. Life.
How lonely we are in the world (!
how selfish and secret everybody You
and your wife have pressed the same
pillow for forty years, and fancy your
selves united,-Psha, does she cry out
when you have the gout, or do you lie
awake when she has the toothache ?
Your artIess daughter, seemingly all
innocence, and devoted to her mamma
and piano-lessons, is thinking Of Meth
err, but Of the young lieutenant with
whom she danced at the last ball-the
honest frank boy just returned from
school is secretly speculating upon the
money you viii give him, and the debts
he owes the tart-man. The old grand
mother grooming in the corner and bound
to another world within a few months,
has some business or cares which are
quite private and her own-very likely
she il thinking Of fifty years back
and that night when she made such an
impression, and danced cotillion with
the captain before your father proposed
10 her: or, what silly little overrated
creature your wife ID, and bow absurd
| ly you are infatuated with her-and, as
for your wife-0 philosophic reader,
answer and say,--Do you tell her all 7
All, sir,-a distinct universe walks
about under your hat and under mine