The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1892-12-09
THINGS wssT AND OTHERWISE.

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archists. Secundus Have they been
throwing any bombs? Primus-No
but they 20 around exploding bis theo.
ries.-Life.
The Students Prayer: There was
a divinity hall presided over by most
amlable and dlgnihed professor. On
certain days the senior students open
cd the proceedings OF the day with pray
er. One morning raw youth from q
remote region performed this duty, and
1t was q memorable occasion. None
who we're present can forget how the
venerable professor turned and gaxed
on the untutored lad, who prayed for
him as follows: lord have mercy on
our professor, for he is weak and iQnor-
ant. Strengthen his feeble hands, con-
firm his tottering knees, and grant that
he may long 20 out and in before us
like the he-goat before the flock. -
Twenty-Five Years Of st Andrews.
A minister, dining with an editor
and observing the scanE table, asked
blessing as follows: lord, make us
thankful for what we are about 10 re-
ceive and strengthen us to journey
homeward after we have received it,
Atlanta Constitution.
About The Blackberry: There is a
bug with name as long as a snake
that abides among the blackberries.
lie does not eat them. He just haunts
the patch where city boarders are stay
ing, and makes it his business TO rise
early in the morning and crawl over
the largest and finest and ripest ber-
ries. When you eat a blackberry that
has been glori6ed BY q visit from this
bug, you want TO lie right down in the
briars and die. You do not want TO live
a minute longer Not with that taste
in your mouth.-Burdette.
Truth Versus Grammar "You
mustn't say 1 have got a new hat Tom
my. It's sincorrect." "All right, then.
l amt got no new hat. at."-Chicago
News Record.
Il have just seen twenty-four sum-
mers," she said "Yes," replied Billy
Bllven, impulsiyely, and without mall
ice, "but then you are quite nearsighted."
Washington Star.
Can l read your paper ?" asked the
man in the rear seat. Il don't know
whether you can or not" replied the
Boston man ahead of him, "but you
may try If you choose" and it took the
brakeman, the news agent and the
conductor to separate them. - Toledo |
Blade.
His Past Life: Briggs see that
young Pelter has been discharged from
his position as book-keeper. Greggs :
You don't say What was the matter?
Briggs-His employer accidentally |
overheard that he was a graduate Of
business college.-BrOOklyn Life.
Il wonder, said Sapson to the barber,
"what makes it hurt so TO shave my
upper lip. IL seems very tender" Il
dunno" replied the old colored man, as
he smiled at himself in the looking
glass, "but spec you got one er desc
Ingrowin' mustaches." - Washington
Star.
A little girl, IN order to prove that
i is wrong 10 cut of the tails of horses
md dogs, quoted the Scriptural injunc-
lion. "What God has joined together
let no man put asunder. .'-IIousekeep-
sr's Weekly.
A lady whose husband was the
champion snorer of the community con-
ided 10 friend the following painful
My life has not been
me of unalIowed delight. | have had
he measles, the chicken-pox. the chol-
sra, the typhoid fever and inHammatory
rheumatism, but | never knew what
'eal misfortune was until | married a
,nrglar alarm"
at a small town IN Kent a gentle
nan employed carpenter TO put up
,artition, and had Ii filed with saw
lust TO deaden the sound. When it
vas completed the gentleman called
rom one side TO the carpenter on the
'ther, Smith. can you hear me %
Smith Immediately answered: mo,
iir. r."-Tid-bits.
The Duty Of the Wise. What do
'ou suppose fools were made for? That
'ou might tread upon them, and starve
hem. and get the better Of them in ev-
'ry possible wayf Byno means. They
sere made that wise people might take
are of them. That IL the true and
'lain fact concerning TIE relations of
very strong and wise man 10 the world
bout him. lie has bis strength given
nm, not that be may crush the weak.
,ut that he may support and guide
hem. IN bic own household he is 10
% the guide and the support Of bis
hildren out Of his household he il
till 10 be the father. that is the guide
md support OF the weak and poor I; not
merely Of the meritoriously weak and
be innocently poor, but Of the guilty
nd punishably poor; OF The men who
'ught 10 have known befter--of the
,oor who ought 10 be ashamed Of them
elves. 1t IL nothing 10 give pension
md cottage 10 the widow who has lost
Ter son; h il nothing 10 give food and
medicine to the workman who has