The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1892-11-11
THINGS WISE AND OTHERWISE.

DR.. Probe, who is now attending him,
doesn't understand the case. | wish
you would come right over and see the
boy" Il don't see how | can do it.
Probe and / we're old friends, and in
these matters Of professional courtesy
we have to be mighty careful" "But
great heavens, man. If you don't come
the boy may die p That's just the
point Suppose should save the boy.
Why, Probe would never forgive me"
Life
Mrs. Keyboard-Why do You always
sit at the hotel piano? You can't play
a note. Old Stokes-Neither can any
one else while I'm here.-Brandon
Banner.
Il can't think where | have met
yOu," SAID the puzzled tourist on the
steamer, "but your face is very famil-
lar" Il am the man, sir," replied the
other, with dignity, "who was cure1 Of
that tired feeling by using twelve bot
ties Of DR.. Rybold's Sarsaparilla, sir"
Chicago Herald.
An Untamed Steed: "Jack Will
kins broke his bicycle yesterday"
Lucky fellow" replied Willie Wash
ington. "Mine is as wild as it was the
first day | twied to wide it."-Wash-
ington Post.
Wifles Swell, sir. Foyer is a finish
ed actor, let me tell you. Taddles-
You dent sayl Did the audience kill
him Judge.
Young Mr.. Yeerwed had been gazing
for long time at the antics Of his little
three-months-old baby. The child was
sans hair, sans teeth, had a red faceand
a frightful yell, but she was his child,
and he loved her. At length the little
one looked up and laughed, and the
overjoyed Yeerwed. turning to his wife,
circulated "By Jove, Maud, it actu-
ally seems as though baby was almost
human. ."-Harper's Bazar.
Mrs. Brown don't half like that
friend Of yours-that fellow Smith.
Mr.. Brown-Do you think you are q
very good judge Of men, my dear2
Mrs. Brown with expression mo, l
do not.-New York Herald.
Direct Proof: "This milk tastes as
if it was watered," said Mr.. Bronson.
Il know it Is papa" said Tommy; IL
saw the COW takin' q drink myself."-
Harper's Young People.
Hagan-How long do a man have to
be in this country before he kin vote? ?
O'Toole-That dipinds; if he comes
late in November, he moight have TO
wait nearly a year.-Puck.
The Pension Question: Stranger
/ believe, sir, that every man who was
in the army ought to have a pension,
whether he was injured or not. Citi-
zen-Are you soldier? Stranger
No, sir; | am a pension attorney
Puck.
"It must be dreadful when q profess
sional singer knows that she has lost
her voice p "But it is still more
dreadful when she is not aware Of the
factw-IIuhforistische Blatter.
"Billins enjoys a good joke" "Evi-
IDENTIFY; but it is a selfish enjoyment.
/ never knew him offer his friends any
but the poorest brands"
Afraid Of the Yankees.--Mr. Isaac
stein, Of New York, returned home very
late one night and Mrs. Isaacstein ask
ed "Shakey where you got all dot to-
bacco shtain on your shirt front 2"
"Blaying draw boxer NIT three shentle-
mems from New Englant, Rachel.I
"Vell, couldn't you turned your head TO
one side ven you shpit ?" "Not init
dose fellows. New York Sun.
Miss Athena Hobbs (of Boston,
Here is an advertisement: Wanted, q
literary man Of fine culture and high at
tainments to 20 to ST. Louis. / wonder
what they want Of him? Mrs. Hobbs
Il presume they wish to see one.
Daughter-ShaIl we invite DR. Big
fee to the reception? Mother-I think
we'd better not, he's SO absentminded.
lie might charge it in the bill.-New
York Weekly.
Natures Elusiyeness.-I have seen
the softness and beauty of the summer
clouds floating feathery overhead, en-
ioying, as it seemed, their height and
privilege Of motion, whilst yet they ap-
peared not so much the drapery Of this
place and hour, as forelooking 10 some
pavilions and gardens Of festivity be-
yond. - The pine-tree, the river, the
bank Of flowers before US does not seem
to be nature Nature is still elsewhere.
This or this Is but outskirt and far-of
reflection and echo Of the triumph that
has passed by, and is now at its glanc-
ing splendor and heyday, perchance in
the neighboring fields, or, If you stand
in the field, then in the adjacent woods.
The present object shall give you this
sense of stiffness that follows q pageant
which has Just gone by. What splen-
did distance, what recesses Of inehable
pomp and loyeliness in the sunset But
who can 90 where they are, or lay his
hand or plant his foot thereon2 0ff
they fall from the round world forever
and ever. It Is the same among the
men and women as among the silent
trees, always a referred existence, an