The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1892-07-13
THINGS WISE AND OTHERWISE.

bert Spencer Darwin, who recently
tried to hang himself. Mr.. Darwin
probably found that his natural selec-
tlon Of other peoples horses was neon
sistent with personal popularity and
social distinction Memphis Appeal
Avalanche.
AT a time Of great drought a school
master, accompanied BY his pupils, went
out to pray for rain. lie was met by
an nquisitive fellow, who asked where
they were going. ave are going to
pray for rain" the teacher replied:
God will hear the prayers of innocent
children" IF that we're So" answer
ed the man, "there would be no teach
ers alive"
It's a mistake" said Mrs. Herts, af-
ter her guests had gone; 1T is a mis-
take to say that misery loves company.
| thought I'd die with headache while
those people were here. Puck.
Mercantile Item.-"Now, then" said
New York merchant 10 one his trav-
cling salesman, who was packing for
his journey, "let us see that you sell
more goods On this trip than you did
before Our firm Is more generally
known now." I'm that case,' said
the drummer, looking obviously up
from his sample cases, Il am afra q it
will be uphill work. Texas Siftings.
Professor (lecturing on galvanism)-
What would be the effect, Mr.. Broken,
if you should hold a quantity fgold in
one hand and Of silver in the other?
Broken-I should experience decided
shock. = Yale Record.
Talking abOnt literary style, there
goes q man noted for his finished SEN
tences." Indeed? Is he a noyelist~
mo, he is an ex-convict. Baltimore
American.
Mammal (tearfully) -ltpains me Tom
my, Just as much as it does you to have
to whip you. Tommy (also tearfully)-I
Maybe II does, but not IN the same
place Chicago News.
Yet surely, surely the only true
knowledge Of our fellowman is that
which enables us TO feel with him :
which gives us a fine ear for the heart
pulses that are beating under the mere
clothes Of circumstance and opinion.
Our subtlest analysis of schools and
sects must miss,th essential truth, un-
less it be lit up by the love that sees in
all forms Of human thought and work
the life and-death struggles Of separate
human beings. George Eliot.
Supplying Her Necd.-Mr. Dresden
Ware i want to get a set Of crockery.
Clcrk-Yes sir. For the table? Mr..
Ware-No.Fol the new seryant-girl =
Puck.
Hypocrisy Of the Hen. = When there
is anything to eat the hen feeds with
the eager appetite Of boy who hasn't
had anything for ten minutes. When
there is absolutely nothing, as on a
weather-bcaten cellar door, or the new
ly painted floor ola piazza, she will
scratch away Justify, and pause at In
tervals in her scratching to 90 through
the motions Of eating. She will affect
10 pick up the most luscious tidbits |
from the bare, inhospitable face Of a |
polished marble doorstep that has just
been scrubbed till it has a surface ofl
polished glass.She Will scratch on it.
it is all that she can do 10
stand on its treacherOus surface with
all her claws set,and then with exultant
cIucks affect TO pick up in rapid success
sion a soft-shell grub, an angle worm,
stall fed and four inches long a couple |
ofblue point beetles and a shedder lady
bug. Then she will walk away, casting
upon you a glance Of the most hypOcriti-
cal contentment and satisfaction, as one
who had dined luxuriously and escaped
withing tipping the Understandable.
Brotherly Sympathy: Mother (be-
tween spanks)-It hurts me worse, Will
he to punish you -thanit--hurts you.
Johnnie docking n)-Then why don't
you take your other hand awhile, NAM
Chicago Tribune.
Distressed young mother with cry
ing baby in railway carriage)-Dear,
learl | don't know what to do with this
child Kind and thoughtful bachelor
(on the opposite seat)-Shall ! open the
window for you, madam Xenophon's
Anabasis.
The little girl had been told that God
would punish her if she were naughty,
and evidently did much thinking on the
subject. One day her mother started
10 punish her for something she had
lone, when the little one came out with
the following polite and logical objec-
hon: mammal won't you leave it to
God topunish me? I'd rather have him."
A Real Danger: "Why doesn't your
husband go to church?" @Wcll he is
not very strongly grounded in religion"
i'All the greater need for his going to
church" 'IIe says not; he thinks that
he might hear heretical sermon, that
would upset him altogether. New
York Press.
Alas, the life Of boys does not bear
telling altogether. ] wish it did l
ask you, does yours? As long as what
we call our honor is clear, / suppose
your mind is pretty easy: Women are