The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1892-08-31

ulun you stop, SIR, instead OF making
me run half a block? You saw me
waving my hand. Driver (old and ug-
lly)-Beg pardon, mum; thought ye
was just flirting with me a bit. They
often does it.
1t may seem anachronistic, but it has
been suspected lately that the king who
shouted, "A horse, a horse-my king
dom for horse w was in reality q pas
senger on an Alabama railroad.-New
York Herald.
Mr.. 0ldboy Ito young Miss Dene-
dict)-Miss Benedict, Just let me give
you a wrinkle. Miss Benedict (men-
tally)-Idon't know anybody who could
spare one better.-Kate Fields Wash
ington.
A Family Party: Wife-Let's 90
out walking, John. The Brute-Just
wait till tonight, my dear, when the
baby and | take our constitutional I;
then VIC can all go tOgether.-Truth.
The Name Suited: THAT chicken"
said the clearinghouse keeper, as she
beamed on the table, lis the Plymouth
Rock variety" mo wonder it Is hard
to carve, then," replied the star board
er, who was endeavoring to dismember
it.-Pttsburgh Chronicle Telegraph.
Danger ola Sudden Shock: Patient
Il guess Pm about well, amt Il?
Doctor-Almost. Patient-What's my
bill? Doctor (feeling his pulse)-You
are not quite strong enough for that
yet.
A thrce-year-old boy was taken into
his mothers room to see the new baby.
He looked the infant over with a calm
Iy critical regard and then, turning to
the maid who accompanied him, he
said very decidedly: "Jane, you keep
that in the kitchen"
Mr.. Meadow (wrathfully, to country
EDITOR My house was robbed last
week and you didn't have a word 10 say
about it. Country Editor (wearily)-l
You did not send us the information.
Mr.. Meadow. Mr.. Meadow (petulant-
ly)-An' is that the way you editors get
y'r news bout houses bein' robbed?
Country Editor (ironically)-Well, no.
Usually the thieves drop IN and give
us the item, but this time | guess they
forgot about it-New York Weekly.
Always there is seed being sown ST.
lently and unseen, and everywhere there
come sweet flowers without any fore
sight or labor. We reap what we SOW,
but Nature has love over and above
that justice, and gives us shadow and
blossom and fruit that spring from no
planting Of OurS.-George Eliot.
"That young lawyer blackstone is a
very impertinent fellow" "What !
makes you think that ?" Il asked him
to come over to our play next Tuesday
evening and he wanted retainer. -
Judge.
Mammals Mistake: AIamma-Dcar
me- You've got your clothes all COW
cred with whitewash. Little Son-No,
ma, 1t isn't whitewash, deed it isn't
It's only paint Good News.
Ahl is this the boy that prayed at
his mothers knee but a few years since,
and for whom very likely at this hour
Of morning she is praying? Is this
jaded and selfish wording the lad who,
a short while back, was ready to fling
away his worldly all, his hope, his am
bition, his chance Of life, for his love?
And IS he the only one, who in his I
progress through this dark life, goes
or fatally astray, whilst the
natural truth and love which should IL
lumine him grow dim in the poisoned
air, and suffice 10 light him no more ?
-Thackeray.
Modern improvements: Mr.. Citi-
man-You have a very fine trout pond,
understand. Mr.. Wayback-Yessir.
raise trout fer hvin'. Mr.. Gilman
do you charge for 6sbingin it /?
Mr.. Wayback-Don't allow no stran-
gers to fish in it. Might catch tn
wrong kind, you know. Mr.. Gilman
But | was told this was a good place
FOR a days sport. Mr.. Wayback-Y'r
right about that. You and y'r friend
20 over TO that there arbor, an take it
sasy. My wife'll bring ye out a bottle
} whiskey an some glasses. At bout ..
rain time Il fill yer baskets with fish,
ift We inter the wagon and drive ye to
he depot-New York Weekly.
The New Minlster-rI hope you pray !
very day to be better? The Belle !
}, dear me, no. / am so good now I'm
/ bore to my friends. Life. !
A short time ago an old negro was o
lp before Judge Query, Of Dawson. Q
;harged with some trivial offense. {
Haven't you a lawyer, old man." in /
Iuired the Judge. mo, sah." Cant c
'ou get oneg" mo, sah." "Don't you Q
want me to appoint one TO defend you?" ?
No, sab; / jess tho't I'd leave the c
ase to de ign'ance Of dc cot"
A Heathen's ldeal-For the man
Vho is such as no longer to delay being b
.mong the number Of the best, is like i
priest and minister of the Gods, using .
90 the divine principle that is planted .
ritbin him, which makes the man I'M
Contaminated by pleasure, unharmcd
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