The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1893-10-27
THINGS WISE AND OTHERWISE.


A Slight Difference "Why, you
are a plutocrat, sir, and an Infamous
gold bug" roared the grizzled old
president Of the Keosauquaville Free
Silver Club, grasping his hickory
stick with firmer grip. "What do
you mean by coming to me to boast
of the ill-gotten wealth you can show
in gold and stocks and bonds, sir p
I'll want to marry your daughter, T"
said the terrified young man. "Why
-hum-that's different. I don't
know as I've got any objections. -
Chicago Tribune.
Lonesome Mr.. McAllister-
Would You believe it / have had
that idea in my head for six months.
Mrs. BerrY-What a dull time il
must have had there.
A Subscriber Writes to an Editor (:
al have horse that has suffered from
periodical fits of dizziness. Please
answer through your valuable paper
and let me know what ! should do
with him. I'm afraid he will get
worse if something is not done soon."
The editor replies: "0ur honest ad-
vice, based on very careful perusal
of that capital book, Every man his
own horse DOCTOR, would be to take
him some time when he is not dizzy
and sell him to stranger. ."-Ex.
Preference: First Mosquito (at
the New Jersey summer resort)--All
the guests have gone away. Well
have to make our meals off the ma
tives or else siarve. Second Mosqui-
to-Let's starye
A certain minister whose health
had become impaired by too close at
tention to his duties in large parish
applied to his physician for counsel.
"Go cunning, dominic 60 gum
ming 70 was the advice be received.
at will help you and it won't hurt
the birds. - Chicago Standard.
Like our Senators: Overheard at
the Sale des CapUcines during the
delivery of lecture by the famous
Y: "How full he is of his subjectp
said one Of the hearers. ''Yes, but
how slow he is in emptYing himself"
was the reply.-LIntransigeant IL
lustre.
Enlightened Jones doing a lit
tie preliminary sparring before max
ing up his mind about proposing)
Now, Brown, you're a friend of mine.
Tell me candidly, why did you get
married !? Brown (savagely)-Be-
cause | was a confounded, soft-head-
ed, brainless idiot (Jones decides
to say nothing Truth.
The Old Man and the Lover /:
Once upon a time Lover came and
called upon his Girl. He had no
thought Of evil. Suddenly an Old
Man burst upon the scene, and Sc
curing a neck hold on the Lover
threw him into the street. "Papa,"
sobbed the Girl, sis your heart still
hard ?" "You bet p shouted the
Old Man. "This talk about my hav
ing fatty degeneration is all bosh. Z"
This fable teaches that appearances
are oftentimes deceptive.-Truth.
Tuner-Your daughter left word
that ] should call and repair your pi-
ano. Mr. Blinks-What's wrong with
itY Tuner-She says three strings
are broken. Mr.. Blinks (con6denti-
ally)-Say, here's a dollar. Break the
rest of 'em.-New York Weekly.
Tommy" said his mother, "can't
You amuse your baby brother for
awhile 20 "Yes'm," answered Tom
my, eff you'll hold him up at the
window, I'll get the boys to come and
play in front of the house. Harp
er's Young People.
Itisa good thing for charity to be-
gin at home, but it is bound to get
weak in the knees If it stays there.
Father Ito the seven-year-old miss
beside him, cutting the whip sharply
through the air)-See, Mary, how /
make the horse go faster without
striking him at all. Mary lin an
eager tone of discovery)-Papa, why
don't you spank us children in that
way ?-Life.
Had Him There: Tommy said
Mr.. Eastsider to his mendacious son,
81 can read in your eyes that you are
living" "But, pa, replied the youth,
Syon haven't got your glasses on, and
Won know ycu can't read worth a cent
without glasses. ."--Tammany Times.
Poetry.
Poetry is the highest style of hu-
man speech just as speech is the no
blest vehicle of thought and feeling.
Poetry Is the language OF human ma
ture when it has found the sublime
and beautiful-and not only found,
but felt it, and sought TO embody and
express in numbers those swelling
conceptions which are too big for
common words. 1t is the language
Of the soul, by which it seeks to rise
above itself, to hold sympathetic and
oonQenial brotherhood with all that
= trua and great. All that il lovely