Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1893-09-28
Let Us All Lauch.

HE Cherokee strip was formerly a
scalp. Dallas News.
SHARP rife participating pock-
ets.-Lowell Courier.
PAYS as he goes-a paymaster on a
railroad. -Texas Siftings.
MATURE NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. To
ard.
LIE rat man in the sides show is
lying In wait for his victims. Gal
weston News.
The Scotch are very canny peo
PIE, but they are not as can-can-n,
as the French.-Boston Courier.
HALF railroad rates to the Fail
would undeniably be a big 20 with
The people. Philadelphia Times.
APPROPRIATE quotation on enter.
Ing BARRIERS shop: Il come not
mere to talk. Boston Transcript.
ISN'T it strange" said little Tom,
my to his mother, shat baby's LIST
9th should come 4th?"-Rocheste
Democrat.
PERHAPS if a pneumatic tire were
put On the dollar Of the dads it
would circulate better.
Democrat.
1T may be wrong. but I'm laying
Tor you, as the bird said to the good
little Sunday school boy. Cleveland
Plaindealer.
A MAN never discovers how hard
his lot really is until he tries to put
spade into it and make garden.
Washington Star.
No MATTER how hopeless the future
may be to other men, the good math-
ematician always has something to
count on. Troy Press
AN elevator boys contrariness can't
last very long. There are too many
people to call him down il he keeps
it up. Buffalo Courier.
Miss PRIM is of the opinion that
no lady who had any claim to modesty
would regard undressed food as deli.
cacy. Boston Transcript.
THESE trousers are awful short"
"Well, you told my collector the other
day that you were awful short your
self. "--Stonington Bulletin.
"MINE is the business before
pleasure that you heard of so MUCH"
said the man at the theatrical box.
Observation-Disclosures Record.
ICELANDERs, it is recorded, never
whistle. 1t is hard to see why man
who lives in Iceland should ever feel
like whistling. Washington Star.
STATISTICS show that in counting
the young man is most likely to lose
his self-control VIXEN he's just hold
ing his wn.-Philadelphia Times.
Il AM taking cooking lessons OF
Mrs Picrust." "Do you find them
benefcialf" Every. l have already
learned how to tell when something's
burned. Chicago Record.
WHEN Fogg was thrown down by
the electric car into the lap of a dig
nitled old lady he said he now knew
what.it was to sit in the seat Of the
scornful. Boston Transcript
THE boarding house keeper often
complains of the effort it costs to get
up meal, and her boarders main
tain that it is more Of an effort to
get it down.-Yonkers Statesman.
"MR. SKYLARK is a very devoted
husband, isn't hep "How do you
know" "Well, he engaged a type
writer the very day his wife left, so
that he could write her every day"
Men of Sedentary Occupations.
For men who are confined in shop
or Office all day, exercise of some kind
is necessity. Why should the
merchant, writer or broker OF fifty
five consider himself too old to en-.
gage in outdoor games? II better
luncheon were taken at midday and
4 lighter dinner at skin the evening,
there is no reason whatever why a
man OF forty-tlye and up to sixty-tive
or seventy should not be in the base
ball or cricket field at half-past seven,
and play briskly until nine or half.
past. An hour and a half Of such
sport after light dinner would make
the middle-aged men SO young that
they would not know themselves.
Writers would write twice as brill
lantly, and business men would be
cleverer and keener by half. AS il
is, the average middle-aged business
man grows more dull and uninter,
esting every day Of his life His in.
nocent pleasures have vanished with
his youth. The contrast between
himself and sons is startling. Yet
twenty-five years ago the grave, too
frequently irritable, father Of to-day
was the fun-loving son Of middle
aged father. II any one had then
shown him in a prophetic mirror the
figure he would cut at the end OF q
quarter Of century, he would have
committed suicide in sheer vexation
and disgust. But it is never too late
to mend; and two hours daily exer
else and recreation In the open all
will soon make = new man of him.
welcome TO Hood'0
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