The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1893-02-24

W. So ailu DcE Oh ucilacu AIGco iof
large corporations 10 come and
build and do business in our Town
10 raise the price of our lots, and
yet how long is il before we write
a piece for the county paper saying
that we are driven to the wall by
these great corporations, and that
we hate them like everything
Bill Nye.
Scientific Incident: Policeman
(to recumbent intoxicated scientIsD
Get up,y drooken bastel Intox-
icated Recumbent Scientist (indig-
nantly) -Noshinerkind. Local ex-
shesh 'tracshun grav'tashun. Mosh
int'restin' Been tumblin' down
thish IDENTICAL spot for hoursh an
hoursh Puck.
"Been south I understand ?v
yes; ! was down there nearly all
the summer" "Great country.
Very hospitable people" eyes,
indeed. Butter flows like water
there in the summer. Puck.
(Which do you like best, Uncle
Silas, tragedy or'comedy ?" "Well,
for the most part" replied Farmer
Bego. II believe I prefer tragedy,
for when the KILN comes ye feels
that yer gettin' sorter square with
the actors. "-Washington Star.
AT one of our highland ports re-
Gently q man came down TO steam
er lying at the pier, and walking up
to the purser said owls you the
purser of lis boat2" Purser Yes. .
HighIander-"IIow much wis il pc
to TAX a deed pody wis her2" The
purser told hun to hurry up if he
was going with the boat. "0ch, {"
said the Highlandman, "she'Il no
pc deed yet, but maybe she'll pc
ready for ia next trip
An Educational Hot-house: DR..
Blimber's establishment was great
hot-house in which was a forcing
apparatus necessarily at work. All
the boys blew before their time.
Mental green peas were produced
at Chris mas, and intellectual as
paragus all the year round. Math-
ematical gooseberries we're common
at untimely seasons, and from mere
sprouts OF bushes. Every descrip-
ton OF Greek and Latin vegetable
was got off the driest twigs of boys,
under the frostiest circumstances
Nature was of no consequence at all.
No matter what a young gentleman
was intended to bear, DR.. Blimber
made him bear to pattern, somehow
or other.
But the system was attended with
its usual disadvantages there was
not the right taste about the prema-
ture productions, and they didn't
keep we'll. Moreover, one young
gentleman, who had "gone through" "
everything, suddenly left of blow
ing one day, and remained in the
establishment a mere stalk. And
people did say that the Doctor had
rather overdone il with the young
man, and that when he begun to
have whiskers he left of having
brains. = Dickens.
Said Ditto 10 Twins: At large
shipping Office in London, as q ma
iority Of the clerks reside in distant
suburb. certain amount OF grace Is
allowed them for arriving in the
morning. They are, however, re-
quired to explain on list specially
provided for the purpose the cause
of their unpuncluality. The first
late-comer leads off with the words,
ssTrain late" "Bus horses down."
or as the cause may be, and 10 this
the clerks invariably say, "Dltto, "
rarely taking the trouble to see what
excuse heads The list. The other
morning the first arrival conscien-
liously penned the words, wife
ill--twins, F" and TO the amazement
of the chief, this extraordinary ex-
PLANTATION was 'dittoed" oil the way
down. Nor was his establishment
diminished when he discovered the
Office boys name included.-Ex.
When the young are stricken
down, and their roses nipped in an
hour by the destroying blight, even
the stranger can sympathize, who
counts the scant years on the grave
stone, or reads the notice in The
newspaper corner. The contrast
forces itself on you. A fair young
creature, bright and blooming yes
terday, distributing smiles, levying
homage. inspiring desire, conscious
of her power to charm, and gay With
the natural enjoyment Of her con-
ouests-who in bis walk through
the world has not looked on many
such a one; and at The notion OF
her sudden call eway from beauty,
triumph, pleasure her helpless
outcries during her short pain; her
vain plea for o little respite her
sentence and its execution has not
felt shock Of pity 2 When the
days OK long life come to q close,
aud white head sinks TO rise no
more. we bow our own as The mourn
ing train passes, and salute the de-
vices Of yonder pomp as symbols OF
age, wisdom, deserved respect and
neriled honor long experience Oh
an<4oxsnez and action
But 10 live four-score years, and
be found dancing among The idle