The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1893-03-31
THINGS WISE AND OTHERWISE.

Chappy-My brother is fool. Pen
elope-I have never met HIM. but car
readily believe it.-Boston Globe.
B: Elzebub, Esq.-Well, what do 70,
think Of this for fire? Shade of 10
kinskI-Grandtl I subbose, of course
! dot you haf eferting covert init insur
ance.-Puck.
Westscott-I tell you there's goot
stuff in that young man. Whytt
sarcastlcally)-Yes; was going by the
barroom just now and saw him put il
in.-Somerville Journal.
Latest News.-Upon the death Of
an eminent English divine the follow
ing bulletin was posted on the door Of
his residence: "Mr. S-departed
this life for heaven at eleven o'clock a.
M" Some passing wag placed beneath
the notice telegraph blank filed out
thus: Heaven, IL m.-Mr. s.
not yet arrived. Getting uneasy
Peter. Life.
The First: The editor turned pale
and caught at his desk for support.
James he called to the Office boy.
"Sir." Take that envelope out in
the coalhouse and open it with the ak"
Five minutes later the boy returned.
pale and trembling. "Was my present.
iment right ?" asked the editor hoarse-
ly. "Yes." sobbed the boy, striving in
vain to keep the tears back. With a
despairing cry the editor fell to the
floor in fit. The first spring poem
had arrived. Truth.
Taking the Initiative: First Medi-
cal Mani was summoned the other
day to a neighbOring town in which
there were 20 cases Of influenza. By
the time | got there all the patients had
died. Second Ditto-I presume they
thought 1t was no use waiting for you.
Petit Parisien.
A French merchant, the victim of
several defaulting cashiers, now ad-
vertIses for "a cashier as honest as pos
slble and paralyzed in both legs"
The trouble with this family" blub-
bered Johnny, as he emerged from the
wood shed Immediately after brief but
spirited interview with his father, ''is
that there's too blamed much paternal-
Ism IN ITS form Of government w-Chi-
cago Tribune.
Mistress (to coOk)-"You know, Ma
ne, | can not allow you to receive your
cousin in the kitchen every
evening"" "YOu are very kind, mum,
but he's so shy, mum, he won't step In
o the parlor."-Paris Charivari.
A Hard Case: Claribelle-Don't {
'ou think Charlie MonocIe's mind is d
'ery weak? Isabelle Yes, dear. Iii
ant even wander. Puck. !
Sibyl-Let's cross over TO the other !
ide Of the street. Minnie-No. let's
tay on this side. The pavement Is wet :,
yer there. Sibyl-That's all RIGHT. !,
line are silk.-Life. =
The young father stood over the era n
le critically inspecting his first born. n
Of course it's a healthy, we'll formed a
aby, Lucy" he said to his wife, -"and C
iill be credit to the family when it h
rows older, but it's awfully homely a
Ist now" "Dear little thing = cooed o
neighbOr who happened in a few mo- 81
tents later; ''it's the very image of its
Tribune. h
An Astral Defamation: A little u
roup was discussing Biela's comet in y y
country store. Il tell ye," said =
armer Hardshell, "that was a great -
II Of stars the time thet comet came r. -
ong. / see more than a thousand = !;
'ap with my own eyes," 81 didn't ~ ~
e 'em," responded John Bright, "but =
looked about the next night and no. = 1
ced the stars was thinned out consid- - -
able. Puck. - -
The Spectacular Season: The Grand CT
izier-To your knees-the Sultan is ey
ming on his elephant of state /! gi
Oarse whisper from the wings-The vi
ephant's been seized by a deputy sher- W
The Grand Vizier with great pres lii
ice Of mind)-The Sultan has dis sh
ounted ndapproaches on oot.-Puck. to
"All is lost but honor" Qroaned ne
likes. "Well," remarked Brobson. eu
you did not have that in w
sted, you know" W.
The courage that can 20 forth and he
We itself shot and snuffed out with fo,
cency. we esteem an exceedingly 81,
lall matter, capable of co-existino with ra,
life full of falsehood. feebleness, pol Co
,onery. and despicability. Do not he
;ruiting sergeants drum through the Iif
'eets Of manufacturing towns and col IN,
t ragged losels enough, every one of of
Iom. If once dressed in red and train
a little, viii receive fire cheerfully
the small sum of one shilling per
sn, and have the soul blown out of sal
n at last with perfect propriety ? ~
70 courage that dares only TO die is
the whole no sublime affair; neces- PR
y indeed, yet universal; pitifuI when .ns
begins TO parade ITSELF On this as
be Of ours there are some thirty-six ~
sons that manifest IL seldom xv;th Ice