The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1893-12-01

-DOheIimes you appear real
manly and sometimes you are abso-
lutely etfeminate. How do you ac-
count for it {? Hell suppose it is
hereditary. Half my ancestors we're
Life.
Carrie News-Have you noticed
the change that's come over Mr.. Van
Dudell lately9 Something has been
| pfeylng on his mind for the last two
weeks. May Cutting-It surely must
be starved by this time, whatever it
is.-Punch.
de Was Magnanimous: Judge Ito
rather respectable-looking prisoner)
lit was drink that brought you here,
| suppose Prisoner-Well, | would
hardly like to say that. The officer
want more'n half full.-New York
Press.
A Few Drawbacks Aunty-Ahd
how does my little pet like going to
school ? Little Pet-I like it ever
so much 'cept the readin', writin'
and 'rithmetic an spellin' Good
News.
81 notice" said a minister, ga de-
plorable tendency on the part of my
congregation 10 lapse from grace. /
am very much pained to observe that
this backsIiding has taken the form
Of an increasing membership in the
choir"
School had opened after the sum-
mer vacation, and the teacher was
questioning the little boys and girls
about what they had been doing in
the way Of recreation. Suddenly up
spoke Johnny Jones "My mamma
and papa went TO the worlds fair"
"What did they bring you home,
Johnnie ?' queried the teacher. "a
souvenir spoon, marm." "Did it
have any words on it ?" "Yes'm,
For a good boy" The teacher
looked over the smiling faces, and
observed Sammy Clepto, evidently
waiting his turn. s'Did your moth
er and father 60 TO the fair, Sam
my ?' she asked. eyes marin :;
they brought me big silver spoon. :"
"What words were on yours Z"
{" Palmer House, marm. ."-Worccs-
ter Spy.
Auntie-You should ask to be ex-
cused when you leave the table. Lit
tie Nephew-Should i? / thought
from the way You acted about that
third piece of pie that you'd be glad
to see me go.--Good News.
Diagnosis Mrs. Grumbleton-
Oh, doctor I'm afraid swallowed
nv false teeth in my sleep DR..
Wagg-Don't be alarmed, my dear
madam. Do you feel a gnawing sem
sation Puck.
A Scotch elder, reproying an old
woman who was somewhat under the
influence of whiskey, said "Sarah,
don't you know that you should flee
from the tempter ~ Sarah quot too
we'll pleased)-Flee YerselP. Elder
oh, Sarah, / have flown. Sarah
Aweel, think ye'll be name the
waur o. onither flutter.-Scottish
American.
An Incorruptible Horse The
Fat Man (who is in something Of a
hurry)-I'll give you 50 to get me to
the station in three minutes. Cab
man (despairingly)-Well, sorr, you
might corrupt me, but you can't
hribe that horse.-Ram's Horn.
A conceited undergraduate of Ok
ford university, one day said to the
famous professor, DR.. Jowett. "Mas-
ter. have searched everywhere in
the PHILOSOPHERS, ancient and mod
ern. and nowhere do / find the eyi-
dence of a God" "Mr. Blank"
replied the master, after a shorter
pause than usual, eff yon don't find
a God by 5 o'clock this afternoon you
must leave this college,"
Mrs. Snaggs-What noise that
donkey makes when he brays Mr..
Snaggs-Yes, and yet some people
class donkeys among dumb. animals.
The PIaIntIys Singers.
There are poets with great SUM-
kindled, constructive imaginations,
and a far more numerous class who
have a certain kind of moonlight
genius given them to compensate for
their imperfection of nature. Their
want of mental coloring- matter makes
them sensitive to those impressions