The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1894-04-13

Ter the court before sentence i
passed 7 Prisoner-No, your honor
MY lawyer took my last shilling
Spare Moments.
"What sort Of collection hay,
you, Will ?" asked the visitor. "Per.
haps | can help you" "Well, sir, -
said Will, "Pm collecting American
coIns"-Harper's Young People.
Ouce Stephen A. Douglass had
been bitterly denounced and some
friends asked him why in the world
he did not reply. His answer was,
'What 10 gentleman should say no
gentleman need answer
"Paw, is there any difference be-
tween a cold and inhuenzy ?'' eff
the doctor calls il cold the bill is
about four dollars. II he calls il in
huenza it's about eighteen dollars.
The difference is fourteen dollars, my
son."
Following the Governors Example:
Father-When / was yonr age |
earned my own living and never
spent any but my own money. Son
We'll, father, l never spend any
but your money, either.-DetrOit
Free Press.
An English schoolmaster once said
to his boys that he would give a
crown TO any one of them who would
PROFOUND riddle he could not an-
swer. "Well," said one OF them,
why am like the Prince of
Wales +" The master puzzled bis
brains for an answer, but could not
guess the correct one. At last he
exclaimed, 81 am sure / don't know"
"WhY," replied the boy. "because
I'm waiting for the crown" j"
Their Means of Subsistence al
was in southwestern Kansas not long
ago" said one of the Colorado repre- |
sentatiyes. "The outlook was very
gloomy. The people looked hungry |
aud appeared to be waiting for some |
thing to turn mp in the shape of a
benevolent Providence To snatch them
from their destiny. / got into con-
with an old fellow who
seemed TO have sprung out of that
sterile soil ages ago, and asked him
What, in the name Of all the bless
Ings, do people manage to live upon in
this section p The old fellow nev-
er took his hands out of his pockets
as be slowly and in perfect good faith
replied '0hl mostly OH pen
sions.' "-Washingson Post.
Wonderful Discovery: The pro-
fessor, who had for a long time been
paving over the corn in the farmers
corn bin for some purpose only known
10 himself, at last came up excitedly
10 the place where the farmer was
"Mr. Grassey," said he,
i'I've discovered a remarkable thing
"a very remarkable thing. There
sn't an ear Of corn in your bin that
las an odd number Of rows of kernels
IN it !" "Shoo - answered the
armer. "You don't tell me 70 The
'our Of milk started in again louder
han ever. Its a fact" oval,
low you mention it, | can tell you
remarkable fact. You may take
he exact number Of married people
n every state in the union and CON-
'are 'em, and there won't be an odd
lumber in that lot of statistics"
'Ha p said the professor, contempt
ously; "there's nothing very re-
about that. Married peo-
lie usually come in pairs, don't
hey ?" "Dew tell !" said the farm
r. cam so do rows of kernels on !
ars of corn. Guess you want fetch I
4 mp on q farm, professor. - =
'outh's Companion.
When Youth Wanes. :
GA little, little while we are. +" q
-outh's time of vioIets, with its prom. a
e and expectancy, is brief of days. r
lot long shall he feel the exquisite n
lrill evoked by sheer existence, by Il
le earth's routine Of day and night b
I'D the immutable rotation of the a
asons, the sound of the wind wan il
sring by night over vast lonely "
aims; the pallid moon that seems S
fly among the tattered clouds a
white ; the silvery light of Il
,rly day !; the golden air of sunset, b
hen sky and water glow with equal a
sire; the April song Of the bird in r,
e thorny hedge; the peach tree that il
ushes suddenly against the weather 4
aimed wall ; the tiny flowers push a
q through the sparse grass Of the Il
lring. 1t all seems part Of himself, n
Irt of the pageant Of life in which b
shares and he can hardly fancy b.
at it would 90 on as before, were b.
removed. Did he not feel this he
onld not be young; and when the h
ntastic impression becomes fainter Ii
is beginning 10 grow old. Later SC
may know what IL is to stand a. n
le and feel himself an alien, es- nj
snged from tho renewal of the tt
sming earth, no longer identified ii
th its prodigality Of Joy and fl
-ength. Il is then that in wcari- nl
IS or Indifference, as be plods A. sc
1g toward tho narrow house, be be- ii
ns to relax his grasp upon the pos e
'sions that once charmed him, and h'
scatter upon the roadside his faded W
res. Measures. desires. dreams and nj