Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1894-06-23
WIT N WISDOM.

i love indeed, to suffer, but | can
not tell whether | am worthy to suffer.
st. lgnatius,
Nc Atkins very tiresomel-Wapt to
hear something funny? Old Crusticus
No; Eve heard it before. Harlem
Life.
-Elsic-Oh. uncle. | am so fond of
YOU, Uncle-And why? Elsie-We al
ways have jam when you take lunch
with us.-Fliegende Batter.
Pa, are you still growing?" mo,
Frank; what makes you think 500
because the top of your head is com
ing through your hair. "-Tit-Bits,
If for some of us. and sometimes all
of us, action can not mean doing, then
remember bearing too is action-often-
est its hardest part. William Charming
Gannett.
Boy, what is a p~eninsula"' "A
point of land extending into the
| water Good, What's a strait?'
Ace, king, queen. jack and ten-spot."
st. Louis Post.
To be happy at home is the ulti-
mate result Of all ambition, the end to
which every enterprise and labor tends
and of which every desire prompts the
prosccution.-Dr, Johnson.
History presents the plcasantest
features of poetry and fction-the
majesty of the epic. the moving acct
dents of the drama. and the surprises
and moral of the romancc.-Willmot.
-RelentlesS .-"She's as pretty as a
picture" said the young man. Yes"
replied the young woman. with a
glance at her rivals complexion.
''hand-paintcd, too - Washington
Star.
is your life insured, STRIP asked
the agent, Yes" replied the book
keeper. in what company?' "Thc
home company, My wife has promised
me never to do the cooking. -TIarpcr's
Bazaar.
Let yoh aims be high" said I'm
Gle Eben, ''but doan' forgit dat dar nm
moh practical returns fun a good job
oh whitewashin' dan dcy is fun a bad
job oh landscape paintin' washing.
ton Star.
"You don't mean to say the cashier
has gomez Yes" replied the bank
official. Dear me! lie had such a
pleasing appearance" yes, and such
a d~ispleasing disappearance."-Wash
ington Star.
-~Clerk-You say you don't like them
bronze lions, and yet they are very life
like. Summer Resort Landlord-That's
just the trouble. Why, those fellows
would have a thousand mosquitoes
around them in one night.-Harlem
Life.
Innocence Unsophisticated Cook
If yer please mum, the butcher SAYS
] shall get five per cent. on all the or
dcrs ! give i'm. What does that mean?
Mistress-1t means, Mary. that We
shall have u new butcher. boston
Budget.
;, When Snidcwell got religion and
got up in meeting to say that he had
made up his mind to cast his burden
vi viz IOTu. MIS-. y. was DeuTu JO re
mark, 81 don't know as l care, so long
as | am eased of at least a portion of il
In the future. 'Tisn't to be expected
that Daniel would ever bear his burden
|, himself.--Boston Transcript.
! A young minister had gone to the
home of his boyhood to preach, and, o.
course, the villagers were full of curl
. osity to hear him. At the close of tn,
service n of the deacons engaged tn,
, young preachers wife in conversation
SIT was a strange coincidence" said he
"that your husbands text was the on,
from which his father preached his las
sermon in his pulpit" 'Indeedr' sal,
the lady; well, that was strange.
hope" she continued, at wasn't tn,
. same sermon" "Oh, no." said the dea
= eon, in : deprecatory manner; hi
!. father was a dreadful smart man.
Epworth Herald.