The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1894-01-12
THINGS WISE AND OTHERWISE.

by woman, who is a compound of all
these qualities. .-Rubinstein.
Sunday School Teacher-Bobby,
can you name the three graces? Bob
by Yes'm /; the world, the flesh aud
the devil.-Judge.
A Harvard student one day met
the famous Boston lawyer, H. w.
Paine, reading a volume Of tho Mas
sachusetts Reports in street car.
"Why, Mr.. Paine," said the young
man, 81 am surprised that yon
should find il necessary to read law
in horse Cal" ''I am not reading
law" responded Mr.. Paine II am
reading the decisions OF the supreme
judicial court Of Massachusetts" F"
Call the devil by his right name
and there are men in every crowd
who will claim that you have insult
ed him.-Ram's Horn.
"That fellow Jawley is broker,
isn't he ?' eyes" elias he got
any money ?" "Yes-he has got
mine. Life.
Shortly before Gen. B., of Ohio,
left to represent his country abroad,
he sold of most Of his household be-
longings. Among them was piano.
A local music dealer went to see him
about it. "Wkat kind of a piano is
it, General 4? How many octaves has
il /" "Dunno, but it's full Of em.
.-Harper's Bazaar.
A Good Example Mamma with
some indignation)-I have called you
three times. / am very much an
noyed. Charlie (who is fond of BIZ
bic oriee)-Well, the Lord had TO call
Samuel three times and He didn't
get mad about it, did He /?
A German urged an Englishman
to go shooting with him. "0h,"
said the Englishman haughtily, 81
do not care for hunting unless il con-
tains the element Of danger" "Well,
then, you shust go nit me,' replied
the German; "only de oder DAY /
shoots my brudder-in law in de
schtomag."-Ex.
Mrs. Chatter-Do you believe that
cures can be effected by the laying
on Of hands ? Chatter-Most GER
iainly. l cured my boy Of smoking
that way.-Brooklyn Life.
"What do you think of that artist
who painted cobwebs on his ceiling
so truthfully that the servant girl
wore herself into an attack OF ner-
vous prostration trying to sweep
them down 7" "There may have
been such an artist, but never such a
servant girl. Spare Moments.
Men and Dogs: 1t has long been
our candid conviction that If all the
dogs in the world were boiled down
into one there would be in the result
the making Of a very noble man.
On the other hand, we fancy that if
all the men in the world were boiled
down into one there would be in the
result the making of a precious poor
dog.-Eugene Field
Getting Even Mrs. Nuwed-I
want TO confess something 10 you,
dearest. / deceived You about my
age. IL is more than / told you.
Mr.. Nuwed-Then / may as well re-
ciprocate, darling. | deceived you
about my income. 1t is less than ]
told you.-Harper's Bazar.
eWhat are you crying for, Fritzr'
"Because my brothers have a holiday
and / haven't" "But why haven't
YOU holiday, too P" "Because Pm
not old enough to 60 to school yet"
Gossip is a sort of smoke that
comes from .he dirty tobacco pipes
of those who diffuse it. 1t proves
nothing but the bad taste Of the
smoker.-George Eliot.
Pike-I hear that a number OF bal
lots were thrown out in my district
as defective. Dyke What was the
defect ? Pike-Cast for the wrong
candidates. Puck.
Colored Servants "Do You still
have colored servants, Hicks ~
nWell. in a sense. We don't have
negroes any more, but we've got
three of the greenest girls you ever
saw in the house now. ."-Harper's
Bazaar.
Secret Chambers Of the Soul.
Is there not one little drawer in
vour soul. my sweet reader, which no
hand but yours has ever opened, and
which none that have known you
seem TO have suspected I? What does
II hold PA sin Ihope not.
What a strange thing an old dead
ain laid away in q secret drawer of
the soul is Must it some time or
other be moistened with tears, until
II comes to life again and begins to
stir in our consciousness, -as the dry,
wheel-animalcuIe, looking like grain
of dust, becomes alive, if it is wet
with a drop OF water
Or is it a passion There are
plenty Of withered men and women
walking about the streets who have
- l. A.