The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1894-02-09
THINGS WISE AND OTHERWISE.

H's pour Oaa gentleman says be hasn
nad thing 10 eat for eight months
90 I've invited him home toluuch wiz
us.-Harper's Bazaar.
Sweet Revenge: "I'm putting n,
prescription for your wife's miIlin
err " said The drug clerk to bis employ
or; What shall / charge her?'
What 10 the usual price for wha
she getting 2" "Fifty cents. D"Charg,
her s2.75. Detroit Free Press.
A Duplication Mr.. Lincr.p said
The editor to his new reporter. abt
careful TO avoid tautoIogy.". eyes,
slr." Gin this report You speak oi
Mr.. barley as a wealthy and influen.
tial man. Truth
Young Pop: "I'll be cook nv dear.
ont hang me if I'll set foot in an
Intelligence Office again. Ipicked no
the most respectable looking woman
IN the room and stepping up to her
said Can you fiji the position of
cook She looked like our fighting
COCK as she replied: 4 am trying to
NIL that Of our coachman. 1 think
you would suit admirably. ."'-Life.
An Old Lawyer (pointing out to
one OF his younger brethren a barris-
term the act Of gesticulating and talk
ing to himselD-- "Why, the man
must be mad 10 "What makes Won
think so ?" "Faith, a barrister
who talks to himself is like pastry
cook devouring his own stock in
trade. LA Gazette des Tribuneeaux
No Doubt About The Verdict +:
"You are the defendant IN this case;
are you not?" asked. the prosecuting
attorney. eyes, sir" replied the
man In the witness box. "May / ask
your occuption?" "I am manufac-
turer Of calHope whistles" That's
all, " rejoined the attorney. $50 far
. we arc concerned, your honor, the
case IS ready to go to the jury. .D-l
Chicago Tribune.
II has been we'll said that no man
sver sank under the burden of he
lay. It is when to-morrow's burden
8 added to the burden Of to-day that
he weight is more than a man
,an bear. Never load yourself SO, my
friends. II you find yourseIfso load
ID, at least remember this: It is your
'wn doings, not Gods. lie begs You
o leave the future to him and mind
he present.--NacD Donald.
Two Good Likenesses Photoqra-
'her. Your son, the student, this
picture ordered. Father-Him that
5 like. Has he for it paid /? Photo
'rapher-Yet not. Father-Stn
more like him is thas.-Fllegende
Slatter.
Information On Tap ssMr.Jones,
rho was Plntarch 20 "He was the
Tod Of the internal regions. He ,
Irote poetry, and was celebrated for ,
is attentions to Laura"
In certain breach of-promise-suit,
hings looked as If Miss Jones, the
laintiff, would win !; but one day a
-iend observed the defendants at
'rney wearing a very happy look. /;
8 he came near. the attorney ex-
aimed "We've beaten them I !
fe've beaten them 70 "How 90 ?"
Deried the friend, wondering what !
sw phase the case could have as
Imed. "She died last night 7" joy
lily replied the attorney.-Bufalo :
ourier. '
A Case For Mercy: The Judge
What is your age, madam : Fair
espondent-Your lordship, | leave G
at to the mercy of the court. lid d
its. Il
War. Y
What, speaking in quite unofficial 7
nguage is the net purport and up !;
OF of war ? To my own knowledge, !
r example, there dwell and toll in = =
e British village of Dumdrudge u.s. !
lily some FIVE hundred souls. From !, :
ese there are successfully Sc :
tied, during the French war, say n
irty able bodied men. Dumdrudge, 4
her own expense, has suckIed and =
rsed them she has, not without !.
Fhculty and sorrow, fed them up to /;
and even trained them TO :,
afts, so that one can weave, anoth- =,
build, another hammer, and the !.
akest can stand under thirty stone :
oirdupois. Nevertheless, amid :,
lch weeping and swearing, they =
selected all dressed in red and n
pped away 49,. some two thou m
ID miles, or say only to the south o.
Spain, and fed there till wanted. 4,
And now to that same spot in the Il
lth Of Spain are thirty similar =
ench artisans. from q French Dum- -
ige, In like manner vending till
length, after infinite effort, the two
tiles come into actual juxtaposi-
q and Thirty stands fronting
irty, each with o gun in bis hand. W.
3traightway the word "Fire !" is y
en-, and they blow the sonls out OF II
! another, and In place OF sixty 70
sk, useful craftsmen, the world nj
sixty dead carcassss, which ii " y
st bury and anon shed tears for. oi
d these men any quarrel ? Busy nl
the devil is, not the smallest ~
OF lived far enough apart we're % p