The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1894-07-20
THINGS WISE AND OTHERWISE.

like him well enough, bat l can't
get him to propose. ."-Brooklyn
Life.
Hicks-LOOk at sniggs flirting
with the girls over there. | thought
you said he was a woman-hater.
Wicks-So he. is, but the woman he
hates is not here. Boston Trans
cript.
Mr.. Gotham-How do You like the
city girls? Mr. Spodunk-Oh, they
are all right enough to look at, but /
can't say | get along with them very
well. Mr.. Gotham-I always find
them very jolly. Mr.. Spodunk-
Yaas, but when / see 'em all stand
ing around in low-neck dresses, /
don't have nerve enough to slap 'em
on the back and joke with 'em as /
do with the girls up our way.-Harp-
er's Bazaar.
The great labor union chief was
leaning back in his chair smoking a
cigar when one of his subordinates
rushed in. "Sire,r exclaimed the
subordinate, "the Amalga m a Q d
Window Washers have discovered q
grievance p "Then tic up a railroad
at once" returned tie great chief,
nonchalantly. Chicago Post.
"Josiar," said Farmer Corntos-
sells wife, "the roofs leakin' agin."
'Is it !? Well, I'll investigate it ter
morrow" sJosiar'-and she spoke
with a something like asperity which
was not usual to her-"I don't read
the newspapers for nothin'. What
that roof wants amt investigation.
1t wants 'tendin' to. o."-Washington
Star.
Mother-Why do you stay at home
all the time ? Have you no friends
to visit Laura-Yes. one, but ]
cannot endure her. .-Fliegende Blaet-
ter.
She-I know, Alfred, / have my
faults. He-Oh, certainly. She
(angrily)-Indeed 7 Perhaps you'll
tell me what they are.--Fliegende
Blaetter.
A Difference Of Views "I'm al
most afraid, Miss Squeers," said the
lmpecunious young man who had
taken her to an after-theater supper
for which he had been boarding mon
ey for months, ''I'm almost afraid to
ask you to cat such meal as this
just before going TO bed." "Oh,
never mind," replied Miss Squeers,
smiling pleasantly. eff it doesn't
answer we can easily order some
more, you know. ."-Chicago Record.
Speeches to be Lived Down: On
being introduced to a young lady one
evening, Dumley said calamity
''And have | really the pleasure of
meeting the beautiful Miss Blossom.
whose praises are being sounded by
everybody 70 "0h, no, Mr.. Dunn
ley," the lady replied, "lhe beautiful
Miss Blossom to whom you refer is
cousin Of mine." "0h, that's it I?
| thought there must be a mistake
somewhere, SAID the gallant Dum-
Bits.
Jimson-I Just tell you, you can't
find a man anywhere who enjoys
good joke better THAI / do. Friend
Guess that's so. / have heard you
tell the same joke forty times and
laugh at it every time. New York
Weekly.
In the Same Boat "Mamma,"
said Willie after he had come from
school, 81 saw a poor little boy on
my way home who had never even
heard Of ice-cream." "That was too
bad" said Willie's mother. "What
did you say to him ?' 81 said" re-
piled Willie earnestly, "that I had
almost forgotten it myself. Judge.
Nurse-Sure, ma'am, the twins
have been making a fuss all day,
na'am. Mrs. Olive Branch-What
about t? Nurse-It's because they
,an't have birthday apiece, like the
Smith children next door. They
.hink they have been cheated.
Journal.
A little hree-year-old girl, while
1er mother was trying TO get her to
IIeep, became interested in some
noise. She was told that it was
,aused by cricket, when she sage
v observed, "Mamma, / think he
1ught to be oiled. ."-Pearson's Week
y.
Wild and Tame Hearts.