Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1902-11-19

maAAAao a~hAouAS9ui auN Nue quar-
rehng begins.
Blobbs-'I hear she has made ND
her mind TO 60 on the stage" Slobbs
Yes, but / don't think she'll be
much OF q 60"
Whenever we have the nightmare
these nights, we dream that q lot Of
women dressed ia the new style
cloaks are chasing us.
When a band plays such familiar
airs that people q hum the chorus,
1t is said It plays ITO the people, -
and not "above them"
There are lots Of people in the
world who never live long enough to
overtake the nice vacation they in
tend to take "next year"
That word "dainty" never being
used to describe the lunch spread for
men, we have decided that it means
that there is not enough to eat.
It doesn't seem 80 remarkable that
a diamond viii cut glass when you
consider that It will even make an
impression on & woman's heart.
A young girl in Richmond, Va, has
bad fifteen inches of pig skin grated
on her back. What an ideal sponsor
for a football eleven she will make.
And now the king Of Siam Is COM
ing. We are getting so used to kings
here of late that nothing less than
four aces will satisfy us after awhile.
Advise an old man to marry a WON
an young enough to be his daughter,
and he may ask you II you take him
for a fool, bat he will not be offended.
Whenever we hear a girls com
plexion described as "olive," we
think OF the color Of the only olives
we eve saw, and wonder II she is bill
ious.
Instead of telling a sick boy to take
his medicine like n man, a higher
form Of bravery should be held up to
him by asking him to take 1t like a
woman.
A young lady stepographer has
been notified by her employer that
II she doesn't quit needle work about
the ONCE, he viii put out a dressmak-
ing sign.
Another investigation is being held
to determine the food value Of alco-
hol. We have known people to live
on 1t for q week-if this will throw
any light on the subject.
It will not really be all over until
the tired women at home have found
time to renovate the suits their hus-
bands wore on election day and get
the tobacco stains out Of them.
Watch the man who has nothing to
do; he has a harder time than the
man who works. He is always loaffng
around stores and offices, and people
are always grumbling because he is in
the way.
II you read the telegraph you will
not wonder why so many St. Louis
councilmen fell. The world is full Of
men who are above reproach because
they have never been offered $4,000
for their votes.
It Is predicted that the Texas oil
wells will soon begin to spout nothing
but water. In view of the amount Of
water in their stock, this will have to
be considered somewhat in the nature
Of overproduction.
Do country girls ever become old
maids before they marry? Every day
there is some country girl in town,
with 3 baby in her arms, and who Is
so young to be a mother that the
sight makes people cream.
Nj. H---1Tgg. .-L---.---. 49,
she is disguised with rich Americans
comes with rather poor grace when it
is remembered that they are about
the only class who can nov be bum
coed out OF the price of some Of her
late alleged literary productions.
Marie never vas noted for a refined
type Of gratitude.
Somebody has figured out that the
keep Of one dog costs as much Be that
Of 60 hens capable of laying 800 dozen
eggs. Just so; some people are never
satisfied. Perhaps the gentleman
who has gone to all this trouble to
give the dog a kick, thinks dogs
ought to lay eggs OF hens set birds,
or-but what's the use?
The completion OF the great dam
across the Nile Is to be celebrated in
December. This dam Is said to be
one of the greatest engineering feats
IN the history of the world. There is
no doubt that 1t Is a big dam, bat we
will bet odds that If Admiral Evans
Is present at the ceremonies incident
to the completion that he will make
that dam look insignificant.
There is at least one lighthouse in
the world that Is not placed on any
mariners chart. 1t is away ont on
the Arizona desert, and marks the
spot where a we'll supplies pure, fresh
water to travellers. It is the only
place where water may be had for
forty FIVE miles to the eastward and
for at least thirty miles in any other
direction. The "house" consists of a
tall cottonwood pole, to the top of
which a lantern is hOisted every
night. The light can be seen for