Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1903-08-12

Many a lO-cent dog has been stolen
for its $40 collar.
Alawyer may be good natured even
en- cross examination.
For every happy individual there
are a dozen who are envious.
It takes more than a frock coat and
q high hat to make a statesman.
1t is usually the idiot who rocks the
boat that lives to regret it.
Tightly laced, loosely paced.
It is possible to save a lot of trouble
by getting rid Of it.
Many a pugilist couldn't box a crate
Of huckleberries.
Our respect for old age never ex-
tends as far as eggs.
An elastic conscience is always will
ling to stretch a point.
In the race for wealth it's snip and
tuck with the dressmakers.
The oil magnate is always a mar of
refinement, il not of culture.
It is we'll 10 mind Your own business
II you don't someone else will.
You can always tell when a fish is is
not fresh. The scales will give it
away.
That Mime OTTO food convention
came very near being a Kentucky
5feud convention.
Ben Tillman's bureau of publicity
must have gone into the hands OF a
receiver.
When last heard from the Iowa idea
was keeping company withthe ground
hog.
It will ruin any man to be henpeck-
ed. We knew such a man to
amount to anything.
It is every mans secret fear that he
will become delirious some day, and
his wife will be his nurse.
The trouble is that the soft down on
a girls face is liable to stiffen up with
age, and become whiskers.
When a woman has twins, all the
other mothers of twins want to call
and offer sympathy, but haven't time.
Most girls feel that they shouldn't
get married till they've had the fun Of
refusing some fellow.
The up-to-date pugilist is thorough
imbued with the idea that the pen is
.mightier than the glove.
The hy is a small insect, and yet the
entomologists tell us he stands over
six feet.
You can't cheer a sick man up by
telling him that death loves a shining
mark.
When a burglar breaks into an
office building, as a rule be doesn't
take the elevator. .
The song, ''Please Go way an Let
Me Sleep" has no effect upon the fes
tive mosquito.
Congressman Cannon retains his
views Ia respect of financial legisla-
ton.
The shortage of the cotton supply lie
expected to stimulate production in
Africa.
Much interest is felt in Washington
in the coming trial of Prof. Langeley's
airship.
The Constitution again defeated
Reliance in q forty miles race on time
allowance.
The Gear has punished the Vice
Governor who was at Kishenef dur
ing the massacre.
Venezuelan Federals are reported t
have bombarded Ciudad Bolivar, will
some loss of life.
Evansville is in Indiana; 80 i
Crumpacker, and CrumpackeT, well
he is not saying a word now.
After a man has passed 175 pounds
he is less of a heartbreaker and NOR
of hammock-wrecker
The United States will ignore tn
failure Of the Cuban Congress to rati
~ the Plat amendment.
If anybody has an agamomermi
culisis we think we know where ther
is a mosquito he can feed on.
Congenial friends are those VIII
agree when you get out of the roast
ing pan to put a third party in 1t.
"Have you been done in oilP" aske
the artist. "No, I never speculate
stocks OF any kind" replied the bus.
ness man.
The discussion of the negro b
office seeking politician bad on th
black man but not quite so bad as ID
way the mobs up North treat him.
When a girl finds out that a ma
has discovered she wears hannels st
can be mad with him for the rest {
bis life.
When a woman comes back from
visit, she usually has a great deal
say about the smart sayings Of hC
sisters children.
When q boy is given permission
60 on a trip he begins to schen
around for q plan to get of withoI
bidding the kin goodbye.
We usually discover ct night th.
the only things we found time to {
during the day we're those WhiC
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