The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1908-07-08
BRIEF AND BREEZY
a Little Fun Mixed With the News Of
The Day.

sss~ IVY
The Fourth Of July is the one
lday when the President iii the
United States is not regarded as
1.-The big noise.
Three physicians are running
for mayor Of Admission. Ala.
Anniston's ailments must be ex-
ceedingly grave.
It will take Mr.. Taft some time
to break himself Of the habit Of
starting for the depot every time
he hears q train whistle.
No doubt the coIored brethren
Iin grand old Texas appreciate the
distinguished honor Of being
Ilynched in bnnches Of nine.
/ That Chicago woman who died
after fasting forty days must have
saved enough on her meat bill
alone to pay her funeral expenses.
One can have very little SYM
patfy for that Indiana banker
who was sent to Jail for stealing
la horse when automobiles are so
plentiful now.
Mr.. Bryan's assertion that the
Republican platform repudiates
Rooseveltism will mildly surprise
1.-THE people who thought Mr..
Roosevelt wrote it.
According to the packers, beef
has gone up because of the scarcity
of cattle. a good many of us
thought it was because money is
becoming too plentiful.
1t is reported that wives may
be purchased for $5 each in cer-
tain parts of Asia. The first cost
Iof a wife, however is usually a
relatively unimportant matter.
Minister WI says he remembers
the answers to the questions he
has asked in the United States.
If that's true he would make a
|great editor of an encyclopedia.
j A Frenchman recently declined
to fight a duel on the ground that
those be had fought in the past
always fatigued him excessively.
The average French duel makes
everybody tired.
1 /
The next President who starts
]out to name his successor will
lconfer favor on che delegates
by having the convention held at
1.-THE White House, thus reducing
the expenses considerably.
A Niagara Falls man has an
nouDced that he will shoot the
whirlpool rapids in canoe. If
The wants to commit suicide be
will find shooting the rapids just
as effective as shooting himself.
What will Roosevelt do after
March 4 next inquired a con-
temporary. a number of people
in this country have long wonder
led ifthere is anything be won't
do, provided the notion to do it
strikes him.
The Jacksonville Times Union
refers to that eight-footed CoIora-
LIDO kitten as an octo puss. = This
merely shows the sad effect of
Excessively hot weather on some
usually normal and well-balanced
newspaper writer's.
Prince Helie, the new husband
Eof Anna Gould, is to have a
marriage settlement OF $3.50, 900
land says One can live on that. =
This leaves the inference that
Princess Anna will have to pay
lfor her own living.
Sntne Of the Johnson boomers
think their man is certain of the
nomination ID 1912. That con
lvictipn takes no account IF one
I William j. Bryan. whose candi-
ldacy time cannot wither, custom
stale, nor defeat discourage.
The near prominent citizen,
who has voted bis party ticket all
Ibis life, but is going TO switch this
year and support Taft or Bryan,
as the case may be, IS already get
lting bis name in the papers, Just
las he does every four years.
A Western man is so bashful
that he has reneged four times
when the folks were all arranged
before the preacher waiting for
1.-The wedding ceremony to pro-
lceed. Here is where bis friends
would have been justified in cap
turing him and marching up TO
the batteries.