Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1873-08-06
ODDS and Ends.

Odds and Ends.
There 10 more fatigue IN inzi'lest
than IN labor.
A hint to talkcrs At the table Saw
your breath TO blow ,yoarsosp.
Mosquitoes Aavc IN their yelns
.ome OF tho best blood in tue eean'
try.
yvhv A. ncccssity like a great many
lawyersY-Decause It knows no Jaw
A. Irish editor congratulates him
scif That shalt the lies told on him
ain't true"
R.sper. being told that he LOOKED
sscdy, and asked what buslhets ~
was in, rcplied, "thc hard wear oas'-
ncss-iook at my wardrobe"
"Tonald," said a Highland droyes
10 a friend. "you'rc drunk, TonnIn.
s.Iod forbid, Rory" answered th'
accused; II wish l was"
A You've GoLENso..Goverhes'
freadingl-"And he would fam nav
SiJIcd his belly with the husks that thu
wine did cat" Master Tcm-
s.But Why didn't he kill tue pig, III
make SOME bscon!"
An Irishman, when he applied foi
license to sell whisky, was asked by
the magistrate If he was OF u gooc
moral character. He replied "taiA.
/ don't see the necessity OF 900
moral character TO sell whisky"
A bachelor says that If you hand y
lady a newspaper with paragraphs
cnt mt of l., not a line of ii will bt
,ssd. Int every bit Of interest felt il
the papcr BY the lady will centre IL
findin9 out what tho missing para
graphs contained.
A company has been formed to
construct Q tunnel $4,000 feet long In
Nevada, for the purpose OF draining
n river bed which is filled with tht
'tailings", from numerous quarts
mills.
There IL i'll feeling between Buff
fsio and Rochester, the latter dcclar'
inc hat Buffalo's earthquake was
very moor specimen, aud Buffalo re-
,,iying that her sister city is only
teslous because she didn't feel thu
jar.
The farmers of Carroll county
Illinois, have o perspicuous and Tor
chile way Of putting things Here l.
specimcn: "Resolved, That thu
increase of Congressional salaries, IL
fbese hard times, is All Internal out
rage upon tho working people OF TIT
country"
GAINESVILLE, Wisconsin. has been Wis
tied with Que of the traditional show
era of frogs. One observer reckon
them nj ten thousand to the acre
and. rs they covered all the vicinity
the local newspaper estimates til
numbers at several millions.
The Worthington (Minn.) Advanc'
..vs. eve arc often asked by cor
respondents about game i'll this vicin
ity. If millions of ducks, brant al
geese, and large numbers OF crane
pclicans, swans and countless mum
beers of grouse can DC called game
then there is plenty OF game here
and if pitching fish from the lake
with an ordinary three.tlned "a
fork is any indications of good fisl
ing, then we have good fishing here.
MIR. J. Harris, of Rochester, ny
savs. in the American Ag~riculturis'
that we talk about raising "wheat 70
the world" but u own populatio
ia Increasing so rapidly that the tim
will soou come when it will tax on
siii TO raise wheat enough for our
selves. We shall do it, of course, bu
We shall have to farm better thai
many of us do now. And he is TIL
wisc mau who is getting lis lan'
cleaner and richer.
A yirginian who had been plucket
in o gambling den in Baltimore
brought suit against the supposed
proprietor of the place for the amour
lost, aud obtained Judgment IN Tic
fault. But when the sheriff wa
ahout to make a levy upon the fur
uiture il was as~ccrtained that every
thing in the establishment was own
ed bv q member OF h detectiv
police corps, who held h same b,
bin of sale put on the record tw
years ago.
A country paper speaking of
c,,ch of fishes says some of then
ware "slappers." "Slapper" is Tn
%comn.rative ofthe word "whopper.'
A.. nositiye "whopper," compar
ative r"slapper," superlative "sock
dolager."
Bony Nash, the Cincinnati gam
bier. whose death was recently re
corded. was congratulated a shor
time before the event upon lookin;
in better health than usual, when b
replied, 81 bet you $50 l don't liv
week" He won.
A package containing $4,000 We
left In the reading room OF Chlcag
hotel for thirty hours u~ndisturbet
3but il 10 only due to the honesty
Chicago people to say that the valu'
able package was mistaken by ever!
body for an old shirt.
The editor of the San Francisc
Chronicle, after stating that he b,
s.no desire to engage i'll q persons
controversy" proceeds to characte
ize the editor of q rival newspap'
a.. ga drunken and cowardly lido
who disgraces journalism"
Edmund Munger, speaking of II
time when'he was q boy, says 1t w
the custom of school children az "
passed a school house, 10 make a boz
but in these later days, as you pa
Q school house, you must keep yo'
eye peeled, or you will get q sno'
hall or O brickbat al the side OF ye'
head.
An Englishman has offered to Sill
scribe fifty or one hundred pount
toward the completion of telescol
that shall be powerful enough to III
cover human beings-if existing
any of the spheres. 1t would be a.
gravating for our noble race to 81
anybody walking around there wit
out being able to put them OH a lie
crvatIon.
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