Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1875-04-18
DETROIT CURRENCY.
From the Detroit Free Pres.

TIE Gar of Russia has the toothacns
like the rest of US, and he uses almost tn'
same emphatic expressions.
NEW JERSEY paper quietly observes
that "none are 90 deaf as those VINO can
$50" Hear! hear! as an Engdsnmal
would say.
xrxmra Of the North Carolina Leg!s
lature, In discussing bill, asked: WI
Speaker, are we men or jackassesf' oev
eral North Carolina papers are unable u
take sides.
An Ohio woman rises and says: i've
been married thirty-four years, WORKED
like niger, and never lived in house
which had parlor folding-doors.' fas'
around the hat.
WARNER, the Michigan circus man, Il
getting ready for the summer campaign
He is having 1000 dead-head tickets
printed, reading: admit editor Of.
AN Iowa minister paused in his ser.
mon and said: "Girls, you may laf and
giggle and giggle and laf, but when you
are on your dyin' beds you'll remember
this afternoon and wish you'd have cu'
your right hands off first!'
A MTssoURIAN who comes home after
an absence of week, and finds that his
wife has been knitting a tidy instead OF
splitting wood, has right to tell her thai
her folks always did have the name OF
being the LATEST people in the State.
A REASONING BoY.-Yesterday noon, as
a boy about eleven years old was going
up Rowland street with quart-pail full
of milk he stumbled and spilled out a
full pint. He sat the pail down, leaned
up against the fence and meditated for d
few minutes. and then entered the Capitol
School grounds, replaced the lost milk 10y
holding the pail under the hydrant, and
went home with grin foot long on his
face.
STUDYING GEoGRAPuY-Whilc a news
boy was hanging around one of the de-
pots yesterday gentleman engaged him
in conversation and inquired:
"Do you go to school, bubs'
eyes, sir, and I'm in geography was
the answer.
"Ah. ha! Where does the sun risel'
"In the east
"Correct. Where does it set2"
an the west"
That's right. What is the earth's
surface composed off,
"Land and water, sir"
Right again. Is the world round or
fatl"
LESS see," unused the boy, sitting
down on bench. "Well, l know dad
and nam had fight about that very
thing, but l forget which Ecked!'
THE SECOND WIFE.-As boy was 60
ing down Porter street yesterday woman
opened the front door of house and
called, John. John John.' as the boy
paid no attention to the calls, pedes-
trian said to him:
Here, bub, your mother is calling to
YOU
mo, she isn't" replied the man as he
turned the corner; she's only fathers
second wife, and she wants to understand
that she can't run me-"
AhOOodI lie VI EANI T1ER.-NnIie
man WAS Yesterday driving load of lum-
Der down Howard street he saw an ac-
quaintance some distance off, and, raising
his voice, he cried ou:
Hello. you old villain"
A grim-looking woman, using an UNI
brella for cane, was passing the wagon,
and she wheeled around and shrieked out
"lf you'll get off that wagon I'll let you
know no | ami"
No, He WoULpS'T,-Yesterday, while
the waiting-room at the Detroit & Mil
waukee depot was full of people, an old
chap who had been over to hotel came
in and called out to his wife:
Jane, what do you thinkl They want
ten shillings if we both eat dinner, and
six shillings if l eat and leave you here
m powerful faint under my jacket, but
afore I'll put up with any such distortion
I'll buy peek of peanuts and eat the
meats while you eat the shucks!"