Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1875-02-23
VARIETIES.

"A
his ingenious mountain neighbors
wrote letter on a postal card thai
had been used, and that he accom-
plished the feat by scratching the
name on the address side, and COW
ering the other side with white paper.
When it arrived at ITS destination it
bore this inscription on the margin,
the opinion of some postmaster
through whose hands it had passed:
.The man who did this is the mean
est man alive"
John Bright, NJ. p, after a long
retirement from public speaking, has
again emerged from obscurity and
lifted up his voice at Birmingham
before an immense audience, in ad-
yocacy'of the disestablishment of the
national church. This problem is
now being pressed home upon the
minds of thoughtful Englishmen,a and
the Liberal party evidently intend
to get a thorough canvass of it by
the people at as early a date as pos
sible. Mr.. Bright, now Gladstone
has withdrawn himself as leader,
may be looked upon as the spokes-
man of the advanced Liberal party,
and Disraeli may again find his path
as Premier hedged in by a similar
combination to that which tloored
him before, under the lead of Glad
stone.
About $4,000, 900 would be the fig
ure of the surplus revenue if Secre-
tary Bristow could forget to remem-
Der the sinking fund.
According to a Washington cor
respondent, years stock of whis-
key, tea and coffee in the country is
what is troubling the Ways and
Means Committee.
The Cincinnati Commercial says
that Andy johnson never stole any
thing and he was not Il rebel. That
is a good deal to say for a man in
these times.
An Indiana paper says of the col
umns of a quarto cotomporary:
"They bear the word cheap in ev-
cry wrinkled and blurred feature,
and have the appearance of impress
ions from scrabbled type, set by
crazy rats, fed to a warped press by
sore-eyed feeder,and superintended
by drunken pressman."
Edward Everett Hale says of the
salaries of teachers that ''they gen
orally range at a grade not much
above starvation; they are far infer
ior to the salaries of a tirst-class
cutter in large tailor shop, or a,
tirst-class cook in hotel, and very
far below the salaries paid to first
class circus riders and ballet dan
GERS
A bill has been introduced in the
Senate of Tennessee providing for
the establishment of State board of
physicians, to issue licenses to all
the physicians practicing in the State,
and to issue none unless the appli-
cant has been educated for a physi- |
clan. Its object is to prevent the
practice ofwhat are known as quacks.
A perplexed Schneider, who had
made a garment for youth, and
found himself unable to dispose Of
the surplus fulness which appeared |
when trying it on the young candi-
date, declared vociferously: "De |
coat is goot. Is no fault of de coat. |
De boy is to tim
An Akron physician tells of little !
Akron boy who came to him and |
said, "Doctor, l want some epicac."
"What do you want it for?'' ''Never
mind, just give it to me-" Who sent
you here?' "Nobody sentme, came
myself" II can't let you have it
unless you tell me what you are
going to do with it," "Well, Doctor,
our hired girl has swallowed a silver
quarter, and she said that if I would
give her something that would bring
it up, might have it,"
$50 you are taking lessons in
drawing, Sallie?" "Ies, and the |
teacher says Pm an apt pupil, as l
draw more inferences, insinuations,
admirers and allowances than any
other girl in the academy
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