Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1876-09-01
CHATS BY THE WAY.

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Food and wine are cheap in Ser
via.
The latest Paris novelty is per-
fumed hats.
Jamaica women are said to be
wearing humming birds.
Millions of grasshoppers are pros.
pecting the Black Hills.
"A sccond-rate novelist" is how
The Fortnightly designates Disracli.
Secretary Fish is spending few
weeks at his home on the Hudson.
A Connecticut three year-old
chews tobacco. Quite squirt.
The Evening Post calls hotels
''inns," aud thinks that innglish.
The good workmanship of Eng
land is said to be due to trade union
ism.
Humanity is like a pendulum, al
ways swaying from one side to the
other.
Organ grinders in London. must
cease playing when told to do so by
resident.
Speaking of Brooklyn polite ian
some one recently said he is one who
loats and fishes.
Mrs. Euyenie, the eS-Empress, is
no longer beautiful, but quite the
reverse.
Don Carlos aud his party will
leave New York for Europe about
September lst.
Qaeen Victoria is beginning to
look, in some respects, like Jadge
David Davis.
An English paper remarks that a
Londoner, living anywhere, is the
natural enemy of u stranger.
1. is not every city where police
men rap on the pavement to notify
burglars to shut the store door.
There is Cainese history OF the
Tae-ping revolt. 1t is in !43 vol
umes. Who dares laugh at Evarts
nowi
Where the Englishman OF the
humble classes has three or four va
rieties of food, the Frenchman, the
Italian and the German have twenty.
Detroit is the only city in the
world where they pave the streets
with wood and then scatter brickbats
all over it to hold the blocks down.
Mr.. Jennings says you can't wink
in an English hotel without paying
for it. Depends upon whom you
wink at.
A poet has been struggling with
the question, "Whst is successT
Some think it is plenty of money
and handsome mustache.
The body-servants of George
Washington being about exhausted,
President Monroe's trusty old Wallets
are now beginning to appear.
The Emperor Of China has forbid.
den the emigration of his subjects to
Spanish colonies, because the coolies
in Cuba are treated no better than
slaves.
Soliloquy by . tiplcr Tho public
always notices you when you have
becn drinking, aud never when you
are thirsty.
"Drunk, your honor2 No, STREE.
I was only happy, as it were, just
boiling over with bliss-I celebrated
the death of my mother-in-law."
Speaker--"What was Tilden doing
in the dark days when Hayes was
shoulder to shoulder with the army
boysi" Boy in the crowd--"Wipin'
of his chimp
The fellow who couldn't get
julsp on the Centennial grounds, has
made up his mind that Philadelphia
Ia not the proper place for the mint.
When the war of the revolution
began there was but one man in Mass
sachusetts who was worth over $780,
ZOO. There are now torty-five worth
over a million.
One of the causes of the hard times
is the over production Of useless con-
sumers. Seventeen hundred Of the
descendants Of two Pennsylvania
pairs are about to hold "rsunion"
In that State.
A prudent lady applied to free
Bible distributor the other day for =
large copy. She said it was handy
to press flowers in, and il made
nice ornament for the centre-table :
Norwich Bulletin.