The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-12-13
FACT AND FANCY.

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always like 70 oblige the weaker SEX"
affably remarked the youth. Weaker
sex, indeed! Any more of your imper-
Thence, young man, and you'll see
whether 1 am weak or not" Then
assuming a defiant air she gracefully
dropped into the vacant seat.
Verify the new kind of ''drummer!"
A fashionable undertaken in one of the
northern towns of Kentucky INDUCED
his taste by purchasing a very elegant
hearse, with p~late-glass, silver mount
ings and mournfully waving plumes.
A gentleman seeing the hearse passing
down the street in gloomy pomp,
inquired a~nxiously of the nearest
friend, "Who is deadp" The reply
was, "Nobody-he's only drumming!"
A young lady who is studying French
lately wrote to her parents that she
was ~''invited out to a dejenner the day
before, and going to q 'fete cham
petre' the next day. The professor of
the college was surprised to receive Il
dispatch from the ''old man" a day or
two after, saying: "If you can't keep
my girl away from these blarsted me-
nageries and side-shows, l will come
down and see what ails her."
A San Francisco four-year-old vas
observed making queer movements with
his elbow. His aunt asked him what
he was doing. "Crooking my elbow"
said precocious. ''But what are you
crooking your elbow for, Johnny?'.
cause 1 want to Diet II nice little
strawberry on my nose" "But that
won't make a strawberry, Johnny"
YES it will, for the cook says papa
wouldn't have the big strawberry on
his nose if he didn't crook his elbow so
often
A little Ottawa miss, taken TO church
for the first time, was duly impressed
with the necessity that she should keep
''as still as n mouse" She behaved
herself until the preacher became
warmed up 10 his work, and then she
raised her finger, and, looking straight
at him, cried: ''See here, don't you
make so much noise.n
"What l object to-" said a Texas
horse-thief, as he was about to he drawn
up, sis your hanging me here in the
sur when there's plenty of shade close
by. However, go ahead
That's our family tree" said an
Arkansas youth, as he pointed to a
vigorous hemlock, and added, "A good
many of our folks have been hung OF
that tree for borrowin' horses after
dark!''
Illinois papers say that Amelia, the
favorite 'wife'' of Brigham Young,
intends to return t. her old home in
Peoria to llve!"
"Oh, mammal said a little one, 81
eat so much it spoils my appetite. I'm.
Y. Com. Advt.
Figaro's ''Iron Mask" represents a
school-boy as asking: Papa, what then
is it that distinguishes civilization from
barbarism?" 'Oh! it is quite simple"
replies the parent. ''Civilization kills
its enemy at 5000 meters with a can
o ball, and barbarism chops off his
head with a sabre"
A couple of disputatious n~eighbors
were contending as to which is the
Oldest business in the world when the
wife of one, with her babe in her
arms, silenced them by declaring that
the Oldest business in the world is the
nursery business.
"How much are these fearful bulbs
by the quartz" asked a maiden of a
tradesman, the other morning. He
stared at her a moment, rs if bewild-
cred, but soon recovered himself, and
blufiy said, "Oh! them inyuns? Ten
pence"
"Say, missus, won't you come and
teach us? We're going to bounce our
teacher; he's too Slow" Thus did some
Sunday school scholars request a lady
to take charge of them. Sunday School
Visitor.
We do not know whether Boil Inger-
soil will go to Berlin or not. The New
York Observer says he is bound for an
entirely different locality. Rochester
Democrat.
Sign at o tavern near the French
cemetery of Rouen: 1.-The Mourner's
return. Choice wines and liquors.
Private rooms for guests who wish to
weep in private w
Recently, when a church steeple
was in the course of erection in a Scotch
town, the provost had a conversation
with the architect, and pointed out the
danger which he supposed might arise
from the action of the wind upon the
weathercock, the great size of which
surprised him when he saw it before it
was put up. He thought it would be
apt to disturb the stones in the
pinnacle Of the steeple. "You see the
weathercock turns round with the
wind ond naxar -~aoAA, a-y ~~aoN