Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1877-05-09
OFFICIAL PAPER OF LYON COUNTY.
TERMS:
ALL SORTS OF ITEMS.

One flea makes a spring.
Keep good company or none.
Military rivalry is bankrupting
Europe.
The author of "The Vagabonds"--
Whisky.
Thu debt Of New York city is
$126,022,253.
The latest song we hear of Is 1.-TWO
Tramps that Beat as One.
A play on words--Taking the die
tionary for euchre table.
Jeremiah Coe is an Indiana lawyer.
All his clients go to Jericho.
England is proclaiming neutrality
and taking its coat off at the same
time.
A short road to Vesuvius may
easily be found in "a wee drop Of
the craythur."
Butter was in use 1000 years ago.
Some of the original stock appears to
have held over.
A dog on shipboard is thought q
good omen. He can be used for a
inastiff necessary.
Senator Davis is finishing the set
tlemcnt of Lincoln's estate, of which
he is the executor.
A delicate exchange, describing a
fire, says: -The building was com
pletely intestined.'
The limit of the loss of life at the
hotel fire in st. Louis is now put by
the city papers at Is.
Ben Wade's letter was not in his
best style; his best style would have
been not to have written it.
The recent rise in fuel in the East
ern cities is ascribed to the manipu-
lations of COALITION. Natural.
Why is beefsteak like LOGON o.
tive on long journeyl 1t is not of
much account without it's tender.
ISLANDER" was the topic Of recent
sermon. There IS no need of going
to church to hear all there is going.
Prisoners are not admitted to the
Lincoln county Jail unless they give
bonds to furnish their own rations.
They are now making camel. hair
shawls from coon's fur, anil camel
has to hump himself to tell the differ.
cnce.
The Portland Press thinks that
Mr.. Blaine's note was muscular. 1t
did seem to have more muscle than
brain.
Washington is filled with all sorts
of people. The man who declined a
secretaryship wants to borrow five
dollars.
1t is authoritatively announced
that ex-senator Cameron will not go
TO Europe with ex-President Grant
'or anybody else.
Miss Dickiuson's controversy with
the manager of the Eagle Theater is
probably the first affair of the Hart
she has ever experienced.
Why is it that when woman falls
down stairs she screams out at every
bump, while man holds his breath
till he gets to the bottomi
What's the difference between an
entrance to barn and hummer in "a
printing officel One is barn door,
and the other is a darn bore.
A New York halter exhibits a
high silk hat with IA blue-g!ass
crown, and advertises 1t to cure any
sort Of head but "dead-head."
Now Myra Clark Gaines goes to
the Supreme Court again, and she
has only three years more to wait be-
tore she can come into her property,
The only thing that would recon-
eiie the st. Louis Globe Democrat to
a change in the Cabinet is that il
might "be so arranged as to give
Ohio chance"
A Mississippi paper says that
every third man in that State is an
Office seeker, and that "the danger to
the Democratic party comes from ar
inordlnate desire for Office"
Gatling. the inventor of the Nit.
railleuse, writes letter TO the Sar
Francisco Chronicle in which he say.
his new revolving cannon will dis
charge 1000 shots minute.
"No," said the smart boy baby
when the pretty young woman want.
cd to kiss him. "But why not2'
asked she. "Oh, I'm too little to kisl
you; papa will kiss you; papa kisses
all the big girls."