Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1877-05-19
ALL SORTS OF ITEMS.


An oarsman has great many pull
backs.
Never listen to idle or loose con-
versation.
A "blazes exhorter" is what they
call real boss preacher in Canada.
The most fashionable spring suits
for men are made OF two-ply carpets.
The Atlantic Constitution is cry
ing out against the evil of solid
North.
Can't we have war map of Ben
Wade's campaign against the admin
istrationf
A young lady inquiries chow to say
Kischeneff. Answer-sneeze and then
say "nef."
There is enc Ohio man who hasn't
received an office; and he thinks Of
going West.
Man smokes because cigar makes
him look wise when he hasn't any
thing to say.
Where one man wants to be an
angel nineteen hundred want to be
postmasters.
An undertaken is not always a
radical, though he is likely to run
things in the ground.
The man at a strawberry festival
who loudly sings, 81 Would Not Live
Away" usually eats fourteen short
cakes.
"Mamma, what are twins made
fort" Precncous Older brother.
quickly, $50 that cannibals may eat
philopenas."
Ralph Waldo Emerson will get up
in the middle of the night to iot
down thought and see ii there is a
mouse in the trap.
Grapple ever with opportunity; and
as you don't know when opportunity
will come along, keep your graphing
irons always ready.
Turn your ear toward any two wo-
men conversing together just now,
and you will find the subject to be
the spring fashions.
A paper 10 South Carolina is called
the "Nut She'll" 1t is appropriately
edited by Colonel (kerneD and
published by Crackman.
When Wade Hampton speaks the
flowers on woman's bonnet trem-
BILE and tears carry the carmine down
her cheeks to the delta of her chin.
Staffordsville, Conn, is another
place man may write from saying
"there was dam by town site, but
now there is no town by dam site"
An editor headed AN article "Vil-
lainy on Foot" and nlnety-seven of
his friends call early next morning to
hnd out how the editor had lost his
horse.
Mr.. James Gordon Bennett is in
Russia, and says that the story that
he went there to get out OF the reach
of cow-hides is an knout and knout
falsehood.
Fame is Aeeting and short-lived.
The laurel wreath of glory and re-
spect is fading from the memorable
brow of the man who gives the most
chewing tobacco tor five cents.
Victor Hugo thinks the balance of
the world would return to heathen-
ism if Paris should be destroyed.
Yes, what would this world have
known about striped stockings but
for Parisl
An Iowa paper tells of smart wife
who helped her husband to raise 10
acres of wheat. The way she helped
him was to stand in the door and
shake broom at him when he sat
down to rest.
Over six feet, with very narrow
shoulders, a slight step, prodigious
head, long, gray hair, clean -shorn,
morrow, nervous face, mobile lips,
large, wi1e-open eyes, this is Theo-
dore Tilton.
Short, stout, white-haired and red
faced, with a gray mustache ard
whiskers, speaking to everybody in a
quiet pleasant tone, dressed scrupu-
lously in black, such is pointed out
to you as Frank Leslie.
Belle Boyd, the ex-Confederate
Spy, warns the public against bogus
Belle Boyds who are travelling and
seeking pecuniary aid. The real
Belle 10 married, and is living with
her husband and children in Balti-
more,