Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1877-10-06
OFFICIAL PAPER OF LYON COUNTY
ALL SORTS OF ITEMS.

Lydia Thompson is playing "Rob-
yinson CIusoe" with her man Friday.
1t will soon be time for old
grangers to put in their winter rye.
The new Spencer rifle-Tbe rife OF
the Chicago Savings Bank, by SpeD-
Ger.
BARLEY Campbell is the rising
dramatist. At present he is only six
feet two inches high.
George William Curtis thinks Re-
publicans Ahonld either indorse or
denounce the President.
A Michigan doctor has persuaded
several of his dyspeptic patients to
saw wood before breakfast.
1t said there is no rhyme for scalp,
but Chief Joseph may be able to
raise one, perverse as he is.
Measure for Measure" will be
acted at Booths Theater when the
place becomes dry goods store.
A Taylor is now ut the head OF the
uAot VIC
family most needs is a dressmaker.
Chicago has an Institution known
as the Nursery and Half Orphan
Asylum. II might go step father.
Mexico is represented AS too poor
TO war with the United States, but
not too honest to take Texas cattle.
An Arkansas editor says .'patent
outsides" are losing favor in his Sec
ton. The spirit Of his readers prob
ably calls for patent insides.
An exchange says, "There isn't
COW, calf or chicken left in Bui-
garia." That Is the result of the
military camp meeting out there.
Base ball catchers now wear muz-
zles to protect their faces. When
properly muzzled players may be
allowed, TO make home runs at large.
Rev. Mr.. Murray says good SER
mon will bea: repeating, but it must
be remembered that he is very busy
bringing a pacing mare down to 2:lS.
1t is lucky there are four corners
where two streets cross. Otherwise
cities could not accommodate the
bar-keepera grocers and apothecaries.
1t is said "little lark" recently
cost q gentleman 81 900. Myles says
that If one little lark costs SO much,
he must postpone his regular bird
supper.
The Boston Post says: Eggs are
forty-fiye cents dozen in New Or
leans. Send back the troops No,
sir. Send back the hens they took
away, says Southern paper.
A Delaware CIR: last tall gathered
and sold two hundred dollars worth
of autumn leaves to New York deal
yers. The expense being little or
nothing leave her a handsome in
come.
Bret Harte complains that somc-
body put his name to story which
he did not write. Now he must write
a story to which his name will not be
put, and see If anybody calls it a
good thing.
So long as laws remain dead let
ter there Is no need of revising them.
The ten commandments give perfect
satisfaction because they are not
binding. 1t is when shoes pinch that
the wearer thinks OF q new pair.
An old physicisn, asked by q
deacon to give testimony regarding
Christian consolation and deathbed
happiness, said that so far as his ex-
perience went he had observed that
the men who were hung died hap
piest.
John Wesley Hardin, the Texas
desperate, Is q very finely organized
person. One Of his victims he killed
for snoring. He did not like tn be
disturbed IN his sleep, and so he
arose IN the silent night and slew the
snorer.
When q prominent msn dies 1t Is
customary for his friends to get to-
gether and promise monument.
One George Washington, u revolu-
tionary hero, was treated that way,
and it is just possible that no monn-
ment will be built for Ben DeBr.
When science takes hold Of q man
it is difficult to tell what is the mat
ter with him. TIL. doctors cut up
and hacked poor Ben DeBar to find
out that he had "Etheromatous de-
generation of left middle cerebral
artery with atrophic softening in the
neighborhood of the fissure silvius
and probable thrombus in affected
artery" II killed him.