The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-09-06
FACT AND FANCY.


he gets to the bottom?
At the station-house in Waterbury,
they have a ''welcome'' motto over the
entrance to the cells, thus making it
pleasant and home-like for the occu-
pants.
A prudent man is like a pin; his head
prevents him from going too far.
Young men of the middle classes are
70 little disposed to marry, these times,
that parents of the manageable
daughters will have to resort to the
seductive chrome. Eek. And the par
ents, we suppose, who can chro-most
will carry off the prize.
Visitor-"I see you have a new girl ~
Housekeeper-'I took her q week on
trial" Visitor-"And how do you
like her?" Housekeeper-''The trial
is almost more than / can bear"
"Why don't you speak distinctly?n
cried a passenger to a brakeman who
announced the names of stations in an
utterly unintelligible manner, II can't
understand word you say" "What's
that to me?" responded the brakeman.
"You don't expect me to have a fine
clear tenor at $50 a month, do your"
81 don't believe in fashionable
churches" said a lady, recently; ''but,
after all, considering that we are all to
M IN tho aap,a baayan rarbano 70,
better to keep up the social distinctions
as long as we can"
AT a Paris funeral, while on the way
to the cemetery, q mourner with a
passion for cards turned TO the sorrow
stricken father and whispered: "This
is slow isn't it? l will flip you just one
for a five."
The young one of a squaw is called a
papoose. Would not squawlmg be a
more appropriate namep[Picayune.
A promising youth of only seven
summers, who had not been accused Of
not always telling the truth, cross-ex-
amined his father. Father, did you
use to lie when you were a boy?" mo,
my son." said the p~aternal, who
evidently did not recall the past with
any distinctness. "Nor mother,
either?" persisted the lawyer. "No;
but whyp" ''Oh, because 1 don't see
how two people who never told a lie
could have a boy that tells as many rs l
do"
A business firm in Newark, to which
a bill had been owing for some time,
finally sent a sharp dunning note to the
debtor. and received in reply a postal
card containing the following: MA
thew xxiii:S; st. Luke xii:5S.' The
result was the prompt return of a check
in payment of the amount.
A Connecticut minister, preaching
against extravaganza in dress, told the
women of his congregation that they
ought not to wear any better clothes
than those worn by members of his W
family. And the most exasperated
women in that congregation to-day are
his wife and daughters. "Just us If
they didn't dress rs well rs anybody,
they would like to know"
a Wisconsin local paper tells of 4
young minister, lately from the east,
who, on his way to attend an ordina-
ton meeting in the village, saw Il very
nice little striped kitty running
along the road in front of his horse; so
he jumped out and caught it. He did
not hold it any great length of time, and
was obliged to purchase a new suit of
clothes or his arrival in town.
NO." she replied, and she blushed
PRETTY, as she slipped her number skies
beneath her dress-''no, 1 do not wear
so small a shoe as mes. My size is
quite large-I wear twos."
A reporter for a Wisconsin paper
writes: "Those who personally know
our esteemed fellow-citizen, Colonel
-, will regret to hear that he was
brutally assaulted, last evening, but
not killed.
The statue to Commodore Perry at
Newport drips verdigris, and the people
Of the city do not like that way of
keeping his memory green. L
A 4-year old miss adds another to the
list of remarkable juvenile speeches.
She was asked where she expected to go
when her mamma died, she replied:
''To the funeral, 1 'sPose."
why don't your father take the
paper?" SAID a gentleman to Il lad
whom he caught stealing his newspaper
from his doorstep. Cause" replied
the young hopeful, she sends me to
take it."
Lord North, who was not fond of
scientific music, being asked to sub
scribe to the ancient concert, refused.
But your lordship's brother, the
bishop Of Winchester, subscribes,"
urged the applicant. IF l were as
deaf as he, l would subscribe, too"
was the reply.
Mime. Y. has just sent away her cook,