Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1878-08-03
A LITTLE OF EVERYTHING.

Country relations are in favor.
Fry-day comes every day in the
week.
Has anybody got snow-shovel
for salea
Edward F. Stokes, who killed
Fisk, is now a Detroit book Agent.
Some of the papers say that 'trade
is looking up" Flat on its back,
eh2
This is the season for bashful low
ers. They don't have to break the
ice.
Cassanac, the French bully, is
about to marry. That will settle
him.
Parents with large family, all
boys, can look on the sonny side of
life.
Pills may sometimes fail to act
on the liver but saving wood never
will.
A man down East has been walk
ing on the water. He must be Il
rePeter.
A good old-fashioned bout at snow
balling would be highly relished
Just now.
Made of all work-shoes.-
We always thought they were made
of leather.
A young mans sweetheart having
"soured on him." he now calls her
his sweet tart.
Is the Khan of Tartary milk
khan?-containing, as it were, cream
of tarter-eh9
Bob Ingersoll gives it up. He
saws, now, that there is such place.
And it's right here.
Troubles in the South are increas-
ing again, since the advent of the
new water melon crop.
We like Summer. And we like
peaches and cream; but we don't
want a swill-barrel full.
"Like cures like" That is the
reason some fellows put cabbage
leaf in the hat for sun-stroke.
An editor offers a reward of five
dollars for the best treatise on allow
to make outdoor life attractive to
the mosquito"
A confirmed bachelor saws that he
cannot have inherited his dislike for
matrimony, for his father and moth
er were both married.
A dog is always restless and un-
easy, unless he has fleas to keep his
mind and claws busy. Some people
are the same with regard to trouble.
If slender waists were as common
as slim pocket-books, how unani-
mously, overwhelmingly happy and
contented the sisters of everybody
would be!
The presence Of an alligator in the
vicinity of bathing place not only
tends to decorum, but assures the
public that bathers won't remain in
the water too long.
As benevolence is the most socia-
BILE ofall virtues, so it is If the larg-
est extent; for there is not any man
either so great or so little but he is
yet capable Of giving and receiving
benefits.
A speculator in Milwaukee has
started out with a determination to
get possession of every bushel of wheat
in the country. There's no cause for
alarm, however. First-rate whisky
can be made out of corn, we are
told.
The man who constantly wears a
tooth-pick in the left hand corner of
his mouth may have been loved by
some one when very small child,
but plenty of people can be persua-
ded to take solemn oath he never
has been since.
A little girl was reproved for play
ing out doors with boys, and Informed
that, being seven years old, she was
"too big for that now" But, with
all imaginable innocence, she re-
piled, "Why, the older we grow the
better we like EN-"
The cobbler's last words; III feel
that l wax weaker each succeeding
day, and that am fast approaching
my end; few more stitches and all
will be over; and I shall go where
there is rest for the weary sole; and
every SORROW will be healed" Hav-
ing said all he wished, he calmly
breathed his last.