Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1878-07-03
Published every Wednesday and Saturday
morning, by
FRANK KEN YON.
TERMS:
ALL SORTS OF ITEMS.

Song, long meter-The gas bill.
A robin red d-breast-rhe Indian.
Never encore an apple more than
once.
Wigs, in the language of flowers,
are lielocks.
The most serviceable seaside suit
is made of seersucker.
Wonder ifa walking match could
produce running fire2
The fshwives' dress is the favorite
for croquet and archery.
Motto of company of female
minstrels: "Grin and bare"
The phonograph succeeds base
ball; the bawler follows the baller.
The rail road track is like the
ship when you can see cargo on it.
The Hon. Potato Bug of Colorado
is registered at New Zealand hotels.
Cassagnac, the French bully, is
about to marry. That will settle
him.
The train is like naughty boy,
because the switch will change its
course.
You can't tell much about cold
pudding, for the proof of the pudding
is in the heating.
The latest atrocity OF the punsters
is the turning of Isaac Ream of Buff
falo into ice-cream.
It is the solemn conviction of the
Chicago Journal that "Potter is Til
den's Phonograph."
The Norristown Williams thinks
that lockwood be appropriate for
prize-fghter's coffin.
The trustees of a Maine village re-
solved that "the walls of this room
be whitewashed green.
The man who dies the richest IL
tho one who leaves the least here,
and takes the most with him.
They economize in their hangings
in Texas, suspending q man by
moose at each end of the rope.
Lady ION shopping excursion)-
"Oh dear, that blanket is much too
good Il want it for charitable purposes.
The Devil is the name given to
Green Bay schooner just launched.
She will run to Chicago, of course.
The highest bid for Adelina PATHS
$50, 900 necklace, which was recently
offered for sale in Paris, was SIG, 900.
Edison deserves the thanks of the
nation for compelling Congressman to
listen to some of their own speeches.
There was man in our town who
didn't advertise; that's why so lively
from his store the sheriff's flag now
flies.
The first thing in order at the Ber-
lin Congress was the query: "What'll
you take2" Russia's answer was:
"More Turkey"
No being on earth loves revolution
and rebellion as q Mexican, and no
one can go through fracas and pre-
serve such whole hide.
In speaking of baby ladies often
exclaim; "Oh! isn't too sweet for
anything2" This is mistake. No ba-
by is to sweet for paregoric.
"What river is Venice on?" Venison
is not a river, miss; it's connection,
and one wich, being once sampled,
will haunch you with perpetual desire
for more.
The fact that George Washington's
wife never asked where he had been
when he come home late at night, goes
a great ways towards accounting for
his extreme truthfulness.
A bold bad boy went fishing the
other day and caught fine mess of
mullet. "Fresh Mullet, ten cents a
pound, here's where you get your
Government architectsp'
Tis now the poverty stricken
young man discovers that his white
stove-pipe hat of last summer cannot
be cleaned, 80 he adroitly puts
mourning band around it.
Most of men would be satisfied
with q heaven free from clothes
lines, stovepipes and members of the
Legislature, though there are some
eccentric persons who wouldn't have
one with newspaper in it.
One of the things to be exhibited
at tho Paris Exhibition is clock
with pistol in it, which it appears
ia fred by the mechanism of the time
piece every hour. The intention of
this ingenious toy 10 doubtless to