Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1878-11-07
Sips of Fun.

q way, says the pP0verD, ana tne
lawyer adds '.to break it."
'-Dying in poverty" says our
cynic sis nothing. 1t Is living in
poverty that comes hard on a fel-
low"
The loud tones in which some
people appeal to reason imply
that reason is a great distance
from them.
A sign posted up in a Wiscon
sin saw mill reads "The saws are
running-no use 10 touch them to
convince yourselves"
Brjzzlszzj is the name of an Af
rican King mentioned by Stanley.
The Breakfast Table says it
sounds like a mosquito bite.
! A schooner of beer does not
seem to be by any means a bottom
less depth, but yet many brown
stone front has tumbled into them
and been lost.
"What the matter with your
eye, Tommy?" go! it's only
been going through an operation
ut the hands of a knockulist,
that's ALL"
Old Deacon Dobson always
boasted that he "was prepared for
the worst" aud bis neighbors
thought he got it when he mar
ried his second wife.
The photograph is like the
small brother OF a young lady.
1t will repeat everything said in
tits presence without regard to
bushes.
Nothing can exceed the in
tense affection which girl la
dies out to her father for u day
or two before the time when
she's going to ask for a new
dress.
Widow Doubleton, having read
that ''parlor matches" are extreme
lily dangerous, has ordered her
daughter to take her beau into the
kitchen ard do Ler courting there
hereafter.
He commenced with 90! can
those lovely eyes of thine''--when
; she stopped him short and told
him she wasn't canning that kind
of fruit jus, then, and wouldn't be
coaxed to do it, either.
A Kentucky editor says q
neighbor of bis is so lazy that
when he works in the garden he
moves about 80 slowly that the
shade of his broad brimmed hat
kills the plants.
"Come, don't be timid," said
; a couple of foolish snobs to two
: mechanics; "sit down and make
yourselves our equals" "We'd
have to blow our brains out to
do that" was the reply.
He jumped on board the train
And cried Farewell, Lucinda Jane,
My precious, sweet Lucinda p
Alas, how soon he changed his cry;
. And, while the tear stood in his eye,
He said: "Confound loose cinder ~
A young man in Hokah, Mimi,
, in a published card calls the at
tention of a candidate to the fact
|, that be sis owing my mother a
milk bill of 80 SO, which be has
[ been putting of for three or four
years"
We would like for some double
storied modern statesman to tell
r us why it is that there are GER
/. tain seasons when a politician can
E see a horny-hsnded son of toll
clear across the street, and at 9TH
er seasons cannot see him a foot
and halt away.
A widower had FIVE grown
daughters who wouldn't let him
1 take q second wife. He gave up
the wife bnt bought savage dog,
4 and now won't allow a man to
! cross his door sill. If ne can't
;, marry, the girls shsn't, be says.
"Why does lightning so rare
lly strike twice in the same
{ place?" Professor Norman
q asked the new boy in the class
d of natural history. "Huh," "
. said the new boy, cit never
j needs to- And it is little sim
gular that nobody had thought
of that reason before.
Here is scene that recently
took place on the Providence boat
according to Puck: Scene or
= Deck-Stormy night = Thought.
;, less Conducive it up, Jim: le
! her go and you'll feel all right.
r Thrifty New Highlander (defan
!. in sgony)-"Let her go2 | ain
!. treatin' Long Island Sound 20 ut
$3.50 dinners, / amt"
A brainless young noodle stop
u. ted gruff old merchant on tn
le Estreet and said: "I have
l. thought" "Hsve youi" said tb
merchant, "Tll go right of an
hunt a reporter, and tell him Q
e. -lbout the accident" And as th
ut lold man started of .he young fe
lie How was so amazed that b