Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1878-01-23
ALL SORTS OF ITEMS.

The keeper OF draw DrluRe shouiu
know what is going on.
A Canada firm turned pale at the
burning of their pail factory.
The right kind of ham sandwich
is little lean on the staff Of life.
"Hold fast to that which is good"
Pass your counterfeit money first.
A more solid man than Sharon is
the stone man, dug up in Colorado.
This is the season when wild poul-
try can be bought for paltry sum.
Dogs bark at the moon, but the
moon continues to shine for all that.
Grinnan has failed in New York,
and the creditors must grin an
bear it.
4 man who takes the trouble of
being President of Mexico should be
recognized.
A successor of United States Sena-
tor Sargent has been Farley elected
in California.
There are highway robbers in North
Carolina. They must be a Dick Tur-
pentine sort of fellows.
"How's your husband this evening,
Mrs Quange2" ."No improvement,
Doctor, one way OF the other.'
Little frankie says that lightning
never strikes twice in the same place,
but that amt the way with his ma.
Sat midnight in bis guarded tent
the Turk lay dreaming of the hour-i,"
was probably about the truth of the
matter.
A Boston house has published
"Dictionary of Americanisms, "and
now New England has q language of
its own.
In list of new books is found:
"Just His Luck. Anonymous"
When better known the author may
have better luck.
A TIE Deum was sung at Bucharest
to celebrate the Russian success at
-Plevna. This relieves the tedium of
glorious warfare.
"Two-bits' worth of complexion
is the way the Santa Barbara belle
puts it as she meaniers into her fa-
yorite drug store.
Ajax defying the lightning, must
have been an impressive spectacle
much more SO than three jacks de-
flying full-hand.
Another idiot in New York has
been waltzing against time. He
wsltzed eight consecutive hours and
is now the champion.
A little girl while watching the
rain, turned to her mother and said:
.eMa, guess the weather's 80 warm
it's melting the clouds"
A clergyman has opened family
grocery store at Waco, Texas, and
will soon establish public confidence
in the scales of grocers.
You can get "dinner, and bath
ing suit thrown in," for fifty cents at
Atlantic City. But who wants bath
ing suit thrown into his dinnerl
Photographer" snow, sir If you will
look little less as if you had bill
to meet, little more as if you'd been
left legacy. you'll get a picture"
The art OF conversation-British
tourist Ito fellow passenger in mid
.channeD: "Going across, supposed"
Fellow passenger: "Yaas. Are youl"
There is one thing which an old
man in Connecticut is alway ready to
give to every one who asks him for
help, aud that is a piece Of his mind.
"Didnt you guarantee that that
horse wouldn't shy before the dis
charge of cannona' "Yes, l did,
and I'll stick to it. He never SHES
till after the cannon is fred"
The Presidents of savings banks
are to hold convention. Some uni
form method OF failing should be
adopted. Banks should be as we'll
governed as life insurance companies.
The editor of the Worcester Press
knows what constitutes marriage. He
says it is "getting down to one cigar
a day ia order to pour money into the
Golfers of the man who sells striped
stockings"
"Never hug girl in tight fitting
corset" Yes,to be sure, but then, you
.know-er-er-hOw Is q fellow to
know, you know, just-er-well, how
do Al n