Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1878-07-10
A LITTLE OF EVERYTHING.

An honest failure is the rarest work
of man.
How to keep a fish fresh-Don't
catch him.
Character gives splendor to youth
and awe to wrinkled skin and gray
hairs.
Scales that will weigh grain Of
dust are used in the Philadelphia
mint.
About $4,000 have been spent
on the Catholic Cathedral in New
York.
Grain is worth six cents per pound
in Prescott, Arizona, just now, and
scarce at that.
Toast at q Railroad Dinner: "Our
mothers, industrious tenders, though
they often misplaced the SWITCH"
Caleb Cushing is seventy-nine
years Of age, but looks twenty years
younger and works sixteen hours
day.
When a man is indulging in a
frolic to say he is "out on lark"
is libel on the bird. He is really
out on a swallow.
The Philadelphia Press praiseth
Conkling thus: He is a garrulous,
reckless, imprudent and unexampled
political and mental fool.
"He was milking the river and
fell in," is the explanation of the
death by drowning of milkman a
few days since. See the pintl
A clergyman says: ga young
woman died in my neighborhood,
yesterday, while was preaching in
beastly state of intoxication.
A coroner's verdict reads thus:
"The deceased came to his death by
excessive drinking, producing appo-
.plexy in the minds of the jury.
George Alfred Townsend heads the
Presidential tickets for 1880 as fol-
lows: Republican, Grant; Demo-
cratic, General Sherman; Working
men, Ben. Butler.
Yes the people of Rome used much
the same currency as we do. Cesar
carried Roman eagles all around
with him, and there is Latin quar-
ter to be seen in Paris to this day.
An Irishman who stood near the
third base watching game Of base
ball was sent to grass by foul which
struck him under the fifth rib. "a
fowl, was it? Begorra, thought it
wuz mewl."
A Sunday school teacher was tell
ing her scholars about a bad boy
who stole hundred dollars, when
she was interrupted by one Of her
auditors with the query. And how
did he get such bully chance?"
"Whiskey is your greatest enemy"
said q minister to Deacon Jones.
"But," said Jones, "don't the Bible
say, Mr.. Preacher, that we are to
love our enemiesf" "Oh, yes, Dea-
con Jones, but it don't say to swallow
them"
1t Is all very we'll to talk about
economy, but the difficulty IN to get
baby who puts his toes in his mouth
is about the only person in these
hard times who manages to make
both ends meet.
There has been remarkable case
Of constancy in England. A man
who separated from his wife thirty.
five years ago has just returned and
offered to "kiss and make up" A
few days prior to the offer the wife
had inherited large estate.
A lady near Sugar Valley, Ga,
says that man was blowing in the
field week or SO ago, during which
he uttered the wish that God would
have to plow in the heat of the sun
as he was forced to do. Immedi-
ately after uttering these words he
stopped still, as If turned to stone,
and 1t is positively asserted that he
was rooted to the spot, and that two
horses failed to pull him away. He
was still there when last heard
from.
After the circus parade two small
boys met on the street. One of them,
his face glowing with excitement,
said: "Oh, Johnny, did you see that
fellow with the snakes around his
neck?" No word from Johnny.
Eyer seen the man in the lions cage,
uncourse?" No word or sign from
Johnny, save and except a cloud
upon his brow. swell, yer seen
the ponies with red blankets on,
didn't yerf" Nav, an l didn't"
said Johnny at last, bursting into
tears, ~ had to stay at home an
tend our baby, but I kin lick the
stuffin' out of you'll"