Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1878-09-21
A LITTLE OF EVERYTHING.

lent hand at soothing cross baby.
The silver dollar is rapidly grow
ing in favor throughout the country.
1t was Boston girl who referred
to Beaconfeld's new honor as "the
order Of the elastic"
General Hood, with his three
pairs of twins, is summering at
Georgia watering place.
Some chap predicts that in the
course of two or three generations
American women will be taller titan
the men.
A sensible move-beer three cents
glass. IT'S the high price of the
necessaries of life that is causing dis
tress all over the country.
Anderson. the Sacramento muir
derer, continues to confess, and
makes himself and Dye out whole
sale murderers of the most fcndisb
class.
Married--At the residence of the
brides father, Fauquier county, Vir-
ginia, Charles Sing, son Of Hong
Wah Sing, of Canton, China, and Ida
v. Wilburn.
"Dizzy," exclaimed the Queen, as
he came prancing in from Berlin,
"you're Jew-ell!' And she
turned to see if the stupid servants
saw anything. M
Archbishop Purcell says of Den
mis- Kearney: l think him foul
mouthed blackguard, and the less
notice taken of him the better off
society will be.
A Wisconsin orator wants America
to adop. the mule as its National
emblem, and enwious people say that
it is merely an attempt to hoist
some of his family into office.
Mrs. Hicks Lord occasionally rides
in Central Park, but her husband,
the aged Mr.. Thomas Lord, is now
bcd-ridden, and it takes two SER
wants to put him in a carriage.
General Garfield has served six
teen years in Congress, and is good
for two more. Joshua X. Giddings
represented the district for twenty
years, and Elisha Whittlesey for six
teen.
Boutwell, wants to succeed Butler
in Congress So does Carroll D..
Wright. And Butler says, make
me Governor, and | don't care what
jackass is sent to Congress to bray
in my place.
1t is still an open question wheth
er the United States has more re-
ligions than patent medicines. The
religions are probably the more nu-
merous, but the medicines keep up
the finest cemeteries.
President Wright says some two
hundred additional miles of the
Northern Pacific, from Bismarck to
the Yellowstone, are to be put un-
der contract to be constructed with
in year from next Spring.
How much sweeter life will be-
come when the newspapers say "fish-
ermen" or anglers instead of "dis-
ciples of Izaak Walton" and "dan-
Gers instead of "votaries of Terpsi-
choreW But that will never happen
--neverl
Col. Baker, of Texas, Commission
er to the Paris Exhibition, says there
are only four new things on exhibi-
tion--thc phonograph, telephone,
microphone, from the United States,
and swimming doll baby, French
invention.
Mr. Stevenson, Kate Claxton's new
husband, is sailing along the coast
in his new pleasure yacht, while his
wife acts in New York in the sum-
mer time, trying to support the
family and pay off some of the debts
incurred by her first husband.
An English medical authority
says that the man who blows the
big horu in a band rarely lives be-
yond period Of three years. This is
about two years eleven months and
twenty-nine days longer than his
next door neighbor wants him to
live. &G as8~3I @G *
Over eighty per cent of the pub
lie debt is now held at home and
the quality of the subscriptions to
the four per cents shows the breadth
and depth Of the appreciation of
this form of Investment. The bulk
OF the subscriptions is for bonds of
denominations of $50, 800 and $500,
showing that they are the savings of