Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1878-12-19
sips of Fun.
Fall suits are cut on the buy-uc

Has SOL Ills UdCh up INICC.
A Detroit baker wants to know
, what is the greatest knead of
the hour.
Brass is priced in Africa more
than gold. Chicago drummer
would bring $3.50 by dead weight.
She never told her love--but
that black bottle in the cup
board spoke volumes.
"I never knew a fashionable
woman who didn't think more
of a fool than Of an upright,
sensible man." says Talmagc.
Young Swell-"I should like
to have my mustache dyed" Po-
lite Barber Certainly; did you
bring it with you?"
The Galveston News says:
"a Congressman is a gentleman
sent away off to Washington for
the good of his own State
A Kansas man proposed to
girl by simply sending her his
card. His name is William
Merrimee. The wedding trans
pired.
Sin is inherent in us all. A
parrot will soon learn to swear
on his own account, but no a.
mount Of earnest effort can learn
it to.line out hymn.
A vessel resembles a reptile
when it's toad into port.-Keo-
kuk Constitution. And an OBJ
| iectionable lover resembles !
reptile when he's toed out by
the front gate.
The first thing some women
will do when they get TO IIeav-
en- will be to look and see if |
their wings are cut bias, while I
the wings of other angels arc
gored.
'.See, mammal exclaimed
little one, as puss, with arching
spine and elevated rudder, strut
ted around the table, "seei Kit
ty's eat so much she can't shut
her tail down."
The man whose lame back
prevents him from splitting a
stick of wood or building Il fire
is the one who leads an attack
on a pile of ten cords of wood TO
help uncover a frightened rab-
bit.
A young man in Orange coun-
ty, Va, is said to have visited
his sweetheart forty times in five
weeks, aud the old man begins to
wonder where the fellow got his
living before he met his daugh-
ter.
The time when a piOus editor
is excusable for knocking splin-
ters from the third command
ment is when he jabs the wrong
end ofa penholderin his inks tand
and hastily shoves it behind his
ear without wiping it of.
IF a person looks wild ami
NAL steadily in the eye, the ami
NAL will not make an attack.
The plan won't work with a
wasp, for you cannot catch his {
eye; ;thelittlefellowalw always seems i
to come at you wrong end first.
"ITow Shall | Earn a Iving?"
is the title of an article III a con !
temporary. Perhaps it never oc-
Cured to the writer to go to work.
That is the best way we know OF
to earn living.
The Post-offiice Department {
has ruled that husband has no {
control over the correspondence {
of his wife. But this decision !
will not prevent a man from car
rying his wife's letter around in .
his inside coat pocket three weeks
before mailing it. !
An agricultural paper tells
"IIow to Dress a Hog" We {
know how 10 dress a hog. Give
him a cane, a stove-pipe bat and i
4 pair of Eyeglasses. After I
that he will try pass for man.
But pshawl ahogwilI be a hog,no
matter how he may be dressed.
A"thnr (who had been listen
ing with breathless interest to /
one of grandpaPa's Bible sto- +
ries); "And were you in the i
ark, grandpa, along O. Moan I
and the rest ol'em?" Grandpa
pa Indignantly: No, sir, GER
Iy not" Arthur: "Thcn how is |
it you wasn't drowned ?" {
A fresh anecdote of Tom Cor {
win is sent to us from Chicago. t
''Mr. Corwin came on board the 7
train at South Lebanon, on the :
Little Miami Railroad, and soon :
became engaged in a political
with an old-line DEM
In the course of his re-
marks Corwin referred to the {
Wing party as though that Or
ganization was still in existence. 3
His opponent interrupted him, :
saving. The old Wing party is