The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1878-05-11
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When che smells . rat"

Engaging photograper--"Just look .
little pleased. Miss! Think os'im."
A gentleman can probably marry any
lady Of his aequaintcnee-if he pl<asa.
Little girls believe in a man in the moon
young ladies' believe in a maj in tn.
honeymoon.
HAVE you heani my last song ?" asked
a music writer of q gruf critic. 81 hops
So. was the reply.
There is n sly fellow in Texas who ha,
laughed in his sleeve so much that it ha.
become ~threadbare.
BE jabbers y says Pat. who Was borr
on the last day of the year. " had 1 delayed
4 bit. where would l been p"
A voice comes from Washington Terri
tory, saying Send III uives!" And &
thousand unhappy Bsnedictsrespond "Tak.
ours. -
A physician writes. asking the renewal
of a note, and says: I'VE are in q horri.
bic crisis there is not a sick man in the
district"
An auctioneer once advertised . lot Of
chairs which, he said. chad been used bJ
school children without backs."--Youth'i
Companion.
Silas Card was married the other day
and on his wedding notices were the words
mo Cards" But he dosn't know what
might happen.
The married ladies of = Western city
haveformed "Come-home- husband Club
1t is about four feet long. and has q brush
on the end of it.
A Connecticut man has christened his
daughter Glycerine. He says it will be
easy to prefix Nitro" IL her temper resem.
bles her mothers.
An obituary notice in a Western ape
contained the touching intelligence that thu
deceased " had accumulated a little money
and ten children"
An impertinent fellow wants to know o
you ever sat down to to tea where SKINNED
milk was on the table without being asked
"Do you take creamr'
An Irishman having been told that th,
price Of bread had been lowered. exclaimed
That is the first time I ever rejoiesd at
the fall Of my best friend"
A young lady who had Lost. or miss-laiA
her beau. was advised to "hAng up her I'D.
die" She said the sdvice did great violence
to her heart-strings.
A young lady told an admirer the oshas
night that he was like her opera RiasA
because" said she. "I can draw you cut
see through you. and shut you up
Sam. why don't you talk to your mac
ter and tell him to lay up treasure n
heavenf p Whats de use Of him lsyina
up treasures up dari He never see UNI
again.
You bachelors ought to be taxed said
al ady TO . r~esoluts evader Of the moose mat.
rimoniaf. ct agree with you perfectly.
ma'sm." was the reply. "bachslorism d osr.
tainly 9 luxury"
They had been engaged a long time, and
one evening were reading the paper to-
Look here, love-" he exclaimed,
"Only fifteen dollars for a suit of clothes!"
SIS it q wedding suit ?" she asked, looking
at her lover. "oh! no." he re-
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meant business" she replied.
Charles Lamb was once riding in q stage.
coach, in company with one Of those SYM
pathizing souls ever on the lookout for
an opportunity to compassionate affection.
"What a bad cough you have, sir" said the
s~ympathizing one, after Lamb had recovered
from a violent cit Of coughing. 81 know
IT," replied Lamb, "but it is the best I can
do"
The Burlington HaUkeye remarked the
arst Sunday after the election: 1.-THE clergy
men of this happy land will preach to-day
10 the sleepiest lot of men that ever snored
under the droppings of the sanctuary. The
only way to keep the congregation awake
will be to lean a bulletin board up in front
Of the pulpit, and have a boy paste dis
patches on it from time to time"
One of the Danbury druggists has a wife
who Is n jewel. She loses no opportunity to
help her husband in his business, and does
o hesitate to undertake any work which
will be of assistance to him. The other day
he prepared the ingredients for five hundred
boxes of seiditz powders. She offered to
put them in the papers and boxes, but he
thought she had enough else to do. She
persisted, however, and he took the stuff
home, and she went to work, and worked as
she always does when working for him
throwing her whole life into the task. At
night she had the powders lone up, and
neatly boxed, and he was delighted. They
were tIken to the store the next morning,
when the druggist accidentally discovered
that the blue-papar mixture had been neatly
folded in the white papers, and the white
Paper mixture had been as carefully en-
claimed in the blue papers. 1t took the
drusgis. some fifteen minutes to compre-
hond the full extent of the affair, and there
wsre five hundred boxes in all. Then he
took Of his hat, and set it on the aoor and
deliberately jumped into it.