Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1878-10-02
LITTLE OF EVERYTHING,


A great many friendships are hol-
low mockeries.
What is the difference between a
catechism and cat fight2 One is
categorical and the other is cat-eye-
gore-ical.
Minnesota has man who is so
pious that he will not engage in
sheep raising because the lambs gam
Dol on the green.
There is q divinity which shapes
our ends, rough hew them how we
will, but who in the mischief fixed
the business end of bee9
The National Burglar and Theft
Insurance Company of New York
has failed. Suppose burgling and
thieying is not profitable as former
ly.
Miss Nought is a Virginia belle
who has just graduated at an old Do
minion College. The boys around
there want to add to her and multi
ply.
What with the candidates and
politicians and bugs and the rear
guard of the summer mosquito bri-
gade, We are having right lively
time.
The soft Indian summer is upon US,
the season when wavering as be.
tween whisky and beer, the boys
compromise by taking a little o.
both. ..-tt.t-
A New York man has just beer
put in hook for marrying six differ
ent widows, and deserting them all
He is described as a thin-haired man
No wonder.
Some punster has decided nov
that the banks of the Red Sea were
Pharaoh Banks. Ii history may b
credited divers Egyptians passed il
their checks there, anyhow.
There are lots of nice shirt-front
spoiled because people do not pres
the glass closer to the lips. This hin
is furnished free, or rather included
in the price of your subscription tc
this able journal.
Some man has just invented new
instrument to kill bed-bugs by
steam. That may be very well, bu
what we want is something to catcl
them; we can furnish the motive
power for the murder.
Some crusty, rusty, musty, fusty
dusty, gusty curmudgeon of mar
gave the following toast at cele
bration: "Our fire eDgines-may
they be like our old maids-evel
ready, but never wanted"
A Georgia boy got hold of bot
tie of bitters the other day, drank
three gills, aud died in seven hours
Let this be "a warning to young mer
who are always asking the drug clerk
to put little bitters in their sod'
water.
The eye of the human race did no
formerly possess the same delicacy
as now. Much as it has improved
in that respect, however, it has no
reached that point where it will no
watch a muddy crossing with intense
interest. 't
There is nothing true, good ol
beautiful in this world that comes
to us without care or thought or hon
est labor, but sneeze is a kind o
outburst in which there is grea
deal OF satisfaction, and yet it is rare
ly premeditated. ,....
Every dog has his day, but :
Michigan dog died lately at the ad
vanced age of fourteen, and accor
ding to our arithmetic he had five
thousand five hundred and ten days
Some of the other dogs in the neigh
borhood will probably come W
shoit.
1t is not good for man to be alone
under any circumstances, but wher
he falls in a ten-foot cellar on hi'
way home at two o'clock in the
morning, he feels that the compan
ionship of even step-ladder would
add wonderfully to the comfort o.
the occasion. rg
1t was the voice of the flower o
the family from the top stair: "Ol
mamma, please do come up" Whar
is wanted, my daughters' queried the
tender parent. "Dear, dear mel
was the pathetic reply, 81 can't de
eide which dress to wear, and | an
50 afraid | shall be late to churc h.
And this may have accounted fol