Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1878-09-18
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A LITTLE Of EVERYTHING

The cucumber does its best fight
ing after it is down.
What kind of ship has two
mates and no captaina A court
ship.
When chap throws water down
the back of your neck, water your
columnl
It's tolerable fair pony that a
man can get for two "twenties"
these days.
Miss Auna Dickinson is going to
Philadelphia, there to resume the
pen again.
Dennis Kearney should put cab
bage leaf in his shoes. He might
get sunstruck.
When an ACCORDION has worked
its way into shop its redeem
er does not live.
A small boy and gun are harm
less when apart, but they make a
terrible combination.
Cucumber sociables are in order if
you like to go to cpmp meeting.
The agony is in tents.
The most fashionable evening dress
IS have the corsage opening v
shipped in front and back.
When ''grim-visaged war had
smoothed his wrinkled 'front.'" did
he iron out his shirt rt-bosom!
G. Most of the shadows that cross
our path through life are caused by
our standing in our own light.
Woman. heaven bless her, is the
light of our homes, but when she
tries to make mans vest the angels
weep.
Miss Constance Sartoris, a sister
of "Our Sartoris," is soon to be mar
ried to the Hon. Claude Vivian of
London.
Kid gloves that are handsomely
embroidered in flowers on the back
are worn by many ladies who are
fond of display.
Satan is good to his own. This is
an ancient but true proverb. You
never hear of thieving Indian agent
loosing his scalp.
The newest handkerchiefs received
from Paris have colored borders,
buttonholed, and embroidered in
colors or printed.
A young lady of Constitution, Pc
ru, has introduced startling nov
city in elopements, having lun away
with two of her lovers.
Now IS the time that the wifa
hies to the seashore, and the husband
remains at home to look after the
hired girl and things.
See how the little busy bee I'M
proves each shining minute, how
gaily lights he on your nose aud
sticks his stinger in it.
Rev. John Jasper has had to leave
his house because he couldn't pay
his rent, and has gone to live with his
mother. "De son do move"
WeIove to lie beg bath the shade
and -quaff the cooling lemonade, and
also feel the cheerful ants crawl
slowly ur your summer pants.
Vinne Ream gave up $4,000
worth of statuarv contracts to marry
man who couldn't get up at night
and find the camphor bottle If her
life depended on it.
Female bathers at Long Branch
have taken to wearing masks of
wire net. or of oil silk on wire frames
which conceals their features from
the impertinent stare of male ioung-
ers.
"Graut' remarked the tall man
in the wripkled duster, as he peeled
"a bilious looking banana, "Grant
reminds me of a tulip tree struck by
lightning" "And why2" asked the
little fat man with the russet va
ilise. Because" replied the tall man
simultaneously with the disappear
ance Of the first half Of the banana,
'"because he is so blasted poplar"
The Sultan rowed in the same
race with Dizzie and Bizzy, but with
different sort Of skull Ben. But
Ter rows with spoon-ore; Pappen-
helm rows on the high C's: General
Grant takes pull on cork; jerks
rows on Derby ram; Mckenzie
rowed over the Rio Grande; Howard
rowed with the horse marines and
muifled his skulls to keep on the
'scalps; Sitting Bull feathers his
skull.