Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1878-10-03
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It Indians never kiss each other,
and, having seen a few Indians,
we cant blame them.
A tack points heavenward when
it means the most mischief. 1t
has many human imitators.
Song of the baker: 81 knead
thee every hour" The first note
: of the song is dough.
Building castles iD the air might
do at this time if the builders
could find the air.
The only religious feature no.
ticeable in Kearney's lecture is
when he says, "We will now take
up collection"
1t is noted as a curious fact that
a peach always gravitatrs into
dealers basket with the speckled
side down.
Seventeen women write in Har-
per's Magazine to ten lien, say an
exchange. 1t doesn't say what
they write to them.
Mr.. Barnum claims to be the
greatest Snowman on earth, and
yet he can not stand on his head
unless he gets up against a wall
There is wonderful power in
Imagination, bat it gets weak in
the knees when it undertakes to
shoulder a circus lemonade.
| An Iowa journal tells of Keo.
kuk man who subdues bis wife BY
threatening to leave her and go
to the poor-house.
The beauty of a man parting
his hair in the middle appears
to be that it gives both ears an
equal chance TO flap
When the Apostle Paul said
fall is vanity" he was looking
straight at young woman wearing
q straw hat with a blue band
around it.
Even before the recent influx
Of tourists from America there
were over sixty-eight thousand
persons of unsound mind in Eng
land and Wales.
"What business is your faith
er in, my child?" ''Surel and
do no. He is dictator, or an
agltator, or a spectator, a tatur
of some kind, anyway"
We see that the secretary OF an
Illinois county fair association has
"resigned on account of sickness.
All yes, we see; be has thrown
up his position. Poor retch.
Nine men out Of ten, when you
run against them in the dark, will {
say "hello p" The other one will
utter the first syllable and leave
you to complete the word.
A Chicagoan, alter examining
the bankruptcy list of Saturday, '
pathetically exclaimed: "Let US S
hope that the few who are left l
are solvent"
In the makeup Of the modern i
small boy there is altogether too :
much whistle for the size Of the !
boy. II is too much like using a /
two-quart funnel in a three ounce '
vial. "
Dom talk platitudes to a man |
in distress. What consolation is it d
to drowning man to be assured
that there is good hard ground on.
ly eight feet and half below his :
tees.
An orator who was much in de- :, :
mand in political campaigns, be- =
ing asked the secret OF bis success, 0
replied "When | have facts, / a
give 'em facts; when | haven't, l il
yell and saw the air." :,
The same backache which makes q
a boy howl when he's digging po- Il
tatoes wreathes bis face in smiles :,
when he slips out the back way : :
10 the pic mic. Boys are curious =
insects. 81
Kearney "thanks God that he :,
is not man that was made by /
the newspapers" He is a little @
premature if he's thanking God fl
that he's a man at all, through o.
any instrumentality whatever.
C1ssY-"Pa's going TO bring us v
home something to night / won "
ier what it will be p ToMMY- Ia
sYes, but suppose he doesn't see Il
q CIssY-"Ob, then be Sc
will bring something else, Of Il
W
An exchange publishes the start o.
ing information that there are no =,
seats in heaven. Most
people would Danish all uneasiness y
IN that account il they could only b
make sure Of obtaining standing is
room. ii
A miner took refuge from the ST
Indians in a shaft fifty feet deep, z
n Inyo, Cal. The savsges drop II
ped big stones down to kill him, .
bot be lodged, and finally escaped. :
He says that he could see the u
stones coming IN time to get out 2