Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1878-12-12
Sips of Hum.


Pm Almost discouraged; how of
ten have | told you not to say ta
ter, Int pertaier 2
j A Miss Steers, of Virginia
eloped recently. She exhibited
great anxiety TO be yoked TO {
mate.
II a lady runs against you In
the street, apologize. She 'ex-
poets it. 1t is the custom Of
the country.
Mr. Dutch, Of New York,
mentioned his name to the by
standers as the car-door jammcd
his fingers last week.
Proposals for marriage in Heva
da are written Oh postal cards and
the answer comes by return mail,
Come On with your preacher"
In an exchange we fnd an ar
licle about a mother ia law, and in
beaG'ilul harmony he next item
Is headed, "!he Storm Else where.
A Columbus man says he
started thirty Years ago 10 make
81 100000. He. has v0t the loljr-
teen dollars, bul The ciphers
bother him.
Mrs. Peek Of Chicago has
'gone eff with handsomer
man. leaving her husband with
q, bushel oil trouble inthe shape
OF ionr little Pecks.
A tramp, on eng a sign that
read, "1o Louis vitle without
change" wondered whether he
wou d be any better IF in that
city without cha ge than lie vas
Love may be blind, as they
say, but We notice that in ali
the records Of the ages it has
never kissed the girls mother
by mistake when ii reached af-
ter the gill.
"Allow me- roarcd the Rtv.
joe Cook the other day, "allow
me to pluck up the trEriiory of
the American Union, as Mil
tons angels did the hills of i.
Heaven" We Object.
A girl says that whe-' she
dies she desires to have tobacco
planted over her grave, that the
weed nourished BY her dust may
be chewed by her bcreaved Low
ers. There is poetry in the idea.
"And they were all talking so
unkind Of you, dearest louisa,
aud" "And what we've they
say ing?' Saying that you pain
ted your face and | told them
that it was untrue, and that your
color was only erysipelas."
"The sun rises in the cast
explained the teacher. eyes,
and there's sumthin' rises in the
west, too," chimed in one of
the smaller boys. swell,
what is it?" asked the teacher.
"Injdns!" shouted the urchin.
Scene in a Police Court "Pris
oner, bow many barrels OF pota-
toes did you say you stole 2 Sew
en-, yer Honor; three Yesterday
anl two TO day" "Well. but that
is only FIVE. Och sure I'm
goin tor the others whin gil out.
O. this !"
A Kentucky paper remarks
that the 10 * oi intelligence as
suned by the ycutg LAWYER as e |
sits in court should be put SOP
to Il Is celebrated TO make tie
Judge lose confidence IN
himself-to make hin believe he
doesn't know anything.
A c-rtain curiosity hunter has
hurled a silarp-edged criticism at
society which i vel
deserved lie has y little wood |
en god, too ugly To be human.
which he his labeled The Idol
Of the IIen h, n" B, lis side is /
a 20 dollar labelled lie liol'oi'
he Christian.
ht an auction art sale the other
day a,marine view was about 20 be
k nucked down at handsome fig I
u e. when Iuif soil'r, WHO hap |
pened to wander III. exclaimed =:
MY stars, if the re ami a vessel
drifting on tu the iocks with a
strorg br tze b'owiug !, II shnre
The artist ;ook his picture home
to.rearrange the wild.
Once upon time, when board !
g around was the rule in sclool
districts, one mln bad to board .
the teacher Just two aud a half
days. On the third day, as the 4
teacher sat down to dinner, the
man Of the house sai,l:'" Madam, l..
suppose Your boarding time will
be out when you have eaten half
a dinner; but as ! don't wish to
appear mean you may eat nearly
as much as usual"
The following is an advertise
ment signed by Minnie Farrell,
in a Baltimore newspaper: 81
am pleased 10 make public that
| have obtained a divorce from