The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1878-10-16
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menagerie.
Characters never change opinions alte5;
characters are only developed.
A shoemaker advertises medicinal
boots" The virtue is in the heal
Why is a theatre drop-curtair so called 1
because the gentlemen go out to take O
drop whenever it comes down.
If you would rise in the world you must
not stop to kick at every cur who barks at
you rs you pass along.
In some parts of Algeria the women, even
the poorest, are permitted to show only one
eye, the other features being entirely con-
ceiled.
A sunday-school boy was asked by the
superintendent il his father was q Christian.
Yes, sir" he replied, "but he is not
working at it much.n
Never pronounce o man to be a wilful
nlggard until you have seen the contents
OF his purse. Distribution, you must re-
member, should be in accordance with the
receipts.
Be careful in your speech. A word once
spoken, q coach with four horses car not
overtake it and bring it back. 1t will do
no harm for us all to remember this.
"Mr. Tapenthread isn't in, I see," said
an old shopper to the mar in attendance.
Nom he's at home to day." ~ sup
pose he has nothing new ?" Yes'm, he has ;
got pneumonia"
A few days since a verdant youth with
his blushing bride arrived at one of the
principal hotels, and Immediately regis
tered his name as B. Jones and lady on
a bride tower
Small boy (entering shop) 81 want a
penny-worth O. canary seed" Shopkeeper
(who knows the boy): "Is it for your
motherr" Small boy (contemptuously) :
"No it's for the bird"
Gentlemen, / introduce you to my
friend, who is not SO stupid as he appears
to be-" introduced friend with vivacity):
That is precisely the difference between
my friend and myself"
No great man or woman has ever been
reared to great usefulness and lasting dis
function who was unschooled by Adversely.
Noble deeds are never lone in the calm sub
shine of summer light.
Said an agricultural reporter in n local
journal Spring corn crops are looking
well, especially beans" Why didn't he add
that apple-blossoms were making a good
show, especially daisies?
"Why do you suppose college is such a
learned place ?" asked one gentleman of
another. q rather suspect" was the
reply, that as everyone takes q little
learning there with him, and nobody ever
brings any away, the learning accumu
lates."
A man had the misfortune to lose his
wife. He ordered to be engraved upon her
tombstone the single word Regrets"
why" said the stone-c utter to him, "do
you not say eternal regrets ?" Cant do
1t; 1 only rent the plot in the graveyard for
five years."
When muffs were first introduced (Which
was some time before the year 1900 they
differed very much from those in use at
the present time. In 1902 a leopard skin
muff was not only roomy but exceedingly
fashionable.
bingham owes its name to Guingamp, in
Brittany tulle to a city in the south Of
France gauze to GAIA. in Palestine ; mus
lin to Mossoul, in Asia Minor and mohair
is SO called because it was originally made
in Asia Minor from the hair of a goat called
tMo."
at is strange, " said a young man, "thnt
apoorly-educated girl stands just as good a
chance Of marrying well as a scholarly one."
mot at all strange" responded the lady,
because the fact ia that the young men
are not sufficiently w~ell-educated to know
the difference"
Brilliant talents, graces Of person, md a
confirmed intrepidity, and a continual habit
Of displaying these advantages, is all that
is aimed at in the education of girls the
virtues that make domestic life happy, the
sober and useful qualities that make o
moderate fortune and q retired situation
comfortable, are seldom or never incul-
Gated. 80 ~ 1902
1t is not worth your while. Your life is
not long enough to make it pay to cherish
il-will or hard thoughts. What if this
man has cheated you, or that man has
played you false ? What if your friend has
forsaken you in time of need, or that one,
having won YOU utmost confidence, your
warmest love, has concluded that he pre-.
fers to consider and treat you as q stranger?
L OF IL oil NINA