Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1878-08-21
TERMS:
A LITTLE OF EVERYTHING.

watermelon Degins ana enus Win
W.
Did the early Christian Fathers
take summer vacations2
Always put off till tomorrow what
ever you can't do to-day.
Capital punishment-Making BAD
boys sit with good girls.
Old Sol has a few good traits, even
though he did make US swelter most
numerically.
Blue Jeans Williams has to knock
under and crawl into pair of linen
pants and a duster.
The barber dyes thousand times,
while another dies but once yet he
is far from the grave.
The blacksmith is about the only
workman who secures prosperity by
being always on the strike.
The ministers of the Gospel select
cold weather for their revivals, and
the devil selects hot weather.
Be patient -be patient. In seven
million of years the earth will be
as cold as lunch-counter coffee.
The earth is flattened al the poles,
and likewise the same is frequently
the case with aspiring politicians.
Cincinnati has had two or three
cases of yellow fever, and it is notice
able that church attendance is pick
ing up.
1.-THE sun takes eighteen million
years to roll round its orbit" We
don't believe it, unless Susan B.
Anthony says SO.
Saul slew his thousands, but old
Sol is after him hot, and it begins to
look as though it would be heavy
game of discount.
In Turkey men shed tears with
out being called umanly. Let's see
that's where every man is allowed
four wives, amt it2
Here's nice little piece of news
for the little folks: IA firm in Belle
vile, H., turns out 10000 gallons
of castor oil every year.
"My rule for punctuation" said
the hazy.eyed composition, "is to 60
it as long as / can hold my breath,
and then slap in period"
Those colored witnesses before the
New Orleans Committee had No
difficulty in obeying the injunction
to "lie low and keep dark"
1t might be called refined torture
when a sweetheart visits her lover in
Jail and tells him what good time
she expects to have at picnic.
Red-nosed men were mighty lone
some a thousand years ago. 1t has
only been nine hundred and fifty
years since the invention of alcohol.
Rev. John Jasper wears the heels
of his shoes down on the outside till
he walks bow-legged, and continues
to insist that the world is not round.
If any thing could possibly make
US doubt the story Of Ananias, it is
the fact that there are no cases of sun
stroke before the investigation COM
mittee.
A man can't be talked to death in
Georgia on Sunday. They have a
law down there obliging the barber
shops to suspend business on the
Lords day.
Go to the musquito, ye shiftless;
consider his energetic ways and
learn gumption. On second thoughts,
though, you needn't go. He'll be
apt to come.
1t is clearly evident that the news
paper offices of Greese were all To-
Gated in dark Easements, or old Di-
ogenes could have found his man
without lantern.
More brains run to waste in try-
ing to get the under holds on logi-
cal explanation for the defeat of
favorite baseball club than it took
to plan the pyramids.
"A. microphone has been placed in
the pulpit Of chapel in Halifax,
Eng, and the rector Intends to find
out In short order whether or not he
can keep the congregation awake.
Griggings has an idea that mar
,ried men suffer much less than bach.
elors during hot weather. 1t is SO
easy, he says, to bring on a GOODNESS
by finding fanlt with the cooking.
Ayoung lady in Sacramento be-
came raving maniac through TAX
ing arsenic to beautify her complex
ion. 1t is surmised that she was
something Of q lunatic before she be-
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