The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1878-02-01

During O recent thunderstorm near Mem.
phis, Tennessee, a negro was severely kick
cd by a vicious mule, and just as he was
picking himself mp. n stroke OF lightning
hit the mule and killed HIM dead on tho
SPOT "wen, dari exclaimed the negro,
.sef this chile hain't got powerful friends
to 'yenge his insults, den dere's no use
tryin' to hab faith in anything
When Mr.. Thomas Sheridan, son OF tho
late celebrated Richard Brinsley Sheridan,
was n candidate for the representation OF a
Cornish borough, he told his father that, II
he succeeded, he should place a label on ms
forehead with the words to let, and side
with the party that made the best oher.
fright. Tom said the father, " but don't
forget to add the word unfurnished.'
A Scotchman being examined by his
minister, was asked, What kind of a man
was Adam ?" "Oh, Just like ither folk"
Tn minister insisted on having a more
specific description of the first man, and
pressed him for more explanation. "Weel,'
said the c~atechumen, "he was just like Joe
Simpson, the horse copper" :" How SO F."
asked the minister, ''weel, naebody got
onything by him, and many lost"
What" an exchange asks, "arc the
causes of drunkenness - Well, we can't
answer for all them, but we believe whiskey
causes a great deal of it. Whisky, sir,
rcsolutoly stuck to, will cause about ms
large q drunk as anything we know of, nj
though q judicious mixing up of various
drinks accelcrates matters. il n man is in u
great hurry harrington Ha'o&eye.
When the substantials Of the dinner had
been disposed Of 10y her visitors, Mrs.
Clcmantha Fidelia Dobbs said to her hired
girl: "Now, Betty, You may bring on the
? NJ - q III. aaa.W aNNN.
mid I" "Yis, num-" As Betty descended
toward the kitchen she might have been
heard to say "Oh, murdther. see the
,tyle of her now. with all her foine FTinch
words. Faith, I've a moincd to give her =
taste of me Irish !"
make me n nice, easy coat" said n
noted pulpit orator of Chicago, to his tailor
mo day lately, lone that's loose and
roomy enough for me to stretch up and grow
eloquent over you know" "Yes, | under
stand" said the tailor, with a twinkle in
his eve : 'you want me to make you ono
kesture size?" "That's it exactly, cx
ilnimod the divine, ms he laughed NJ the
r%ailor's merry pun "one that eau Jest
swing myself in"
There is u great abundance OF money ~
tho country, the only difficulty being that
| tho country is large and the money spread
over n vast eNpnnse oil territory. IN some
localities it is spread very thin.
1t is the heart which constitutes agc, not
n wrinkled check or furrowed brow. a
man may be old when he is young or young
when he ia old. The best rule il tn eijny
life us you go along, and then neither you
nor your neighbors will ever know how old
you really are.
Two men met on the piazza OF tho Rail,
rond Hotel at Lincoln, Neb. ONO claimed
that Nebraska was all q good country, OF
.houId be "all it lacks said he, ii,
good society and water" MY good
Lori" said tho other, that is ali b-l
ncNs."
Wife "Well, Jones, Judging from your
breath, / cant really tell whether you have
nser drinking whiskey, or whether ymt have
oeen swimming in it." Husband Crcproacli-
fully " Hannah, don't you-hic-love me
enough 10 gimme-hic-thc benefit of the
iouot?"