Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1878-04-06
ALL SORTS OF ITEMS.

ALL SOkIS OF IIEMSs
Motto for a cat show-Come to the
The Greeks are on their ear their
frontier.
Halif,x people speak gently to the
herring.
Brevity of costume is the soul of
burIesque opera wit.
1t takes II regular corner dandy to
strike l,atty-tude. ~ = y A
I takes beer drinker to haul a
schooner over bar. .tlff #.or.
Another Chicago man has whit
tled-tbat is, cue stick.
Give us the money of our fathers
our Datrimoney, so to speak. .,.
A Detroit lawyer is crack orsman.
A man of legal tenter oar, We suppose.
A Newport man forged check to
pay for some boots and escaped with
his booty.
Sir Peter Cats, the spool-thread
mai, is threading his way through
the South.
Between brass band leader and
his men there is nothing but word
and blow. Cf118
The Buff Express thinks the
New York Witness is the hest paper
in that city-because it's dead.
Chinese soldiers are patient fell
lows. They don't talk OF mutiny un-
til their pay is five gears in arrears.
Mrs August Belmont, Jennie June,
May Cody and July A. Moore would
make a splendid taoleau of the sea-
sons.
Madame M"djeska learned the
English language quicker than the
English people learned to pronounce
her name.
Sitting Bull sent postal card to
his brother John saying he would
like the scalp Of the Car it John
hhppened To take 1t.
The Philadelphia Press is very
friendly to Col. Ingersoll, but thinks
he is about AS competent to lecture
on religion as Nasby is to treat on
finance. -~
The Chicago Times man wrote
letter to King Humbert and warned
him as an old friend not to rush intn
reckless extravaganza by paying his
fathers debts.
Queens County. New York, has
only 1000 regular tramps, while
she has 5000 barns for them tn sleep
in. A tramp occupying three barns
ought To be well satisfied.
"Tis but fleeting show" remarked
the marine reporter to. the Sultnn as
they gszed down the Bospborus
frolno ne of the saloons ut the ferry
landing, in Constantinople.
George Palmer, of Albany, is dead.
Strange to say, he VAS worth $50, 900
just before his death, and yet was
worth nothing when he was dead.
George Palmer was n trotting horse.
The best time to gather doughnuts
Is when the lard leaf falls. ~ s~
Cremation is but an urnest Of
what you will get in the next world.
II you have got any things IN
Cons'antinople you had better send
.fot them.
The masses just now appear IN
be rs much for Leo XIII. AS tor
Plus TX.
A photographer may be described
~ one who makes his living by all
manner of miens.
The New Orleans Picayune says
that Ben Pitnan gave his wife q
short hand burial.
The Sultan has great big carbun-
Gle coming on his nose. Maybe it's
just an excrescense. .l....,... i,.3
The compositor who set up "SlO,-
900" to read, "$l 900" might have
prevented his mistake by a little
fourth aught.
Trade in the Sandwich Islands is
improving. The Hay weighing mer-
chants are said to be doing business
ION large SCALE" ~ ~"' 9
1t will cost one franc to enter the
Paris Exposition buildings. II used
to cost COngressmen one frank to
send home their washing.
1T seems appropriate" said the
officiating clergyman, "that we
should sing Il would not live Away
II was a great fxvorits OF the remains.