Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1879-09-18
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Frequently above par-his hat
! A fish that can't see the point
: is apt to get caught. b3s +.
p OF course women can keep a
. secret, but it takes a coed many
j of them to do it. - .IF' ~ '''f
The question ct Leadville is
: not how to get rich but how to
J get home. sa,r s,r5s m
! "A clock and business con-
| Germ have to be wound up when
they run down. tiei %
What is an island? "A body
, surrounded by water. Give an
example. A boy in swimming.
! "A dead snake can be brought
4 to life with a pint of whiskey.
You drink the wliskey, and
?. then look at the snake. alsft
Paper is worth six cents a
pound in Perm until tits made
Into money. Then it depreciates
about fifty percent. ai
! A little girl after profound re-
4 Election. sitting in her little chair
.1by the fire, asked: mamma, how
ldoes q stepmother walk?' -.
! Here is avery serious question
4 for our moralists: If a man is
as good his word and his word is
lgood for nothing, how good is he.
The practice of wearing court
plaster on the face, to add to its
beauty, j6stesuits the styleiof'
some women, and the more court
plaster they use the better. 2 9a--
A lady friend asks why a man
1 uses profane language when he
hurts himself. That's easy e.
lnough. When he cuts his fin
ger, for instance, he naturally
tries to dam the flow of blood.
-i"W hat we want now," COM
menced a confused and timid
speaker alta meeting of a deba-
ting society, "is-is-not--not
SO much what we don't want as
that which we most require" !"
His hearers agreed with him. I'D
The best religion Is that
which will make a colored man
content to eat corn bread for
supper, knowing at the same
time that q neighbor has fat
chickens and no dog IN his
yard. 5.J Ie'.' ai
"A person who was disputing
one day with Peter Pindar said,
in hot temper, that he did not
like to be thought a scoundrel.
sI wish," was the reply, "that
you had as great a dislike dislike to be-
ing one ra, -saia -.,ie .6
There was a case not a very
long time since, where it became
necessary to draw a cork, and
the only one present of a large
party hayinga pocket cork-screw
was clergyman. He remarked
that he used it to open ink-bot-
ties. ri "a iIiH 4gea 4
SIS there an opening here for
an intellectual writer?" asked a
scedy, red -nosed individual of an |
editor. "Yes, my friensl," re-
piled the man of quills; ga con- |
siderate carpenter foreseeingE
your visit, left an opening for.
you; turn the knob tothe right"
The application of this anec-
dote is not quite universal. lie.
said, eyes, she is an, odd young |
lady; indeed, / think her ex-
tremly, singular" And then he
added, "~She was never heard to
speak Ill of an absent friend."'
The, most terrible maladies
sometimes result from disap-
pointment in. love. They tell
of a young man in New York
State who was rejected by his
inamorata, and modification inn
mediately set in. as Il |
Ground shouldered women
are more numerous than they
were years ago. y says an ex-
C hange. Yes, moralizes a
Philadelphia paper, working at
the wash tub to support lazy
husbands is fast making women
round shouldered. Vobii .9HeI
When some years ago an ern-
inent Australian was inspecting
in that country a lunatic asylum, |
miserably defective in construc-
ton and appointment, he asked
what was the special feature in
the lunacy of a certain patient. II
tsHe thinks he is IN he'll, SIR"
was the reply. s.If that all his
deIusiou," was the rejoinder, "T
think he has a very substantial
basis for II. "i1''.'s 70 si.i'i'sih - Ii
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