The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-02-28
SNlCKERS.

A thermometer gains notoriety by
degrees.
Beer fills many n bottle, and the bot
tie many a bier.
u Motto for milkman-To the pure all
things are pure.
Almost all of us are generous TO n
fault, il the fault happens to be II
own.
On leaving a room make your best
salaam to persons present, and retire
without salaming the door.
A correspondent asks us to give him
the amount the public debt. We
would do it in a minute, but we left
our pocket-book home in our other
pants.
If an actor is DESTROYS of appearing
in several pieces in one evening,
let him smoke Il cigar in a nitro-glyce-
rine factory. He will bring down the
house, too.
The Berry-Day case in the York
county court seems to have been a
deadly affair. 1t has killed both plain
tiff and defendant. The counsel sur
vive, however.
There is said to be a rage in Paris for
old buttons. In this country we are
not so particular. When the head of
the family goes to put on a clean shirt
Sunday morning, the rage is for any
kind of buttons.
One of the brightest little sons resid-
ing on James street hill saw his father
fixing the billiard table with a spirit
level. After the old man had finished
the job he remarked: Snow, pa, see if
my heads level;
A dissipated and unmannerly noble
man, presuming upon his mobility"
once asked Sir Walter Scott, who sat
opposite to him at a dinner, what the
difference vas between Scott and sot.
"Just the breadth of the table, - retort-
ed Sir Walter.
One day / was compromising u SIM
pie cough remedy for my little 3-year-
old, who had a severe cold. He stood
watching the process, and asked if it
was good" On letting him taste he
exclaimed: cts awful good, mamma.
Let's keep it all for papa!"
"a. wag brought a horse, driven by a
young man, to a stop in the street by
the word "Whoa," and said to the
driver: "That's a fine horse you have
there" Eyes" replied the young
man, ''but he has one fault. He was
formerly owned by a butcher, and al
ways stops when he hears a calf bleat.n
In a primary school, not long ago,
the teacher undertook to convey to her
pupils an idea of the uses of the hyphen
She wrote on the blackboard "Bird's-
%nests,p and pointed to the hyplien ask
ed the school, "What is that for?n At
ter il short pause a little Fenian piped
out, 'sPlaze, nam, that's for the burd
to roosht on
Steward" said q passenger on
board a steamer one morning while at
breakfast, and handing across the table
n cup containing some dark, muddy
looking liquid, "what is that?, II
think it is tea, SIR replied the stew
ard, after a hasty inspection. ooh,
very WE'LL" rejoined the traveller; "then
take it away, and if it's tea bring me
coffee, and if it's coffee bring me tea"
The mar who manages a theatrical
company of which his wife is a member
ought to he the happiest of men,, He
actually gets the reputation of being
her '~'manager."
A young lady while on her way to be
married was run over and killed A
confirmed old maid savagely remarked:
She has avoided a more lingering and
horrible fate"
A French painter, with a grim and
peculiar idea of n joke, not long since
gave a dinner party and had a stuffed
mouse. concealed in the napkin of each
lady guest. When the napkins were
opened
"You're the connecting link between
man and the monkey" was the argu-
ment used by a woman's suffrage advo-
cate, before a committee of the Connec-
ticut legislature, in answer to a man
who opposed her idea.
Another Fat Person Reduced 40 lbs.