The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-10-24
PERSONAL AND pARTrCULAR.

PERSONAL AND PARTICULAR.
Never bother a brooding hen. You
may spoil the set.
A gauge that no man should measure
his property by is a mortgage.
The latest toast: aDhrink this AM ye'd
niver die, but pine away like a daisy"
The man who got hold Of a hot fire
iron Immediately began a game of draw
poker.
After all death is really the only deal
er who demands N price of all and
makes no deviation.
A woman up in Scott county named
her frst baby "Pinafore," because, pro-
badly, she '~'nevcr'' had one before.
An Iowa paper says there are no slip
perry sidewalks in Heaven. Do you send
down to the other place for their ashesp
There are more watches worn in the
United States than in any other coun-
try, but do the people have a better
time?
Horatio evidently had a young news
paper correspondent In his mind when
he said: HE AXE desperate with i'm
agination."
What are the best storiesa That de-
ponds. When you are telling them the
long ones are; when you are listening,
the short ones.
Immense bugs, with brilliant backs,
are seen on imported hats. Yes, and
diminutive bugs with gray backs are
seen inside Of some domestic hats.
An Iowa man got up a Bible with
one page of holy writ alternating with
apage advertisement of business houses.
He thought the advertisements would
be read.
Hug %" was discovered written in
a delicate female hand on the cuff of a
Muscatine young man; and that young
man still sticks to 1t that 1t was only
"Aug. 22.n
He inquired at a saloon for a little
lager and the bartender, who was only
engaged during the fair, handed him
out a gimlet with the remark that was
the only little auger they had.
Many a timid oma would willing
ly and unfinchingly stand before the
lannon's mouth, provided the cannon
were a piece Of church ordinance and
the charge SIMPLY to "1ove, honor and
obey.v
An editor being asked, DO hogs
payr" says u great many do not. They
take the paper several years and then
have the postmaster send it back mark
ed ''refused. "-[Feller who knew what
he was talking about.
A frog was found on the top Of a
Cambridge, Mass, church steeple, 1870
feet above the ground, the other day.
The earnest exhortations of the pastor
has probably led 1t to n spire heaven
ward.
Recitation-room In natural history:
Instructor-"Mr. X, have you ever
put your head down on any ones breast
and listened to the heart-beats, as Hux-
ley describes themP" Mr.. x. fblushing
Yes, SIR"
We suggest to the New York Sun
that there was once a greater fraud
than the ''present incumbent" and one
whose memory deserves the e~xecration
of all men and all newspapers. His
was Noah, and he once had flies
reduced down to two and failed to an
initiate them.
The young woman who doesn't
scream when q candle bug crawls down
her back Is she who later in life can
spank a baby till it thinks the day Of
judgment has arrived, then go smiling
to the parlor and receive her friends
with an easy grace that is as soothing
as a dose Of morphine.
Nothing is more picturesque than a
woman at a picnic in the rain. Her
finery dampened by the moisture of
heaven, her skirts bedraggled in the.
wet grass and mud, her spirits In the
basement Of the thermometer, she re-
minds one of a chicken that has been
making believe it was a duck, and got
beyond its depth.
He had been in town only a few days,
but it was long enough time to permit
him to forget his girl in the city, and to
become captlvated by a blooming coun-
try maiden. They lowered wei the
croquet ground. "What a delightful,
health-imparting game is this,n said
the city young man, In the purest Of
high.school enunciation; $50 mild and
gentle an exercise, and yet imparting
strength and skill to the muscles, and
an indescribable grace of action to the
form. Do you not consider it a charm
ing recreation3" He waited, with his
eyes bent admiringly upon his fair COM
panion, tor her reply. You're Just
a-hootin' it is,' she said, with an earn
estness of tone which left no doubt Of
her sincerity. He went and leaned
against a tree, and tented to faint.
EFCheyenre
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