The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-04-11
FACTS AND FANCIEs.

FACTS AND FANCIES.
~"PIsAFoRE" IN THE sANCrUM.
Poet-Good editor I've a communication,
Sing hey! the jolly poet that 1 am.
1t is u beauteous ode upon the spring time,
Sing heyi the jolly spring time and my
psalm.
Both-The jolly. jolly poet and his psalm.
Editor Good poet. III accept your ode on
spring time.
Sing hey, the lazy editor that 1 am,
twill save me from the task of hunting copy.
Sing heyi the welcome poet and his psalm.
Both-The welcome, welcome poet and his
psalm.
ENTER compositor.)
Compositor-To save himself the task Of
hunting copy.
Sing hey! the lazy editor that he Is,
He takes that stuff which is like spring. most
sloppy,
Sing heyl the cove that doesn't know his
biz,
All-Thel lazy cove that doesn't know his biz.
Now mind, 1 say it shan't go in the paper.
Sing heyi the jolly printer that I am,
II 1 don't make that poet cut a caper-
Sing hey! to bounce the poet and his psalm.
Compositor-s6- ca
Poet-??g
Composi;or-~ (be-ludD
-lSalem Sunbeam.
s'The old man left you something in
his will?' said a friend to a repentant
prodigal son. Eyes, he left me some
thing-he left me out."-E lmiro
| Gazette.
Tho QUAIL o1Jarpnan houa xrCta1
that BARRIERS must close their shops on
Sundays. Violaters of this ordinance
are likely to be lathered. -[Ne,o York
Graphic.
A New York Autograph firm is get
ting out a design for the heading of a
divorce certificate. 1t represents Cupid
beating out his brains with a law
book. Il Express.
A man may be able to speak eight or
ten languages, but we notice that when
he uses cuss words he always speaks
English. Why is this thus2-lNe,c
York Express.
Col. Thomas Scott, president of the
Pennsylvania railroad, is sailing up the
Nile just now. If he gets well it will
be a sort of Pennsylvania Nile well.-l
Detroit Free Press.
In hog signo vinces-the motto of Gin
cinnati. PUCK.
Come, spring fever, ETHEREAL laziness,
come.-lOl City Derrick.
A"veto" is nothing but a ''vote''
turned inside out. = Philadelphia Bullet
in.
The boy who burst in tierce was evil
IDENTIFY after molasses .-Neo York
Neps.
Spring fever and white vests will soon
be ripe. - Philadelphia Ghroncle-Rerald
When a humorist dies, his Borrowing
family are at their wits end.-[N. Y.
Neus.
1t requires more than four tunes on a
hand organ to win fortunes smile
N. Y. Ne,cs.
Let me tell the lies of a nation and l
care not who makes the laws Eli Per-
kins in Buffalo Express.
SIS it easy to learn to sing2" asked a
correspondent. As a matter of chorus
it isl Toledo Commercial.
Among the blacksmith's hardest
work is retiring. Nearly every household
has its blacksmith ~ Rome Sentinel.
Burbank says there was something
crooked in the conduct of Richard III.
The people could not back him up
IN. Y. Neacs.
Before committing matrimony, young
man, join some good debating society,
and get your tongue in practice IN. Y.
Ners.
AAer little while public school child
ern Mound drawing anything-even a
sledlwill be expelled from the schools =
Chicago Journal.
Life is but a span. Marriage is a
double team. Youth welded to old age
is a tandem. A cross old bachelor is
single and all sulkey.| Neec Orleans
Picdyune.
Bishop Corrigan says there shall be
but twelve carriages to a funeral. Thus
the funeral business Is being gradually
shorn of its charm II Buffalo Express.
Disraeli, it appears, is about coming
out for a new office. His enemies have
started a report that he once wrote
|, poems on spring. This, of course, is {
campaign lie. --INorristo,cn Herald.
An eminent English mechanic thinks
that foreign competition would be i'm
|, possible if the trade unions spent theil
money in educating their men instead
of fighting their masters.
: A (tapayo profaScOr recently exnrpSS