The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-07-12
PERSONAL AND PARTICULAR.

The first watering-place hops of the
season are managed by'frogs.
The New York Star will never con-
sent to have Mrs. Jennie Smith hang
ed. 1t wants to have her lecture.
The Albany Journal discovers that
the French novel is supplied with all
the indelicacies of the season.
Mrs-Sippi, who has been suffering so
much from dryness of mouth, has found
a friend in Fad, who Is a friend indeed.
A college orator in a spiked-tail coat
points the way to true greatness and
then goes and rents himself as a pitcher
for a professional nine.
"Hire educdtion for women,n OBJ
served pater familias, as he paid the
g%overness fifty dollars for the last quar-
ter's French lessons.
Travels with u Donkey Is the
name of a new book highly spoken Of
Binehampton Republican. Who has been
taking a trip with Lee Due?
The weather is not only unreliable
but unprincipled. Last Sunday it rain
ed all day on a camp meeting and shone
all day Monday on a circus.
Honorary members and water boys
are now added to the regular organic
alton of base ball clubs. The honorary
fellows buy the ice and the water boys
carry the bucket.
Several boys wedding onions in South
port were Frustrated by a stroke of
lightning. Boys whose fathers WI
onion beds should cut this out and paste
it in their fathers hats.
1t is nor reputable to adapt yourself
to circumstances than it is to fit your
self with another mans new silk hat,
while he is taking dinner at a crowded
hotel.
Pleasure has many definitions, but in
reality 1t consists of going some where,
| being perfectly uncomfortable all the
time while there and calling it 1.-THE
peSt time you ever nau.
Dutch girls make the best wives.
King William has been married fifty
years, and he is not as ~bald-headed as
some Americans who have been we'd
ded only that many months.
"What is a banquet without wineP"
asks Col. Childs, of the Missouri press.
Why, sandwiches and speeches, of
course. The colonel hasn't been just
~level-headed since he left Detroit.
The editor of the Lockport Journal
says he shall carry a concealed weapon
the Fourth. But he always does, for
that matter. 1t is covered with basket
work and has a cork in 1t.
This is the season of the year when
the good little boy refuses to go in
bathing with his companions, because
his mother forbid him, stays on the
bank to mind their clothes. and scoots
for home after trying knots in the
sleeves of their trousers.
An Iowa man was killed by light
ming while washing his feet. Henry
Clay Dean, when he sees this item, will
say: "I'd like to see the lightning-that
is the lightning ought to strike-ahem
l am in no immediate danger, anyhow"
After an enthusiastic lover spends
two hours hard labor over a letter to
his girl, and then mar its beauty by
splitting a drop of ink on it, he first
swears in a very scientific for
a few moments, and then draws a
circle around the blot and tells her it is
q kiss.
Some wicked man asserts that it was
a great mistake that potato bugs were
MT introduced into the Garden of Eden,
since their presence there would have
kept Adam and Eve so busy that they
wouldn't have had time to go round
foraing for pippins.
After the service. Deacon-"Good
afternoon, Brother Smith. You neg
lected to pray for rain; and our crops
are all drying up" Minister-"So 1
did, l am sorry. But you know the
first church have a picnic tomorrow,
and that will, doubtless, do quite as
WE'LL"
Examining 4 candidate for the gen
darmarie: Suppose you were going
along the road with two prisoners, and
one of them ran away, what would you
dor" "What would | do? Why, I'd
shoot the other one and pursue the
fugitive" He IL at once admitted TO
the force.
A careful housewife puts new wall
paper on the front room in the spring
time rather than In the fall. Miles
young man never leans his greasy bach
hair against the wall in the summer
time, and the paper can consequently
be kept clean. The front gate, yor
know.
BY gracious, it makes US blush fol
our lack Of that delicate perception o
the fitness of things when we read thi
note which is now before us. 1t is fron
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