The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-06-21
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CREAM OF HUMOR.
Q E THCRs

Pleasing MISUNDERSTANDING kisses.
The song of the bankrupt is in a
ruinic rhyme.
The first snake story. The one told
by the serpent to Eve.
The real Cheap John is not a demi-
john.
In the midst of life we may be called
upon by a female book agent.
The small boy turns over in his sleep
and talks about the Fourth Of July.
The goats are out on windy days,
ready to pick up a mans straw hat for
him.
What is that which brings a cold,
cures a cold and pays the Doctors billp
A draft.
A new game of cards in Washington,
called "Boston,' is creating a Hub
bub.
No one makes any remarks about it
when the street sprinkler goes and 'tgets
full"
The boy that planted the barb of a
hook in his hand, concluded that it was
a rue-barbplant.
Venus and Eve were the bellies of
their day, but they didn't wear corsets
and bang their hair.
"Hunger..is the best sauce,n but we
prefer Worcestershire, or even a wo-
mans, no compulsion.
A man can never succeed in holding
two or three dozen pins in his mouth
as a woman does, no matter how much
he practices On shad.
Almost every German is a musical
foot on.
A bare hunt-Looking for your
clothes before daybreak.
Gala lily by any other name and it
will smell as sweet.
All jokes on the Rev. Joe Cook we
hang on the joke hook until wanted.
How to make a good coffee pot-Put
up a big blind and get 'em all in at a
little game of draw" with coffee
gains.
Prince Potoki, son of the governor of
Galicia, wears three diamond buttons
which are together worth $500, 900. 1t
is not announced at what hotel he will
act as clerk this season.
BY the sweet aroma that exhales
from handkerchiefs during-Sabbath
morning services, one is reminded that
there are many MUSCULAR Christians.
1t is not only an empty reason, but a
solid truth, that prompts us to remark
that every pocket, unlike every cloud,
has not a silver lining.
Nothing will remind a man of the
value of little things more than a plate
of Strawberries at a church festival.
The panier is again asserting its posi-
tion.-Fashion Item. 1t appears to be
making very little hustle about it in
this vicinity.
The sign on a returning emigrant's
wagon read: "Rough on Texas. Going
back to my mother-in-law."
A little Philadelphia boy startled a
friend of the family the other day by
that he was flour years old
with his clothes on"
A fashion journal says that "shirred
ruffles are worm" We might add that
ruffied shir-but, no; we are not a fash
ion journal.
81 had no time to stuff the chicken"
.apologized a landlady to her boarders.
Never mind, madame, it's tough en-
ough as it is" replied one of them.
A Cleveland milliner complains that
an English sparrow entered her shop
and stole feathers from the counter.
The bird evidently wanted "to twig the
fashions"
A little four-year-old startled her
mother after praying for all her friends
n night, by adding: "And God
please to bless the b~utcher-boy who
brings us our meat"
A goat, browsing on a greensward,
approached a pig pen and said to its oc-
cupant: "Why do you stay in that
horrid place when there's such a lovely
spot as this handy?" 1.-The pen is
mightier than the sward," grunted
the pig.
That ancient apothegm, 'Silence is
golden" is a fallacy when too strictly
adhered to. For instance, the deserter
who refused to give the password
when it wa demanded of him, ascer-
tanned to his sorrow that silence is
leaden.
Mrs. Parvens wanted to make a col
lection of antiquities, and when a con-
noisseur told her she should have some
thing as a nucleus, she said no; if she
could not get an oldcleus she wouldn't
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