The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-09-05
PERSONAL AND PARTICULAR.

PERSONAL AND PARTICULAR.
All the rage-Marriage.
A dull season-Tasteless pepper.
To-day is the birthday of John Smith.
Caro-, Mich, has a fiourishing ladies
cornet band.
When a man has a cataract isn't it
cruel to dam his eyes any further2
The coming man is not a policeman.
He is v coming when he is wanted
When the exhiliarating atmosphere OF
Colorado intoxicates a man, isn't the
air tightp
Those wicked boys calling Elijah
"Old bald head" proves that Elijah was
a married man.
The tonsorial artist who colors whisk-
ers works by the day-he gets so much
per dye ,'em.
When Sol Smith Russell dies, an ap-
propriate epitaph would be,
Death levels Sol.
In Philadelphia,a ''newsgirl," aged
95, died a day Or two ago.
Girls are said to be the most expert
~telegraphers along the line of the Penn
sylvannia railroad.
A barber who does a strictly cash
business is a model scissors editor. He
clipq and oivaa no crndit
Beware of imitation temperance ad-
vocates. None genuine whose names
are blown in the bottle.
Mrs. Shoddy lately puckered up her
mouth genteely, and told a gentleman
friend that one of her lovely daughters
is a "blunett," and the other a
s'bronze."
Mr.. w. s. Gilbert is credited with
the following aphorism: 1.-THE sun never
goes down on the queens dominions,
because Heaven is afraid to trust an
Englishman in the dark"
We do not wish to bore any one with
conundrums, but would like to be per-
mitted to ask. in all candor, what sort
of knots do pig styP
No matter how bad and destructive
a boy may be, he never becomes so de-
graded or lose his self-respect sufficient
ly as to throw mud on a circus poster.
Religion gives you a creed as a kind
of ladder up which you may climb to
noble life. Too many people, however,
put the ladder up and then sit on the
ground.
Speaking of strikes, there was a
strike in the office of the New York
Tribune in Horace Greeley's time. All
of the printers struck for higher wages,
except those who set MI. Greeley's
copy, and they struck for hieroglyphics.
Rev. Mr.. Pogson, of Bridgeport, is
the father of a boy who will probably
distinguish himself, The evening be-
fore the last circus in that city, the re-
verend gentleman was talking to his
son about the beauty of heaven, when
the child suddenly observed: Papa
lets's drop heaven and talk circus"
Heaven was dropped.
When p. T. Barnum, a young man,
poor and in debt, left Danbury, he said
to Judge Whittlesey: 81 will pay that
bill when 1 get rich." The judge drew
down his official features and disdain-
fully replied: ''That will be when a
sieve holds water" In a few years
the visionary young man was in a coll
dition to opsn the following brief let
ter to the judge: 81 have fixed that
sieve"
A German gentleman who keeps a
seven-by-nine lager beer shop at the
south end treated himself to a days
vacation recently, leaving his son in
charge of ''ter pizziness" and a keg of
beer. On his return he found the keg
empty, and addressed his offspring as
follows: "How is dis, Yawcob, dat you
make me only Elm dollar un dirty cents
for dose keg of beerp show me how you
draws der peer?" Yawcob took the
glass and drew it nearly full of beer,
with but the least margin of froth,
when the old gentleman, seizing his
hand, said: "You make dose glasses
stand higher down from der key, Yaw-
cob, der profit in der peer pizziness is in
der pubbles."