Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1879-07-10
Sips of Fun.

n ialnI neaft Will never VII
q a fair lady half as quick as a fa
pocket-book,
: The young man who works
} hard, saves his money, and get,
! his hair shaved short, is preparing
/ for marriage.
A great writer says: "Some
people are born Christians
But there's no occasion fol-
worrying over the matter; they
generally outgrow it.
A woman who can write a let
ter without two-thirds of her
tongue protruding through her
mouth, is fitted for a better
tsphere than this.
What they call cheek in Texas
is to have a lot of drummers
come into the State and hold a
convention for the purpose of
remodeling the State laws.
There's good deal of human
nature about strawberries. The
big fellows naturally trample on
the little ones, and as a conse-
quence are always seen at the
top of the box.
Uncle Jumbo was caught with
a stolen chicken hid in his hat,
and when asked how it came
there he replied: ''Fore de Lord,
boss, dat fowl must a crawled
up my breeches Leg"
We should like to kiss the
sweet little creature who said
that fire flies were made by God
to ''yite re little froggies to bed"
If she is seventeen years old,
bring her around all the same.
A rich New Yorker is so
fearful that his daughter may
marry a coachman that he has
taken her and started for China.
But he must remember there is
Coch-in-China, too.
The Elmira Gazette knows a
girl who will wrestle with GRO
quet mallet in the hot sun for
hours and not complain. But
just ask her to hang on to the
wooden end of a broom for a few
minutes and she'll have fit.
That was neat, says Boston
paper, the remark of a young
lawyer ON Washington street, the
other morning. A friend accos-
ted him, "John, / wish you
would change this twenty dollar
bill for me?" The blushing, but
pleased attorney lifted his hat
and replied, 'My good boy, you
llatter me, you fatter mel
1--WE heard son of Erin,"
says the Council Bluffs Qa.)
Globe, trying to surround Mary
and her lamb the other day, and
this is the way he understood it:
"Begorra, Mary had a little shape.
And the wool was white entOireIy,
An wherever Mary would stir her stumps,
The young shape would follow her
complately." a
a Discreet Colored Preacher
A negro preacher described
hell as ice cold, where the wick
ed froze to all eternity. Asked
why, he said: ''Cause / don't
dare tell dem people muffin else.
Why, if / say hell is warm, some
of dem old rheumatic niggers be
wantin' to start down dere de
very fus' fros'."
"A waiter was told by q c0un-
tryman to "bring something of |
what he had" The waiter
brought him a regular dinner
upon small dishes, as the usual
form, and set them around his
plate. The countryman survey
ed them carefully a moment, and |
then broke out: "Well, | like
your samples; now bring ON your
dinner."
Everything, says the Norris
town Herald, is about two weeks
late this spring. Even the sea
serpent which regularly makes
its debut at the watering places
about this time of the year, has
not yet appeared. We cannot
decide which seaside to honor
with our presence until we know
at which one the sea serpent is
going to board.
Talk Of the bravery of the
sterner sex. Do you remember
the first time you asked her,
"Will you take my arn?"
While you tremblcd all over
like the narrative Of a stump
tail dog, and experienced the
sensation of having swallowed
your Adams apple, what did
she do? Why, she took your
arm as coolly as she would eat
pickle. |
A rather fiashily dressed young
lady, in company with her moth
er, was coming out of church,
and while coming down the mas
sive stone steps the old lady slip
ped and went down headlong to
the sidewalk. The daughter, |
horror-stricken, hid her face in