Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1879-07-24

The fisherman is j tryangler
sort Of q fellow.
A fish that can't see the point
is apt to get caught.
A pen may be driven, but the
IpenciI does best when it is lead,
Brass passes for gold in Afri-
ca; and, by the way, it does here,
too.
Guest--ssWaiter, bring me
another dish of peas and a mag
; nifying glass;"
Jones, who is engaged to an
heiress, calls her Economy, be-
! cause she is the road to wealth.
1t is lucky to pick up horse
shoe, unless, Of course, it hap
pens to be attached 10 a mules
hind leg.
1t is stated on good authority
that a society is about being or
ganized for the prevention of
cruelty to pianos.
II is said that mosquitoes are
bred upon the waters. In that
case they will return again be-
fore many days.
The weather is not only unre-
liable but unprincipled. Sunday
it rained all day on a camp meet
ing and shone all day Monday
on circus.
Titles and degrees conferred
by country colleges are about as
useful to man as pair of side
whiskers that do not indicate the
quality of the brain.
A certain Congressman boasts
that he is a self-made man."
Those who know him best say
he never did undertake to do
anything without botching it.
A Virginia editor, lately mar
ried, has become a preacher,
while a Massachusetts minister
has become q horse jockey. One
was a take miss and the other a
mistake.
"How do you tie a love knotl''
asked Laura, toying with a bit
of blue ribbon. "Oh any way,D
growled Tom, behind his news
paper 'just so it viii pull out
easy"
Down in Georgia, says the
Louisville Courier-JouWal, they
are in favor of removing the tax
on quinine and putting it on
dogs. Changing the duty on
bark as it Were. M a'ir lo
Says sententious writer:
''They are never alone that are
a ccompanied C with noble
thoughts" Wonder if he is the
party that went off accompanied
with our Shakspear. 4 "AI
The Arkansas Traveller has IN
vented a bottle with a cork at
both ends. Now if somebody
will invent a drunk that will be
pleasant at both ends, Arkansas
will probably be happy.
The idea of Professor Swift
getting out of bed at / o'clock
4. m. to go hunting for new PLAN
cts! And when he captures one
ne can't sell it for fifteen cents.
There is more money in claims.
A writer on styles says: at is
he fashion in France for ladies
70 take their tea in bonnets and
gloves" 1t may be, but we pre-
Ter a teacup. Gloves make tea
taste bad, and bonnets drip SO.
A very sad egpoSe has Just
been made in New Orleans. A
handsome, swcetly-dressed, re-
fined and altogether captiya-
ing young man, who had been
lancing with half the bellies of
Inc city, turns out to be a cook.
A talented Eastern surgeon
las ruined all his hopes oil pop
llarily by the declaration that
exercise over a wash-tub is Just
Is beneficial to a woman's
health as horse back riding, and
ar cheaper.
A very charitable man and no..
'ody's fool was he WHO used to
'ay, when he heard any one be-
ng loudly condemned for some
anlt: "Ah, well, yes! it seems
'ery bad to me, because that's
lot my way OF SHINING"
The season is at hand, says
he Boston Courier, when a
whole family will carry their
Inner three or four miles into
he woods, and sit down among
he bugs and ants and snakes
% eat it. They call it picnic.
Photographer.-'HIou don't
appear pleased with your pict-
Tres, sir" Sitter-''No, I'm
lot; they look like the very Old
Nick" Photographcr-"Why,