The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-06-22
CREAM OF HUMOR.

admirinR the furniture and carpets q
young lady, turning from the crowd,
to her escort said: isn't it grand?" The
young man didn't stop to catch his
breath, but said 1t was. YES" con-
tinued the young lady, "it's just SPLEEN
did; but, Charley, do you think this
room is as large as our back parlor?'
When the laughter subsidized and the
young man got through wiping the per-
spiration from his brow, the young
lady asked for her bonnet, and conclud-
ed to go home.
Ben Franklin sold the bottle in which
he imprisoned the lightning to a Jersey
man. He and his descendants have
been diluting it W since, but it is still
strong enough enough to paralyze a
man at 300 yards.
The following answer was recently
given TO an examiner at an examin-
alton: "What do you know of the pat
riarchal Adam?" He was the father
of Lot and had two wives, Hishmale
and t'other Haygur; n became a pill
lar Of salt in the daytime and the other
a pillar Of fire at night"
Leadville is so named because of the
lead inadvertently carried away by per-
sons who go there and get saucy. A
person wa buried not long since IN the
local cemetery who vas so full of lead
that the bearers thought it was a case
Of premature pe~trifaction.
There's u good deal of human nature
about Strawberries. The big fellows
naturally trample on the little ones and
as a consequence are always seen at the
top of the box.
There is one thing which seems I'M
accountable to the average city fisher
man, and that is that an overgrown,
saucy boy with a bean pole for a fishing
rod and cotton Irvine for a line, will
catch more fish than he with his fancy
jointed rod and fine silken line.
He was a hard-looking old custo mer
he was blear-eyed; his hair was long
and struggling; his clothes were in rags,
and he was fearfully dirty. You never
would have supposed that he was worth
s 5000, 900, and he wasn't.
An agricultural journal tells " How
to throw a cow.n This information
may be worth something, but when a
COW gets into your garden you will save
time and profanity by racing her seven
teen times around the grounds, until
she takes a notion to dart out of the
gate by which she entered, instead of
attempting to throw her-over the
fence.
A Mystic Conn., clergyman received
only "a. so salary last year. 1t is thought
he worked overtime for the S4.
There is a man on Arbor hill who is
so Internally lazy that his friends say
1t is impossible to cut him to the quick,
since he hasn't got any.
The flea, says the Boston Transcript,
is the politician Of the insect world. He
Is ever itching for place, creates no end
of dist urbance and you never know
where TO hud him.
The old gentleman looked out of the
front window the first moonlit evening
and the faint vision of two forms down
neal the side sidewalk caused him to
remark with a sigh: "Ahl they've
struck their old gate again"
Artful boy; Johnny-"Grandma,
dear, will you lend me q pencil? l want
to draw some ladies'" Grandma-"No,
dearie, you must not draw on Sunday"
Johnny-"Not even if l put on their
Sunday manifest"
A gentleman being threatened with
an infectious fever, said to his little son,
who in IN affectionate mood wished to
embrace him: "You mustn't hug sme;
you'll catch the fever" Willie, stand
ing back, looked in amazement upon
his papa, who, by the way, is a pattern
of propriety, and quickly asked: "Why,
papa, who did you hugpn
Mile. Aimee. who sings and kicks,
has property valued at $500, 000.
Leona Dare, the Michigan circus trape-
zist, who suffered a terrible tumble in
Deroit, has separated from her husband,
mir. Hail. in London.
There were six Ohioans in the class
graduated at West Point last week.
Asparagus is very good, in fact quite
delicious if you don't try to chew up
the butt end of the boiled wooden
handles; those we wooden't recommend.
When a Photographer receives a pape.
with a blue mark aboat II Of his
s'scintillating gems Of thought. y he i'm
mediately sets it down rs a marked i'm
provement in that sheet.
The expenditure Of brain power too
early or too severely in children often
results in physical debility; the use of
Fellows Hypophosphites exerts a sing
ularly happy effect in such cases.