Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1879-07-03
sips of Fun.

these mornings" ~That depend
on whose son it is. Mine rise,
lat eight o'clock"
1t has been discovered that
young men are more bashful ir
lsummerth than winter. You cans
lget some chaps in fifty yards of
a girl during the ice cream
season.
"Well, you'll own she has got
a. pretty foot, won't you?p ssYes,
IN grant you that, but then ii
never made half as much of an
impression ON me as the old
man'sl"
Speak of a mans marble brow,
and he will glow with conscious
pride; but aIlude to his marble
head, and he's mad in a minute.
Language is a slippery thing to
fool with. 1d
One feature of the severe
storm Friday was the advent of
angle worms. In some portions
of New Haven county the
ground was covered with them.
Nature must have got hold of
"a new kind of vermifuge.
/ Patrick-"And, Biddy, dar-
lint, they've been tellis' me
there's too many Of us in the
wnrrild. Now, if you and me
get the praiste to make us two
wan, throth won there be wan
the less?" g
+, "yYhat can I do to make you
love me more?" asked a youth
Of his girl the other day. "Buy
mo a ring for Christmas, stop
eating onions and throw yonr
shoulders back when you walk, %
was the immediate reply.
Twenty-Five years ago a Mis-
souri, boy left home and started
out to become the president of
the United States. He got as
far as Cincinnati. The boy is
now a man, and is also one of
the best shoemakers In the Ohio
state prison.
1t has come at last. A Ger
man has just. invented stone
soles for boots. And now we
put the question to the average
father that when the average
young man asks for your daugh-
ter (Which is equivalent to asking
for bread), will you give him a
stone? ~
The strawberry festivals held
by our church societies might
be rendered more interesting
and attractive by, announcing
hat the young man who finds
he strawberry III his piece of
cake will be entitled to a kiss
rom the prettiest girl in the
-oom, or something of that sort.
A legal gentleman met O
brother lawyer on Court street
me day last week, and the fol-
owing conversation took place:
'Well, Judge, how is business?"
Dull, dull; j am living on faith
nd hope" Every good, but /
AVE got past you, for Pm living
IN charity"
"11y DEAR" said a vain old
nan to his wife, "these friends
Iere won't believe that I'm only
years old. You know
speak the truth, don't you?''
Well" answered the simple
Eife, 81 suppose ] must believe
t, John, as you've stuck to it for
fifteen years. ig ai
a certain noted member of the
Sew York bar once prepared to
axe a trip to Europe, and bought
is ticket, but did not 60. On
eing asked the reason, he re-
lied: ''One of my wealthy eli
nts has died, and l was afraid
/ went across the Atlantic the
eirs would get all of his prop
rty."
Ask q wise man to write poe
" and he can manage to make
fool Of himself at short notice,
! verses are out Of his line. A
igniiied Detroit judge, to oblige
little girl, recently wrote in an
Ibum: "My pen is poor, my ink
pale, my heart it trembIes like
little dogs tall"
During the Schenk beer trial,
lst concluded at New London,
rural juror appealed to the
ourt TO know "if the lawyer
,uld not be stopped from both
ing the jury" lie had become
ewiIdered III the maze Of tech
icalitics and subtlcties with
hich the lawyers apparently
ystified the case, and he cried
anguish Of spirit, "them law
ers como here on purpose TO
other and confuse us jurors,
ont they, judgeY' 81 "Isuppose
icy do, my friend," wearily an
yered his honor.
Some persons do not know
hon fhov are savinO inst the