Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1879-04-24
sips Of Fun.

Gan boy keep straight who
is bent on mischief?
A photographer requested
that bis sign, ,"Taken from Lille"
should be his epitaph.
When a girl huntsa husband,
the engagement ring, to be in
: keeping, should be ''chased."
"Do you drink?" asked la
dy of a peddler. He dropped
his pack and remarked: "Vell,
| shust lieve drink NIT you as
any odder mans"
FWith all Thy false I love thee
STILL" murmured young man,
as he calmly handed his girl the
artificial teeth that she had
sneezed into his lap.
A profound writer says:
"We are created especially for
one another" Thenwhy blame
the cannibals for wanting to
get their share?
When a $4,000 clergyman is
offered a $1,000 pastorate it is
styled a 'Fcall," whereas in point
of fact, it is not "call," but a
"raise."
In answer to Shakespeare
conundrum, "W h ats in n
name?' the Syracuse Times
says that if it is a Russian gem
erals name the entire alphabet
is in it.
Truth, pure, mighty, strong
armed beautiful truth, how we
do love it! This paragraph was
not written with the object of
creating laughter, but TO give
general tone and stability 10
this column.
When a lady by accident dis
covers that her photographer has
put her picture in his showcase,
she goes home and makes ter
rlble time over it, but doesn't
order it to be taken out.
'Isn't my photograph excel
lent?" said a young wife to her
husband. "WelI, my DEAR" re-
piled he, ''there's little too much
repose about the mouth for it to
be natural"
A New Haven woman has
pctitioned for divorce from
her husband because he has no
style about him. 1t is to be
hoped, for his sake, that she
will get it.
a man whose i'll temper is
chronic is just like q camel.
They both got their backs up
when they were young, and
they have remained in that con-
ditiOn ever since.
There is one virtue possessed
by the colored people of this
continent. which does not pre-
vail among the white. If you
tell them a secret they are sure
to keep dark about it.
"Jane," he said, 81 think if
you lifted your feet away from
The fire we might have some
heat in the ROOM" And they
hadn't been married two years
either.
1t is heartrending to make
such corrections, but it is very
ne essary sometimes. ''In-
speaking of the President of our
local bank last week." says q
country journal, "for 'IIe ske-
daddled, please read, His sched-
ule.'"
care you engagedP" said a
gentleman to a young lady from
Marysyille, at a ball the other
evening. Il was; but if that
Pete johnson thinks / AN go-
ing to sit here and see him
that freckled-faced Will
klns girls hand all the evening,
he'll be mistaken, solitaire or no
solitaire" The gentleman ex-
planned and went out TO get air.
"They tell me times are get
ting BETTER" growled an old Ia
lY in the post office recently.
''Iere they are asking just as
much for stamps to send let
ter to my son in Virginia as
they did during the war" The
clerk explained that the price
was not raised when everything
else went up, WHICH seemed To
5oothe her.
"Yonrdaughter has treatedme
very curt"-and the young man
was lifted by the parental hoof
from the door of his girls house
10 the mid lie of the horse car
track. lie arose as quick as he
could, and smilngly explained
hat he hadn't finished The word,
which was "coartcous," and Al
phOnso was taken under the un-
lospitable roof once more, had
lis pants mcnded, and was done
up in sllye and then sent home
10 his una In a hack. Thus is
rue greatness rewarded and re-
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