The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-08-17
PERSONAL AND PARTICULAR.

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The good student keeps shady, blu
always avoids school places in no
weather.
Hearing of a sunstroke a st. Loui,
Jockey pronounced it a dead heat; which
ought to be run i've again.
When a man makes up his mind that
the world owes him a living, he has ar
rived at a point when the world car
spare his services.
Colored grenadine and barege made
over silk and trimmed with satin are
the first choice for thin costumes to be
worn during the summer.
A Nevada bed bug bit a man on the
lip and both bug and man died from the
effects of it. The doctors didn't know
which to post mortem on.
The latest novelty is a barometer
handkerchief. Your wife can tell BY
the perfume of the article whether you
have been at the bar or not.
On the mountains during the cold
snap: What are you looking in your
trunk for, Bob?n Considering that it
is July, L am ostensibly after a linen
iuster, but | have ulsterior purposes ,
A great many business men still use
the o~ld-fashioned quill pen, but we
notice that they don't pay any more OH
the dollar when they fail than those
who write with a piece of chalk.
"Put out your tongue a little fur
ther," said a doctor to a fair invalid.
"A little further still, if you please -
"Why, doctor, do you think a woman's
tongue has no end2' said the gentle
sufferer. "An end, perhaps, madam .
replied the physician, but no cessation. .
A young lady was endeavoring to i'm
press upon the minds of her Sunday
school scholars the sin and terrible
punishment of Nebuchadnezzar; and
when she said that for seven years he
ate grass like a cow, she was astonish-
ed by a little girl who asked, "Did he
give milk?n
Professor ito middle-aged student
beginning the study of chemistry
"Have you any specific object in view?''
Middle-aged student-''Specific object?
l have no object at all, except that I
don't want to be a COMPOUNDED ignor-
anus which when l enter the next
world.r
They were walking along the village
street, and they were newly welded
husband and wife. The air was in
sufferably hot, when he, looking at the
signs, ''Ice cold soda" and Lemon ice
cream" said: "Ice is very bad for the
teeth; it ruins the enamel" Then she
took out her new set, and putting them
gently behind the tying post, said:
"Sweety, we will take all the precau-
tions and ave all the enamel"
We observe by Puck that List, the
composer, has a piano in his bathroom.
Sing: List, the composer, is taking a
wash,
His piano is close by the tub;
List to the smashing, the splutter
and splash;
He composeth the Grub a dub dub. y
Ladies along the line of the Metro
politan elevated railroad complain that
the employees of the road throw kisses
at them. 1t must be very annoying.
The train is generally at such high
speed that few kisses hit the mark; and
be sides, the wrong lady is always imag-
lining that the kisses are meant for her.
A citizen on his way home late, the
other night, saw a boy sitting in front
of a house on Union street. "Whai
are you doing here. bubp" he inquired
in surprise. "Sil Keep still.o hisset
the boy, in "a whisper: 81 live
here. ''Well why don't you go intt
the house?n said the citizen. "Waitin
for fun" replied the boy. "Father JUS
| gone in. He told me to wait till h,
told her he'd been to the lodge, anG
then I could come in and say 1 couldn't
find him, and not mention his bein' il
the billiard hall; but l know mother,
and if you'll wait a minute you'll hear
something kinder bang against the side
of the Don like" And Just at that in
slant a muffied sound issued from tn
room where a light was visible. sThat'
father!" exclaimed the boy in grea'
glee. "Bine-by you'll hear a lamI
smash, and then Pm going to rush il
an. look out for fire." The either
passed on and left the boy sitting OF
the gait, with the liyeliest interest de
picted on his countenance.
You ask me. love, how many times
Think of you a day;
frankly answer, only once,
And mean just what / say.
You seem perpleaed and somewhat hurt,
But walt and hear the rhyme;
Pray how can one do morn than once
What onedoes all the time?
A Mile in 2: II 3-4.
It was thought, when Sleepy Tom re
Gently paced IA mile in 2:124, that tn
climax of speed had at last been reach
ed. But here comes a report +