Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1880-06-03
Sips of Fun.

ladies how old they are, the rage
is manifest.
The carriage maker never
tires. The blacksmith does that
for him.
People do not like to ac-
knowlege they are poor except
to book agents.
Women make Sunday a dress
parade; men make it day of
elegant leisure.
There is a racer named Chi
cago Girl, but she is not as fast
as you might think.
The Arab who invented alco-
hol died 900 years ago, but his
spirit still lives.
Woman is called mans bet
terhalf, and Hans says "Efry
man had better half one"
Now treat your girl with
GOODNESS and she'll like you all
the better. Vanilla is the safest
flavor.
There is a scissors company in
Connecticut. How many shears
there is in the stock we are not
informed.
Perhaps it is called the cup
per crust" because you have to
pass it to get the real meat and
strength of society.
A man in Utah who has only
the legal number of wives is
spoken of as comparatively
speaking, a bachelor"
The California papers are
complaining of what they call a
terrible waste Of water. Some
one has been drinking it.
There is one man in Boston
who doesn't get abused for not
attending strictly to his own
business. He is a burglar.
There is a lively discussion
going on as to who founded
Chicago. Don't let the guilty
man shirk the responsibility.
The ten commandments would
not be a bad platform; but it is
feared the majority of candi-
dates are unwilling to run on
them.
A Spiiz dog bit New York
newspaper man. The dog was
mad. No dog not mad would
have risked his health in that
style.
"We are for God, and Grant
and victory" says a Grant or
gan. We doubt if Grant will
accept the second place on the
ticket.
In some respects the gentler
sex far surpass us. No man,
for instance, can deliver a lect-
ure with a dozen pins in his
mouth.
A medical student says that
he has never been able to dis
cover the bone of contention,
and desires to know if it is not
the jaw-bone.
A gentleman finding his
whisky punch little too hot,
blew it with his breath to cool
it. "Blowing your own horn,
I see," said his comrade.
An Ohio man was killed by a
falling beam while at work tear
ing down a distillery, and the
people of that region see in it a
righteous warning to others.
/ The man who now has a gar
den to be spaded up, tells the
boys that there are lots OF
worms to be found there and
that they are at liberty to dig
as many as they choose.
A San Francisco Irishman
challenged a repeater who voted
a dead mans name, "because,
begorra," said he, "the man died
in the Fourth ward, and we are
after voting him in the Third" T"
! A reporter who attended a
a banquet concluded his tie
scription with the candid state
ment that ''it is not distinctly
remembered by anybody pres
ent who made the last speech
They say that a drink of
Council Bluffs whisky will make
: a Nebraska man go off to some
secluded spot and rob himself
But there is the consoline
: thought that he won't be able
to steal much.
A Louisville girl bought
500 pair of hose, and the frs
time she wore them she slipped
; down fourteen times, and go
: her dress caught six times. LIE
: this be warning to girls a
, gainst extravaganza.
Seth Green is authority fo
, the statement that "Plain com