Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1880-10-07
Sins Of Fun.

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does by his Sabbath morning
sermon. sf sod AstlEI .1E
A downtown physician re-
ports 'sterlibly dull con-
sidering the state Of the mar
kets.o ia
Another man struck by light
ening last week. And still peo-
pie carry it aroundin short-neck-
ed bottles in their pockets.
There is good1dealaof mod
esty in this world which will
gaze at almost anything, proyid-
ed it can be seen through
crack.
Uancock's father wanted him
to learn the printers trade.
Had he done so, instead OF be-
ing a West Pointer he might
have been setter. DIl ut
'EIIe seems to have been shot
in the diaphragm" said the doc
tor. ooh, MOI" exclaimed his
weeping listener, ''he was shot
in the lower end of the saloon. "
The average life of a farmer
is sixty-six years. At sixty-fye|
he may safely begin TO return
borrowed tools, pay old debts
and to ask forgiveness for cheat
ing in horse trades.
"Sooner or later" French
writer says, Everything is found
out" Just so. Amarried man,
for instance, is generally found
out later-about three hours la
ter-than he should be.
We have generally observed
that if a man does some mighty
mean things when he has been
drinking, the liquor had a mighty
mean man to work on in the first
place. Don't lay it all to drink.
outhCarolinaBaptist church
contains in its old records the
mention of a woman being ex-
cluded from the church for the
offence Of doing ''too much talk
ing in the neighborhood." But
that was before the war.
Everything in nature indul-
gcs in amusement. The light
ming plays, the wind whistles,
the thunder rolls, the snow flies,
the waves leap, the fields smile.
Even the buds shoot and the
rivers run.
Smith says: 'tMy wife, who
has just read that Sit takes a
Japanese girl thirteen hours to
dress for party has sent to
Japan to know how she does it.
She can't occupy more than four,
for the life of her."
| School teacher to a little boy
whose father is a grocer-"Now,
Johnny, if your father has a
barrel Of whisky containing for
ty gallons, and one fourth of it
leaks out, how many gallons
does he lose?" Johnny-''He
don't lose none. He fills it up
again, right off"
As they were about to hang
an Iriahnan in London, one OF
his friends who had come to
witness the ceremony, cried: 81
always told you you would come
to this!' "And you have al
ways lied! ! have not come-I
was brought
The Buffalo Courier has this
h aiding over an article: "From
Buffalo to heaven; suffering and
death of Jacob Terwilliger, the
kick of a mule and its final re-
suits" That settles it. The
mule that can kick a man from
Buffalo to heaven, is the cham
pion long distance kicker.
civilian, you have cone up
again unprepared!" Eyes, sir"
but from what cause?" La
zincss, sir" 'JohnsOn,gi Will
liam a good mark for upright
ness" Bates, you proceed"
Il have not prepared, too, sir"
"But why not?" "From lazi-
ness" johnson, give Bates
bad mark Tor plagiarism"
Jones is proud of his wife
and with reason, for Mrs. Jones
is pretty as well MS smart. She
was lecturlng OH temperance re-
form, and got naturally worked
up as she rehearsed the many
things that should be done, but
which nobody seemed ready to
do. "Oh DEAR" she exclaimed,
81 wish / were a mani" 81 OBJ
jcct!" exclaimed Jones, rising
from his scat. 1t brought down
the house.
A minister was questioning
his Sunday school concerning
] the story of Eniychns. whom the