Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1880-06-24
SIPS Of Fun.

Can a black Greenbacker be
regarded as hueman? srsg - m
Sheridan Shook and wife have
separated. She shook him, rs it
We're. ~ ry1ewof
"No, ma'am, y said a grocer to
anapplicant forcredit, 81 wouldn't
trust my own feelings"
circumstances alter cases" /"
said the unsuccessful lawyer,
'but my case don't alter my
circumstances" 3ta -
iDeadweod obituaries state
that "the deceased was of an
unobtrusiye natures" when be
didn't poke into more than three
fights a week.
The only real enthusiasm a.
wakened in the Chicago Con-
vention was brought out by the
opening prayer. They all
thought it was a personal attack
on delegate Bob Ingersoll.
A couple of reporters spent
the night in a cell with man
who was doomed to be hanged
in Connecticut, recently, and in
the morning the prisoner was
perfectly willing to die.
A Poughkeepsie ex-soldier,
according to paper of that
city, has been granted a pension
because of 'tgeneral ability"
The disease is not common:
this is the first case in Pough-
keepsie.
"No,parson,T I'll probably new
er git courage to jine de church.
When a poor darkey's spiritual
wiser takes him down in de rib
er and says: Il capsize thee,
and den ducks him under, it's
lime dat darky looks after him
self, You don't play none OBJ
lem games on me, old man"
A worthy couple in a Massh-
chusetts town had lost their
1nly daughter and were deeply
depressed. As they sat one
evening in the drawing-roofh,
leaving sighs at intervals, the
wife remarked: swell, George,
here is one consolation. Sith-
lted as we are, we could never
rave gotten Jane into Boston
society" ilg e - hoals s9mT
"After ALL" remarked the
lOung man, skimming lightly
,yer the gravel walk in the gem
'ra. direction uf the front gate,
'alter all, what boots it?'' And
he muscular looking old gentle
nan at the top of the porch,
With his spectacles jestled a lit
lc crooked, said that If the
'oung man himself didn't know,
e didn't know anybody. in that
ownship that did. ;r,r s-er,,
A man can't have a good
hing in this country without
verybody wanting some OF it.
here is DR.. Bright, who IN
ented a very original and in
enious disease Of the kidneys.
'y some strange oversight he
to get out a patent on
!, and now men are going for
on every side. To be sure it
ills them frequently, not being
daptcd to their constitutions,
ut that doesn't make any dif-
,rencc. Some men are such
ogs.
A preacher callesl on n New
'ork cotton dealer the other
ay to coayert m,saying, my
lend, will you give me Il few
Ioments to talk about your fu-ss
lre--" The word seemed TO SCI
le man almost Wild, rs Inc ex-
tedIy ratified off: Cultures
m stuck $1,000 with the blam-
! things. I'm doing nothing
ut a spot business now, and q
amed little OF that. There's
harley Sip stairs; he will
Tx futures with you from Ju-
to eternity. Good morning. q
he parson didn't know cotton
ang, and didn't cotton to what
: meant. weT 1l.1 tl- nsb
Are you prepared for deailig'
Ie clergyman. asked, with
emor OF emotion in his voice
J he took the sick woman's
lnd in, his own. A shade of
,tient thought crossed the in-
lids face, and by-and-by she 2
id "she didn't hardly Believe
le was; there was the little 9
sd-room carpet to be taken up
IT, and the paint up stairs Ind
lrdly been touched, and slle
d want opnt up new curtains
the dining room; but She
Iought if she didn't die until
Ext Monday, she would be a.
put as ready IS woman With
big family and no girl ever
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