Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1880-11-27
HERE AND THERE.


oct il; and then it is last years nes
from which the bird has flown.
Saws French critic" l like girl
before she gets womanish, and a
woman before she gets girlish."
The first musical instrument built
on the plan of an organ, with pipes
and tubes, was constructed in 757.
If you want eggs in winter never
keep old hens. When hen is three
years old sell her for a spring
chicken.
The fact that nature only put one
elbow in mans arm is sufficient to
indicate that she never intended him
to fasten the collar, button on the
back Of his shirt.
There is woman 10 Wisconsin
who has been married fifty eight
wears, and who has never missed
building the kitchen fire. Her hus-
band is probably the oldest fire es
cape on record.
For sleeplessness a high London
authority recommends, instead of
stimulants, breakfast cup Of hot
beet tea made from half a teaspoon
tul of Liebig's extract. 1t allays
brain excitement.
A Young lady who didn't admire
the custom In vogue among her sis
ters ot writing letter and then
crnss.wrilng 1t to illegiblity, said
she would prefer her cpistIes =" with
out an overskirt."
People often complaih ot hard
times from natural tendency to
gro~l, but "a Georgia darkey the other
day said " Nebber seen such times
since | was born. Work all day and
steal all night, and blessed if | eau
hardly make Il libbin."
There is fact touching eggs
which will he well to remember.
When, as sometimes by accident,
corrosive suOlimate is swallowed, the
whites of one or two eggs taken will
neutralize tine poison and change the
effect to that of "a dose of calomel.
The Salem Democrat remarks that
the true heroes are those who can SIT
down and talk politics half day on
the stretch, never say an insulting
word to their opponents, or show a
bit of their temper when the other
fellow gets ahead in the argument
The ancient Egyptians were the
first to embalm the dead. They be-
lieved that the souls of the dead,
after many thousand years, would
reinhabit their bodies it they were
preserved entire. Some of the bodies
buried 5000 years ago are perfect to
this DAY.
A Memphis man wanted to kill a
mosquito on the back of a friends
neck, and, without stopping to men
ton his design, hit the insect belt,
and when his friend got up and
brushed the sand out of his mouth
and eyes, four mon had to hold him
while the explanation was made.
A boarder at Leadville hotel in
vestigated his beeisteak and found
that it was fried liver pad that a
former boaTder had pawned for his
board. The landlord didn't want to
lose it, so be had it cooked. A liver
pad, if nicely cooked, is fine eating,
with mushrooms. but of course, in
that new country where they have
not all the cooking utensils, it must
be a triile raw.
Two girls, belonging TO church
choir at Oshkosh, got locked into the
church, the other night, while they
were talking oyer the fashions. They
gave the alarm, when a man living
near the church put board up to the
window and they slid to the ground.
The most singular thing was that
after they had got safely to the
ground they looked mad and went
off without thanking the man, and
they won't speak to the man when
they meet him. He couldn't account
for it until he went to take the board
down, when he got slivers in his flu
gers and scratched his thumb on a
single nail that stlck up through the
board. He thinks lie can guess the
cause of the girls's displeasure, but
aava ha don't cara for himself only