Cheyenne transporter. [volume] (Darlington, Indian Terr.) 1879-1886, 1880-11-26
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tween good advice and poor does not
need either.
Truly conscientious: Are you asleep,
dearestY" "Yes, mamma, and the doc
tor particularly said that | needn't be
walked to take my medicine
The time required for trip from
New York to New Orleans in 1900
was "a days; in 1889 it was II days
and 1Si hours, and now it is COZ hours.
The last piece of rustic laziness en-
countered by out-of-tOwn correspond
ents is that of the man who, being
asked what allied his eye, answered,
'Nothin,' | shut it COZ / can see well
enough with one. Sometimes | shut
one, sometimes t'other.
Kentucky still indulges in barbecues
which are attended by thousands Of
people. a venerable colored man in
Boone county has superintended every
one that has been held in his neighbor-
hood these forty years. At the last
one the roast consisted of two beeves,
six hogs and twenty-five sheep.
A fashionable New York corset
maker says that women by no means
have a monopoly of that article of
wearing apparel. She makes a great
many corsets for men, but she prefers
not to mention the names of her male
customers, as some prominent gentle
men might not like the notoriety.
The seaside is very pleasant in the fall
of the year. The charming young dam
sci doesn't stir up the sand with the
point of her parasol, and the young
gent" with the white flannel suit and
eye-gldss is missing, to be sure, but the
indigenous clam-digger and fisherman is
there, and it is a pleasure to sit on the
bottom of an old boat and listen to his
stories and try to believe them.
A Hartford man is the owner of Il
somewhat vicious cow, and the children
in the neighborhood have been repeat
edly warned against going near it. a
day or two since the COW escaped from
the pasture where it was kept and went
prancing down the street toward two
little children who We're playing on the
sidewalk Remembering the warning
and seeing the danger, the older Of the
two children (herself scarcely : wears
old, called out: SISTER. come into the
house, or Hough's COW will horn you
wife up TO God"
Punch suggests charming fashion
which has the merit of being eXquisitely
harmonious. A young woman, built
on the disjointed plan, which indicates
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bracelets coiled above and below her
all-too-evident elbows, and around hei
ankles, which is nothing new, but the
finishing touch of serpent thrice
twisted about her supple waist, and OF
another serpent, ellis and ellis long
wrapped outside of her dress above hei
knees in guise of a scarf overskirt, is
new
The late Lord Campbell, in his
"Lives of the Chancellors," thus re
cords the peculiar intelligence of crows
in Scotland: "In Scotland, the crows
who take such good care to keep on
of gunshot every lawful day on Sab
bath come close up TO the houses, anC
seek their food within a few yards OF
the farmer and his men, discovering
the recurrence of the sacred day from
the ringing of the bells and the dis
continuance of labor i'm the fields. ant
knowing that while it lasts they az
quite safe"
A correspondent wants to know if W,
can recall the rest of that beautiful
poem commencing
A farmer sat in his easy chair
Smoking his pipe of clay,
While his hale old wife with busy care
WAS clearing the dinner aWaV.