Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1880-01-15
sips of Fun.

him?" Well, if they don't mar
ry a man, whom viii they mar
Try?
Oliver Wendell Holmes call
a kiss a lisping consenant. HI
should have added also that i
usually follows a-yowal.
The Cincinnati Enquirer
speaking of killing a hog, says;
"Reader, for a moment put
yourself in his place."
The Graphic says that no
really good man will seek rich
wife. Too true; the rich wives
are all reserved for the-ahem-
clergy.
We received anote this MORN
ing signed "Fool." Anony-
nous communications are not
generally noticed, but this SEEM
ed genuine!
eff / punish you," said mam-
ma to her little girl, "you don't
suppose that | do so for my
pleasure, do you?" "Then, whose
pleasure is it for, mamma?"
Mamma to Isabel q years of
age), who is rather numerically
teasing the kittens-'Isabel, my
child, you must not do so. l
don't like to see it." Isabel
"Well, don't look, mamma"
"What, tasks correspondent,
"causes the hair to come out?'
Before we answer, we must
know whether you are married
or single. This is important to
q true understanding of the case.
Lawyer Ito witness)-Did
you say that an incompetent man
could keep a hotel just as well
as anybody Witness-No. ]
said an inn-experienced man
could.
Music teacher to scholar
yes, you see that note with an
open space; that's whole note.
Can you remember that?"
Scholar-"Yes'm. A whole note
5 q note that has a hole in it."
"Where's your partner, this
morning, Mr.. HynsoE?" the
asked the grocer.
Don't know for certain" cau-
iously replied the oil man, "he
lied last night"
An article is going the rounds
reating on the best method of
'utting away potatoes. A fam
ly of about eight, including
hree boys and three girls, can
'ut away potatoes about as
uccessfully as is necessary.
"You have got a treasure in
hat woman, if she is my daugh-
err" said a fond parent to a
on-in-law on the wedding day.
You just wait till the Sheriff
alls and see what kind Of a re-
option she will give him."
Intelligent servant, Bridget,
D caller-"Will ye kape still a
linute while / look at ye? No,
lissis hain't at home. She told
le if a woman came with a
'art OH the end of a red nose,
} say she want at home, and
lere's no mistaking that wart."
A boisterous, ill-bred fellow
/ a'dispute called his adversa-
Y "no gentleman" al suppose
on think yourself one?" was
le reply. Certainly | do"
nswered the bully. "Then,"
nd the other, "I am not Offend
I that you don't think me One."
"Can dogs find their way home
ON a long distance?" asks an
Ichange. It's according to the
1g. fits one you want to get
d of, he can find his way back
ON California. If it's Il good
le, he's apt to get lost if he
PES around the corner.
A member of the rhetorical class
"a certain college had just
llshed his defamation when
e professor said: al, do
III suppose a general would adj
'css his soldiers in the manuer
III spoke that piece?'' "Yes,
r, j do" was the reply, "if he
as scared half to death"
"Didn't you 'splain to me dat
| settled up that account you
ould give me a 'lowanceY' said
&c darliey to the merchant.
fes, | did say so, SAM" said the
erchant. IF you are ready to
tile your bill now / will make
good allowance" and the mer-
lant waited for the colored in
yidual to pull out his pocket
,ok. "Weil, sir, | hasn't got
C money JUS now but thought
Il come in and get dc 'Iowance;
y wife wants Il shawl"
It has always been thought
at ears of corn have an even
lmber of rows, and in slavery
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