The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-08-06


Samuel johnson defined nonsense TO
be "bolting a door with a boiled ear-
rot
"What makes the sea salf5s said
the teacher, and young Americs
shouted, ''The Goldfish that are in it"
"How shall we get the Young man
to church," Is the title of an article
in a religious weekly. Get the girls
to 90, sainled brother, get the girls 10
go.
A lady put her watch under her
pillow the other night, but couldn't
keep 1t there because IT disturbed her
sleep. And there, all the time, was
her hel-tieking right underneath her,
and sllo never thought of thar at alb
A preacher at a Sunday school ex-
-ursion describel lieav as an eterni-
Ii OF picnics-and seyerAI young men
members of his congregation who
htgsed baskets weighing nearly a ton
eiril, and ellmbed high trees TO put
.ip swings, have left church.
A gentleman at one of the hotels
split some milk on his coat and woli-
Tered II il would leave a grease spot.
Grease spotf" queried the fellow
boarder just opposite, ',grcase spot?
Well, 1 should say no. Rather look
.or chalk marks when it dries up"
oil gent: "Ain't your name John
ny 5milhS" Little boy Yes, sir."
You never saw me before, did YOU
sonny?" mo, sir.1 "WeiI, i never
saw you either, but / knew your
father long before you were BORN.
II came mighty nigh not recognizing
you, didn't IL" :
A coquette came out of q fancy
goods shop loaded with purchases
..You have renewed your provision"
said o rival. "Don't speak of it; |
have ruined myself l have bought
o thousand things / do need-among'
others six TOOTH brushes" "Ahi one
for each TOOTH" said the other, sweet
ly.
During q country ramble Brown
fell into Q puddle and muddied his In
expressibles. Jones, his companion,
was trying by mean of q casual stick
70 rid Brown of some OF the thickest
OF It, when q passing countryman in
quired: "Say, yeou, what'r yeou'
doin2" my friend, / am simply
scraping an acquaintance" said Jones
in his blandest tones.
Old Mrs. Charles Mathews. mother,
of tho celebrated actor, is related to-
have been very Juvenile looking till,
late In life. A friend of the family
meeting her son one day, and COM
mcnting on the fact, said: "By the
way, Charles, how old is your moth
er?' "Well, answered the inimitable
Charles, considering" II hardly,know.
bhc must DO forty I'm thirty7nine."i
The editor laid his half-smoked ci-
gar on the table, and the candidate
dropping In ~ talk matters over,
perchcd himself on the table and sat
down on the real Connecticut Havana.
BY and by lie sadly slipped off his
seat. "You are not lukewarm in my
cause, anyhow" he said plaintively.
.Ah, no. replied the editor, encour-
agingly, 'sthe old fires are still burn
Ing.S Aud then . great hush fell up
on tho busy sanctum, such o profound
silence that for . moment you might
have heard q gum drop.
In Just the cosiest little nook under
the shadow of . great tree, right
where the shelving rocks made q nice
settee with q back to it, they were
sitting. Down, down at their feet
was tho sounding sea, caressing with
Its mighty hugs tho shore. "Is not
tho soa inspiring2" said he. eSee yon..
der snowy sails. They are 1ike-they
are like" "Are they?" said she rs
she dug her parasol into the bank
"No they arc not" replied he sharply,
and tho GOODNESS Of the breeze was ca
lorio in comparison with the frigidity
Of the rest of that day. She had in
terrupted just on the brink of q very
important declarntion, which she will
ever wait for now. p ;