The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-04-23
FAOETIE.

The lecturer who had an audience of
hree old maids and one man and his
wife, said he drew a full house-three
# a kind and a pair.
A Norristown youth who was trying
o master a byciele when asked his age,
aid he had seen fifteen summers and
about one hundred and fifteen falls.
when a man puts down a bad UNI.
orella and takes a good one" saith
Josh Billings, 'she makes a m~istake;
but when he puts down a good one and
axes up a bad one he makes a blunder."
A gentleman the other evening OBJ
iec;ed to playing cards with a lady,
because, he said, she had such a win
iing way about her.
The time has arrived when an invi-
alton to a wedding is equivalent to
lending the groom ten dollars and feel
ing thankful that he didn't ask for
more.
There is just as much vindiciiveness
wrapped up in the 80 shuckst'' Of u
woman as there is in the well-develop-
I'd and complicated anathema Of .
Texas cowboy,
Take back the love thou gav'sl
me-" she sang. 1t was 4 love of u bon
net, but didn't match her complexion.
md she wanted him to exchange it for
one that did.
Pater familias: We Jennie. if
you must marry this winter, | suppose
,ou must. Take either of them Jennie
the plumber or the coal dealer; both
are good men"
The principal of q young ladies
seminary in Syracuse has so exhaust
ingly inflicted her pupils with ''deport-
ment'' that, when left alone, her girls
of 16 act like sixty.
'Do you favor my suit?n said Claude
to Angelina. the other day. Yes"
was the crushing reply. Il look with
moro favor on the new clothes than | do
on their owner"
An exchange tells Of a young lady
who. six months after a happy marriage.
on being ask if she was much troubled
with cold feet. simpered hesitatingly
and with ingenious simplicity replied:
"'Ye-yes; but-but they're not my own"
"a sealskin sack, heyr' said Gar
dine to his Oldest daughter, ''Look at
yer first mother. She wasn't alters
askin' for seal-skin sacks. No, sir. a
fig leaf satisfied her. and we learn tina.
when she went TO church the lilies Of
value went rugged up like her."
Young Lady Ito her old uncle): "Oh.
uncle, what a shocking thing! A young
girl was made crazy by a sudden kiss!'
old Uncle: "What did the fool go
crazy for?"-Young Lady: what did
she so crazy for? Why, for more,
suppose"
A well known euchre-player named
Down married a Miss Trump, which.
according to the rules of the matrimon-
ial game. turned the Trump Down.
She then made it clubs and stove
pokers, and he has never been able to
hold any hands since. W. pass.
Land of the free: You boast tina,
your country is the land of liberty
said a young English nobleman, who
had married an American lady, to q
Yankee traveller at a London chop
house. "You call it the 'ome of free.
dom and all that, but it's a beastly fac,
that I never lost my independence till ]
went there.
mo, no." said the manager, 'she'll
never make q star. though she is pretty
and talented. Why, She hasn't goi
mad and refused to play since I've en-
ployed her. She won't fight her hus.
band, and when l advised her to thrash
an editor she seemed shocked. There,
not the making of a Bernhard, or an
Oates even, in her."
. Deacon Julius::C. Snowfall, .who takel
q religious paper, asked Rev. Aminidat
Bledso the other day, What is de mean
in OBJ de terms pan-Episcopals and pan
Presbyteriansp Why de debbel hahn,
we got nc culled pan-Baptisses?" "Lool
heah, niggah, it pains me to SEQ yor
'splay SIGH ignorance. Don't yer know
dat de pan-'piscopals. pan-Mefodists
pan-Baptisses, is dem what pans out d.
mos when de hats bein' passed?"