Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1881-06-05
SPICE FROM EXCHANGES.

One of the fruits of Senatorial dead-lock-''
Paris fs.E- t.la
The scheme for new militia law appears to
rest largely upon the conviction that the
National Guard is n. G.
The phrase s'survival of the fittest" is but
a positive rendering of the negative PROPOSE
tion THE devil take the hindmost."
Barnum's g Zulu chief had the effrontery to
ask for a weeks leave of absence in order to
go home and vote at the recent election in
Indianapolis.
Private View. Stud groom (who has look
ed in)-"Comes ofa hartis' family myself
sir. My mother married an 'ouse painter"
London Punch. Esg. Is IE sE Ff
Jay Gould hasn't bought railroad for a
month. From this it is inferred that Mrs.
Gould has been investing in new bonnet and
few other fixings.
Miss Midas-"You're the FIRST commoner
I've ever danced with, Captain Preettyman.'
The Captain-"No, really! Why, what is
there about you for commoners to avoid?"
"a new puzzle is to find the letter M.
three times on the legal tender silver dollar"
To great many persons it will prove great
deal harder puzzle to find the dollar itself
Major-General George B. Mcclellan is
President of proposed under-g ground rail-
road to facilitate rapid transit in this city.
That is a queer opjunction-McClellan and
rapid transit !-Commercial Advertiser.
A Philadelphia brewer says he can tell by
the taste of is beer what the weather is 60
ing to be for three days ahead. In his case
it will apt to be 'muggy," with lowering
Barometer.
Sleeping Water, Sitting Bulls daughter,
has run away with young brave. This item
will soon appear as follows: 'Somnolent
Aqueous Fluid, the daughter of Recumbent
Taurus, has eloped," etc.
A little boy takes up the sermon which he
has heard his fsther preach that morning. aud
says: Papa. don't quite understau d what
this sermon means. Won't you plase to get
the meaness out of it for me7''
1t would be very awkward just now if the
Indians we're to make an attack on the
frontier. Pretty nearly all tho United States
Army is here in New York attending the
Whitaker trial.-Puck.
Nult0 lOO tOOs 4uo SoIf laI6SLJ uIC0SG llttl0
idea is for young lady to decorate minia-
ture bellows and send it to her best gentle
man friend. 1t signifies: "Don't mind your
poverty; will raise the wind."-INew
Haven Register.
Distressing episode: A lady who had
quarreled with her bald-headed lover said, in
dismissing him: ''What is delightful about
you, my friend, is that have not the trouble
of sending you back any locks of har'-
[Chicago Tribune.
The momentous: Dear little wife: "Weil,
Charley is on board by this time, but-oh,
dearl look, mamma, if he hasn't left his life
preserver behind.' Mamma: "By the way,
do you know, dearest, did he pay his insur-
ance yesterday?"-ILondonJ Judy.
sleeper is one who sleeps; sleeper is
also place where a sleeper can sleep, aud
sleeper is, too, thing over which runs the
sleeper in which the sleeper sleeps SO that
the sleeper in the sleeper sleeps while the
ieeper runs on as we'll as sometimes leaps
off the track.-[Wit and Wisdem.
Sweet agony: A very sweet agony is for
young lady to decorate a miniature broad
sword and forward it to her best gentleman
friend. This does not signify direct cut. 1t
is the old story-"No knife can cut our love
in twain" How quite. How awfully quite.
quite.-lNew Haven Register.
The Bazar tells of the tortures of \ stork
upon tidy, who said:
They've worked me standing, running.
sleeping, flying:
Sometimes I'm gazing at a crewel sun:
They've worked me every way, think,
but dying
And oh, wish they'd do that and be done!''
Montreal has haunted house, in which
''the stove lids are lifted OF the stove and sent
flying through the air." Ifthe owner of the
haunted house takes our advice, he will buy
his wife new dress. He may think he can
dodge them, but sometime one of those lids
will take him on the side of the head and
scalp him.-[Peck's Sun. ,... -.-.