The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-03-17
WIT AND HUMoR.

Fashion says: Gathered waists art
still very much in favor with young
ladies'" They are with the young
gentlemen also.
IAN seems to hinge on this" re-
marked the lover when he proposed TO
his sweetheart while swinging on the
gate in front of her house.
Jones thinks a mar is fortunate who
has his will contested after death only.
He says his will has been contested ever
since he married Mrs. Jones.
At the ball: Grace (whispering)-
What lovely boots your partners got,
Maryl'' Mary (ditto)-'.Ye unfortun-
ately he shines at the wrong end"
She-..Mr. Slow, are those two men
that have just passed brothers?" He
"l-aw-know that one of them is; but
Im-aw-not quite sure of the other"
The census shows something like
twenty per centum more females than
males in the country's population.
Well, we can't have toe much of a good
thing.
A Murray hill. New York. girl has had
one of her shapely feet modelled in mar
BILE, and has presented it as a birthday
present to her aflianced husband for a
paper weight.
slow shall | have M bonnet trim
med" asked Maria, 80 hat it shall
agree with my eomplexion?' ''if You
want it to match your face, have ii
plain" replied hateful Hattie.
Boy Ito a lady yisitor): s'Toacher.
there's a gal over there a winkin' al
me-" Teacher: .'Well then don't look
at herr Boy: ..But if / don't look at
her she'll wink at somebody else"
Some photographer in New York is
said to have two hundred ard %fifty-three
''distinct negatives of a Miss Maud
Branscombe. Evidently a fellow who
twill not take no for an answer"
Drawing-room episode: Affable dIcl-
ess Ito amateur tenor, who has Just been
warbling NJ. Gounod's ast)-'.Charm-
ing! charmingl Yoh must really get
somebody to introduce you to met
A slight misunderstanding: '.Do you
ever soink, Miss Evangeline?" do I
ever what, Mr.. Smythe?" What do
you mean STRIP. '.Well skate if you
pwefer the expression"
"Eugenie; Eugene, will you still i'll
sist on wearing the hair of another wo-
man upon your head?" '.Alphonso.
Alphonso, do you still insist upon wear
ing the skin Of another calf upon your
feet?"
kiss" said young Charles. 'is a
noun, we allow; but tell me, my dear Is
it proper or commong" Lovely Mary
blushed deep and exclaimed: ''Why !
vow, l think that q kiss is both proper
and common"
A woman accidentally went to church
with two bonnets on her head-one
stuck inside the other-and the other
women in the congregation almost died
of envy. They thought it was a new
kind of bonnet, and too sweet for any
thing.
Circumstantial evidence: "Who's
that frizzly black-haired woman talking
to my husband on the ottoman?" She's
a Mrs. Cadogan Smythe." 'InJeejl
She's good at flattering people, ! should
say, and knows how to lay it IN pretty
thick" ..Ahl you infer that, no doubt
from her attitude and expressionr'
'4Oh, dear, no; from my husbands"
Sha was a big, buxom lass, and when
her small beau called one evening shs
said: Good evening Lily" "rm no
lily" he replied, surprised at the idea;
''you are the lily; men are never lilies"
.'Yes sometimes they are, and you CO.
pecially are a lily.'' ..How's that7"
'.Lilliputian." He then looked as if he
wished he was an elephant.
A genial mistake: New Beauty Gun
versed as yet in the mysteries Of high
life)-"Who's that wonderful old gcn-
tleman?" The Captain-"Sir Digby
de Rigby. a Hampshire baronet, one Of
the oldest in England; James the First's
creation, you know" Now Beauty de-
termined to be surprised at nothing)-
'Indeed! How well preserved he isi I
shouldn't have thought him moro than
eeyenty or eirhtvp'