The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1882-01-20
- H1T AND HuafoR y

An exchange calls the watermelon
'.that luscious capsule of pink moisture.
A man may get mad and strike at ,
flea with a crowbar, but he's Away
sorry for it afterward.
Patrick on tho zebra.-"Phat kind o
a haste is that-the mule wild his rib
on the outside Of his shkin entoirly."
The man who can hum a hymn Will,
jointing stove-pipe is good enough u
walk right into full membership in AM
church. without probation.
A celebrated wit was asked why hi
did not marry a young lady to whom h,
was much attached. III know no rea
son." replied he except the great re
gard we have for each other"
There is a knock at the front door
and the colored person says to the lad,
Of the house: lis you de white oomai
what told a colored gemman you wa
lookin' for a colored lady to wash you
clothes by the mumfs"-lGalyestor
News.
The following letter was received b,
an undertaken recently from an a~flictet
widower: Sunny wiaf is ded AM
won,s to be berried tomorrow at WoneI
klock. U nose wair to dig the Hole
by the said of my two other wiafs-le
it be deep"
There are some scenes almost too
pure and sacred to be viewed by tho
thoughtless world. One of them Is ,
two-hundred-pound woman with u mol,
on her chin talking baby" to IN
ounce-and-a-half canary bird in a bras:
cage.
A Scotch minister, in one Of his paro-
chial visits, met a COW boy, and asked
him what O'Clock it was. "Aboui
twelve, sir" was the reply. Well
remarked the minister. II thought il
was more" ''It's never any more
here" said the boy at just begins al
one again"
Train up q child in the way that he
shall go, and it may turn out that way
in the long run, but all the precept and
example eyer promulgated can't save
him from the s%heepish. awkward feeling
sure to seize him when he goes spark
ing the first time.
When q country editor, who is strug-
Cling along trying TO rear a large family
and build up a town on an income of five
hundred a year. discovers that a base
ball pitcher hauls in four thousand dol
lars for the season. 1t makes him sit
down on a roller-box and think.
There is an ingenious theory abroad
that the scalpette. as the BARRIERS call it,
the foretop as it used to be styled when
ladies spoke their mother tongue, is
worn by women whose own hair is
abundant, simply to preserve it No
man ever accepted that theory, but tho
girls like to put it forward.
German papers are in a hilarious up
roar over the following story: A He
brew mother rushed to a Hebrew father
with, Abraham. tho child has swal-
lowed the silver coin you gave him, and
is like to die" Tho father, true t his
racial instincts, sought to comfort his
better half by saying. mo matter, my
dear, it was only q counterfeit"
When you meet . young man who Is
smoking q cigar it is your duty to stop
him. and say, Young man, that cigar
contains acetic, formic. butyric, valerie
and proprionic acids, prussic acid. ere
osote, carbolic acid, ammonia, sulphur
cited hydrogen. pyridine. vrodine, pic
olene and %rubidence, to say nothing of
cabbagine and burdockic acid. He
may stick to the cigar. but you have
done your duty in the premises
81 want to find out who is the master
Of this house." said the man with . book
under his arm to the vinegary-looking
woman with = pointed nose and . very
small top-knot who opened the door for
him Well, stranger" she said with
arms akimbo, '.you just walk around
into tho backyard. and ask . little
spfndle-shanked deacon you'll find
there fiIin' up the grape-arbor. and
hs'n tell you If | don't boss this ranch
he don't know who does. Now whAs
do you want with meP"