The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1882-03-26

cousin, an officer, on his courage, said:
"Now, Harry, do you really mean to
tell me you can walk up to a lannon's
mouth without fear?" yes" was the
prompt reply; "or to a buchanau's
either" And he did it.
'.Dear, dearl" exclaimed Mrs. Brown,
81 have just been oyer to SEQ Clara.
Poor child She is dying of ennui."
"Why, how you talkl" cried Mrs
Homespun; then added, as she moved
further away from her visitor, ''Mercyl
faint catchin', is itP"
Ifyou want your parlor or drawing
room u resemble the interior of an
old junk shop furnish it according TO
the directions given IN some of the il
Illustrated articles on house decoration
printed In certain journals.
The Yonker's Gazette says: 1.-THE
sea Of journalism Is strewn with news
paper wrecks" Perhaps II some jour
nalists were not so reckless there'd be
less wreck. "-Norristown Herald. Wa
wreckon you're right.
Your heart" said the lecturer,
"beats seventy times a minute" This
computation does not hold good for
ladies running away from a mad bull or
for school-boys discovered in an apple
tree by u lively farmer
The nobbiest thing In boots Is a bun.
ion.
There is as much policy in pollteness
rs there is in honesty.
How to procure a telling effect
communicate a secret TO a woman.
Pianists are not always q bejeweled
set, but did you ever see n who did
not like to display his ~flngeringp
"Ohl for a better half, ''said a sorrow.
full widower when he found a counter.
felt hfty-cent piece among his coins.
Oscar thinks the Jersey flats should
be planted with callas. 1t is only an
expression of the family interest that
flats feel in each other.-Detroit Post.
Every rose must have its thorn, and
every belt its pin.
Nothing will make hens lay so well as
seeds scratched from a neighbours gar.
den.
Don't tackle tho fruit-store man on
facts and fgures-he'Il sell you or
dates, sure's you're born.
Where there's a will there's a way
to break it If the old gentleman died
rich, and you retain good lawyers.
John" You have evidently got the
words confused. An elevated" rail
road is not a grand trunk line.
The difference between a blonde and
a locomotive Is that one has a light
head and the other has a headlight.
All creeds and all guides for living
and doing can be safely boiled down t.
this: Do your best. That covers the
whole ground.
Another weather profit" said Bliff
ers, as he pocketed a Eve dollar bill
that he won on n wager upon atmos
pncrfc changes.
The Catskill nan has snapped hi,
liver pad for a mustard plaster, because
the latter is OF an "old gold" color, and
therefore more aesthetic.
Don't you think that Miss Brown.
a sweet grip" asked Henry. "Oh, yes,
very sweet" replied Jane; "That is to
say, she is well preserved"
Victor Hugo wrote; IT could live for.
ave on the invisible" Then he went
over and ordered a dozen raw oysters
and a whole mince pie.
"Where are the dreams Of the days
gone by2" asks a London poet. Don't
know; we have't got 'em; search us and
you'll find we haven't got a dream to
our back.
"There are four bishops ut our
house" said ]. to his religious friend
G. "Indeedl" exclaimed c., very
much interested. Yes" continued
j., land they are all-chessmen."
There is nothing that so takes the
starch out of n young man who has been
welded about a year as to have to go to
a store where there is a girl-clerk that
he used to keep company with. and in
quire for those large safety pins.
A writer in a Chicago paper asks:
"Can a young man marry on a salary of
$1,000 II yearY" A great many of them
marry on a salary of less than two hun
dred dollars a year, but their wives
make shirts for seventy-aye cents n
dozen.