, 1884-04-05
The Democratic Leader.
SATURDAY, APRIL 5, 1884.
MINOR MENTION.

Inc CHlOn acluC IOluer lOr Apru II
very handsome.
Dwellings and stores are alike in de.
mand by renters.
Snow flies no more, but soon spring
flies will appear.
The gas works will soon assume i'm.
portant proportions.
The stockmens' convention will be sew.
eral hundred strong.
About six hundred persons attended
the skating rink last evening,
Men of high aim don't hit the stars,
but often hit a glass at hotel bars.
May there soon be April showers to
bring May flowers in this dry town Of
ours.
Everybody will be on dress parade on
Monday when the cowboys cavoort
around.
1t doesn't take sulphur or sassafras tea
to draw humor out of this ticklish
column.
Valuable articles come done up in small
space. This is the way with our minor
mention.
Is it proper for the wife of a temper
ance man to take a night-cap when retir.
ing TO bed?
License low or license high, hat iswhat
is vexing prohibition draws a sigh
truly It's perplexing,
In view of the close approach of easter
the price of hen fruit is becoming some
what altitudinous.
One of our clergymen is so opposed to
whisky and wine that he strangled a pet
pup when it whined.
Beck and Gordon, charged with high
way robbery, will have a hearing before
Judge Fisher to-day.
Nine out of the ten boozers who run
afoul of our stars, are people who come
here from Greeley, Colorado.
An addition is to be built to the Bap-
fist church this spring, if m be cor
rect. 1t is to be a study-a brown study.
Fire coming like a thief in the night it
is always well for the prudent man to
carry insurance upon his property.
The sunset artists who deal in nose
paint are giving a redolent hue to the
p~hysiognomies of their thirsty patrons.
Our churches in order to be consistent
upon the temperance question have taken
the sharp edge off their communion wine.
The spring flowers have commenced to
shoot out on our hills, but it is not their
perfume which is running down our gut
tiers.
The Union Pacific trains are still
slightly tardy, on account of the soft con
dition of the road-bed on their eastern
end.
The sleepers on the overland train ives
yesterday were filed with passengers, lit
being the largest load taken west in over a
year.
Fire and water are antagonistic ele'
ments. Our Presbyterian church stands
on one corner and the Baptist on the
other.
Since the last cold spell a great many
family men complain that their wives
have cold feet whilst their cold is in theii
heads.
The Episcopal church has a good prop
and pillar in its pastor. lie is II substan.
tial rafter to give strength to his ecclesias-
teal ediice.
Don'tmiss seeing Uncle Tom Cabin
Take the wife and the little ones to the
matinee this afternoon and enjoy the
darkey jokes.
1t takes the suffering beggar almost as
long to ask for 't-t-t-t-ten c-c-o-c-cents''
as it does for a hard-worklng mar to earn
the same amount.
One of our merchants advertises for o
strong boy. That boy who caught the
skunk at the edge of the city last week
ought to fill the bill.
There is one colored coon in the "Uncle
Toms Cabin" outfit who has a mouth
which stretches back to his ears and
fastens on their rims.
The streets are so muddy and SC
splashy that white stockings will be out Of
the question with the fair sex for the
next two or three days.
The'end darkey of Uncle Toms Cabin
combination can put a whole pie in his
mouth without fracturing the delicate
crust upon its outer edge.
The Independent voter is the man who
will drink with all parties. The interested
voter is the man who is always trying to
get all parties to treat him.
The Colorado stock associations trair
VIII start from the Union depot in Denvel
Monday morning, and leave Cheyenne or
the return trip the same night.
The following entries were yesterday
made atthe land Office: Joseph Il. John
son and John T. Larkin, 100 acres each
and.Fred. w. Kimmell, half that amount
The Union Pacific train west last even
ing was composed of twelve coaches fillec
principally with emigrants bound for var
ious points for the west and northwest.
1t must injure the average smoker
appetite for cigars to go along the street
in the early morning and see peripateti
g~uttersnipes picking up stubs for eiga
filling.
Away down south in fields of cotton
cinnamon seeds. and sandy bottom.