The Nevada picayune., 1884-12-25

\ down the chimney. That gentle man is a Republican politician He still confidently believes Blaine will be President during the nex four years, and is just now musins upon the sublime grandeur of hit prospective mission as q minister to the Court of St. Cloud.
 I Two youngsters next. Eacl looks like he had just huttered ou of a band-box and registered .as I life member of the heas mUude Bob filings himself on the responsi bility of remsrking, "Good morn. ing, Tobe," to which Tobe replies That's the..very observation I was going to have made myself. You Should have.been at the hop last
 t1t." "Yes, I intended to go, but I took and stumped my toe and get drunk, and you just ought to have seen the old captain when I came stumbling in the, house, He is always eloquent on such oc- casions,sbut he did.his level dog. ondest last. night. He took me in at the beginningo of the Bible and brought me through the apochry- phy and the births aud deaths and marriages, and carried me out at the Concordance. lift wasn't for the financial. department should want father.s abolished. What about the hop?" "Oh, we had a roaring time, and was the belle of the evening; I was perfect bridesmaid" "Miss Ellen was the stari" "Ycs sir; you bet your sweet life''she was, and all the boys honed and hankered and sized for one glance of her eye-ball, and I hitched on to her and we prome- naded, and squeeze her hand and she squeezed back. tell you what, that girls dead in love with me; but I.wouldn't marry her to Save her.life.' "Whyw "Because her foot's too big. But l told her forty thousand lies about how pret. ty and sweet she was and how much loved her." "Was Miriam da thereN" "Yes, and she looked like an angel that had just lit. Ma. ture acted with the prodigality Ofa srendthrift in loading one little creature with such a wealth and luxury of charms; but, old fellow you've got a formidable rival. y Formidable fiddlestick! Tom may count on: when I get ready I can, in five minutes time, pull heI straighter than ten pound trout ever pulled fishing-line. I could marry.the whole family and not half try,..if I wanted to. Say, BOt let's moisten." Ereunt omnes, be- hind the screen of the bar-room.
 Here is a stout old gentleman from the rural districts. He wears a neat, cheap suit and has an hon est face. He is a man who tells the truth, pays his debts, loves his family and discharges his duty He has an easy conscience, and his mind is at present engaged in nc weightier employment than that of exercising his lips in the plucky necessary for raising..the tune in church next Sunday.
 There goes a frying-size spring chicken lassie, just little to tho cradle size of sweet sixteen. She is as fresh and lovely as new l DlOWIl TOHt. EOHt lldS d hlSSdDjt II a hugable waist, and sdueezablt hand. She is going to dry goods store on Whitehall street, ant she'll make the fur fly when sht gets there. Her thoughts are al mixed up and messed up. She ii thinking of poetry and bangs and velvets and music, and whether the shoes shall be round-toed Ol square-toed, and whether they shall button or lace; and she's thinking furs and plush and pretty boys, and how she will show of and shine ont at the next german and, l declare, l am not able to UT ! tangle the skein of her reflections besides, the five minutes are gone and I must step over to the office and hand in my manuscript.