The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1885-10-10

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poker.
From eating too much chicken
one is apt to have q fowl stomach.
German proverb: "a handsome
young woman is always an ugly
old one"
Waiter, can you bring me nice
young chicken, smothered in
onions?" "No, sab, We doesn't
kill'em dat way, sab. We cuts of
der heads"
A great deal has been written
about learning to say no. II you
would teach a man to say no, just
ask him if would like to pay that
little bill to-day.
Beware of the man who wants to
borrow your newspaper at hotel
breakfast table. He will not hest
tate to borrowyour pockcthandker-
chief or toothbrush, because to get
something for nothing has become
u habit in his case. The world is
full of them.
Twas never exactly buried alive"
said an old clerk, recounting his
experience, "but l once worked a
week in store that did not adver-
tise. When l came out my head
was almost as white as you now
sec it. Solitary confinement did it. {"
Cincinnati Gazette.
1t was maxim of Bulwer-Lytton
that "the guest who comes late
spOils the dinner" In mOndern
clearinghouse it is the guest who
comes early that spells the dinner !;
the guest who comes late always
gets left. This is one of the disad-
vantages of modern system.
Just A VACATION EPISODE.
We we're standing alone in the moonlight,
Looking out on the silvery sea,
And eloquent grew, as urged her
To give up her sweet self to me.
Then she rested her hand on my shoulder
Every pulse of mine thrilled at her touch
But it made my hot blood run much colder
When she promptly responded, Not
much!" -SOmerville Journal.
A California girl was guilty of a
mean trick the other day. She
elOped with her Objectionable lover
the same day her mother was enam-
clcd and as the latter was COM
PEELED to remain shut up three days,
or else crack all over, the couple
managed to get away without per-
suit.
CHANCE OF MIND.
He offered me his heart and hand,
Whercat laughed and said him nay;
But found too late that when he went
He took my happiness away.
So wrote little note
Dear Jack, it asked, with sweet design,
"In love it's fair to change ones mind -
Said he, +" It is-and I've changed mine ~
Anon.
Simpson and his wife were on
their way to church, and the lady was
putting on her gloves. "My dear,
he said pettishly, "you should COM
plete your toilets at home. I'd just
rs soon see woman putting on
her stockings on the street as put
ting on her gloves" "Most men
would" she said promptly: and the
abused husband didn't say another
word.
"Just one" said the lover, as he
stood upon the stoop with his girl,
"Just one !"
"Just one" said the mother, put.
ting her head out of the bedroom
window above; swell, I guess il
amt 80 late as that, but it's pretty
near twelve, and you'd better be
going, or her father will be down.
And the lover took his leave with
pain in his heart.
A collection was taken up in one
of our churches recently, and when
the hat reached the seat occupied
by lady, her daughter, and little
sOn, tho two ladies found them
selves without o cent of money
but Young American reached ovel
and deposited a cent in the ha
and then whispered to his sister
"Thcre | just saved this famil.
from being witewashed."
Bill Nye on the sublime in nature
] say a squaw who seemed t.
belong in the picture of the poeti'
little waterfall. ] did not learn he
name. 1t was one of those long, cor
duroy Sioux names. that hans
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