The Nevada picayune., 1885-04-02
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Our Picayunes.

Russia wants no coward cast of he OXus,
 Some men claim that they can not find work to do. Lots of oth- CTS wouldn't work if they could find il.
 Times are so out of joint in H. linois that it is difficult to get a joint Assembly vote in the Legisla ture.
 X man-iaced chicken is on eXhi- bi,ion in q Cincinnati museum. 4 chicken.taced nan would be q curiosity.
 Alligators eat ducks in Florida. They live better than some of the visitors do, if grumDlcrs are to be believed.
 The Russian bear will for time remain on ice and growl while the British. lion will stay in India and roar. The fight is not yet.
 Delaware is not biz enough to count for much in presidential nominating convention; but 1t fits into a Cabinet position very well. The abolition of the coat and waist.coat is the latest craze of Oscar Wilde. It is evident that Oscar is fast drifting toward a straight jacket
 The Chicago Tribune, after crib bing for many years, has commen- ced to give credit for paragraphs borrowed, and 1t is to be credited for honesty.
 When a candidate places himself in "the hands of his friends :" it iS presumed they will take him hom Q ull right as a reward of his conf dcncc.
 Naturally the most ignorant peo- pie are those who claim to know everything. They remain ignorant because no one can tell them any thing.
 Signal Service Hazen dwells up on the fact that eX Secretary lin coin does not like him. Mir. Lin. coin is not alone in his dislike.
 Nashville Banner: "Andrew Johnson's goose, not the one the Senate attemped to cook, but the one he used when tailor, is on exhibition at New Orleans"
 A bar-room visitor who had been given mault whisky to drink claimed that he had been mault- treated, and was so certain of il that he disturbed the peace with his mouth.
 The law is what the courts make it. So called law makers are mere ly men who say 'yea" or may ac cording 10 their leaders, and who draw Legislator's.pay for their men tai exercise.
 For a man who has been waiting twenty years for postollice posi- ton, it is hard to be told to go home and read the civil service rules and regulations made by a party that is now extant.
 Years ago genius was supposed to be long haired, dirty man, who could write the most brilliant things without any effort or special training. The genus of to-day is man who works hard and keeps at it.
 Secretary Whitney fndsas much rascality as navy. It said he has found where Ben Butler received nearly fifty thousand dollars for a "wood preserving process" and where sl2,000 was paid some one  else for a ventilating apparatus. This, of course, is slandcr on Ben: yet it might have been.
 Itis the opinion of the Boston Post that ''if there is anything a country editor excels in it is giv. ing wholesale advice to presidents. The idea is tha presidents look to city editors for instructions.
 New York World: Ben Butler Said of the Cabinet in Washington yesterday: Tt meets my approval. Can it be possible that this bad man with his crooked ways, foul methods, distorted mind and wick ed heart, is going to break into the Democratic party againg'
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