, 1885-06-18

An smash dem sassy niggahs down.
An bruise de sarplnt's seed.
Dey howls at you de llyelong night
An robs you OF yo' sleep.
Kase dey's too lazy fur to SOW,
An got no crap to reap.
LITTLE LEADERS.
Bill NYE must feel encouraged TO see
so many country newspapers advertising
"Baled Hay
lr Is said that Miss Cleveland never at
tends college ommencements No won
der that she is so well preserved.
JEFF DAVIS has recommended a man
for office. The man doesn't want the
Office and he will be perfectly satisfied
with the result
AN expert musician says that only one
man in a thousand can whistle a tune
This should be specially remembered on
next Thanksgiving day.
-
liz CUBA it costs $24 a year to take a
daily newspaper. A Cheyenne man says
it is going to cost a neighbor of his more
han that if he doesn't quit taking his
LEADER before he gets up.
SOME Of the Apaches, in the warm
weather they are having down in Mexico,
only wear their pants of fatigue and a
coat of paint, which, it must be admitted
is quite an airy costume.
TnE Omaha Republican is astonished
that Secretary Bayard weighs POP pounds.
There are office seekers in the country
whom he has sat upon from time, who
thought he weighed a ton.
SULLIVAN has fought a prize fight at
the same time that he had two boils on
his neck. The other man must have been
brave to fight such a slugger who was ag-
gravated like that.
IT Is said that little Lolita has a talent
for painting. That is something they all
have to learn on the stage and some do it
better than others. Kate Field can paint
out a mountain range on her face.
On HIS way TO get q marriage license
James Dunn, of Georgia, cut his throat
Was this a case of presentimental warn
ing, or merely a conclusion on Mr.. Dunn's
part 10 take chances on the ills we know
not OFF
BuFFALo BILL and Sitting Bull have
met and have shaken hands over the
bloody sarcasm, and the wild West
show business has another boom. Bill
and Bull will draw like a team of Con-
nestoga horses.
RAYMOND says his new play will be so
unlike sellers that they will think he is
not in the cast at all. This sort of thing
would be a drawing card for many an
alleged star nowadays, but Raymond is
not one of that sort.
THE Tribune of yesterday came to the
front with the information that Hugh
Conway" is very i'll at Monte Carlo. This
will be gratifying to the friends and ad-
mirers of Conway who thought he was
dead when he was buried several weeks
ago.
SOMETIMES, and frequently it a is diff
cult matter on dull days to find local
news enough to fill these columns, but it
is always gratifying, and especially so Just
at this time, to know we have no college
commencement to report. There is many
happy a spot in life made by things which
do not happen.
TE Laramie Boomerang says Mrs,
Churchill, editor and proprietor of the
Que,n Be-, published at Denver, is in
the city, and favored us with a call to-
day. She is a pleasant and agreeable
lady Kent, the editor of the Boom
eyuag is a man whose philosophy and
happy disposition form a miracle. lie
would probably feel favored if he got his
leg broke and would be happy in a mos
quito tournament.
lie Subscribed
A resident in a town in Kentucky, con-
stituted himself Il committee of one to
solicit subscriptions to the Bartholdi ped
estal fund, and in his walks around he
came across a chap from one Of the ooun-