Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1889-06-14
HUMOROUS.

book AgenG-"1 WOulQ ike 10
blow you the very latest English
cyclopedia." Old Timer" No, sir;
English or American, could never
learn to ride one at my time Of life"
MIR. Grundy.
Junior Partner-'Our traveller
ought to be punished. He told one Of
! our customers in Croydon that am
an ignorant fool" Senior Partner-.I
shall speak to him without fail, and
insist that no more office-secrets be
divulged IN. Y.Ledger.
"A Boston editor who doesn't work
something about the eighteenth Bru-
MARIE into his French editorials is not
recognized as a journalistic heavy
weight. One overworked young man
on the Advertiser had something the
other day about the eighteenth
Bromide.
Charitable Old Lady Ito little
beggar girr-"There's some bread for
you. It's day or two old, but you
can tell your mother to take three or
four fresh eggs, a quart of milk, a cup
of sugar, some good butter. and half
x
excellent pudding of it."
"A new idea in Paris is kissing
school. Unless it will show girls the
advantage of holding still when kiss
is about to be imprinted ON the lips or
on the cheek, SO that it will not light
on the ear or on the back of the neck.
1t is impossible to see how it can teach
girls any thing new about kissing
Norristown Herald.
-Blinks' Coachman (colored)-"I
fought you sayed yoah folks was 80
dog-gone rich?" Jinks' Coachmau
(Celtic)-"So they are, we black divil."
Blinks' Coachman-"Huh! / guess
not. looked in de winder las night
and seen two OBJ de young ladies play
in on de same PLAINLY. Guess you all
has ter economic. "-America.
Northern gentleman (who has
been reading on the subject of
Voudooism among the colored people,
and thinks he will make little orig
inal research)-''Jasper, do any Of
your people carry charms about them
for protectionP" Jasper-.'Oh yes.
sab; but I nebber hear dem call
charms fore; more ginerally call dem
razors. sab. '-Harper's Bazaar.
I'll rot into discussion with a
friend the other day." said a man.
addressing an acquaintance, concern
ing the exact reading of a clause in
the constitution of the United States.
We argued awhile. and then agreed to
submit the question to q well-known
Congressman. We did 30, but he
couldn't tell us any thing about it. :"
"But why did you not got copy Of
the constitution and settle the mat
terP" Couldn't find one. We were
in Washington City at the time. ~
Arkansaw Traveller.
John Carver Baokbay (of Boston.
who has just proposed and been ac-
copied, and has taken from the lips OF
his betrothed that icy CONNECTION, a
Boston kiss)-"And our love, Marian.
will outlast life - will - er - live
through the cons of time, for it is
based on the closest psychological af-
tinities. From the great to the small,
our feelings, our loves, our tastes are
one. noted, with what seems like a
curious premonition, soon after we
met, that we even used the same odor
Of sachet powder!'-Puck.
-Reviving the Lost Arts. The pas-
tor ut Cactus Four Corners, A. T.,
announces that on the following even
ing Prof. Arioch, of Shinar City,
| would lecture in the church building
on THE Hanging Gardens of Baby.
lon." The announcement was re-
ceived with general enthusiasm. I'm
goin' to hear that" said Badly Blud.
soc, that's just the very thing we
| need in Arizona. This thing of havin'
to walk Ave miles to find a trestle
work er a railroad bridge every time
we have some person to hang is q
disgrace to our civilization. No won.
der they wunt admit us as q State. ~
Burdette.