The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1893-08-09

w uuhcI gray WAS lHeFe w say.
He'd seen a far worse food than
This was before Ben Hill got fat.
Billy Akin, the Sweetwater stage
driver, reports a rain Of frogs on the
afternoon of July Dist in the neighbor-
hood of Fletchers,. After y smart
shower the ground was covered with
spotted frogs.-Tidings.
Somebody says that q wagon maker
who had been dumb for years, picked
up a hub and spoke. A blind carpenter
on the same day reached out for a plane
and saw, and a deaf shepherd went out
with his dog and herd. These are all
solid facts.
Jim Gregory got fooled the other day.
1t wasn't his intention to be so. fooled,
but he says he caught a mouse and
threw it in a tub of water to drown. He
looked around soon after, saw an empty
tub and no mouse, and nobody but him
self was there either.
Charlie Lewis has a wise. looking owl
that speaks like a boy when his voice rs
somewhat between the sound made by
a nail and John Lees peacock. When
his owlship becomes acclimated Charlie
says he'll have him read the DISPATCH
at the next church concert.
Two young school marms walked into
the store the other evening and said
''Say, Girls, what makes us look so
sweet ?" Don't know" says Girls, "un-
less just happened that way" They re-
turned 'No, the closer to the bone the
sweeter the meat" Whose treat?
"Before you get married taters very
cheap, and sassage are flying all around
the street, but after you get married, l
tell you what it lie, taters amt so plenty
and sassages are riz." This is now the
popular refrain, directed to the young
men who contemplate wedlock.-Index.
Brooks McClane Gays when he was in
the livery business he purchased a new
Balm wagon painted green. One morn
ing shortly after he bought the new
wagon he went out to the barn yard and
found the running gear Of his wagon
covered with grasshoppers singing after
the "bawl."
A Kentucky bride in a sleeping car
started to get a drink of water. "When
l come back" she said to her husband,
"stick your foot out of the berth, 80 that
| will know which it is" The converse
ton was audible. When che returned a
masculine foot protruded from nearly
every berth.
As q young lady hurriedly started to
dress the other morning, on notice that
her fellow was waiting to see her, she
unconsciously dressed with her sisters
clothes. OF our they had to fit as she
thought they we're her own but when
she found ont the difference it took six
girls 10 get her sisters dress of.
The Call tells of q Madam Tabby in
Oakland that is nursing and, raising a
couple OF setter pups. 1t reminds US of
a mare we knew in the East that raised
a brood Of goslings; and what added
mnch to her bright household was that
by the time they were old enough to
wean they could excel their foster
mother in neighing Trib-
une .
Andy says: "When / was in the gov
vernmeut service at TT. Kearney l had a
yellow saddle mule. That mule would
take a notion at unexpected times that
we should part company and when this
idea would strike the ornery cuss the
boys would yell: "Git off Andy, fall off,
and the mule would walk on his front
feet kind-a-sudden like and I'D have
to mnd the boys who'd say Hold. onto
the grass" "Hold onto the grass.',
The trick dog OF the Lakeview saloon
ran into the Hotel Monte yesterday
and seized a baby, which it dragged out
into the stree. and s~avagely proceeded
to disembcwel. Before he wa noticed
he had chawed off the legs and arms and
scattered the internal fxings all around.
Then a howl went heavenward that par
alyzed the eagles on the cliffs. It issued
from little Moses, whose rag-baby was
being so cruelty d~isintegrated.
Two Of our young ladies who are
always together went into John Lees
Yesterday when the Thermometer was
chasing 100 and picked up two fans.
Soon after they started down town work
ing the paste boards vigorously. Mike
Donerin caught up with them at Nevada
House and as he made an exchange with
them we caught sight of the markers the
young ladies had taken Examine our
rs cent hose" That's why all the buffers
on the front street snickered.
General Foster, during the late war,
was once approached by Bowers who
asked:
General, when do you reckin' we are
goin' to get something to eat7'.
"Eatl" exclaimed the general: "did
you join the army merely to get some
thing to eat?"
"Wnll, that's about the size Of it."
Here calling ah officer. "give this