CanÌƒon City record. [volume] (CanÌƒon City, Colo.) 1883-192?, 1907-08-22
SIDEWALK MUTTERINGs.

girl who claims to have a voice.
doesn't lose it In Dragging about It
Widowers do one thing better than
than widows: They don't take their
children with them on their second
wedding trip.
What has become of the old-fashion-
ed woman who thought 1t a waste of
time to fan anywhere except in
church?
When a real young girl goes to work
down town she is liable to spend her
first months salary having her photo
graph taken.
do you remember what Owen
Meredith said?" a woman asked .
Canon man today. NO." the man re-
piled, Il don't remember 1t. and don't
care to hear It,"
A Canon man who Is small in stat
ure says little man is always handi-
capped; that a big man starts with
an advantage. II a man has a large
frame, people think he is big until
he proves he Is little.
81 don't take much stock in the
stories told by a man on his enemy.
and most OF the stories you hear have
that sort OF origin. have invented so
many myself that know they are not
very reliable. e."-Parson Twine.
A man hangs around the railroad
yards looking for a chance to slip in
to box car and ride free to some 9TH
er town. Why isn't such a man as
we'll satisfied in one town as he is in
another? He is of no account where
ever he Is.
There was a greatly disappointed
bunch of women in Canon recently.
They went over to clean up a house
for funeral, and found that the wo-
man, anticipating such an event, had
taken time from nursing to clean it up
herself. There was nothing, therefore,
for the women to do but to answer
the bell. seat callers and talk to them
in low. sympathetic tones about the
last moments.
A woman was searching the pock-
cts Of man asleep on the common
at Taunton. Mass, and a policeman
ordered her to stop it. II am his wife
and have right" she said. The Of
ficer woke the man up. aaWho is that
woman?" he said to him. "She is
my wife," said the man. but the Of
ficer arrested the woman, anyhow.
and marched her of to jail. The po-
lice Judge discharged her, holding that
a wife has the right to search her hus-
bands pockets.
State agricultural colleges are late
ly attracting more attention. or re-
cent years, there has been a great i'm
provement in farming. Farmers are
learning how to get rid of pests; how
to raise more per acre, and how to
get better results with live stock,
fruit, grain and cereals. The life OF
the farmer is becoming more endura-
BILE, and everywhere there Is a move
ment toward the country. A writer
in The Independent claims this Is
largely due to the agricultural colleges
where the professors are intelligent
and progressive, and the students en-
thusiastic. More young people are at
tending the agricultural colleges and
acquiring practical educations Instead
CT college yells.
1t Is related that a Canon colored
woman who has great many children
takes In washing, and works like a
and health officer last winter, during
the smallpox excitement, who told her
she must be vaccinated. The colored
woman was good and mad She said
she had no time to stop to be sick with
vaccination and, besides, could not
spare one of her arms; that the chill
dren would starve II she could not do
her laundry work. Then the doctor
said: well, auntie. l will vaccinate
you on one of your lower limbs"
NO. siree." said the colored auntie, II
can't spare one of my legs. either"
Then the doctor said kindly: well.
what spot could you spare. because
you must be vaccinated." The old
colored woman thought and thought,
and finally said slowly: We'll, Lord
knows; l don't never get no chance