Gilpin observer., 1910-11-24
OBSERVATIONS

A small opening often leads to
large opportunities.
A real unselfish man is one who
gets busy moving things cut Of the
way Of the one who is rapidly get
ting to the front.
The moral yard stick your neigh
Dor uses on you is usually short
one-about the same length as the
one you see on him.
A mans holiday is Just what his
wife has been waiting for. She has
saved up about a weeks work in an
ticipation Of the occasion.
The man who deserts the family
that he has helped to create is so
small by nature that mosquito
couldn't find landing place.
Widows and widowers are not as
selfish and avaricious as other peo-
pie. Many of them devote much time
and energy to looking out for No. 2.
When a man gets SO seriously in
love that he declares himself ready
to lay down his life for his sweet
heart, it is really cruel Of her to face
tiously ask: ION the dead?"
DR.. G. Stanley Hall says girls have
five souls. We don't begrudge the
dear. sweet things as many of them
as they want-we have enough
trouble trying to save one from pur-
gatory.
Statistics state that eleven billion
telephone messages were sent in the
United States during 1909. There
must be an error somewhere-we
found the line busy more times than
that.
Some Of the characteristics of the
savage remain with the civilized
man. The man who skins his friends
can probably trace his ancestry back
to some Indian who scalped his en-
emies.
Pencils are being made from pota-
toes and mems collars from milk. II
some friend of humanity would only
discover a method whereby the
sQueal OF the croaker could be trans
formed into an article Of diet and the
wasted energy of the knocker har-
messed and used for motive power.
we would feel that the millinium was
close at hand.
A Burmese official has been arrest
ed for stealing $50 elephants. This
is the largest theft on record.
Burbank has grown a seedless
prune, and now it is up to him, to
produce a pruneless boarding house.
The souvenir business is the mod
ern way Of disposing of stuff that
no one has any earthly use for.
; When man gets SO he don't en-
Joy picnic an inpection will show
that his head carries many gray
hairs.
A mosquito lays forty eggs a day.
1t might be we'll to let a few run
with your hens for breeding purposes.
Women don't make good historians
Their memory of dates reaching back
more than 25 years is too treacher.
Gus. ...
When the New York political nut
was cracked the Colonel was found
to be in an excellent state OF pres.
ervation.
II Opportunity don't stop at your
house hide in the corner of the door
and knock 1t on the head when It
goes by.
An exchange says Roosevelt would
rather be right than president
Teddy always has had the faculty Of
knowing how far he can 60.
Some OF the best things our most
successful men have picked up had
been previously passed over by those
who are cussing their luck.
There is such thing as becoming
30 wise to all con games that you
will pass up real gold brick.
God probably never intended man
to be satisfied-because II he was
he would have nothing to pray for.
The recent census shows 642 poets
working at manual labor. In these
prosperous days even poets can earn
living.
The person who always scatters
sunshine alcng his CT her way need
have little fear Of the day Of judg.
ment. .-