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Show BUTTE SOCIETY ITEMS. How the "Town Talk Reporter Raises a Circns in the Silver r City. B 's ears need reefing. He looks like a flying machine. If old T paid his' debts his wife couldn't wear silks and ribbons. U V is an old gas bag. , He never did a day's work in his life. M goes to church Sunday and robs all the week. . He's a nice dose. That old hussy, Mrs. C , goes te the rink every night expecting to make a mash. Mrs. T is 43 years old, if she is a day. Her " get-up " deceives none but herself. . Why does Billy B stay so late at a Granite street residence when the old man is away? When Tom W saw Miss D smile on him, he immediately took out an accident policy. T loves tc hear himself talk. When he commences, everybody else gets away as soon as possible: , . . K -has as much style as a mule. Everybody hates to see him put his fore paws on the dinner table. C thinks he can sing, when we all know his voice is worse than" a fog-horn. Somebody smother him quick. ' Johnny S just thinks he is the handsomest man in the city. He should pare his feet and wear smaller shoes. The branding, iron of Jake T is entirely too numerous among his neighbors' neigh-bors' cattle. Judge Lynch has hung many better men. M s' feet are not large enough for hay presses, yet he tries to get on 6s. The Bhoeman sells him 9s and he can't tell the difference. ' ' " D has worms brought on by buying too .much candy for his girl and then helping her eat it taking all but a few samples himself.' G has skipped or at least he tried too. He got as far as Dillon when a telegram tele-gram from the sheriff made him pungle to satisfy creditors. , If we could buy N g for what he is actually worth and sell him for what he thinks he is worth, Mackay would be a pauper compared to us. N starves his family in order to eet money to spend for whisky. He also licked his poor, hard-working wife nearly to death yesterday while drunk as a loon. H d changes his shirt semi-annually 4th of July and Christmas. It then badly needs disinfecting. He was never known to tak3 a bath below his shirt collar. " B f has bilked everybody here who would trust him, and now goes to other fields to try and bum a living without working. He's a daisy financier, is B f . - Everybody except Lg knows he is a blank fool. Nature kindly filled the vacuum in his cranium with self-conceit and he basks in his own good opinions constantly. .- Jg sold his vote for four bits and -a drink of rot-gut. It was dear at any price, but an ardent partisan wanted to do something and recklessly bought him at his own price. |