Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1853-02-09
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preacher who delighted in rather long
sermons, and who once exchanged with a
brother preacher, who always delivered short
ones. At the usual hour for closing the
services, the people became uneasy, and be.
ing inspired with the love of warn dinners,
rather than long sermons, went out quietly
one by one, till the preacher was left alone
with the scXton.-Stll he continued to blaze
away, till that functionary, seeing no pros.
pect of close, walked deliberately up the
pulpit stairs, and handing him the key, re-
quested that he would lock up when he got
through, and leave the key at his house as
he went along.
GA SELL. -" Paddy, honey, will you buy
my watch!'
"And is it about selling your watch yc
are, Mike !'
Troth it is, darlint"
What's the price @
Ten shilings and mutchin of the crca-
ture.''
tssIs the watch decent one 2"
"Sure I've had it twent years, and it ncv.
er once desavcd me"
Well, here's your tin; and now tell me
does it go well!"
"Bedad, an it goes faster than any watch
in Connaught, Munster, or Leinster; not
barring Dublin"
"Bad luck to We, Mike, then you have
taken me in Didn't you say it never dc.
saved you?"
"Sure and l did nor it didn't for l never
dpindid on it!!'
AN exchange says: We have good au-
thority for knowing that the daughter Of
Enoch was five hundred and eighty years old
when she was married. If this ought not to
be balm to the dropping spirits of old maids,
we do not know what ought"
One of the spiritual" papers says that
Napoleon and Wellington are both down
below, quarreling abort the battle of Wa
tcrloo.
4 COOP SToRY.-John Bunyan, while in
Bedford Jail, was called upon by Quaker
desirous of making a convert of him.
Friend John" said he, 81 come to thee
with a message from the Lord, and after
having searched for thee in all the prisons
in England, am glad have found thee at
last"
elf the Lord has sent you," returned
Bunyan, "you need not have taken SO much
pains to find me out, for the L6A knows
have been here these twelve years"
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\ Correspondent of the Spirit of the
Times, says he saw cockney the other
day, who, after dilatng on tie superiority of
the English over our poultry, said that he
was hastonished at the disqualification of
hignorance displayed by the Hamerican peo-
pie in the raising of ems"
A DUTcHMAN was relating his marvellous
escape from drowning, when thirteen of his
companions were lost by the upsetting of
boat, and he alone was saved.
"And how did you escape their fate"
asked one of his hearers.
81 It'd not go in te tam poat J" was the
Dutchman's placid answer.
The Boston Post says Miss Goodenow,
the Alleghanian vocalist, is married to Mr..
Robb, Of San Francisco:
Oh, she was good enough before,
Till California cupid came,
And Goodenow-she is no more,
For hymcn Robb'd her maiden name"
THERE is man not very far about here,
whose nose is SO large that, when he wants
to blow it, he has to ill it with gunpowder,
set train and then "tetch it off,
A YANKEE, down. East, is engaged in
teaching ducks to swim in warm water, in
order to get them to lay boiled eggs.
For TIE LADlEs.-A Parisian pertumer
has discovered beautiful rouge, which has
The singular quality Of being indellible, but
At the same time natural Once put on, it
cannot be effaceG, except by the process of