The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1867-09-11
Things Wise and Otherwise,


Things Wise and Otherwise,
Too much sensibility creates unhap-
pincss, too much insensibility creates
crime.
Sympathy may be found by the most
disconsolato in-the dictionary.
Practice flows from principle for
as man thinks so will ho act.
Splendid qualities break forth in
dark times, like Lightning from thun-
der cloud.
Nothing clcvatcs us SO much rs the
presence of n spirit familiar, yot supe-
rior to our own.
You might as we'll expect to driya
a ploughsharo through a wasp's nt@
in open day, and not be stung, as to DO
truthful without giving eEonce.
AT a rocont railroad festival, tho
following conccit was given: "Om
mothcrs-Thc only faithful tcndcrs
who mover misplaced switch"
We havo heard it remarked that
when David hurled the stone at Co.
liah tho latter must have been much
surprised, as such thing ncyor enter
cd his hcad before.
A man with a worry largo head was
complimentcd on the fact that his ca
put was analogous to Greenland.
'Why SO p he asked. because it is
a great white bare placo,' was the re-
|ply.
81 wonder where those clouds arc
going :" sighed Flora, pensively, as
she pointed with her delicate finger to
the heavy masses that hoated in tho
sky. 81 think they arc going to thun-
der" said her brother.
A negro was driving mule in Ja-
maica, when the animal suddenly
stopped and refused to bulge.
"Won't you 60, oh Z" said tho boy.
"Fccl grand, do you? 7 s'pose you
forget your fadder was jaclsass."
The New York Gazette says
'Iherc never wasa man who did too
much for the happiness of woman,
and never did a man devote his
thought and caro- to the tastes of q
true woman who did not reap rich
harvest in return.
a six yoar old specimen of the ris-
ing generation was, the other dav un-
dcrgolng an cXegis Of the miracle of
the loavcs and fishes, from his teacher.
At the conclusion. he meditated for q
space and solomnly respondcd-sTell
you what Miss Mary sure as YOU'RE
born they didn't all get enough q'
A certain green customer, who was
stranger to mirrors, and who stepped
into the cabin of one of ocean steam
ers, stopped in front of q large pier
glass, which he took for door, and
seeing his own reflection, he said
"l say, mister, when docs this ere
boat start"
Getting no answer from the dumb
reflection before him, he again re-
pcatcd
"I say, mister, when docs this gro
boat start
Inccnsed at tho silent figure, no
broke out
eco to thunder, yc darncd sassafras
colorcd, shock headed bull calf YOU
don't look as if you were much any
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"MARNlAGE A la MODE NoUvEILE."
An old Dutch farmer, just arrived at
the dignity of the Justice of the peace,
had his first marriage case. IIo dish
cd it up i'll this way. He first said to
his man:
"Voll, you wants to be mamihdo
you! loves dis woman so goot as Taihiy
woman you have ever sec ("
eyes," answered the man.
Then to the woman
"Vcll, do you love dis man 50 bot
ter MS no man you never soc 2"
Lady hcsitatcd, and he repeated:
"Vcll, veil, do you likes him 50
we'll as to be his wife 3"
,"oh, certainly" she answered, with
u kind of litter.
"Vall, dat is all any reasonable
man can expect. So you arc marrit
pronounce you man and wife,"
The man then asked the Justice
what was to pay.
"Oh, nothing at all-nothing at all
you arc welcome to it if it will do
any goot."
Republican what are you voting
tor, whon you vote tho Jaoobin tick-
let! Do you not know you arc voting
TO make tho negro, your and your
chlldrcn's equal in every respect?
h1eme,mber, too, in voting tho No
gro Radical ticket
You vote Disunion!
You vote for standing armies
You vote tor an expensive Govern
mcnlt and heavy Taxation
You vote for-'i'axaticn for the "ss.ss.s,
l.,