The Sumter watchman. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1855-1881, 1871-07-26
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- \ bad omen-to owe men money.
The memory Of good actions is the
starlight Of the soul.
- Common sense is valuable 10 all
kinds Of business except love making
- The man who ran away from his
creditors became tired aud concluded to
take arrest.
i 1t is great waste of raw material
to put ten dollars worth Of beaver on ten
cents worth Of brains.
DIR. Nary Walker decle-es that if
any man desires to get hel Of panta.
looas, he must marry her. .Fe pass.
- More great ends are carried by
concealing our own counsels, than by
discovering those ofOur antagonist.
-. Heupeck is the name Of a post
Office In Alexandria county, III. 1t
does small busiu ess-the mails avoid
it.
A doctor says he can't dance the
Iancers, but is always willing to lance
the dancers.
"Thc prisoner has very smooth
counteuance." Yes, he was ironed
Just before he Gas brought in"
Who vas the only man who vas
never spanked in childhood? Adam 1;
because he was born grown.
- 1t is said there are DO friendships
between women so strong that one good
looking man is not able TO break up.
- It's just about as sensible to un-
aerstake to get married without court
ing as to try to do business without
advertising.
- No person ever got stung BY hor-
nets who KEEP, away from where they
were. 1t is so with bad habits.
josh Billings uttered great truth
when be said lie who by his biz
would rice must either bust or adver.
tise.".
at is just to all concerned to
advertise con>cientiously, aud those
who do it will fud advertising Of the
utmost importance"
An injudicious XVIII in Tennessee
attempted to shoe, disloyal white with
the wrong end of pistol 1t went of,
ana there was black berryiug party.
- Nineteen copies of a Nashua
q. IL } paper recently fell from
laiiys panier on Main street, in that
city, and the editor brass Of 1t.
A good man, who has seen much of
the xcrlG. and is not tired Of it, sAys:
.The grand essentials to happiness in
thi, life are, sometbin. to DO, something
to love, aud something TO hupc for."
The rose Of Florida, the most
beautiful of flowers. emi;s 10 fragrance
the bird Of Paradise, the most beautiful
Of birds, gives no song; the cypress Of
Greece, the fuest Of trees, yields no
fruit.
- sDo you chew tobacco? asked a
lady, hestating to sit down by man in
a car. no, ma am. | don't he replied.
'but guess | can set you chs0 if you
want uae.'
Oar friend whose eye sight vas
not good, was recommended to try
glasses. lie says he went and took four
at the nearest drinking saloon, ard the
result was that his sight was so much
improved that he could see double.
Cicero made the following wise
remark: "A' approve OF the youth
who has something of the old man in
him, 50 ALI no less pleased with co old
man who has something Of the youth"
y Mr.. Carver, doing the hoBors Of
the table, said to one of his guests, q
fashionably dressed girl of the period.
IL see that you have plenty Of breast,
Miss, but do have little more dress
ing"
- The Tribune has correspondent
who, in its own language is going
nthrough the South" Prominent Rad
cals haze been "goiug through" the
South for several yesrs.
You bet. Shermau's blue mass was
nothing to the uhbroken doses Of the
Radical loil that have succeeded it.
-aI am sitting oO the style, Mary.
as the husband said when he sas on his
wife's new bonnet" For thirty years
this appeared regularly among TIE ''Wis
and Hamor" Of the weekly press, aad it
would have appeared for thirty years
more if the mrliiuers hadn't got to max
i, w,fa's h,nnets too small for the |