Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1871-03-23
Brevities and Leyities.

A Marriage in high life was broken oil in
Terre Haute the other day, simply because the
prospective bridegroom, in examining the f"miy
Bible, found the would be bride tiDe years older
than the indors, ment Of her mother called for.
ms- A new clerk in Wabash dry goods house
recently assured lady, to shcm he was cndeav-
oring to sell set of furs, that they werc tho
best furs tha. ever grew on fur's back"
sF- An Indiana sheriff, taking horse-thief
to State Prison, fell asleep in The railroad car,
and when ho woke up the prisoner was gone. he
thinks he must have got of at station for
drink and got left. The sheriff now owns nice
little place in the country.
r4- "please, Mr.. Smith, papa wants to. know
if you won't lend him the model Of your .tT
I" Certainly, my son; what for?" "He wants to
max. scarecrow."
nsy- If it be true that when rogues fall out
honest men get their dues, the Courier Journal
wants to know how is it that the people OF New
Orleans didn't get their plate, pictures and pianos
when Gen. Butler fell out with Admiral Porter
ase- The members of tho Wisconsin Legsla-
ture formerly were paid by the day, and the con-
sequence was very long sessions. Now, however,
they get $3.50 year, and the result is that busi-
ness is dispatched more promptly. The system
Of paving by tho job is quite as good ono In
law.m making as elsewhere. In the new constitu-
tiou for New York, it is provided that the legis-
lators are to bo thus paid, the members getting
$1,000 csc-:.
A soap grace remarked that the prnei-
nal branch of educution in his school was WILL
low branch.
sY- Good, kind, true, holy words, dropped IN
conversation, may be little thought OF, but they
ar. like seed of flower or fruitful tree fnlling by
the waygidc, bornO BY some bird afar, happily
thereafter 10 fringe with beauty 'cme barren
mountain side, or to max. glad some lionel y will
derness.
nss- The Boston Pos. Gays that, though the
Presidents house may not bc tho best contrived
mansicr hat could bo built for q mar. md his
w;rc. at many respectable families aro al
wav Nous to occupy It, Notwithstanding its In
con lences.
zss-" You say you know horse from jack
ass. when you see them ?" asked brow boating
lawyer of rather dull looking witness. "oh'
yea,-iust So" draw!ed out the intended victim,
oazipr ntently Mt his legal tormerter, knoWe
the difference, and I'd never take yon for horse.
ass- TIE moro woman's waist is shaped like
an hour glass, the quicker will her fanda OF l'fo
run out. Girls, remember this.
zss~ 1t i. related of family in Dorchester
Mass. that every rk-eyed member of it, for the
past fifty years, has become blind at the age ol
twenty to twenty-five years. Those with blue
ewes escape the terrible aiictiOn. The local gos-
sips tell romantic story how, somo sixty years
apo. beautiful black k-oyed GIRL reduced by blind
ness to begeary, was led astray by two b Us Of
this family, and left by them in II sw"mp, and
vbo. when sho found herself deserted among the
tangled underbrush, turned her prayer that they
would extricate her, into q dying curse, praying
that their children for seven generations might b'
as she was.
ns- General Butler, having drawn bach
scat in the House, persuaded new and inexpe
rienced colored member, who had been more TOR
tunate, to exchange with him. The New Yori
Herald says: "Thats his old trick-keopin.
himself to the front at the expense of the "nig
GER"
mr A young lady from the seminary being
asked at the table if she would have some NOR
cabbage, replied: "By no mesnsi gastronomi
cal safety admonishos me that have arrived
the ultimate culinary dogluttion consistent viii
the code of EBculapius."