Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1871-07-20
Brevities and Leyities.

- A Nashville paper reports the
"obsequies of the last surviving mem
Der of the first Grand Lodge of Masons
in Tennessee" Why they buried the
poor man alive does not appear.
~ An Indiana damsel undertook to
breaka mule colt the other day. AT last
accounts her head was two sizes too large
for her bonnet, and she had ordered sset
of false teeth.
u.s. a kiss is the aims which enriches
him who receives without impoverishing
her who gives.
F. @r We are reliably informed that
the "Harp that once through Tara's
halls," and the "Harp Of Thousand
Strings" are in no way connected with
the Jews-harp family; nor are they re-
lated to Harp-ers Magazine.
~ Nhe following advertisement ar-
peared in ap Irish paper: Whereas
Patrick AIalony has fraudulcntly taken
away several articles OF wearing apparel
without my knowledge, this is, there
fore, to inform him that if he does not
forthwith return the same his name shall
be made public.,'
GS- The Texas Gazette speaks in this
style of a politician of that State: Should
the brains Of decent white man be de
posted in the Mississippi river at st.
Louis, ten dopsof river water at vicks-
burg would fully represent his intellect
ual capacity
l9-A Bostonian buried his sixth wife
lately. Next day he met the preacher,
and offered him q three argreenback.
The minister declined to take it saying
he was not accustomed to take pay for
such services; and the bereaved indi-
vidual replied, "Just as you say, but
that's what I've been in the habitof pay
ing"
%s- There was seen, the other day, q
little boy, in the streets of colosse, New
York, crying. A gentleman, stepping
up to the little follow, said: "My little
man, what is the matter?" To which he
responded: "I'7e got the stomach ache,
and I'll have it again if I've mind to-"
Ss- A Nevada paper prints on elabo-
rate article upon the delicate subject of
."what shall we drink" After logical
review, the writer concludes that "no
man ever lived;to green old age who
was renegade to whiskey straight and
stopped so low as to take sugar in his
liquor"
10 The State Department has received
largo numbers of letters from parties in
different parts Of the country asking to
be suppliedwith some of the cundurango
the recently discovered cancer remedy
brought to the attention of the govern
ment by the Ecuadorian minister. AS
the supply is exhausted the requests can.
not be complied with.
i ass- A Virginia editor has come to the
conc1ueiUn that:a man might as well un-
dertake to hold himself at arms length
and then turn double somersault over
q meeting house steeple, as to attempt to
publish paper that will suiteverybody.
gs0- An old lady gives this as her idea
of great man: Zone who is keerful of
his clothes, don't drink sperits, kin read
the Bible without spelling the words,
and eat cold dinner on wash day with
out grumbling.n,
~ A young lady in Oshkosh was
lately presented with an elegant card
case from one of he1 admirers. A few
days afterward, while showing it to 9
lady friend, Hshe wished he had given
her q larger one. This little thing won't
hold more than half a deck!' aa:---s
gs An elderly Mississippian blew
out his brains the other day because his
washer woman would pin his shirts al
the neck kband. 3'"9'''i 'E,''' ~ '...' i'-=
| @ Several young men about oul
town ought to trim out their eyebrows
SO as to correspond with their nous
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