Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1871-08-03
VOLUME xxxy..Ne. 50.
BreyI.,es and Le,itEes.


m. A stolen kiss saved a girls life In
Fond du Lac last week; for If the man
who did the deed hadnotpulled her head
forward just as he did, beam which
fell from the upper floor would have
dashed her brains out.
~ An in;udicious XVIII amendment
in Tennessee attempted to shoot a disloy-
al white with the wrong end of q pistol
| It went off, and there was black berry,
ing party.
ts "A gentleman whose habitit was
to entertain occasionally q circleoffriends,
observed that one Of them was in the
habit Of eating something before grace
was asked, and determined to cure him.
On being seated at table he said: 2" For
i what we are about to receive and what
James B. has already received, the
Lord make us truly thankful" ..,
|. Gar Calais, Maine, is nice place for
young men to go to. The local paper
there says that two,thirds of the wealth
OF the town is to be inherited by young
girls. The rich men there do not haye
sons.
sr A darlly gives the following rea-
son why the colored raceis superior to
the white race: All men are made of
clay, and like the meerschaum pipe
they are more valuable when highly col
ored." 3f.
.aS- In the Court of Claims at Lexing-
ton, KY, a few DAYS ago.. the presiding
judge was annoyed by an irritable old
gentleman, who would insist in speaking
disrespectiully OF the action ofthe court.
The judge fined the old gentleman elev-
eli times in succession for contempt, and
threatened to commit him to Jail without
doing any good; and finally, in order to
maintain the dignity of the court, told
him that if he was only a.young man,
the court would whip him in so shorta
time that it would make his head swim.
s- A doctor recently settled in Ha-
wanna, ILL.,, and the first case he got was
boy who, while shelling pop corn, gota
kernel in his windpipe. The doctor eX-
amined the case carefully, looked at the
patients tongue, and then told the father
of the boy to build up hot fire; when
that was done the doctor told him to take
the boy and hold him over the fire un-
til the kernel got hot enough to pop
"out." The oldman went.up stairs and
this shot gun, but while he was load
ing 1t the doctor escaped.
-"I have this afternoon been preach
ingtoacongregationof to asses," said aeon
ceited young parson. "Then that was
the reason you called thoml. beloved
BRETHREN" replieda strong-minded lady.
gsS. After the clergyman had united a
happy pair not long 9go.an awful silence
ensued, which was broken by an impa-
tient youths exclaiming, Don't be so
u'sspcaka6ly happyP'
ess- Owing to his being relative of
servant-girl's baby, nice young man
in Philadelphia has been arrested. He
belongs to one one of the first families,
but that don't help the case at all
ssr An Irishman, who was found
guilty of stealing lot Of coffee, was
asked by the magistrate what hA- de =
wICn it -,-futtu i1sJJaA-STus- =
reply.
s,> A little boy, after watching The
burning of the schoolhouse until me
novelty of the thing had ceased, stared
down street, saying: ..'Golly!Ts glad
the old things burned; didn't have my
jogfry lesson nohow 90 :,
Ga- Mrs Partington, in illustration Of
the proverb, "a soft answer tugneth
away WRATH" says that, it is better to
speak paragorical of person than to> be
all tho time flinging epitaphs at him."
esr The recent Rookie raids in Ipdia
are thus lucidly explained: "a deughz
ter of tho Rookie chief having died, a
number of mems heads were wanted to
burn with her body, and his subjects
Loyalty proceeded across our frontier to
collect the requisite material.
'-y 1t will probably give rise to diff
ferance of opinion, if we ask if an indi-
vidual who has married shrew can bs
considered sitre,cd man.