Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1872-05-30
Brevities and Levities.

Gently held at Macon, Ga. That nigh
20 hogs were stolen there.
@- a young lady wrote to friend
"Miss Smith is staying with us. We
went out sailing yesterday. I didn't
know there was so much in her." What ?
g- An Illinois gentleman made
wager that lie could undress, 20 to bed,
get up, dress and undress, and then &c
to bed again while his wife was prepar-
ing for her couch.
u.s. Profanity never did any man the
least good. No man is richer, or hap
pier, or wiser for it. 1t commends no
one to society; it is disgusting to the re-
fined, abominable to the good.
1E5- A Methodist preacher has been
sentenced to bread and water for eleven
days, in Sweden, for endeavoring to gain
proselytes to his denomination,
~ A well to do farmer in Peabody,
Massachusetts, had daughter to die OF
consumption recently, and to save ex-
pense dug the grave himself; and after
the funeral service at the house, placed
his,hoe and shcvel in thehcarse, and when
the coffin was deposited, took his tools
and filled the grave.
.5z1-sA laywoman in Providence, 9
nlilliner by trade, but nevertheless, IA
voritc exhorter at the evening meetings
of the elect, thus gave her reasons for
her belief in the existence OF Supreme
Being: Sisters, am just as confident
that there is God as am that there are
bonnots in Paris; and that I know for
certain, as 1 yesterday received from
there choice assortment Of the most
fashionable styles, which will trim with
more taste and sell lower than any milli-
ner in the city,
.s y man ont West undertook to
play with lion at the meragerie the
other day. He says he finds it mighty
hard to write with his left hand, but
that he misses his eye more than any
thing else. His nose was always atroublc
to him.
@~A newly invented fly paper is
covered with nitro glyeerine, glue and
.rcaclc. The tlics,. attracted by the mo-
l;lsses, alight and are stuck fast by the
glue. Should any get away they proceed
to rub legs together III exstacy, when
the friction of their own shins causes
the nitro -glycerinc. .adhcring to their feet
and limbs to explode, blowing them to
atoms.
eas- Prisoner" said Squire Jones,
in awarding judgment, sit is a maxim
of the law that it is better to err on the
side of mercy. The court has made up
her mind which side she will err on, and
nothing remains but to err on that side"
The prisoner was hung next day.
@s- once knew an industrious boy
whose parents were poor but honest. He
began life without ceIit. He had q
wart on his nose and sore foot; but
nothing daunted, he worked with q de.
termination and will, backed by per-
severance and energy, and nobly fought
his way along, surmouningevery obsta-
Gle. Mark the result. Last week I met
him for the first time in ten years, and
that little boy who began life only ten
short years ago without cent, han't got
Il darned cent yet!
u.s. A Missouri farmer attempted to
smoke out rabbit and burned up haf Il
mile OF fence and over hundred apple
trees. He caught the rabbit.
~ President Finney, of Oberlin Col
lege, has started out on lecturing tour
against Free Masonry, and asserts that
he will not stop speaking until every
Masonic Lodge in the country has dis
banded. If he holds. to his word, he will
only be middle-aged man three or four
centuries hence.
sD- Nilsson was popular in Syracuse.
No doubt about it. Among out-of-town
people who came to hear her was bevy
of girls from Wells Female College at
Aurora. Only those who were in the
class of vocal music were allowed to be
OF the party. They desired TO be, and
were presented TO the warbler. As they
took leave of the object of their admira-
ton they were affected to tears, One
pretty girl, evidently far gone," was
heard to exclain, az can't see Nilsson,
but kissed her trunkW Awful!