Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1873-01-30
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trying to mould ;publiciopinion SO as to
accommodate his pocket by. stating
that the time will soon come when men
will wear one garment as did the peo-
pie of old. Il 5e & 10; >t,i7. l,...i
wr "A Danbury man, whose!wife kin.
dies the fires, and getsthe room warm
enough for him to move around COM
fortably without putting on his neither
garments, sat down Sunday morning TN
a chair which was already occupied byia
scalding-hot ldholder.. He has had q
new plaster put on himself and some on
the ceiling just above the chair, andinow
kindles the fire himself. ~ u
as- Agassiz says ithas any full grown
man can live for ten days by chewing a
pair of boots, and yetthere are men who
will groyl If, they don't have mince pie
every meal. :, :
as- An editor offered to send his girl
the paper regularl y but she replied,
with sweet innocelcs, that her INA
didn't allow her to wear 'em." 1T .lii
.,as The follosswsingR Z, ), ~, Y.
"Aman without: ey saw plums on 2
NeitheT 81 thes took piums "a len pfumg; pray ]!
how could that ber" N .Y4
IL answered thus: ~ 4"'
" The man hadn't eyes, but he just had
one eye,
With which on the tree two plums he
could spy:, a.,
He neither took plums, nor plums did
he leave;
But took one, and left one, as we. may
conceive"
zs- Refusal of principal of an Indiana
school to grant leave to so home at
Christmas, caused the little fellow the
most poignant anguish, but it was coun-
terbalanced, few days after, by his in
effable joy as he bounded into the room
with a telegram in his hand, exclaiming,
"Now I've got to 60 home-fathers
deadp co.,,
m A worthy farmer in Georgia, who
was carried home on litt:-- tho other
day, solennly asserts that nothing but
twenty ton anchor can hold sorrel mule
down to the earth after she has stepped
in yellow-j Jackets nest.
10 A gentleman lately entered ashop
in which books and various miscellane-
Gus articles were for sale, and asked the
shop man if he had Goldsmith's Greece.
No, said he, but we have some spleRdid
hair oil.
~ An Iowa man cannot remember
where he hid coffee-pot full Of silver,
during the war, and has scratched near
ly every hair out Of his head thinking
about it.
me- The name "Joe Bridger" is own
ed nv six different men in Bullet Coun-
ty. Kentucky. They distinguish them
bv saving "the Joe who shot old Camp
bell.,' "the Joe who killed Bill Cor
don" dc.
H California is making brandy from
FIGS. The liquor is very pleasant, and
after drinkinga quart or SO, a man Will
eh,,eserfnrly stand any amount of abuse
from his wife.
sa-A stonington, Connecticut, man
stopped his paper and took out his lone
SQUARE ad," because the little ,black-and-
TIM dog Of the editor nipped a pet eat in
the bud, BY chewing its tail off. Let
Congress step in now and decide wheth-
er a Newspaper man has any rights.
mS- 4 careless man put lighted pipe
in his c,at.tail pocket Saturday evening,
and fw moments later startled people
by the appearance of'smoke and fam flame
from that part of him. AS soon, as he
was plt out, he gratefully explained to
bia deliyerers that he thought the
:, weather was moderatin' d-n sudden"