Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1873-11-27
BreYitiss aud .Lesities.,

sor What is the difference between a
farmer and a bottle of wlliskey! One
husbands the corn and tho other corns
the husbands, .rsss5 .3 a
@- This is how country exchange
puts iti "The sal effects Of matrimony
were never'more terribly depicted than
the other day, when mcek-eyed man.,
who had been married about a year,
patroled TIE, village street. ull day trying
to swap meerschaum pipe for second
hand cradle" 81.
gas- TO milk kicking cow, stand off
about eight feet and yell. "So!you darn
ed old skinfiint.''
s- A sign on an eating house on the
New Jersey Railway says: "Coffee and
Eggs, fresh laid by Mary Jones'
ES-"If all the world were blind"
said an Irish clergyman, "what a mel
ancholy sight it would be-"
Gs- A rough looking fellow, who was
recently in the North of England. was
boasting amongst other things that ono
of her majesty's household and himself
put up at the same hotel for the night.
"Ah," said bystander, it must have
been one OF those country inns, where
there is accommodation for both man and
beast"
gs- An Indiana woman, whose suit for
divorce had fingered along until she was
completely out Of patience, burst into
her lawyers office, last week, her face
radiantwith joy, and exclaimed, esquire,
the old mans dead 2"
SB- A dry goods clerk went to sec his
girl the other night and got otfghting mad
at her because he found two warm places
on the sofa. The green eyed monster has
full possession of that chap.
Esr A man at Princeton College be-
lieves in having ga place for everything
and everything in its place" He nails
his slippers on the wall, four feet up, and
then all ne has to do of IN evening is to
wheel up Ills easy chair in front of them.
Gs- The young lady in Brooklyn who
sings, Don't be angry with me darling y
needn't be bit afraid. We won't be a
bit angry with her. It's her voice that
we dislike so. Were she to become dumb
or we to yet deaf, our love would become
q great deal stronger.
tY A Fort Plain merchant advertises
his goods ut o1yun. That man has al
ways steered clear of newspapers.
@- Upon the "outer wall" of q fe-
male college at Akron, Ohio, the other
morning was discovered, conspicuoqsly
displayed, the sign Domestic Sewing
Machines" Some Of those specimens
of total depravity known as college stu
dents did it.
T Some men 60 about the world
with their hands in their pockets. That
is better, though, thanif they went about
with their hands in other peoples pock.
cts.
@r"C-c-c-cant thatp-p-parot t.alk ~
asked a suffering man of q German.
Ven he don't mako talk sogooter as you,
schop, by tam, his head OIL"
@S A Danbury man wokein the mid.
die of the night to comment upon the
extraordinary fact t,iat the heaviest end
of o match is It's light end.
nNr Friend Gilbert, of the Sumter
Watchma,l, was at the Columbia Fair, and
says: ~ ~ "a
We arrived there just in time TO see
some of the fine riding of the Edgetield
Sabre Club. These Cavaliers showed
themselves masters of horse and sword
The way they tore along at full galsp
first taking off, ring suspended by q
hook, then almost before they, could re,
cover their swords, striking low at n pos
in the ground, then charging at, another
(. ring, and again cutting at q mallet abon
breast high, all 80 quickly and at suct
risk Of losing their seats in the saddle
that 1t was enough to make your heaf
swim TO look at them. twas no child,
! play, and the three prize takers, Messr1s
Adkins, Hughes and Adams may vel
! be protid OF their, hchofaT 81 iissIi..