The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1874-11-11
BfCyitics.

o'i'So PooV3ooo ltoiu MS puolipuckS
for the sale of poems.
! Before tho Chicago fire, Frod
| Grants father in-law was worth So
100000 he he's about half that nov
they say.
! Paris has 5,952 chiffonniors or ras
gatherers, and 7l,792 conciorges Of
house porters.. both epployments in
Guiding mcmbers of either sex.
| A porker who in her day had beer
the mother of l27 pigs-sixtecn the
greatest number at ono time-was
killed in Royaltoh, Vermont, aged
six years.
The proprietors Of the Iowa City
! Press offer the premium of a. ,year's
subscription to any one who will
bring in ,"a well.killod burglar
caught in the act"
"Advertissing costs money" So
does store rent, SO do all good and
useful things. Tho object of ad.
vortising is not to. cause n man to
expcnd money, but to make it.
| The Pope Is repontod to have sent
to the Marquis of Ripon cruclix.
The figure of the Savior and tho or
uamcnts are of silver, and the pc
dcstal contains relic.
Since Robert bonner said that
Grant would be older than Dix be-
fore be was elected for third term,
the president hos expressed the
opinion that. Dexter isn't much Of Il
horse after all.
Who shall succeed to Bazaine's
post as Marshal Of France? Muc-
Mahon is for General 'PAdmirault,
but the right and right centre Of tho
assc cmbly strongly favor the Duo
dAumale.
Mary Clcmmer Ames has been
pronounced the best looking literary
lady in the country, and neither tho
friends Of Susan b. Anthony nor of
Julia Ward Howe have yet had the
courage to deny it.
A schoolboy spelled "sob," ind
when asked to define it, blundcrcd
out: "lt means when fellcr don't
waut to cry, and it busts out ITSELF"
Another defined comma as a "period
With a tail
The Rev. Phillips Brooks has. re.
fused a salary of,S2Q,0O0 year from
Philadelphia, said to be tho highest
salary ever offered to all Episcopal
clergy man in this country. and ono
of $4,000 from New Yuk. tic
loves Boston.
There Is a postoffice in Schobarie
county, which consists Of cigal
box nailed to rail fence at CLAY
Hill station. The boz is marked
U. S. on one side and Clay Hill or
the othcr;,. The mail is left by stages
and distributed by the farmers who
pass.
Mention is made of a wedding in
Indiana on scale which one hardly
expects to encounter outside of the
pages of Rabe'ais. The happy cou.
pie, together tipped sos pounds
while II gallons Of wine and | I kegs
of lager did gladly furnish forth the
marriage table.
The only alpaca factory in the
Uuitcd States has recently been cs
tablishcd at Jamestown, New York
The machinery alone cost quartz,
Of u million. Somo sixty thousand
yards per day arc being turned out
and tho demand is said to exceed The
supply.
An editor of the Chicago Inter
Ocean was hurt by a loco omotivc, the
other day. 1t was his toes. IIe
stood at the .backside of the plat
form. facing front, and ,misalculatep
his distance from the track. He ha.
enough left, however.
A square ag:stohe of some eighty
pounds weight was recently shove,
out of place in yau English town by
the. united efforts of only three
mushrooms growing underit.
Susan Anthony's brother IS on the
stump in Kansas; 1t ha3 all u'op.
been supposed, that Mark was dead
but ancient History has mover been
entirely Trustworthy.
| Mrs: Chase, Of Ohio, was a,restcj
the first time she appcarad with hc
tronsors on, and now. she's, going t
mortgage her farm and see whcthc
this is free country or monarchy
T The. salary. of $4,000 per anttluu
paid to President' Jewett of tn,
Eric ailway is the largest paid t,
any railroad officer in tho Unitct
States, and it is believed larger thar
any paid to any railroad officer il
vhc world.
Partisan ladies arc SO overburden
Red with beads and bugles on thci
cosSumes now that they 60 tinklin
and jiukliug, through the streets lik
tho celebrated old lady who ha,
rings on her fingers and bella n