The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1877-10-06
BRIC-A-B A-BRAC.

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A Danbury man describes
church festival for raising money as
IN operation wherein one>half of
the church buys berries at fifteen
cents quart md sells them to tho
other half for n dollar.
A milwaukee, man made three un-
successful attempts to blow his
brains out, and then his wife told
him, Don't you try it again, John;
you haven't got any" Ho goes
about now saying he owes his life to
that woman.
Two of the best acts of Thomas
Jetferson's eventful career were the
writing of the Declaration of Indo-
pendence and bringing tomatoes
(then called "love apples') from
Franco to America as food for his
hogs.
Tyndall has surrendered the
notion of spontaneous generation of
life, after protracted in &C ,tigation
and experiment. The true scientists
will eventually work themselves
back to the grand truth stated in
the first chapter of Genesis.
Richmo ond Enquirer "Wo read
that MARS will, on September 5th,
be only 35,000,000 miles from the
earth. How to prevent collision
on that day between Mars and the
fashionable shirt collar is the
problem now agitating Richmond
philosophers"
81 don't see how you can have
been working all day like a horse"
exclaimed the wife of a lawyer, her
husband having declared that he
had thus been working. "NVell, my
DEAR" he replied, GIVE been draw
ing conveyance all day, anyhow"
On the 10Th and 18th instant
q grand musical festival is to be
held in Boston. There will DO two
choruses of 1900 voices, one of
which will comprise Boston socie-
ties and tho other out-of-town
organizations. Brignoli will be
among the soloists.
On the organ at Halberstadt
! there are painted tho portrait of
three monks, who, according to
tradition, sang themselves to death
with sacred music, while Satan sat
in double bass, disturbing them
with his groans and growls.
A Frenchman, soliciting relief,
said very gravely to his fair hearer:
"Nla'mselle, I nevare beg, but dat I
havo Won wife with several small
family, dat is growing very large
and noosing to make their bread
out of but de perspiration on my
PROV"
Don't be sorry when you are
beaten in an election John p.
Jones was beaten for State office
in California, went to Nevada,
"broke," and began work with the
savage energy of man who had
nothing to lose. Look at John p.
Jones now. That defeat mado his
fortune
The Russians have one real hero.
His name is Skobeleff. He leads
his men in person, and they plant
the Russian banner upon the
captured Turkish citadels, while the
"Grand Dukes" and the "Czaro-
witches" covered all over with
military decorations, watch the pro-
ceedings with spy glasses.
When Mrs. Van Cott comes sing,
ing down the aisle and fixes her
reviving eyes upon man and he
turns pale and trembles, she thinks
his soul is awakened. Yet we have
seen the very same look in q mans
face when he turned round after
kissing the servant girl and sud-
denly encountered his wifes moth
er.-Bstrlaaagto'a -Haaokeye.
John Taylor, the new Mormon
chief, took his place by virtue Of
seniority. His quality as ruler is
yet to bo tested. No easy task is
before him. To keep Mormonism
from going to pieces will require q
high degree of human sagacity, also
something Of the miracle working
power claimed by these Latter Day
Saints. The miracles will now be
in order--miraclcs not for the con-
firming OF the faithful, but for the