The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1877-05-08

1cooiV U W SulCllc Ill luIScSG uttlIDCIS
and unmarried people more than
married, and the ages ut which most
people shufllo off arc those between
fifty and sixty.
Speaking of tho great men that
constitute tho Hayes Cabinet, tho
independent says "Evory one has
great big mouths, noses and cars.
The size of tho fourteen ears and
seven noses of the Cabinet is some
thing remarkable. Mr., Evarts' cars
and nose, compared with his body,
arc immense"
The sum on which Mr.. Ruskin
thinks u bachelor gentleman ought
to live, or if he cannot, observes
speedily to die" is exactly $1,8OO
year and he reaches this conclu-
sion: 81 am beginning for the
first time in my life to admit somo
notion in my head that I am great
man."
Tho Nebraska Legislature has
authorized a grasshopper war. Road
supervisors throughout the State
are authorized to order out all the
voters in their respective precincts
to do twelve days work each in kills
ing grasshoppcrs, for which each
person is to be paid two dollars q
day IN county warrants. Besides
tins, grasshoppcr ''war clubs are
generally forming throughout the
State
A distinguished company of gen
tlemen, including Governor Rice,
DR.. Holmes, Mr.. Longfcllow and
MIR. Charles Francis Adams, have
invited Prof Graham Bell to exhit
his telephone in Boston. lie is
going to do this, and will also lec-
turc. Each lecture will be illustra,
ted by the actual transmission of
speech and music from cities re-
mote from Boston.
The Punishment of wine from the
White House table recalls some
piquant words of John Adams. writ
ten from Philadelphia in 1777 to
his wife Abigail. Gen. Washinr
ton, he says, ''sets fine example.
He has banishcd wine from his
table. and cntertains his friends
with rum and water. This is much
to the honor of his wisdom, his
policy, and his patriotism"
The people of Georgia almost
unanimously adopted on the 1st
INST, an amendment to the constitu-
ton forbidding forever the payment
of several millions of bo,ads issued
by the Bullock regime, in aid of the
Brunswicl1a and Albany, the Cherokee
and Cartersville and the Bainbridge
and Cuthbert Railroads. The total
vote was, only twenty thousand.
The Radical papers opposed the
amendment, but no organized fight
was made against it.
A man lately applied to q shoe
manufacturer in Brocllington Mass,
for work, and being refused, said he
would do anything for 81 SO O. day
Ihe manufacturer responded All
right, Ill give you a job. If you
Will walk around tho streets ten
hours a day, beating drum, I'll
give you q weeks work ut your
figures. Here's your pay in advance.
~ at last accounts the man WAS
still walking and drumming, and the
cxasperated citizens were looking
for the manufacturer, who had
taken a vacation.
GONE TO CoLUMBIA.-Mr M. c.
Robertson, who for more than q
year past has been engaged in the
hardware trade at Rock Hill has
closed out his stock and gono to
Columbia, where he has received an
appointment in tho State Depart
ment. Mr.. Robertson made many
friends while here and his depart
ure IS much lamented. We wish
hm career of happiness and pros
perlty at the capital 1t is pleasant
to note that the change Of govern
mcnt is making many valuable adj
dltlons to Columbia society.-I
Hampton Urrald.
Different countries have different
methods of dealing with their
young. The Greenland baby is
dressed in furs and carried in d
sort of pocket in the back of his
mothers cloak. When she is very
busy and does not want to he
bothered with him, she digs n hole
IN the snow and covers him all nm
but his face, and leaves him there
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