The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1878-04-13
BRIC-d-BRAC.

Georgia but it's carly yet.
One Kansas editor accuses an
other of appearing upon the body
polite wart~like and unbidden."
Janauschek has received $f25,OOO
worth of jewels from emperors,
kings, queens and the nobility of
Europe.
Ex-Congressman Vance, of Ohio,
who so mysteriously disappeared
from his home a few weeks ago,
turns UP in Sam Francisco, insane.
The late Earl Of Cardigan horse,
which he rode at the Balaklava
charge, is stuffed, and forms fea-
ture in tho hall of the family man.
sion, London.
Senator elect Williams, of Ken
tucky, wears Murphy badge. A
bright and shining exemplar of tenn
perance is needed in Congress-
Boston Post.
There are so few marriages to per-
form nowadays, that the clergymen
should offer chromos to encourage
parties to enter the state of matri-
rnony.
Junior clerk: would you kindly
permit me to absent myself to-
morrow to attend my fathers fune-
raj 2 Head OF firm deep in fig,ares) {:
You may go, Hawkins, but pray
do not lat this happen again !"
Irving, the English actor, is q
proteqo of the richest woman in the
world, the Baroness Bur dett- Coutts,
knife and fork being daily laid for
him ut hor table. His wife disagrees
with his acting, so thoy do not re-
side ia the same nest.
A San Francisco church, which
was ofreed from debt by Brother
Kimball," is to be sold at auction for
the benefit of it's creditors. It turns
out that promises to pay, secured in
the excitement Of the hour, are not
SO valuable as cash.
The telephone possesses the pow
erful virtue Of preserving the voice
of n mans first wife he can bottle
it up and keep II lor yoars. There
arc such things as second marriages,
and what awkward revelations the
we'll preserved voice might make !!
"Whar was de sun dis mornin' ?"
asks Rev. Mr. Jasper, Of Virginia
"Why, dat side O my house. Whar
is it now? Why, dis side O. my
house darfur dc sun must ha' got
roun' it, an it couldn't do dat
standin' still. Wherfur, da sun
moves, sab !"
When married man learns that q
young lady with fortune Of $780,.
600 has fallen III love with him, and
he goes home and sees q squealing
baby in the cradle and the butchers
bill on the table, he feels like kick>
ing over the cradle and numbering
the butcher, we've been told.-Nor.
ristoaon Herald.
Jones, the pink of politeness, hav-
ing forgot to take formal leave of
Mr.. and Mrs. Tomkins at their last
party, returns to do SO. The other
guests have gone, and Jones is some
what disconnected to discover his
host and hostess embracing each
other, and crying out with enthusi-
asm "rhank goodness, it's all
over"
New Orleans Times on Andersons
acquittal perhaps it is best for
tho country and for the cause of tho
purity and freedom Of the ballot
box that the offense should remain
the unexpiated crime of great
party, rather than be condoned and
settled by two years sentence in
the penitentiary of one Of the many
who participated in it and profted
by it.
Oscar O. Hodge, convicted of
manslaughter in the third degree at
Fonda, New York, recently, when
asked by the judge whether he had
anything to say why sentence of the
law should not be pronounced upon
him, replied "Brevity is the soul
of wit. I ask not charity, but i'm
maculate justice !! I cast myself as
a holocaust upon the generosity of
the court" Hodge was sentenced
to two years Imprisonment.
The Rev. Mason Chenowith
stepped down from his Baptist