San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-11-09
, WIT and WISDOM.

I ~ >"Ssy sHS <AsANAA~<s~S Ast3 eAA4V
the South.
HEAVEN liesabout MS in our iniancy,"
and we do our lying for ourselves when
We get older.
Mr.. BEEcHER was beaten at croquet
up in Minnesota. We're afraid they
didn't give the old man chance.
IT is the experience of circus proprie-
tors one stock of clowns Jokes will out
Lass seven sets of canvas covering.
Mn. OUToH, Of New York, mentioned
his name to the bystanders MS the car
door damned his fingers last week.
CLIFTON W. TAYLEURE, the writcure.
acteure, and aatheure, IL aslded to the
list of f,ileures.-LopeH Courietre.
A Miss STEERS, of Virginia, eloped
recently. She exhibited glvst anxiety
to be yoked to mate.-N. D. Plea
AN essay commencing Dim emaua-
ton Of inchoate thought, immortal in
perennial evanescence," is respectfully
declined. o'ff' ef.s
"LovE is an internal transpert!" ex-
claimed nm enthusiastic poet. $50 is q
canal boat" said practical old forward
ing merchant. ,
"THE real heroes of this world" re-
marks the New Orleans Picdy,t,se, faro
those who go about like ministermg m
gels saving life."
THE Boston Post says it costs ~ much
to bury n man decently in New York as
it does to live for six months in fine
style in London.
THE largest shipments ever made
from the oil regions in single day were
On September 2, amounting that day to
IS, 500 barrels. t
ACCORDING to the Buffalo Cypress,
lager beer doesn't intoxicate It is the
Quantity that some men carry that
weighs them down"
The Newark, New Jersey, working
men have passed q set of resolutions.
which in effect desire Kearney to give
his mouth IL vacation. N# -
The season is near when the sea SER
pent and the seaside scribbler subside
simultaneously, and crawl into their
holes till next summer.
The man who will tell lie about the
size of n squash can't be trusted in any
official position. Spot these chaps and
remember EN- at the polls.
.
SoNe of the cook" Good bye, sweet
tart, good bye."--Bradford Breeze.
Song of the upstairs girl-"I'm sweep
ing to-day DER memories DID,"
| You may talk about tho clean and
hungry Cassitls, but did you ever take
side view of the man who has run a
store for ten years without advertising?
THE scientific journals are greatly ex-
ercised over color blindness, but we'd!
like to see just one man in this country
who'd mistake five dollar gold piece
for nickel ,,,..,.,4.a
THE Vicksburg Herald refers to the
liberality OF the north as follows: "Tru-
ly, peace hath its victories as well as
war, and this sympathy in the hour of
need will do much in bridging any
bloody chasm." r'ett .[ta
Sixty dollars ton! Cahill, Of New
York, known as the ice millionaire, left
half million dollars for the poor. He
could not take his money with him, and
ice was out of the question.--Nelv Or.
leans Picayune.
SWEETS to the sweet" said young
man on passing the syrup to young
lady at one OF our hotel tables. "And
beets to the beat, remarked the lady,
showing the dish of that vegetable to-
ward the young man.
MUD-BATHs are good for the rheuma-
tism, therefore don't judge too hastily
the individual you see going about with
patch of dirt behind his ears. He may
have the rheumatism. 'f-'.
Bucks county, Pennsylvania, esti-
mated that its courthouse would cost
100000. It was completed for $780,
600. The chaps who were after the
$4,000 didn't get it, though this is the
only instance ever known.
The Nation thinks that part of the
drill of every girls school ought to be
the reception by wife in an old gown
to dinner Of corned beef and cabbage
of an unlooked-for guest, thoughtlessly
brought home by reckless husband.
FEATHERS will be universally worn
this winter-F Fashion Item. Guess
not. exclaims the Norristown Herald
man. We shall not wear fcathers-not
a solitary feather. II our friends choose
TO make themselves ridiculous they can