The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1878-07-09
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accredited with the name Of Shaks~
peare, but WAS really Noah, and he
took it at the food
Josh Billings: Before man de
liberately makes up his mind tew
be q raBiial he should examine bis
self clussly tew ascertane eff he amt
better constituted fur a phool.
The great journalists are rapidly
dropping of. Raymond, Bennett,
Greeley, and now Bryant. And our
physician has advised us to take
exercise.-Norristoaom Uerald.
Rothschild grumbes over the
hard times as we'll us other folks,
and it hurts him dreadfully to buy
Il card of shirt buttons and find ono
with two eyes knocked into ono
Eree Press
The surviving membors of Mr..
Bryants immediate family are two
brothers, Arthur and John Howard,
both living in the West, and two
daughters, the elder of whom is the
wife of Parke Goodwin.
Verify, it is cheaper to go to
meeting and yawp about the rights
Of labor than to give the laborer
job, even though thy house be out
of repair and thy grounds in dis
Observation-Disclosures.
The other day lady Of Erie.
Pa, was condemned in the county
court, as common scold, to pay a
fine of $40 and undergo an i'm
prisonment in the Allegheny county
workhouse for period Of four
months.
The Detroit Free Press wishes
to know how paper can have q
nude dress. Easy, easy. Give us
Il double and twister next time. A
paper can have u nude dress by
excluding all but naked facts.-
Aeokuk Constitution.
The gas company is not respon-
slble for the action Of the moon.
Ii she does not choose to come out
she can stay in. The street lamps
are not to be trihel with, and they
will be run according to the statis-
tics of the contractors almanac
Ncao Iorh Sta1.
A New York dry goods drummer,
having an hours leisure, went into
a Paterson foundry the other morn
ing, and going too close to the
machinery, \ ten-ton trip hammer
hit him in the cheek anl broke
itself all to pieces. He immedi.
ately le # the town to avoid suit
for damages.--Ne,o York Herts1d.
1t will doubtless create stir in
business circles when we state that
the proprietors Of the Ffth~avcnue
Hotel made an assignment at
late hour last night We trust
everything will be calm again when
we supplement this with the in
formation that they assigned
guest to room 7390.-OU city
Derrick.
An English medical authority
says that the persons who blow the
big horn in band rarely live
beyond a. period of three years.
The same may be said of persons
who swallow big horns in whiskey
saloon. Even the Big Horn coun-
try and the horns of o bull are
dangerous. Avoid all "horns' -
even those OF dilemma.--Ne.o
York. Star.
When informed of Mr.. Bryant's
illness Mr.. Longfellow said: "He
was my master in verse; ten years
and more my senior, and through
out my whole life I have had the
warmest reverential regard for
him. His first thin little volume of
poems, of thirty pages or SO, con-
tanning his "rhanatopsis' and other
youthful performances, lies on my
table to-day"
Lord North and his parliamentary
opponent, Colonel Barre, both be-
came blind toward tho close of
their lives. The two we're after
wards broaght together Oh a cer>
tain occasion, when Lord North
said, Colonel, you and 1 have boon
at variance, but I believe there are
now no two persons in the world
who would be more glad to see
each other
G. w. Smallsy says that Lord
Russell, who was anything but
practical in matters Of business,
once complained that it cost him