The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1878-05-25
BRIC-A-BRAC.

When Time is no mower he will
loy away his scythe.
If were in the sun and you werc
out of it, what would the sun be-
come? Sin.
It is great deal easier in these
days to borrow trouble than to bor-
row money.
Clock work has been successfully
applied as a motor to sewing ma
chimes by mechanician of Vienna.
Certainly, the state of matrimony
is one of the United States. TO ob-
tain divorce is to secede from the
Union.
Miss Susan B. Anthony is to 1ec-
ture, East and West, in aid of the
Kansas German Immigrating So
ciety.
the mother Of q recent bride in
Brunswick, Me-, is ninety two years
old. Her daughter and son-in law
are each about seventy.
A saloon keeper down in Augusta,
Me-, announces by placard that he
has for sale ''siggars, tcwbacko, and
ballony sawsig."
Deacon Ezra Richmond, aged
eighty-siS married Mrs. Polly e.
Woodworth, aged sixty one, in
Ellery, Chautauqua County, OH the
10th inst.
Vermont is alarmed at the in
creasing number Of her divorces.
The ratio for this year is ono
divorce to every sixteen Of all mar
riages.
The Maharajah of Jheend has
lately had carriage of solid silver
built for him. He is not going to
sit down and die Of ernui like the
Ahkoond of Swat. Now for news
from the Begun of Bhopal.
The Boston 44dUertiser SAYS that
"the small boy began to go in swim
ming" in that city on Friday. Pro-
badly it will take him a week or two
to complete the operation.
A national NIicroscopical Con-
grcss will meet in Indianapolis, Ind,
during the third week in August,
1873, on invitation of the biol oci~
cal section Of the Lyceum of Natural
History of that city.
A petrifed crocodile, forty-six feet
in length, has been exhumed near
Como Station, on the Union Pacific
Railroad, and shipped to Yale Col-
lego. The discoverers received
$4,000 for their prize.
At Hartford, Conn, the other day,
Miss Mabel Gibbs, aged seventy
nine years, was SO excited by visit
from q brother whom she had not
seen for twenty years that she died
before she could speak.
The remains Of another mastodon
have been discovered in Ashtabula
County, Ohio The skull measures
about three feet in length, and two
feet nine inches across between the
eyes. The largest rib is four feet
five inches long.
"A hotel-keeper in Lawrence,
Mass, being taken i'll, his physician
prescribed whiskcy, whereupon the
sick man directed that it should be
procured elsewhere, saying that he
would not dare to take that sold
over his own bar.
A silver wedding party was given
here recently by prominent official
at which the gifts were exhibited.
The gifts were divided into two
classes, and card attached to one
class conveyed this information
''These are all solid silver. - Wosh~
iaagton Letter.
An In dian Prince, Nadser Radia
Ring, who had gone to ITALY to
recover from wounds received while
lion hunting, died suddenly at
Florence, and was cremated at mid
night according to Hindoo usage
his staff and the British Minister
being present.
The salaries of some of our rail-
way presidents arc stated to be as
follows Col. IT, A. Scott, Penn
sylvania, $4,000; Mr.. Isaac Hink-
ly, Philadelphia, Wilmington and
Baltimore, $4,000; Mr.. +. B.
Gowen, Philadelphia and Reading,
100000, and Mr.. Hugh j. Jewitt,
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