The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1879-05-15
DRIC-I IL BRIC.

BRIC-I-BRLC.
You cannot cure a cold In a SAM
pie rhcum.
The man who sets bad example
hatchcs mischief.
"A fast horsc-The one that is
hitchcd to lamp-post.
The man who was made to COM
mand was made to order.
Regarded out Of "dangor'-Any
letter that is not in that word.
There arc t0rty-four American
firms doing business in Japan.
Over one hundred and thirty stu
dents ut Harvard take lessons in sing
ing.
"A Chinaman whose watch was
slow told the jcwcler: "Too much
by'm bye"
-"As tho crow flies" seems TO be n
favoritc expression with many writer's:
and not without caws.
1t is estimated that under the now
census Pennsylvania will have a poDu
lation of 1 100000.
The man who tears anothcr's coat
down the middle should be made to
pay up tho back rent.
AN exchange says that Napoleon
~. is always porting over books. lie
never rcigns, hut lie pores.
Tho latest style of marking sheep
ls to attach numbered tag to tho ami
mails err. If Mary had a little lamb
now it would wear earrings.
Wars come SO thick in Europe
that the soldiers don't have a chance
to sit down for few moments rest
and hence the necessity for keeping
standing armies
There arc some things that are as
we'll kept dark. 1t ism t policy to
throw light upon such sub 6jcct us an
open barrel of gunpowdcr, for ill
stance.
Thirteen handkcrchiefs, four wal
lets and two watches were found on q
pickpockct who had been at work ONLY
an hour in st. Louis funeral assem-
bly,.
Tho Philadelphia Evening BuUe-
tn, speaking of the great diStillcry at
Peoria, says: "Our advice is drink
deep but taste not the Peorian
spring."
An organ pleasantly remarks:
''Fhis is the seed time of Republican,
ISM" Undoubtedly. The clltrc crop
will be ripe and ready to thrash out
next year.
-Whitclaw Reid, in one of his recent
poems, sang: "We'yc got 'em, we've
got 'cm." We knew he'd got 'cm if he
didn't let that Tribune basement beer
0lOnc.-Chic0gO Times.
-"What," asks correspondent, "is
the meaning Of Shcllcy's 'Epipsychi-
dionT" We are not perfectly certain.
but it sounds wonderfully like the
name Of some new aguc medicine.
"A dentist broke Mrs. Bragg's jaw
in trying to pull tooth. Her soii-in-
law. with whom she lives, did not sue
the dentist, but later in the day they
were seen drinking together.
"A factory in Hanover, Germany,
makes glass in imitation of marble,
and the tables, floor, tiles, etc., which
1t turns out, arc preferable to marble
on account of fsnpcrior hardness.
OF tho five hundred newspapers
which appear in Russia, large num-
ber are not in the Russian language.
Forty-two arc in German, several are
IN French, and others are in the dialects
of.the Baltic provinces.
What is supposed to be the largest
tree in the Southern States is a tulip
boaring poplar near Augusta, Ga,
which Is l55 feet high and nine feet
IN diameter, its lowest branches being
fifty-ttvc feet from the ground.
"A man went home the other cyc-
ming and found his house locked up.
Getting In at the window with consid-
erablc difficulty, he found on the table
note from his wife: II have gone
out; you will find the door key on ono
side of the doorstep"
An editor in Iowa has been fined
$3.50 for having huggcd girl. "Cheap
enoughW says another Of tho same
fraternity; we once huggcd gill and
1t hos cost us thousand dollars o year
ever since.
Tho balmy-eyenings arc near at
hand when the bewitching maiden
stoops to conquer, and her shivcring
companion croucheth on tho stop be.
low and says he's so glad "tho spri9
ttibo has cub aged" = ~
| Tho would-be assassin ofthe Czar
IS said to have been school teachcr,
but no must have been a miserable ono.
for any school teacher who could miss
at two PAGES certainly isn't fit to teach
young ideas how to shoot. -
"A Rhode Island woman wont tn
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