The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1879-11-25
BRIC.-i-BR1C.

More than half of the so-callcd
"Japancse" goods sold in tho market
are made in this country.
Put yourself in his place when
you go to rout boy out Of bed at &
O'Clock on frosty morning.
The Turner's Falls Reporter has a
good word for the tramp, who. it SAY S,
never strikes a job when it is dowu.
is man who plays whist whist
fcr!- BoSton Post. Is Il man who
plays faro Il fircigner.-JheC CaDnul.
Is woman who kniis a pnut?
Many ladies look well with a
mans hat on. Many ladies would also
look well in mems boots, and their
1ect would feel far more comfortable.
1t seems nowodays as if the object
in sending man to prison for life was
to give some board or the Governor q
chance to pardon him out.
Several English Jockeys receive a
saiafy or $4,000 per year. aud per-
haps this is one reason why they
doubled the salary of the President OF
this country.
An Iowa farmer fired at a quail
and shot tramp in the leg and p,;d
500 to settle the case. 1t is getting SO
that it is really dangerous 10 even
chase the butterfly.
An average of GOO children are
more or less scaldcd every year in this
country by sitting down in Kettles of
not water while mothers arc gossipinu'
over the back gate.
A young man who snccrs at girls
false teeth hasn't 4 well balanced head.
Let him marry girl who has tooth
ache and neuralgia and he will sec
where lie was lame.
"A Wisconsin CITY, in order to
avoid scandals in the girls schools. has
decided that the leading teachers Shall
be women. They want principals, not
men.
-Iravcicrs have frequently noticed
that they get the poorest dinner at rail
road stations where the dinner gong
sounds ioudest.
ben. Butler says he shall keep on
running SO long as he has II lc~ to
stand on. Very well. There are saws
and surgeons in Massachusetts, we
hope.
"A good judge always gives man
chance to say why sentence OF death
should not DC pronounced OH him, but
always pronounccs sentence Just the
same after tho man has spoken.
Tho manager of a church fair not
iar away, when asked if there would
be music each evening, replied: Ono :"
and then added, "but there will be
singing"
1t is wonderful how silent man
can be when he knows his cause is
Just, or when another asks him If he's
got a quarter which he can spare until
tomorrow.
1t is said that an error in subtrac-
ton was the CAUSE of the mctcoric
failure the other night. n change Of
one figure postponcs tho entertainment
some thirty odd thou .and years.
"A man may ask .ou to sec that
grave is kept green, and yet, when
you assure him that it shall bc-ti,t
you'll go every day and wet it down
with garden hOsc-hc doesn't some
how seem to feel confortcu.
The Hartford Times counts ny
torty-fivc handsome women in That
clly-each ono perfect picture Of
health and lOvclincsS, and vet the
1imes' subscription rates arc very
reasonable.
"A Boston woman cut her dress
from n pattern in IL magazine dated
1873 before she discovered it Wasn't
1879, and it took three doctors to lido
her over that long, lonely night.
Some day, IN some dark forest or
dismal swamp, or along Il lonely beach
or the troubled lake, tho skeleton Of
Prof. Wise will turn up to solve the
mystery of that swift voyage TO death.
Mr.. Kcech, Of Waupun, Wis,
found burglar III his house armed
with two rcvolvcrs and dagger, and
yet he Knocked him down with a mop
handle and thcn walked him over u
mile to Jail.
"A Massachusetts paper, comment
ing on the fact that a farmer nearly
lost his life by sinking in quaomirc,
adds: "Mcn who do not subscribe for
newspaper must expect to be sucked
Ill every now and them"
A grandson Of Dom Pedro is TO
marry a daughter Of DR.. Aver, the
pill man, (scc advertisements Of Ayers
pills). The young woman. is worth
So,Oo0,000, part of which is paid to lis
quarterly for the aforesaid ADVERTISE
mcnt.-Pcck's Sun.
Who wouldn't rather be President
than be right? Come, now, 10 shrk-
ing around. The salary of President
is 800, 900 per year. The salary of be-
ing right is all tho way from $l5 per
month down to splitting wood for q
cold dinner.
The boy sat in the galley
AT the female minstrel show.
"I'm too far back, ," llc sadly said,
III tones both soft and low.
"Im too far back" he sighed again,
But he could no further go;
For he saw his scdatc fathers head
Loom up in tho forward row.
"A Spanish provcrb says: "The
road of by .nnd-By leads to the town of
Ncycr.--Baltinore NcWs. That's
nothing. If tho provcrb had said:
"The song Of the Swcct-Dy y-and-By
leads to tho town Of Hardly Ever"
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