The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1879-01-21
BRIC-A-BRIC.

Only matter Of form-Tight
lacing.
The auctioneer's occupations
"gone!"
Bored of educational lazy
school boy.
Cold doesn't travel very fast
anybody can catch it.
The German empire has popu-
lation Of seventy-fve million.
There are two hundred and eight
bones in the human body.
A little machine is made that
actually measures the distance
No matter how little you over
work q horse, his sufferings are
''unspeakable."
The camel is the paragrapher of
the animal kingdom he has such
funny column, you know.
The next territory that will ask
to be admitted to the Union is
Dakota, which claims 125,O00 popu-
lation.
Since Washington's time no
President has ended his admins
tration with the same cabinet as he
had at the start.
Miss Maud Grubb is a Cincinnati
prine1 donna, who soon goes
abroad to change her name to
Mile. Grubbelini.
Women blush, we've heard it said,
| When they had and hadn't oughtcr;
But men, like lobsteN don't get rcd
| Till they're tumbled In hot water.
Scientists think they have dis
covered evidence that horses existed
upon this continent before it's dis
covery by Columbus.
The silver and the golden pleas.
ont both originally came from
China. So also did gold and silver
fish, now so common.
The number of physicians in
Prussia in 1878, was 1928 of sur
geons, 149; and of dentists, 251.
The number of inhabitants was
5,724, ,40A.
Skin cleanliness has a great effect
on the assimilation of food. It has
been proved that pigs that are
washed put on fifth more flesh
than pigs that are unwashed.
As to cabinet, Prince Bismarck
deems it ''most tiresome that have
to discuss every plan with five or
six persons who sometimes know
very little upon the subject.
The stenographers bills so far in
the Vanderbilt will case have reach-
ed the sum of ten thousand dollars.
The lawyers bills arc expected to
oxcead the Halifax fisheries award.
Mr.. Gillespie, Republican poll
tician from Philadelphia, amused
the members of the caucus after
they had renominated Senator Cam
eron by Quitting heads with young
darkey."
A New York belle besought her
father for new sealskin sacque.
"My DEAR he responded fonGly,
but seriously, "we have just paid
over $5,500,000 to the British gov
ernment, and I can't afford it,"
Judge Wendell went fishing near
Truckce, Cal. The stream was
almost dry, and he could walk over
it's rocky bed between the pools.
He sat down on bowlder and
dropped his line into pool. Sud-
denly he heard tremendous roar
Looking up stream, he saw vast
body of water, eight feet high,
rushing down upon him. A. dam
had broken away. He ran as fast
es he could, yet not very swiftly,
being fat and short-legged. The
water quickly overlook him and
carried him nearly a quarter Of a
mile, throwing him on the bank so
nearly drowned that he was thought
to be dead.
A student at the University OF
Virginia thus describes the pres ent
condition of Jefferson's homestead
at Monticello "The house is in
good condition, and in it's entrance
hall, as a centerpiece in the ceiling,
still flaps his wings that great bird
symbolical of American liberty, the
eagle. In this hall also is ladder
old Tom daily ascended in order to
wind up a clock whose weather.