The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1879-05-08
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"A woman's wccpins-Tcars.
No matter how short they arc in |
pocket, fashionable ladies arc long in |
gloves.
What material would be good to |
carve pugilist out Of? Ans: Box
wood.
-Bookkccpcrs arc never offended
when called to account--nt q rcspccta-
bic salary.
-Twcnty-two Mennonite families
representing $780,, 200, arc to settle at
Whitewater, Kan. :.
An exchange says that Napoleon
". is always poring over his books.
Elc never rcigns, but he pores.
Since papor napkins were intro
duccd by a manufacturing firm IN
Wisconsin, Il year ago, one Boston firm
alone has sold 250, 900 Of them.
Ono Of the articles rescued from
the ruins OF the drowned city of Siege
din, in hungary, was cradle in which
lay sleeping kitten.
-Suckctts marsh, near Berlin. Wis,
covers 7G0 acres, and has been known
to yield u crop. Of cranbcrrics in one
year of $4,000 bushels.
M. Dutaurc, the French statesman,
has a withcrcd sprig in frame, be,
meath which are the words: sSPlucked
from WashingtonS grave"
An Oil City poet sends some vcrs-
es, DeglnnlnG, "Now Inspiration, seize
our waste basket "inspiration."
con this head" said the lecturer,
"thcrc is nothing left to le desired"
The balu-headcd man i'll the front row
Immediately rose to a call to order.
Josh Billings says Artcmus Ward
was the bcst American drollcrist,
Nasby is tho best political satirist, and
Mark Twain an uncqualcd descriptive
humOrist.
--Commandant Dcbl crly, said to be
the last survivor of 4AustcrlitZ, has
just died near Bordeaux, III his ninety
fifth year. Lie entered the army in
1902, and was pcnsioncd in 1888.
-Tramps arc defined by Michigan
law to be "pcrsons refusing to work
for the usual and common wages given
to other persons for like work i'll the
place where they may be-"
Some idea of the size of the State
ofTeXas may be gathered from 0
fact that, though the population is II
million, there arc only four people to
every square mile oftcrritory.
Complaint is made in Lcadvilc
that the whiskcy is nothing but snow
water scented with vitriol. When
eight hundred gallons can be drawn
from one barrel it is time for even q
dairyman to blush.
"A reporter who saw jeff. Davis
recently, says he, is tall but slender.
His erect, guant form, sharp, thin fca-
| lures, gray hair, short, grizzly beard
and defective eye give him Il spcctcr-
like appearances lie is very atlablc.
The sad.complcx xioncd son OF sum
ny Italy, who recently propelled the
handle ofthe rotating chcstmlt-roaSter,
is training his dexter elbow to stinlu-
the voicc-inspiring, car-picrcing crank
of the hand-organ.
Mr.. Darwin has been gratificd to
learn that the examining surgeon at
Agram, Austria, has found in u patch
ofrccruits young man with a "siX.
incll-long prolongation Of the CerteJ.u
SpindltS, in shape somewhat analogous
to a two-ycar-old pigs tail with
twist. %,
limited States Senator Sharon la.
bGAhtp GAhhpsfs sta YplSa1 itei, sho has been in hi
some sharp-loollin8 fellow, with bril-
liant black. eyes, and wears his hair il
the ordinary American fashion.
On April grocer in the countr,
took some salt and other stuff and pu
a sign ON it, "Bcct sugar, twcnt,
| Ic f,nn l<,lln -
woman that came in took handful O
tito taste, and then winked and sai(
; nothing. 1t is in the country that tho,
have all the fun.
a rich young lady has fallen in low,
with and married a New York street
car driver. From the bride and tn,
halter he went to the alter and tn,
bridal, and the only train and switch tt
occupy his mind hereafter are those be
longing to his wife. She takes hin
for wheel or rwhoa, us it were.
The had been married year anf
were taking O. Sunday afternoon wall
III the suburbs. In vacant lot hal
dozen young goats were having a littl,
".circus," which attracted their atten
ton. "GcoEg.," she sa d, "sccine
those six but.ln' kids reminds me tha
Ih'tVcil i Il ucccnt PAIR or gloves to my
name" George despiscs a goat now
The latest fashion in Vienna is the
"Boccoccio" stocking, a pink silk
stocking on the right leg, and a white
silk stocking on the left. a miso"v.
mist would say that as many of these
ladies can hardly tell their right from
their left, the fashion of "pink and
white" will be Of practical usc-likc
the "hay-toet' and "strw-toot" for the
recruits. O
DR.. Cavcr at a recent exhibition in
England, placing ten glass balls OH the
/ ground, fired bullet into the turf i'm.
mcdiatcly beneath. The missile tear.
ing up the soil, threw the balls into
the air, and they were broken as they
rose: lie also performed the feat OF
strlcking apcnny thrown cdgcways in