The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1879-07-10
BRIG-1-HltIC.

The subject of Paroles lecture for
the coming season has not yet boon
, announced. ''. -. s.,
The business of a Vice-Prcsidcnt
is to go fishing, and Mr.. Hendricks
objection to the second place on the
tickt is unwisc.
-'Iinmcn always choose tho middle
of the hottest sunshine day us u time
for carrying load Of bright new tin
buckets through the streets.
New York sent Rowcll home with
$4,000 gate money, besides his will
nings and plenty Of rcscl IS. London
gave Weston only $4,000.
The New York Commercial Id
vertiser tells of little boy, proud of
his new jacket, who informed his sister
that he was six-button kid.
"A police regulation provides that
interyicwers desiring to sec Cox, the
murderer, in the Tombs, will form on
White street, the right resting Oh
Ccnter.--N. Y. Star.
-Enterprising newspapers arc get
| ting in readiness for q full history of
the elevated railroads in New York,
with cuts, for use when the great
NiStbolSi IohSS pi"SCs
Louisville Post: She was M AL
bany lady who informed visitor who
came to sec her new house that she
was having Chicks made in the walls
in which to place statutes, and in one
of them burst other husband"
Six ocean freight steamers which
sailed from port cross the Atlantic
last winter have never since been
head from. Nothing is known con-
corning the fate of II single one of
them. They have persisted and left no
trace.
There is law against white man
rObbing an Indian, but it takes so long
to hunt it up that the judge dies of old
age, the Indian is killed and the white
robbcr leaves the proceeds to some
charitable institution.-F1'ce Press.
If you are warm and wish to cool
yourself off, don't usc q fan or pray
for Il breeze. Just go out on the
streets and open paper and attempt
to read something i'll one Of the inside
corners; then the wind will almost
blow it out Of your hands.
"A Dresden man owns an old doc
that was lately caught butting it's head
against the bucket as it hung over the
well. This act was referred to once by
Il poet who wrote:
"1he old doe can buck It,
That hung in the WELL"
Tho divorce laws Of Connecticut
promote the amenities Of domestic
life. At Willimantic the other day
man went to funeral and sat between
his two wives, and if he had sent to
Daniclsonville he could have had
third one.
Tho Pennsylvania Railroad, We
read, is planting Virginia crcepcrs on
hillsides along its tracks. Forthe sake
of nervous tourists VIC here state that
the Virginia crccpcr is not the article
captured with fine comb. -Ihilodcl-
phi0 Chronicle Herald.
The amiablc Rogers has been forced
to unpack his literary cupboard and
select another veto for Mr.. Hayes.
There is no more useful member of the
cabinent than this man Rogers. When
he first became statesman under the
present administration, he endeavored
to keep in the background, but fame
seized him by the cars and rushed him
to the footlights carly in the season.
ATLANTA Constitution.
1t was a warm afternoon, and
young Mr.. Cummagen did not go into
tho house, but sat down on the pleas
ant porch, as was his custom, after
ringing the bell. Her little sister came
to the door, and looked at him with
some curiosity. "Docs your sister
Mabel know am here Nellie?" he
asked. "Oh, yes" replied the inno-
cent prattlcr, ri guess she docs; she
told me to como out and SEQ how nice
and shady it made the front yard when
you put your feet on the porchrailing."
lie took them down and sat on thcm.
HaaOkeye.
To all who are afflicted with the
habit of profanity, and who are dcsir-
Gus of curing themselves of it. we
would suggest that, as o beginning,
they resolve, and rigidly adhere to the
resolution, that whenever they feel a
disposition to swear they will take no
other name in vain except that of the
Aztec god of war, Huitzilopochtli.
That will give their anger chance to
cool and disappear before they get to
the end Of tho word, and they will not
thus be guilty OF the sin of complete
| oath.-CoU9ter-.Journ0I.
"A drunken man was sWaving un-
steadily in Virginia city street, ac-
cording to the Chronicle, when q dog
with @ tin pan tied to his tail ran be-
tween his legs. The collision was 80
forciblc that the man was upset, and
the dog ran onminus piece of it's tail.
The man gotup bewildercd, rubbed the
bruised end of his spinal column,
picked up the dogs tail and Tins solil-
iquized: "This is (hic) unfortunatel |
Never before knowed or suspected
had such thing as tail till I 60 an
fall down an break it off. Might made
(hic) fortune 'zibitin' myself as man
with q tail. Thero'd been millions in
it-millions (hic) in it'll Jis my luck.
Whonever 1 get q good thing it's always
gone before (hic) find it out"
Little Harry S., of five summers,
who had been exalted from Sirl's to
boys habilimonts, recently appeared at
school arrayed in the former, when his
teacher kindly remarked, "Children,
hope that mono Of you will tease Harry,
nor speak Of his dress, as his mother
has sent him in it to punish him for
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