The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1880-11-25
VOL. X.--NO, 10.
PTTH AND POINT.

AND now Lady Godiva is said to be o
myth-a bare falsehood, as it were.
Actors should be watched closely on
election day. They are professional re-
peaters.
SOME one inquiries "Where have all
the ladies' belts gone ?" Gone to waist
long ago.
lF mule had as many legs as a cock
roach this country wouldn't be 80 thickly
populated.
The bobtailed horse spends his whole
existence in lamenting his lack of ter
minal facilities.
his wife says he must have taken her
out of the wrong font.
WHY is the discovery of the North pole
like an illicit whisky manufactory? Be-
cause it's secret still.
IT requires but short time for
young lady out shopping to learn all the
countersigns of the dry-goods trade.
"I CANNOT think" says Dick,
What makes my ankles grow 30 thick"
You do not recolleCt," )" says Harry,
How great calf they have to carry"
THE Eye says it was O Bloomington
man who hit the nail on the head, but
he mourned the loss of thumb by the
transaction.
FROM Adam they took O ribbone to
make fair woman. Fair woman has
been made up with ribbon ever since.--
Bloomington Eye.
PHYSICIANS now say that the telephone
is injurious 20 the ear. We presume
it's the stl II of listening and hearing
nothing thf does the harm.
ONE of q first acquisitions received
from newl y-appointed railway station
agent was "Send me gallon of red
oil for the danger lanterns"
In Texas there is township called
Gin, and in it n town called Brandy, md
the name of the postof1ice is Rummy.
No State could ask for anything better.
A VERY disagreeable old gentleman
Of preparing his epitaph, suggests
"Deeply regretted by all who never
knew him.
s'AN'r that alovely critter, John p" said
Jerusha, as she stopped opposite the
John, 81 but then he's drefully freckled,
ain't he J"
CT THINK, dear, the dew has COM
menced falling" he said in his softest
accents. Yes" she yawned, GIVE
been hoping to hear adieu for some time.
He didn't call the next evening.
THE Whitehall Times says the fish in
Lake Chanplain have been 30 long with
out water that when it began to rain, for
the first time in six weeks, they were
seen running about with umbrellas over
their heads.
A YOUNG woman in Denver flung her
self into cistern, but she was fished
out. A local paragrapher advised her
as follows: "Cis turn from your evil
ways" But he won't joke that way
when it comes cistern.
A POET asks "When am dead and
lowly laid. And clods fall heavy
from the spade, who'll think of me ?"
Don't worry. Tailors and shoemakers
have retentive memories, and you'll not
be forgotten. .-NorristoaUn Herald.
FATE of Tilted butcher
He tried in drink to drown his caros,
And there found no relief;
But daily grew moro woe-begone-
You never sausage grief.
At last his weary soul found rest,
His sorrows now are DER;
No tickle maid now troubles him
Pork reacher. he's no more.
ONE Sunday night we were sitting out
in the moonlight, unusually silent, al
most sad. Suddenly some one-a po-
etic-looking man, with q gentle, lovely
face-said, in low tone, "Did you
ever think of the beautiful lesson the
stars teach us?" We gave vague, ap-
preciative murmur, but some soulless
clod said, mo; what is it?" Chow
to wink" he answered, with sad, sweet
voice.