The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1880-11-27
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"A Boston lawyer has made n hit
by procuring divorces and doing nil
sorts of legal business, and taxing. his
pay In weekly iastalllnents.
The leader Of the classes at Vassar
College Is a Japanese girl. She is from
the ei,te OF Japanese society, and is
stylish aud popular.
The book agent knows lie --is solid
when nc wipes his feet on a door mat
IN which the word t<Weleomen Is
woven, says tho New Orleans Picav-
Wne.
Those turnips that are being har.
vested In Ireland by the British army
cost two or three thousand dollars
each. Amateur farmers must now
give up i'll despair.
Tho Russian Crown Prince is ex-
pected to provo a radical reformer
When he comes TO tho throne. Flo
loves France and hates Germany. But
responsibility may tone him down.
-Bcrnhardt has a narrow faco. high
chcckboncs, thin nose, quivering nos.
trlls, wido mouth, prominent upper
teeth. peculiar eyes and fluffy hair-.all
for three dollars a ticket.
When decorative art strikcs tho
mead OF the fnmily vinegar barrel with
group OF angels hurrying toward the
spiGot IL will 20 no further, and we
The SON Of General Rawlins has
paced q monument over tho grave of
MS father, who is buried in the Con-
grossional Cemetery at Washington.
for over ten years the grave has been
unmarked.
There arc great mdny skillful
engineers OIL ottr railways, but we
never knew ono yet who could kick
his train around a curve with the
grace and success with which q first
class actress Gun perform the opera
ton.
.-Somebody has figured out that
Vanderbilts income would allow him
to, in ono day, visit 5000 circuscs, cat
do,oo0 pints Of peanuts, and drink s.
0OO glasses Of lemonade.
Miss Braddon (Mrs. Maxwell> tho
novelist, who has shrewd Scotchman
for husband, lives in elegant style i'm
q London suburb, and keeps riding
horses, fine carriages and park hounds.
There is large double family of chill
drcn. She is considered n good house.
keeper.
So many tenants on the Duke of
Marlboro's Oxfordshire property have
given up their tilrms that ho has over
1900 acres unoccupied. Many other
large landlords in the county are in
the same predicament, and in War
wickshire, Gloucestcrshirc and Wilt
shire things arc even worse.
"A Danbury man has Boston lady
visiting him. Sunday evening, on
coming out of church with her, lie ex-
tended his arm, and, with a delicate
Difference to her prejudices, said:
'Will you accept my ulp,r limbi'
With q grateful look from her CLASSY
eyes she accepted.-Dan6uay Nc,os.
The Society of Arts is putting up
tablets in London on houses once
occupied by famous men, and has al
ready marked fourteen houses, in
Guiding those Of johnson, Faraday,
Garrick, Nelson, Dryden, REYNOLDS
and Byron. Six more tablets are soon
to be erected. Charles Dickens name
is down OH the list.
AT a recent Newport dinner party,
ulifortunatc as to break plate belong
ing to rare set Of French china. Tie
lady insisted upon either mcndinp or
replacing it, but finding both impossi-
Bile, she was obliged to send abroad
and duplicate the entire dinner set of
over two hundred pieces.
"A Young Naturalist" writes us
to learn chow he can catch a live
wasp, for scientific purposes, without
injuring it," Right by the tail, son:
right by the tip end ofthc tail. Squeeze
hard, the wasp won't mind it a. parti-
Gle, and if it seems to be injured any
that you can see, send us the bill and
wen pay Tor now asp.---Ha,okeye
The late Lord Clifford, a Roman
Catholic Peer, provided in his will
that should his younger sons, to whom
he left Sl50,000, take holy orders,
their portions are to be reduced to
S25, 900. In like manner the portions
OF ms daughters are to be reduced from
S60,OO0 to SIP 800 should they become
nuns. Another Roman Catholic Eng
hshman ofhigh position made q similar
provision year or two ago.
Mrs. Oswald Ottcndortcr, wife of
me editor Of the New York Stats
Zeitung, is termed the Amazon of the
German press Of America. The pa
per was left to her by her first hus-
band and, mainly through her efforts,
1t has become very valuable proper.
ty, worth at least 100000. She goes
to the Office every day and directs it's
management generally. Mrs. Frank
Leslie continues to conduct the publi-
cntions of her late husband.
Professor Young, in discussing
the suns heat, says that if it were sur
rounded by shell OF ice one mile in
thickness, the inner surface touching
the photosphcre, it would melt its
way out in two hours and thirteen
minutes. This will be an interesting
experiment for our young people to
try during the long winter evenings,
1t will cost nothing for tile ice, for
Vennor says there are going to be
oceans Of it.-Norristown Herald.
Two walters in the Windsor Hotel
in New York fell to quarreling the
other day over the relative Importance
OF their positions. One of them, Muir
ray by name, carries dishes into the
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