The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-12-01
RUMORS OF THE DAY.

"a SOOO u DOIel0.
NIAGARA FAnns-and what's to prevent
It?
ELI PERKINS is rail mad, spelled back
wards.
DOES it follow that woman raises
thunder because she puts lightning in
her bread?
LIZ YOU want to get rich, mount q
mule, because when you are on o mule
you are better off,
We should think that scarf pins would
get sea sick. They are 80 often on the
bosoms of such heavy swells.
SoNa of the Sioux Chief as he leaves
the wigwam of his Laughing Water
"Oh, Sioux-annn, don't you cry for
me-"
EDO YOU know who built the ark p
asked q Sunday school teacher OF little
street Arab and the little fellow re-
piled: "Nawp'
CHICAGO has violinist who plays with
his feet. But nobody but a resident of
Chicago would play with his feet.-NcoO
York Telegram.
A POET who was fond of oysters
Shelley. Ditto, ditto, ten pins-Bowles.
Do do. ft-shells-Crabbe. Do. do,
Notwithstanding
1T IS said that girl who wears No. 2
shoes and beautiful hose can be scared
into believing almost every little bit of
wood or stone she sees is q mouse
Boston Post.
"a LARGE part of our happiness,
says Mr.. Beecher, els due to our mis-
takes" he'printer who got bounced
for setting up "infernal reception for
informal reception may coincide with
MIR. Beecher, but we doubt it,
D1D'sT ever thou gaze on lovely maid,
All glorious, radiant, fair,
And think ms thou saws those rich red Ips
OF tho "unkissed kisses" there2
Because if thou did'st not, this is a
good time to begin'st. - &eu6enviUo
Herald
ION HOODS most successful poem was
the "Song of the Shirt" A great many
American poets don't sing that sort of
song, because the subject is in use seven
days in the week, and it hasn't time to
be sung about. ut.-Steu6enviAe Herald.
SHE wears finest diamonds and laces,
And is worth half million, they say;
Her set sociastic embraces
The fashion and wealth of the day;
Her face is model OF beauty
Her praises are sung DER and DER;
But what are her wealth and her booty,
When foghorn can't equal her snore2
Detroit Free Press
red nose that she laces too tightly, but
what shall man say ay?-Erch0nge O,
he can offer the same excuse. He also
gets too "tghtly" by so-lacing himself.
--N01riSto,On Herald.
ALTHOUGH the marriage OF Miss Nellie
Grant to Mr.. Sartoris, of England, was
criticised in this country at the time,
Nellie did we'll. Her husband has an
income of about $40, 900 and one baby O
year.-Kentucky State Journal
A BALLET dancer is not good for much
unless she learns her business in toe toe.
-B0ston Courier. If her teacher knows
his business heel teach her to keep in
step.-Y Ya,Ocob Strauss. Must she put
her whole sole into it t?-Steu6enviUe
Herald.
HERE'S positive fact that occurred in
one of the public schools in this city re-
Gently: A small boy was asked to name
some part Of his own body. He thought
for moment and then replid: Bowels,
which are five in number-a, e, i, o, U,
and sometimes W and y.-Phiiadelphin
Bulletin.
"WAs it the drum major brave ?"
asked one soldier of another ''Of
course" said the other; chow can l get
up the necessary excitement, if fife
nothing to stir me?" ooh, we'll, a man
musket courage somehow" said the first;
IL suppose most any one cannon occa-
SION" eyes, that is the general order,
and I'm a bayonet," said the other
though wish I'd never be gun"