The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-03-03
ENTERTAINING PARAGRAPHS.

| SosM men age never sweet 9n their
wives exoept at masquerade bah.
A BBsHrn, Of wheat, weighing SIXTY
two pounds, contained 900, 600 kernels.
! 4 RoeroN papar dharges certain actors
with Illuminating trite faculties. No
arrests were made.
IT is estimated that freight train now
enters New York every Afteen minutes,
each train averaging IS cars.
BOSTON servant girls always ask for
poor molasses ct the grocery, because it
takes longer for it to run.
THE world is filling up with educated
fools-mankind read too much and learn
too little.--Josh Biiliags.
A MAN troubled with sleeplessness can
cure himself by pretending to do duty az
o night watchman. Orleans Plea
gt1te.
A LA CROSSE, Wis, minister prayed
for those "who were smitten with i'll
ness, and those who have gone a-fshing,
and also those too lazy to dress for
church."
AN old couple in Maine have been
married seventy-fve years. What shud-
der this item will create when it gets to
circulating in tho Indiana papers!-M Y
Commercial.
HE obstinancy, observes o London
Journalist, with which old smokers cling
to life is really marvellous; they seem
altogether to ignore the fact that tobacco
is deadly poison.
LAvATER was o good observer when he
wrote: "Mistrust the man who finds
everything good, the man who finds
everything evil, and still more, the man
who is indifferent to everything"
AN epitaph on a recently cut tomb
stone reads:
Here lies Samantha Harriet Jones,
Whose maiden name Sickle5,
most pteous were her dying groanr.
-New Porh Commercial Advertiser.
WHEN Buffalo street car conductor
was told by lawyer that he had fallen
heir to legacy of 100000, the man
simply asked the loan Of five cents to buy
q cigar with. He wanted to find out IL
the lawyer was lying to him.
A PERSON who had an important case
In court sent two very handsome and ex-
dered them to be filed with costly wine
and sent back to the donor. The Judge
was pagan, however, and didn't know
any better. Such foolish stories can't be
told OF the courts Of nowadays.
SLAVERY is still @ recognized institu-
tion OF Arabia, and an active trade in
blacks is carried on in some of the larger
towns. Arab custom enfranchises q slave
at the end of seven years faithful SER
vices, and on leaving his master presents
him with one or more camcls and an out
fit. The manumitted negroes marry and
have an even chance in life with their
former owners. There is no prejudice
against negro in Arabia.
"EyE PEEprNG" is the new game. Two
holes are made in screen. The per-
formers stand behind it and place their
eyes i'll the holes, while the persons in
front guess to whom the eyes belong
Ne,o York Herald. They have the
same game, modified somewhat, out
West. eye openers" are drank, fight
ensues, in which gouging prevails and
then the person who sweeps up the floor
guesseS to whom the gouged eyes be.
long.
RUSSELL SAGE is said to be the very
model of frugality and domestic econ
omy. His household concerns are con.
Quoted with systematic attention. He
weighs out the sugar, tea, coffee, and
spices, and measures the liquids required
by his housekeeper and exacts rigid ac-
count from that usual pet ticoated ty.
rant. After this the old man drives down
town and sots to work to chcckmate Jay
Gould on Western Union or to get away
with any stray New York Central Mr.
Vanderbilt may not be able to carry
off,