The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1886-08-26
BRIC.A-BRAC.

The past week has been the hottest of the
season.
A suit of armor was the old-fashioncd
knight dress
. In q few more weeks the fall business will
open up lively,
Old Sol is hand and glove these days
with tic resort proprietors.
Umbrellas have a widespread popularity
The man who borrows trouble is never
able to pay it back. Remember this.
The fool and his money are soon parted
but this is not true of the fool and his hair
The school boys of the oldcn time used
to know something about the "switchman's
strike"
Halifax is to have a steel railway.-y0ur
ndt. There arc several steal railways in
this country.
Love Is that golden latch key which
hangs on the outside, and lets in happiness
to every heart.
by actual count it has been asccrtaincd
that man can shoe q horse quicker than a
woman can shoe hen.
Sixty thousand cards are used in the
Brooklyn Library. A new pack for
every game, we suppose.
cts wife's duty to be pleasant" saws
an exchange. Yes, and it's the husbands
duty to make her duty easy.
Hotel Turtle is the name of Dakota
hotel, and we presume the people who stop
there find the motto to be, "Shell out"
Actors are too much given to quarrcling,
considering that it is n part of their buSi-
ness to kiss and "makc up"
A Buffalo girl never has her wedding
dress made in that city for fear some one
will say she was married in buffalo robe
1--WE want a circus, and VIC want it bad"
| cNclaims Western editor. We should
| think he would want good one while he
| was wanting.
A lady whose husband indulgcs more or
| less at the club, says he is q kind but i'll
dulging husband.
| There Is place in Pennsylvania called
| Economy. 1t is not summer resort.
| New England ice cream must be made
for export to Canada. 1t kills at shorter
range than Jersey lightning
Cincinnati has discharged two policemen
! for inability to read and write They
should be eligible for jury duty
| 81 know what the nights of labor arc. -
said the mother of six boys as she sat down
TO repair the pile of trousers and jackets.
1t is one of the easiest things in the world
to make blundcr, but how hard it is
| sometimes to repair one.
| Gath scntcntiously says that though the
| great reformcr died the great purloIncr still
pcrpctuatcs himself.
| Who drank the first iulcp? Whv. Ncb-
uchadneZZar. He was the first man who
ever mixed grass with his liquor.
| Only four months before Congress- will
| assemble NJ L.,
till March 4th, which is SONG consolation.
There is nothing a certain class of mon
Will not forgive, if you will accept their
views; and nothing they will forgive, if
you DO not.
| Some one remarks that '1acc is what ruff.
lies the men nova days" But he is wrong.
Lace rutics the women rs usual. 1t is pay
| ing for it that rutlcs the men.
Women drink liquor" saws Il writcr
| ''and yet they never seq snakes" GuCss
you haven't posted yourself far enough
D"ck. Dld you ever hear of Eve?
"llomc again! Not dead nor injured,
You even smile. Is it-can it be trucr
thus spoke the umpirc's wife. To be con-
| tinucd.
A Connecticut editor. called the local
court the Lime Kiln Club, and was prompt.
~ hncd 1851 About six Jokes per week
at that rate would bankrupt most Connccti-
cut editors
Elizabeth Rose Cleveland says: can
| acorn in the mind is worth forest on the
end OF the tongue" But, dear Elizabeth,
neither is the object Of such tender care rs
acorn on pet toe.
The man who invented the "chcstnut
alarm "a little bell to carry concealed,
and to ring when a stale joke is told-must
out the old, ring in tllc new"
They were speaking Of young lady
VINO sings beautifully, and one Of the party
asked "ls she mcZZo sopranoY" "NG
guess not | think she is a Swcdc." WAS
the innocent reply Of high school girl