The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1886-10-20
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An old hcad-Thc head OF Navigation.
Never gets ful!-Thc contribution box
The n;ccst things il summer hats
Pretty girls.
The man who feels certain that he Will
nn, succeed is seldom mistaken.
Wha; IS it that a man with two eyes can
rol see viii. one: T'othcr eye.
Wonder ii the sea serpent could swallow
all the stories that are tod about MN:
Tie question of the hour is always one
O: great moment.
Why was Eve like Sunday: She was
the first Of the weak.
The ties formed at >oclables sometimes
lead 10 matrimonial knots.
Il, everybody would mind his own bust
NESS we wonder how lawyer would i've
Tie following words, if spelt backward
or forward, are the same: Name no ono
man
What will be the ruling fancy OF the
season? In other words, what VIII take
the place Of progressive cuchre:
\ Western paper says there are pretty
tough nuts in the army. Does 1t refer TO
Tie kernels:
The man who has made his own meat
and bread is tie man who carries nome the
money when his cotton is sold.
There is frozen music in many heart
that the beams Of encouragement would
melt into glorious song.
Now for the "sear-and-yclow-lcaf poet.
He may approach, but with the UNDER
standing that we keep club
1t isn't always The man who knows the
most that wins, but the man who can apply
what he does know.
\ man of short statue gives as reason
for his stunted growth that he was brought
up when child on condensed milk.
It is a little singular that a journal for
The blind should get SO excited as to prlnta
scathing article against low-necked dresses.
We know the summer is over because
when we pick up the papers now VIC don't
SC. columns about how the girls look in
their bathing suits.
Gcorgie: ''Do you know, Ethel. old
Smokes had pcrplexity fit the other day."
Ethel: a psrpleSity fit? You mean a
parallel stroke.
I'm very fond of little boys" she said,
as she trippcd on string stretched across
the pavement Il feel es if / could eat
couple of them this minute, raw.
The floral bell is getting to be rather
stale for marriage ceremonies. Why should
not some cntcrpriSiug couple be married
under pair tree?
\ Chicago minister preached on What
can do to be savcd: ltwould seem that
about the first move would be to get out OF
Chicago.
".Not,lcr." said little girl, Il believe
Ill be duchess when grow up. How
Go vGu expect to become duchess, my
daug ghtcr!" why, by marrying Dutch
man to be sure.
The lawyers and doctors of Ellsworth,
Me. went out in cold blood the other day
and attempted to play base ball. The law
vers won. but the doctors will eventually
get the best of them.
\ Young man who has good deal Of
spare time on his hands wishes to learn Of
something that will keep him occupied.
We can think of two things right off-sct-
ting married and tipping over beehive.
4 little girl lately wrote to her friend:
Yesterday little baby sister arrived, and
papa is on Journey. 1t was but a piece
Of lack that mamma was at homo TO take
care Of it.
When wife runs away leaving Il hus-
band and nine children, as a Tennessee
woman did the other Gay, the poor man
might almost be excused for wishing that
he had never seen her,
Give 2 boy address and accomplishment
and you give him the mastery of palaces
and fortune wherever he may 60. He has
not the trouble Of earning or owning
them: they solici: him to enter and possess
The girl who never screams when she
sees snake iSn'ta safe girl to marry. With
her calm. cool, collected, uneycitable dis
position she would hit where she aimed
with the rollingpin every time.
4 contemporary asks: How shall
women carry their purses to frustrate the
thieves Why. carry them empty. Moth
ING illustrates thief more than to snatch a
woman's purse, after following her for a
mile, and then find that it contains only 4
rcceip. for spiced peaches.