The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-12-07
PlTII AND POINT.

PlTlI AND POINT.
a weather rcro7t-A thunder clap.
Country tine of rising-1n dew time.
III, astronomers business is looking
up.
A 'raarr:agc in high lifc:'-A wedding
IN the attic.
40 be shaken before takcn"-Thc an.
PIE on a lofty bou ,h.-- H"m Ter.
Thee is one place where busybodics
seldom ''stick their o in,' and that i
a hornets nest DfaSIc Ere &C.
a mar Mt Genoa. Ohio, has a clock
two hundred years old. That must lie
one o: the cd times VIC read about.-T"d.
BIS.
The girls will BIZ: pleased with a uni
form marriage law i! the uniform is
pretty and the is Il man in it.-piAs.
hu'g D'so"tca.
Missions wedding WAS postponed at
the last minute. roblbly the Cont
Case dc Miranda didu't have Il good dav
with the organ.-7Iy-B BITS.
At Waterloo, Iowa, they have a Gu.
cumber on exhibition that is four feet
long. Properly applied it would make
a doctor - City SiuA.
The King Of Corea has ordered some
lamps for his dinner table, at s.5 each.
New York. Evidently a Light rcpast is
expensive in Corca.-Bo tot Courier.
Every iassie has her laddie"
10 Whisper words of love-
But every laSSie has Il daddy
10 knock OH the floor above
Life.
The proposed railroads in Africa are
not likely to be overloaded with freight,
but there will be n great saving III the
matter of, snow plows. - Courier
JOUrNa,.
The boy who quails Mt the sight of a
mustard plaster is the same lad that goes
fcarlcssly forth to tackle a bees nest with
a handful of willow switches.--Me Giant
IrureLr.
SAID q young doctor to a lady patient.
''You must take exercise foryeur health,
my dear" "All right" she said, 'sIll
jump at the first offer" They were mar
rled in about six months
They call it a rom .ntic marriage i'm
Minnesota when n couple of the neighbors
get the bride S father into n bach room
and sit ON him to prevent his interrupt
ing and breaking up the wedding.
There are six poets in tho British
House OF Lords. 1t is suspected that
they were selected under the belief that
their new positions would prevent them
from writing poetry. = Morristoun
Herald.
She may be an angel at all ether times
But you'd better Keep still as q mouse.
Unless you're prepared for an old Fashioned
When the time comes for cleaning IN
house.
-.Eerchont- 7rurcler.
She (cmphaticallyj-:How kind of
nature to bestow on the blind the faculty
of distinguishing colors by the sense Of
touch He MISUNDERSTANDING.
but it's not altogether confined to the
sightless. In tins hard world a fellow
be blind to feel blue
In chemistry the best way to separate
two bodies is to Introduce II third. The
holds true in other dcpa. tments.
increase the distance between a pair
of lovers, all that's required is to let Willie
walk into h e"back parior" with o lighted
in his hand.
DR.. Gimlet returns cmpty-honded
from n days hunting and, in response to
his wife's inquiries, candidly confesses
he killed nothing. ''Whv," rctorts
G.. slowly, you could have done
better than that had you stayed at home
and attended to your regular business"
-LaoW CT isen.
'How high the bonnets are this fall"
Said Jack to pretty Nell: 3
They're high in shape, but that's not all
They re high in price rs we'll"
''ies, Jack" the maid replied, "that's sou
And then gIancsd up at him:
"Bnt still you always stoop, you know,
To get beneath the brinl."
columbus Dispatch.