The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1886-07-01
BRIC.A.BRAC.
Upside down-A feather bed.

You can always get n bottle of perfume
| ry for a scent.
The fisheries question-Is there nything
left in the pocket flash?
If you find you cannot succecd-suc-
cumb.
One need not be brilliant writer to OK
press himself in glowing terms.
| Young man, never say to your sire: "You
might go, father; and fare worse"
Perhaps the music Of Thomas and Maria
| may not inaptly be called catchy.
The tramp who entered 4 bakery and
stole loaf Of gingerbread took the cake
Natures most becoming drcss-thc close
of the, day.
Etfectual destruction of weeds marrying
a widow.
Man proposes, woman accepts, if the col
laterals arc good.
1t is not believed that the President will
veto his wedding bills.
No chicken pic blooms on the ccholcss
banks of Salt River.
|VCountry cousins are beginning to receive
letters from their city relatives
Better, to have loved q short girl than
never to have loved a TALL
Every nice young lady who has bach
clor guardian should feel encouraged now
If you want to communicate with the
finny tribes of the sea first drop them line
When one splits his side with laughter he
| should run until he gets stitch in them.
In answer to the question, 'Is life worth
livingT we reply that it all depends on the
liver.
1T is between the acts at the thcatcr that
n man is most liable to have an attack of
the g'out.
Buy bar soap by the quantity. Keep il
where 1t will dry, and it will go much
farther in. using.
1t is sure sign that The fools are not all
dead when a fat man tries TO he dude and
wear tight pantaloons.
| Letter ,go!" exclaimed Flippant -talllcr.
dropping mssivc into tho box on the street
near DIR. AliOt's drug store
Maine seems quite willing to 90 over and
| thrash Canada, provided some one will hold
the Canadians till she does it,
We always knew this administration
would get itself into tr0uhlc before it fin
| iehcd its term.
Brother Blaine is everything and cvory-
where in these days. Isn't lie little too
previous for the summer of 1888?
If the poets can only be kept quiet the
country may yet recover from the excite
mcnt attending the Presidents marriage.
With what ticndish glcc the Frcnchman
will greet the news that the bicycle he's
been introduced into the German n,any
eyes," said Podgcrs wife, tho dcvil
has cloven foot, and the man who hos q
cloven breath is on the way to him."
10
foclngs who has bcon lavShing her smilrs
exclusively on students.
Come, swallow, come for thee wait"
sings a poet, 1or whom, apparently, the sa-
loon keeper will put nothing more on the
slate.
y What is home without paper, what
arc all inc Joys we meet, when we're igno.
rant OF the topics that arc talkGJ Of on the
street,
VA Harlem girl wants to know "if it is
true that kissing cures frecklcs." Wouldn't
say positively, but a simple recipe like this
is worth trying.
~ Western journal heads an article, "a
lllnatlc escapes and marries Il widow"
Escaped, ch? We should say he got
caught.
=. 81 do love dress" exclaimed u young 50.
clety belle. "Thcn / should think you
would wear more of it" replied cynical
bachelor.
A contemporary says Miss Folsoms pho
tograph mas been copyrighted. Her news
paper pictures appear to have been all COPY
Wronged.
The blockade against Greece has lust
been raised in Europe while on this side of
the water Congress is lcgislating against
olcomargarinc.
If the railroads continue to water their
stocks in the future as they have done in
the past locomotive that can't swim wont
be worth cent.
The Capitol says that interest in base ball
in Atlanta is waning. The crowds are very
light and there are not more than a dozen
ladies in attendance.
Now that the funnyisms of the Lord
High EXccutioncr in "Thc Mikado" are
becoming stale don't style them chcstnuts.
Call 'cm Ko ko-nuts.
Senator Edmunds approves the Prcsi
dents marriage in good round terms. After
that there could be no possible objection to
1t even If it were not too late
That genial brute, John l.. Sullivan.
threatens to write Il book. He evidently
wants to fight thrccround match with the
helpless English language.
lngcrsOllS sweeping assertion 'fhat moth
ing is ever lost" staggcrs our faith in him.
If he cXccpts umbrellas he can restore the
religious harmony between u.s.
Rip Van Winklc was foolish to 90 out
and sleep on damp mountain for twenty
years. He might just as well have clcrkcd
in store that did not advertise.
An Atlanta man is dying from the bite of
n mule. When mule becomes dangerous
at both ends it is time to'propound the CO.
nundrum: "Whithcr arc we drifting?"
If mystic signs are in vogue among the
drummers' associations, it may safely be
assumed that the new member experiences
little difficulty in catching on" to the grip.
The question which seems to be troubling
some members Of the House is whether but,
ter or butterinc would be the cheapest to
grease the political machinery of their dis
trict with.
1t always surprises a man when he dis
covers that woman is not q coward. But
1t never surprises a woman when she finds
that aman is.
DO not laugh al the gentleman with
pare DOlI nv SDD II 10 not noorl,r co Io,I