The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1886-09-08
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1cr TIE past week.
Spare the golden rc1 and spoil the sitting
room.
Aucticrerrs have nod way of receiving
bids.
The man who ought to ':give you fits
Your tailor.
\ misplaced switch When the wrong
boy is whipped.
This autumn all the browns are to shade
to yellow rather than red.
Yes. Ella, 4 policeman's club might be
called a limb of tie law.
Strike while the iron is hot but let some
other fellow hold the iron.
\ lady's declining years are said to be
from eighteen to twenty-five.
We fail to see any difference between
travelling dress and a walking suit.
There are hundred kinds of religion,
but only one kind Of piety.
Take a cheerful view of everything and
look for beauty in everything.
The smallest kird deed will return with
tender light upon some darkcned day.
To be content is not to be satisfied. No
OtiS w NC " ilA el4S PSAA>~e'
Be loving, and you will never want for
love; be humble, and you will never want
for guiding.
Prudence and good breeding arc neces-
sary, and most young men suffer from the
want Of them.
When the summer resorts fill up it be-
comes more difficult for the boarders to do
! SO.
Babies cry for the same reason that some
mcr swear. It's because they don't know
any better.
In what respect might boy on his way
TO the circus be said to resemble sailor?
in going to see.
No, we can't take time to read poem
written by fellow who tries to make home
rhyme with vritome.
Mere vulgar wealth, without l!berality
and public spirit, is the bane of any live
and progressive community.
Public opinion can only be relied upon
| to change, bat what new form it will take
is always matter of doubt.
4 writer says that "dress IS won ars
great conundrum. 1t is hoped that she
will never be compelled to give it up.
In civilized communities they hang a
man on evidence. In less civilized co n
lnunities they just hang him to tree.
1t would be relief to the general public
to he assured that the battle Of Gettysbur.g g
is actually at an end.
No matter what the water mill may do,
/ the hand organ man will continue to grind
the music that is past.
The New Orleans P:cayune says mil
lionaire is miserably poor in the presence
Of an assessor.
I'll Just add to the fresh hair fund, !"
said the Indian, as he took the frontiers
mans scalp.
If every dog has his day, we wish that
the dogs to whom belong these days would
be off with them.
A Philadelphia woman has patented g
life preserving corset. This will be q great
boon to women who are Gin the swim.
TO preserve bouquets put little salt
pctrc in the water you use for your bou
Qucts, and the flowers will live fortnight.
II we should have war with Mexico it
is estimated that Missouri alone could fur
nish half dozen regiments in which every
private would be colonel.
To be sincere we must speak as we think,
believe as we pretend, act as we profess,
perform as we promise and be as We appear
TO be.
Suppose old Dr. Johnson, the lexicogra-
pher were to stick his head up out of the
grave and hear somebody yell: Boycott
the scab,"
The man who was discarded the other
day by one of our fair maidcns told US he
had just met the author Of 'the beauti-
fuls no.
Cotton picking is beginning in earnest
To the cotton fields are tramping the great
and small, the stout and tall, and the little
''coons' and all.
4 man may read law and become o law
yer; he may study medicine and become a
doctor; but if he wants to be blacksmith
he must work at his trade.
When the people get out of the clutches
of money changers, who contract the cur
rency and run the government, prosperity
will return.
Cen Bragg, of Wisconsin, has been
caught in some political bargaining which
he had reduced to writing. Ignorance is
sometimes bliss.
On October l, 1886, the postal delivery
system will be extended to all post offices
in the country. There will he free deliv-
cry to all places within one mile Of the post
office.
The information comes by cable that
Oliver Wendell Holmes has set down to
table with kings and queens. This is in
tercsting as far as it goes, but how many OF
them did ne hold?
It is the little things that fret and worry |
us. A three -years-old boy may keep a man
in perfect misery, whereas no such trial
would accompany the presence OF his
eighteen-yearsold sister.
Mrs. Eve and Mr.. Adam live in Augusta
Ga. Mr.. Abel used to live in Columbus
and Mr.. Cain in Jefferson county. But
this does not indicate that Eden, Ca, was
the original Garden of Eden by any means.
He was looking for rich wife and
thought he was on the trail. Il love you"
he said to her in rich, warm tones, more
than I can tell you in words. !" You'd
better try figures she replied coldly, for
she was not so green as she looked.
The following good one has been un-
carthed:
DEAR STANTON: I should like very
much to have Freeze appointed Colonel.
even at the risk of his not being able to tell |
the color of Julius Caesars hair.
CA LINCOLN"
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