The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1886-09-08
BRIC-A-BRAC.

Straws show which way the cobbler
goes.
The nights have been delightfully."- cool
for the PAST week.
Spare the golden rod and spoil the sitting
room.
Auctionecrs have u nod way of receiving
bids.
The man who ought to "give you fits
Your tailor.
a misplaced switch When the wrong
boy is whipped.
This autumn all the browns are to shade
to yellow rather than red.
Yes, Ella, Il policcman's club might he
called a limb of the law.
Strike while the iron is hot, but let some
other fellow hold the iron.
a lady's declining years are said to be
from eighteen to twenty-five.
We fail to see any difference between o
travelling dress and a walking suit.
There are n hundred kinds of religion,
but only one kind of piety.
Take q cheerful view of everything and
look for beauty in everything.
The smallest kind deed will return with
tender light upon some darkencd day.
To be content is not to be satisfied. No
one ought to be satisfied with the imperfect.
BE loving, and you will never want for
love; be humble, and you will never want
for guiding.
Prudence and good breeding arc neccs-
sary, and most young men suffer from the
want of them.
When the summer resorts fill up It be-
more difficult for the boarders to do
SO.
Babies cry for the same reason that some
men swear. It's because they don't know
any better.
In what respect might q boy on his way
to the circus be said to resemble q sailor?
In going to see.
No, we can't take time to read a poem
written by a fellow who tries to make home
rhyme with cpitomc.
Mere vulgar wealth, without libcrality
and public spirit, is the banc of any live
and progressive community.
Public opinion can only be relied upon
to change, but what new form it will take
Is always u matter of doubt.
A writer says that "drcss Is womar's
great conundrum." 1t is hoped that she
will never he compelled to give it up.
In civilized communities they hang a
man on evidence. In less civilized com
munitics they just hang him to q tree.
1t would be a relief to the general public
to he assured that the battle of Gettysburg
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 Picdyune saws a mil.
lionairc is miserably poor in the presence
OF an assessor.
"lll 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 a
life preserving corset. This will he q great
boon to women who are lin the swim"
TO preserve bouquets put q little salt
pctrn in the water you use for your bou
quctS, and the flowers will live a fortnight.
If we should have a war with Mexico it
is estimated that Missouri alone could fur.
nish half Il dozen regiments in which every
private would be a colonel.
To be sincere we must speak as we think.
believe rs we pretend. act as We profess,
perform as we promise and he rs we appear
to be.
Suppose old DR.. Johnson, the lcxicogra.
phcr, 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 bcauti-
fuls no."
Cotton picking is beginning in earnest.
TO the cotton fields are tramping the great
ana small, The stout and tail, and the little
"~coons' and all.
y man may read law and become n law.
yer; he may study medicine and become n
doctor; but if he wants to be a blacksmith
he must work ut his trade.
When the people get out of the clutches
of money changers, who contract the cur.
rcncy and run the government, prosperity
vii! return.
caught in some political bargaining, which
he had reduced to writing. Ignorance is
sometimes bliss.
On October 1, 1886, the postal delivery
system will be extended to all post offices
in the country. There will he free dcliy-
cry to all llaccs 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 1t goes, but how many of |
them did no hold?
1t is the little things that fret and worry
us. a t~hrcc-ycars.old boy may keep man
in perfect misery, whereas no such trial
would accompany the presence of his
cightccn-ycars. old 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, Ga, WINS
The original Garden of Eden by any means,
lie was looking for n rich wife and
thought he was on The trail. II love YOU"
he said to her in rich, warm tones, more
than | can tell you in words" you'd
better try figures" she replied, coldly, for
she was not so green rs she looked.
The following good one has been un.
carthcd:
DEAR STANTON: | should like very
much to have Freeze appointed n Colonel