The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1886-08-25
BRiC-A-DE!iC.

The past week has been the hottest of the
season.
a suit of armor was the old-fashioncd
Knight dress
In 4 few more weeks the fall business will
open up lively,
Old Sol is hand and glove these days
with the resort proprictors.
Umbrellas have widespread popularity.
The man who borrows trouble is never
able to pay it back. Remember this.
The fool and his money are soon parted
but this is not true of the fool and his hair
The school boys of the older time used
10 know something about the 'switchin&n's $
strike.
Halifax is to have a steel railway.-J1p,'
nal! There are several steal railways il
this country.
Love is that golden latch key which.
hangs on the outside, and lets in happiness
to every heart.
BY actual count it has been ascertaincd
that q man can shoe horse quicker than q
woman can shoe a hen.
Sixty thousand cards are used in the
Brooklyn Library.-Er a new pack for
every game, we suppose.
It's wifc's duty to be pleasant, says
an exchange. Yes, and its the husbands
duty to make her duty easy.
Hotel Turtle is the name of Dakota
| hotel, and we presume the people who stop
there find the motto to be, Shell out
Actors are too much given to quarreling,
considering that it is part of their busi-
ness to kiss and make up
A Buffalo girl never has her wedding
dress made in that city, for fear some one
will say she was married in q buffalo robe.
I'VE want 4 circus, and We want it bad"
eyclaims a Western editor. We should
think he would want good one while lie
was wanting.
4 lady whose husband indulgcs more OF
less at the club, says he is kind but in
dulging husband.
There is q place in Pennsylvania called
Economy. 1t is not I summer resort.
New England ice cream must be made
for export to Canada. It kills at shorter
range than jersey lightning
Cincinnati has discharged two policemen
for inability 20 read and write The
should be eligible for jury duty.
Il know what the nights of labor arc.
said the mother of six boys as she sat down
to repair the pile of trousers and jackets
1t is one OF the easiest things in the world
to make bluilder, but how hard it is
sometimes to repair one
Gath sententiously says that though the
great reformer died the great puloiner still
pcrpctuates himself.
Who drank the first julcpy Why, Ncb-
uchadncZZar. lie IVES the first man who
| ever mixed grass with his liquor
Only four months before Congress will
assemble again, bat tie 10th can only las;
| till March 4tl, u is some consolation.
There is nothing certain class of men
will not forgive, il. you will accept their
views; and nothing they will forgive, if
you do not
Some one remarks that "lace is what ruf-
fles the men nowadays" But he is wrong.
Lace rutfies the women rs usual. 1t is pay
Ing for it that rutfies the men.
Women drink liquor says writer,
"and yet they never see snakes" Guess
you haven't posted yourself far enough
back. Did you ever hear Of Eve?
Home again. Not dead nor injured!
You even smile. Is it-can it be true"
Thus spoke the umpircs wife. TO be con-
tinued.
A Connecticut editor called the local
court the Lime Kiln Club. and was prompt
ly fined $5.57. About six jokes per week
at that rate would bankrupt most Connect
cut editors.
Elizabeth Rose Cleveland says: AN
acorn in the mind is worth forest on the
end of the tongue" But, dear Elizabeth.
neither is the object of such tender care as
acorn on 4 pet toe
The man who invented the Chestnut
alarm little bell to carry concealed,
and to ring when stale joke is to!d-must
have had Tennyson's line III mind: Ring
ont the old, ring in the new.
They were speaking of q young lady
who sings beautifully, and one Of the party
asked: is she 4 1neZzo sopr&no!" No,
l guess not: think she is 4 SwcGc,' was
the innocent reply OF 4 high school girl.