The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1886-10-21
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An old head-The head of navigation
Never gets full-The contribution box.
The incest things in summer hats
Pretty girls. > ~ ... ~
The man who feels certain that he will
not succeed is seldom mistaken.
What is it that man with two eyes can.
not see with one? T'othcr eye.
Wonder if the sea serpent could swallow
all the stories that arc told about him?
The question of the hour Is always one
of great moment.
Why was Eve like Sunday? She was
the first of the weak.
The ties formed at sociablcs sometimes
lead to matrimonial knots.
If everybody would mind his own busi-
ness we wonder how q lawyer would live.
The following words, if spclt backward
or forward, are the same: Name no one
man."
What will be the ruling fancy of the
season? In other words, what will take
the place Of progressive cuchre?
A Western paper says there are pretty
tough nuts in the army. Does it refer to
the kernels?
The man who las made his own meat
and bread is the man who carries home the
money when his cotton is sold.
There is frozen music in many heart
that the beams of encouragement would
melt into glorious song.
Now for tho "scar-and- yellow-lcaf" poet
He may approach, but with the under
| standing that we keep club.
1t isn't always the man who knows the
most that wins, but the man who Gun apply
what he does know.
A man Of short statue gives as reason
| for his stuntcd growth that he was brought
up when child on condensed milk.
1t is a little singular that a journal for
the blind should get so excited as to print a
scathing article against low-nccked dresses.
We know the summer is over because
when we pick up the papers now we don't
see columns about how the girls look in
their blthng suits.
Georgia: ''Do you know, Ethel, old
| Smokes had pCrplcxity fit the other day?'
Ethel: "A ,pcrplexity fit? You mean a
parallel stroke"
'Im very fond of little boys" che said
rs she trippcd on string stretched across
the pavement. Il feel as if l could eat a
| couplo of them this minute raw"
The floral bnll is getting to be rather
stale for marriage cGrcmnnicS. Why should
not some cnicrprising couple bP married
under pair tree?
a Chicago minister preached on "What
| can do to be saved?' Itwould seem that
about the first move would be to get out of
! Chicago.
Mother" said little girl, Il believe
III be duchcSc when grow up" GLOW
! do you expect to bccoMc duchess, my
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| man. to be sure"
| The lawyers and doctors of Ellsworth,
| Me, want ont in cold blood the other day
and attempted 60 play base ball. The law.
| ycrs won, but the doctors will eventually
get the best of them.
a young man who has good deal of
| spare time on his hands wishes to learn of
something that will keep him occupied.
We can think Of two things right off-get-
ting married and tipping over beehive.
a little girl lately wrote 20 her friend:
Yesterday little baby sister arrived, and
papa is on journey. 1t was but piece
OF luck that mamma was at home to take
care Of it,.
when wife runs away leaving Il hus-
| band and nine children, as q Tennessee
woman did the other day, the Door man
might almost be excused for wishing that
I he had never seen her.
Give boy address and Accomplishment
and you give him the mastery of palaces
and fortune wherever he may go. He has
! not the trouble Of earning or owning
thom; they solicit him to enter and possess.
1he girI who meyer screams when she
| sees Il snake isn't safe girl to marry. With
her calm, cool, collected, uncXcitable dis
position she would hit where she aimed
with the rollinspip every time.
A contemporary asks: 'IIow shall
women carry their purses to frustrate the
!hcyyes?' why. carry them empty. Moth
ing illustrates thief more than to snatch q
%&9Mans purse, after following her for a
mile, ana eAen !;n2 that it contains only a
receipt for spiced pGRGhGs.