The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1886-07-15
BRIC-A.BRAc.
A left wheel pawning your bicycle.


Slight of and-Refusing an offer.
Wines and alcs often lead to whines and |
The small boy now dreams of s'marblc
hauls."
The frog is one of the fellows that like |
wet spring.
A growing ovil--Your next door neigh
bor's squalling baby.
A prize fighter is always willing to take |
his pay by the pound.
The mackerel are beginning to bite. So |
are the mosquitoes.
Could a bicycle trip be described as
''circular saw?"
The pawnbrokcrs' shops are full of the |
leaves of summer
Broken ON the whecl-a bankrupt bcy
| Gle manufacturer
The shoemaker is an authority on sole:
the drcssmakcr on bodice.
| Who will tic the knot? "Knot tic" saws
the Rev. Mr.. Burchard.
| 1t is said that the dip theory originated
among the Baptists
| The pugilist ought to be good work
man, he always tries to avoid strikes.
The chaps that raise the most dust when
| they strike are the carpet bcatcrS.
The dangerous dogs Of tho stock mar
kct arc the pointers
a man must not expect to live in clover
simply because he marrcs grass widow.
some American torpcdocS would be a
good fish for the Canadian cruisers to seize.
The hare is hunted by the hounds, but
the Welsh rarcbit is followed by the night
. mare.
a dispatch says: "Thc Indians arc being
hcmmcd in." Would it not be as well to
| rip en- up?
At the present price of the cereal tho tx-
preston Good us wheat" needs modify
ing.
, If the bakers could only persuade the
yeast to stop working, their strikes might
, be more effective
3 If the chins Of some labor demagogucs
? would knock off work for while there
would be less trouble
When the plumbers strike for less work
II would seem that the climax of abslrdity
had been reached.
n mans domestic relations don't bother
him half so much as the relations of his
domestic.
a woman cannot love a man with her
whole heart. She has to reserve Il little of
her affection for millinery.
| NoolSc W. farncy, one OF The pail
bearers at funeral in Dover n. H.. died of
heart disease while carrying out the cuskct.
| Ralph Waldo Emerson once wrote: owe
arc not very much to blame for our mar
: rioges. We all live amid hallucinations.
The red aag of the Anarchist like that of
the auctioncer, should be signal that every
, thing under it is to be knocked down.
! Nothing but leaves" was the subject of
Boston clergymans sermon. A great
; many sermons are nothing but leaves
E a st. Louis man has received from Paris
! a bust of Mary Anderson ca. we'd in wax.
1t would be more natural if it were carved
from ice.
$1-"Thicf !" %5O, 1000" Dcfaultcr ~
800, 600" "Shortagc!' $500 OOO--"Cana
r dian tourist" 1000, ,0OO-"B brilliant linan-
! ccr.'
l Rose Terry Cook has written novel
entitled "No;' and VIC mean kindly when
we say we hope Miss Cooks Nos" may
, be read.
: "How docs the milk get into the cocoa.
: NUT? asks subscriber. 1t does not get
into it at all. The cOcounut grows around
9 tho milk. Ask us hard one.
Georgia, from present appearances will
hardly be able to save her Bacon. We
would let John bc Gordon but not Gov
crnOr.
1t is said that 'lovc is blind" and Der
haps this may account for the fact that two
lovers never care for any light in the front
parlor.
| An honest old farmer, on being informed
tho other day that one of his ncighbors
owed him grudgc, growlcd out "No
matter; he never pays anything"
Colonel Balm, of Kentucky, is spoken of
us an eloquent temperance lecturer. We
always thought whisky was the banc of
Kentucky.
1t Is announced that New York actor
will appear in The Toy Pistol" lie will
probably have to get half cooked" to fill
his role properly.
bachelor poet propounds the following
conundrum: 'What is warmer than a
woman'S lover In response to which a
marrid prose writer would like to inquire:
"What is colder than womans fcct?'
Somebody says the American type of
manhood will steadily improve until it sur
passes all others that arc or ever have been:
all of which it would be dreadful hard to
make dude believe.
Black sashcs will DC much worn this
summer. We notice this in fashion pa
per, and hasten to give it wider publicity,
because some people are painting their win
dow frames red
eff baby cries" says an exchange,
warm its feet before you dose it," 1t is
nothing new, we understand, to warm
baby when it cries; but, unfortunately,
parents do not usually confinc the opera,
ton to the little ones feet