The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1886-08-19
BRIC-A-BHAC,
A foot race-Chicago girls.

A foot race-Chicago girls.
You can get your phiz at the photo
graphers or the soda counter.
The Mexican flea is becoming vicious
and shows decided inclination to bite.
The sins an old man confcsscs with the
greatest relish are those he never committed.
The candidates are abroad in the land.
lhe WooGs III every county are full of them
Very possibly the child is born who will
bc the first President Of the British rcpub-
lie.
Many man is the architect Of his own
fortune, but never gets money enough to
build
A poodle dog and Doodle husband are
all that many young ladies require TO make
them happy.
The only time n young girl will excuse
hcr lover for treating her coolly is when he
sets up the ice cream
1t is curious fact that the sun never
shines SO hot on the base ball grounds us it
does on the harvest field.
If fifty men in the United States engage
in violent outbreak it is called local dis
turbancc; in Mexico it is n revolution
The advocates of female suffrage arc SO
consistent that at recent banquet they had
''iNt piil VI lulC uCultCtl WOnlCnu.
Some darned Yankee has invented a new
patent stocking darner. 1t can never take
the place of nice little woman, however
Some portions of South Carolina arc now
SO rigidly temperate that they object to
storms brewing i'll the neighborhood
The knights Of Labor and Labor Unions
arc distinct bodies, but there is Il "Strking'
| resemblance between them.
The boss painters have met in Philadcl-
phla, but we presume there will be no
change in style for coats of paint ut present
1t Is curious that a wrecked Steamship is
always in command of conc of the most
| experienced captains in the service"
The difference between n buzz saw and
q bull dog is that when the former is most
dangerous it never shows its teeth.
We arc never more deceived than when
we mistake gravity for greatness, solcmnitv
Tor science, and pomposity for cruditon.
A California woman while splitting wood
bit her tongue in two There is no moral
to this Women don't split wood this side
of California.
Nlclocipedc is the new name Of 4 musical
bicycle so fashioned that the rider can kick
out melodies, waltZcs and reels as he travels
along the road
~ plSIOlCarry threatening crank has
become an adjunct of Gen. L0gan's Prcsi-
dental booming scheme Anything for
notoricty, you know.
The new 81 silver certificates will bear Il
copy Of the Stuart portrait of Martha
Washington. A portrait of Gen. Hancock
will adorn the So certificates
Fortune is like collar button; when it
flies from you you have to get on your
hands and knees and work hard to get il
back.
'1Iarmonious coloring gives q feeling Of
rcposc III the home," says an art journal.
Therefore if you have red headed wife,
furnish your house in the same tint.
Women can talk a great deal with their
eyes, but the trouble is in pinning them
down to anything they say in this rather
vague and romantic form Of expression.
French women consider carrots as a
specific for the complexion, and good
judges in such matters can tell at glance
how many carrots fine q woman's complex
ion is.
All He was arrested in Portland on SUI.
piciOn. Now if somebody would arrest
'Ah thcre!' and keep it out of sight ana
hearing for while it would be rest for
everybody.
An advertisement in Western exchange
reads: "llow to act successfully on tn"
liver" If the chap who put the 0d. in
would only produce a medicine that would
teach people chow to act successfully" on
the stage there would be some sense about
him.