The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1888-02-29
BRlC-A-BRAC.
THE DIFFERENCE.

THE DIFFERENCE.
have observed that if by chance,
On some elite occasion,
A swell doth on lady's train
Make damaging invasion,
The etiquette of time and place
The lady's rage will scatter,
And with q smile she'll say, Good, sir,
1t isn't any matter.
But should her lord make that misstep
In going to their carriage,
As like as not she'd season the
Amenities of marriage
With, There, you horrid, clumsy lout!
Was ever such veXation?
Some day those hoofs of yours will rip
The earth from its foundation
To rule oneself is in reality the greatest
triumph.
Trifes make perfection, and perfection
is no trife.
Friendship gives no privilege to make
ourselves disagreeable.
All men are not homeless, but some men
are home less than others.
Pulling the wool over peoples eyes
Selling mutton for spring lamb.
A contemporary calls sleeping car
that modern masterpiece Of misery.
Woman exacts love from man as duty,
but confers it on him as favor.
A general advance agent-The pawn
broker.
Clocks are awfully dissipated; they keep
all kinds of hours.
1t is not hard to get a woman to tell her
age. The diflicultyis in getting her to tell
the truth about it.
"There are no counterfeits in our cloth
ing advertises dealer. Does he refuse
to sell to dudesy'
The policemen OF the country say they
will make no reduction in their clubbing
rates to anarchists.
1t is generally the Idle who complain
they cannot find time to do that which they
fancy they wish.
If we arc ever in doubt what to do, it is
a good rule to ask ourselves what we shal
| wish on the morrow that we had done.
People in this world almost always have
ideals, and they are generally strenuous
about having other people live up to them
He was fond of singing revival hymns
and his wife named the baby Fort, so thai
he would want 10 hold it.
Much as worthy friends add to the hap
piness and value of life, we must in th'
main depend on ourselves, AID every one i
his own best friend or worst enemy.
a man who had grown rich selling ham,
built a country seat, but had some difficult,
| in finding name to suit A friend sug
gested that he call it the All-ham-bra.
The theory that corsets cause consump
ton is slightly disturbed by the discover,
| that there are more deaths from consump
ton among men than among women.
Look out for the man who is always sus
picious of everybody else's motives. Th
chances are that be has some motives him
self.
II charged battery myself once" eA
claimed an ex.sutler ''You did" replie
an old artilleryman who knew him. "Io
charged our battery fifty cents drink TO
whiskeyT'
| Keep your combs and brushes sweet an
clean. Wash them in tepid water con
tanning few drops of ammonia. Plac
the brushes bristles down to dry, and del
cate celluloid handles will not be injured
| Very little pure cinnamon is put upo
the market in this country. True cinna
man comes from Ceylon, and costs on
dollar pound. Cassia, the outside bark
costs one tenth as much, and is the articl
we use.
"All minkind are happier for havin
been happy" says a philosopher; but b
doesn't want to argue the proposition wit
man who enjoyed eating a platterful
lobster salad and two-thirds Of q mince pi
the night before just before he went to bee
Wife-The question, How to get rid Q
the surplus?" is an important one in polit
cal economy, is it not, John? Husband
Yes, my dear; but the question in privat
economy, How to obtain a surplus to sc
rid of" is of the greater importance.
The BARRIERS pole used to represent al
arm with blood streaming down, as bal
bers of the olden times were also surgeons
There is question as to the origin OF tn
blue stripes, but is supposed to have take1
| from the patients countenance when tn
doctors bill came in.
One of our Western exchanges says tha
practical revivalist requested all his cor
gregation who paid their debts to rise. Th
| rising was general. After they had take
their seats call was made for those VIII
! didn't pay their debts, and one solitary IN
| dividual arose, who explained that he wa
the editor, and could not because the res
of the congregation were owing him thei
subscriptions.