The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1888-01-11
BRIC-A-HRAC.

There was land Of bitter tears and wall
ing
A land NEST ike that drear one Dante
knew,
Where wan faced Niobe, with dark robes
trailing.
In sad procession moves, brows bound
with rue.
II is land peoplcd by witless mortals-
Compared with them the virgins tive
were wise
And it is writ above It's gloomy portals:
I'VE did not think it paid to advertise.
There is a land that flows with milk aud
honey
Not the condensed. nor yet the sorghum
strains
Each dwellcr bears gripsack lat with
Bonds, coupons, Stocks and various other
gains:
Happy are these as. a; high tide, the fishes;
No tear doth drown the laughter IL their
eyes;
For better luck they have no sort of wishes:
The cake is theirs-thcy learned to adver-
tise.
A cold snap-The click of a steel trap.
The gatc-kceper at the railway crossing
should be man of signal abilities.
The man is known by the company be
keeps away. from.
A fire in the Brooklyn navy yard de-
stroyed property worth $500, 0OD.
The rabbit is timid, but no cook can
make it quail.
A rolling stone gathers 10 moss, but It
knocks out all opposition at the foot OF the
hill.
Table Boarder-Wa there's hair il
this stew. Waiter (checrfully)-Ies, sir:
it's rabbit stew.
One good act done today is worth q
thousand IL contemplation for some future
time.
The English language sounds funny to a
foreigner, as when one says, Il Will come
by-and-by to buy a bicycle.
When man attempts to warm his hands
over hotel register it is high time to in
ouire into his mental condition.
The man who spends all his money on
liquor is usually down at the heel. Old
boots and bottles go together.
Coal is so high that it is only the million
aire who can afford to heap Goals of fire on
an enemy's head.
"The rich" said Jew, ''eat venison be-
cause it ish deer; eats mutton because 1t
ish sheep"
A little Burlington boy spelled cat,
'tC.a-milk" !" because, he said, cats didn't
like tea.
Sherburne G. Hopkins. who, some weeks
ago, sent bogus internal machine to Chief
Justice Waite, pleaded guilty in the Wash
ington Police Court and was fined 800.
A correspondent says that milkweed is
the proper thing to plant on milkman 5
grave. He is wrong, though; a water-liiy
is the thing.
Its queer how some people make
money" remarked one travelling man to an
other. Eyes; suppose you refer to the
counterfeiters, was the rejoinder.
Life says that as between the dude and
his cane at this writing, the cane seems to
have trile the best Of it in the matter OF
head.
A wolf was caught in the streets of
Chicago the other day. It was supposed
that he had unwittingly strayed from the
Stock Exchange.
The man who has long ulster never
breads the winter: nay he rather welcomes
it, for he is then enabled to conceal the
bags in the knees of his trousers.
A camel will work seven or eight days
without drinking. In this respect he differs
from some men, who drink seven or eight
days without working.
What is it to be a man: Well, il is good
deal like work 10 be man, and that is the
chief reason why men, real men, are so
very few.
Miss Acknowledgement, were you
ever mixed up in many engagements? Gese
eral-Quite number. but fort ulssiy cs.
capped with being naErjsa 5at once.
| MousSeasTs much more adaptability
than men. The girl with the teeniest,
tiniest rosebud mouth can hold from four
to six six-inch clothespins between her jaws
on washday.
There are two ways of getting through
lQlS WOTlu- Out may 10 w lI.AhS luN bOoe
of it. and the other is to make the worst OF
it. Those who take the latter course work
hard for poor pay.
The man who goes fishing and sits in
tramp-inviting posture on narrow thwart
from early morn tell dewy eve, and calls it
fun, is the same chap that never goes to
church because the pews aren't comfortable,
He who helps to circulate piece OF Cos
sip is as bad as the one who originated it.
To put your fist in tar.barrel and then 60
round shaking hands with everybody IS
what some people like to do.
IF two from one you take, how many
will remain. Alice?" asked young man of
his girl. why, YOU can't take two from
one, Charley" "Oh, yes, can Alice"
and he kissed her twice Now" said he:
eve taken two from one, and hundreds
remain" "And they will remain there,
replied Alice.