The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1888-01-12
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There was land of bitter tears and wall
A land most like that drear one Daute
knew,
Where wan. faced Niobc, with dark robes
trailing,
In sad procession moves, brows bound
with rue.
1t is land peopled by witless mortals-
Compared with them the virgins five
were wise
And 1t is writ above its gloomy portals:
eve did not think it paid TO advertise"
There is a land that flows with milk and
honey
Not the condensed, nor yet the sorghum
Each dweller bears a gripsack fat with
Bonds, coupons, stocks and various other
gains;
Happy arc these as, a. high tide, the fishes;
No tear doth drown the laughter in 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 steel trap.
The gate-keeper at the railway crossing
should be man of signal abilities.
The man is known by the company he
keeps away from.
a fire in the Brooklyn navy yard de-
| stroycd property worth $200,000.
The rabbit is timid but no cook can
| make 1t quail.
knocks out I'll opposition at the foot Of the
hill
Table Boardcr-Waicr, there's hair 10
| stow 1,\ O.
| it's rabbit stew.
One good act done today is worth
thousand in 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 bicycle.
When a man attempts to warm his hands
| over hotel register it is high time to in
quire 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.
| airc who can afford to heap Goals OF fire on
| an CnCmy'S head.
The rich" said a Jew, ''cat venison be-
cause 1t ish deer; l cats mutton because it
ish sheep"
a little Burlington boy spelled cat,
&c 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 500.
a correspondent says that mlkweed is
the proper thing to plant on Il mill<man's
grave. lie is wrong, though; watcr-ily
is the thing.
Its queer how some people make
money" remarked one travelling man to an
other. "Yes; l suppose you refer to the
| countcrfcitcrs, was the rcjoindcr.
Life says that as between the dude and
his cane at this writing, the cane seems to
have triilc the best Of it in the matter Of
head.
a. wolf was caught in the streets Of
Chicago the other day. 1t was supposed
that he had unwittingly strayed from the
Stock Exchange.
The man who has a long ulster never
breads the winter; nay he rather welcomes
| IL, 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 man? We'll, il is good
deal like work to be man, and that is the
chief reason why men, real men, arc so
| very few.
Miss Admiration-Gcncral, were YOU
| ever mixed up in many engagements? Gen
| cral-Quitc number, but Fortunately cs
| capped with being married but once.
Women have much more adaplablity
than men. The girl with the tccnicsi.
| tinicst rosebud mouth can hold from four
to six siX-inch cOthcspinS between her jaws
on washday.
There are two ways Of getting through
this world. One way is to make the best
| 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
| trlmp.inViting posture on narrow thwart
from carly morn tell dcwy eve, and calls it
| fun, is the same chap that never goes to
| church because the pcWs aren't comfortable,
He who helps to circulate piece of go2-
| sip is as bad rs the one who originated it.
70 put your fist in a tar barrel and then 90
| round shaking hands with everybody is
what some people like to do.
| eff two from one you take, how many
will remain. Alicc?' 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:
'Ivc taken two from one and hundreds
remain. "And they will remain there"
| replied Alice.