The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1888-02-15
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BRlC-A-BRAC.
OUR CHOICE.

OUR CHOICE.
Some koys like the maiden with saucy blue
eyes,
Or fancy the girl with gold hair;
Some chaps like the lass of diminutivc size,
Or maiden with scholarly stare;
Some youths are quite partial to tender
young dears
Or beauties who weightily crash;
But men are convinced through the know
ledge of years
There's naught like the girl with the cash.
The telephone operator has perpetual
holler-day
For weighs that are dark commend us
to the coal scales.
The cold wave flag carries black lozenge
in the centre. This is for bronchitis.
A sailor is lightning change man. In
twinkling he can turn into hammock.
TIE mathematician's favorite season is
the summer. The milkman's is the spring.
Song of the emancipated debtor-"We
do not sneak as we pass by
Man wants but little here below" But
he gets it below zero too often for comfort.
Thousand-dolar clerks who live at the
rate of ten are the ones from whom the
safe combination should be kept.
A Greek wedding ceremony lasts all day.
The duration of the divorce ceremony ism
gated.
The coat-tail Irritation is the latest. A
wrinkled coat-tail bearing dusty toe marks
means, II have spoken to your father.
THAT remains to be seen," is what the
young lady remarked when she left some
thing on the plate "for manners.
The woman who maketh good pudding g
in silence is better than she who maketh a
tart reply.
One hundred and eleven years must
elapse before the next row OF three figures
will stand in line to designate the year.
When fire in kitchen stoye goes out
itoften leaves undone those things which II
should have done.
The dog is not much of pedestrian
but he can make an unlimited number OF
laps in very short space
Don't dance" young men should par
take of "hop bitters." 1t might lubricate
their limbs little
It is a great honor to be rear admiral.
but, curiously enough, we never heer OF
rerr general or rear high private.
There is a certain corset factory that
turns out two corsets minute This is a
striking illustration of haste mixing waist.
See that your animals are mao comfort
able when the mercury is playins5 about
the zero point.
Of all dark traits that disigure the hui
man race, that of wishing to beiittle or de
grade the charater of another is the lowest.
An investigator has come to the conclu
sion that women have larger proportion
of brown eyes than men.
There is nothing under the face Of the
sky that can be quite so stuck up as sheet
of postage stamps when it tries to.
"Oh, very beautiful are little girls,
And goodly to the sight"
So John G. SAKE wrote years ago,
And John G. SAKE was right.
Quite beautiful are little girls,
And pleasing to the view;
Their rosy cheeks and clustering curls
I like to see. Don't you?
Yes, very beautiful are little girls,
And yet the dullest prig
Will willingly agree with me
They're prettier when they're big.
Wife-O, doctor, Benjamin seems to be
wandering in his mind! Doctor (who knows
Benjamin]-Don't trouble about that; he
can't go far.
The age of tree is determined by the
number of its rings, but 1t is not safe TO
apply this rule to the bejewelled over!'De
madam or the oyergrown monopoly.
Sometimes it is hard to tell whether a
man is firm in principle or simply obstinate,
but the man himself never expresses any
doubt.
1t was the young tailor who said, referr-
ing to a rival for the affections of a young
lady, that he thought he knew enough to
be able to cut him out.
When you see two dogs growing and
getting ready to fight, remember that it is
only joint debate, and the liveliest dog
will get away with the joint.
"Yes," said Smith, when the United
States gives away lands to railroad corpo
rations it sinks to the level of colporteur." "
"How is that asked Jones. Because it
becomes tract distributor.
4 girl who weighs one hundred and
twenty pounds and has thirty thousand
dollars in her own right. no matter how
homcly, unattractivc or cross-tcmpcrcd she
may be, is worth her weight in gold.
"What is your employment asked his
Honor of a prisoner arIaigncd for vagrancy
the other day. Walking, sir. Where
do you walk?' "Well, that's according to
which way the policeman is coming from.
Physician to patient)-Your case is a
very serious one, sir and think consul
tation had better be held. Patient Uoo
sick to care for anything)-Nery well,
doctor; have as many accompllces as you
like.
Il began with nothing" boastcd mil,
lionaire who had made his money in
crooked ways. "And that is the condition
in which you have left those who dealt
with you" was the blunt response Of a
bystander.