The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1888-01-12
BRIC-A-BRAC.

There was land of bitter tears and wall
ing
A land most like that drear one Dante
knew,
Where wan, faced Niobe 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:
''We did not think it paid to advertise"
There is land that flows with milk and
Not the condensed, nor yet the sorghum
strains
Each dweller bears gripsack fat with
money,
Bonds. coupons, stocks and various other
gains;
Happy arc these as, at 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 thcirs-thcy learned to advcr-
tisc.
A cold snap-Thc click Of a steel trap.
The gate-kecper 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.
stroyed property worth 5000, ,O00.
The rabbit is timid, but no cook can
make 1t quail.
A rolling stone gathers 10 moss, hut it
knocks out I'll opposition at the foot Of the
hill.
Table Boarder-WaitGr, there's hair ia
this stew. Waiter (chccrfully}-Ycs, sir
its a rabbit stew.
One good act done today is worth Il
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 a bicycle.
When 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 Jew, .'cat vcnison be-
cause 1t ish deer; 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.
lngton Police Court and was fined 500.
a correspondent says that mill1weed is
the proper thing to plant on a mlilman 3
grave. lie is wrong, though; watcr-liy
is the thing.
Its queer how some people make
money" remarked one travelling man TO an
other. "Ies; | 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 trillc 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 ne had unwittingly straycd from the
Stock Exchange.
The man who has q long ulster never
breads the winter; nay be rather wclcomcs
1t, 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
u'ty "lGIOuI working.
What is it to be a man? We'll, il is a GOOD
deal like work to be man, and that is the
chlc1 reason why men, real men, arc so
very few.
Miss dmiration--Gcncral, were vou
ever mixed up in many engagements? Gen.
eral-Quite 4 number, but | fortunately cs-
capped with being married but once
Women have much more atlaptabilitv
than men. The girl with the tccnicsi.
tmicst rosebud mouth can hold from four
to six siX-inch clOthcspins between her laws
on washday.
There are two ways Of getting through
this world. One way is to make the best
OF 1t, and the other is to make the worst of
1t. Those who take the latter course work
hard for poor pay.
The man who goes fishing and sits in
trlmp inviting posture on narrow thwnrt
from early morn tell dcwy eve and calls il
fun, is the same chap that never gocs 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 20
round shaking hands with everybody is
what some people like to do.
''lf two from one you take, how many
VIII remain, Alicc?" asked a young man of
his girl; 'Why, You can't take two from
and he kissed her twice. Now" said he:
I've taken two from one, and hundreds
remain. and they will remain there, }"
replied Alice.