Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1889-09-19


If you wont o man to think you
are smart you have only to make
him think you thiER 10 issmart.
We gain nothing BY fassehood but
the disadvantage OF not being be
lieyed whcnywc speak the truth.
An Qssgon girl wrote to Anna
Dickinson once, asking chow to get
n husband9" and Anna replied aby
the hair."
If you would find great many
faultJ, be on the lookout; if you
want to find them in unlimited guam
titles, be on the look-in.
He who tells lie is not sensible
how great task he undertakes; for
he must be forced to invent twenty
more to maintain one.
Sir Matthew Hale declared, even
as long ago as, 1870; that eighty per
cent of the crimes committed in
England were due to drunkenness.
a countryman, on being charged
by a rampagious bull, held his wife
firmly in front, saying, "stand steady,
Maria; he can't toss both of u.s."
If you want 10 give pleasure to Il
pretty woman do not talk to her of
her beauty, but of the uglincss of
other women.
Before the war the largest crop of
cotton was 100000 bales. 1t is es-
timatcd that last years crop will
reach 7.400.000 bales,
An italian has discovered that the
decay incident to old age is caused
by microbc which is Inherited; and
he proposes to find an antidote which
will destroy this microbc.
"Style," says a writer on literary
topics, 'mcans everything" eyes,"
said Gibson, whose wife is dcvotcc
to fashion, cit means everything a
mans got"
A Portuguese doctor asserts that
he has cured seven cases of hydro
phobia by rubbing garlic into the
wound and giving the patient q de-
coction of garlic 20 drink for several
days.
Parents deceive their children as
mode of leading them out of dan
ger and temptation, yet they wonder
later on when these same children
lie to them about the dangers and
temptations into which they have
fallen.
"I have seen a great deal of what
they call faith-curc," said New
York dentist, 'but l have yet to
hear Of a person who succeeded in
curing the Jumping tooth-achc in
any such fashion. Few people can
get up faith enough for that"
The natives of Madagascar have,
within the past ten years, given over
one million dollars to spread the
Gospel. This is one of the most re-
markablc results in the history of
missionary work.
General Lee carried two fine bot
ties Of brandy with him into the
field at the beginning of the war.
They were TO be used in case Of sud
den emergency. They were still in
tact at the close Of the war
"Ninctecn people out of twenty"
says Chicago doctor, "spcak
about this or that food being 'hcalthy.'
No food is healthy. Various things
may lie unwholcsomc, but no food
can give health. The idea is to
know what won't iniurc the SYSTEM"
John Mayo, of Georgia, is lame
and cannot walk, but he can sit in
his door with his rifle and shoot the
heads off OF flying crows at such a
distance as would mako Bogardus
and Carver give up in despair.
Mr.. Popiniay: "Woman's curios-
ity amuscs nc" Mrs. Popinjay:
"Aho, by the way, what's that stain
on your hand?" Mr.. Popinjay ::
"Paint. was coming by Blobson's
fence, and just touched my finger to
sec if it was dry"
"Mcn drink from habit" says DR..
McCosh. "lf | could get twenty IL
quor drinkers to stop and turn to
buttcrmilk or ginger ale for month
they would form new habit. Not
one whiskcy drinkcr in fifty likes the
| taste Of the stuff"