The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-01-23
BRiC-A-BRAG.
Activity is not always energy.

If the cover is removed from soap dishes
the soap will not get soft.
4 Chicago hotel has introduced smoke
consumer Cannot one be introduced into
the cigarette fend?
Fate is the friend OF the good, the guide
of the wise, the tyrant of the foolish, the
enemy of the bad.
Fashionable insanity is exhibited row to
marked degree in what is called home
decoration.
BY the fruit you shall know them, and
therefore the almanac makers are known
by their dates.
The choir girls of New York are griev
ing because they are being supplanted by
boys. The rage now is for boy choirs.
Whether marriage is failure or not is
a question good many old maids would
be perfectly willing to investigate.
The mariner is always glad to see a
lighthouse, but this cannot be said of the
actor.
Seal-plush garments are said to retain
their original appearance much longer than
the genuine sealskin.
AlphoDse Dandet is credited with the
creation of happy synonyme for dotage.
He cbaracterizes it 'anecdotage."
Are you ill?" asked the physician; "let
me see your tongue, please. Its no use.
doctor; no tongue can tell how badly l
feel"
The number of streets in London is now
upward Of tweny eight thousand, and new
ones are added at the rate Of three hundred
year.
Up in Finland they have telephone
line connecting four towns, OF which the
outside ones are one hundred and thirteen
miles apart.
An exchange says: The new English
powder for small arms is white and almost
smokeless." Seems as if long sleeves would
be better for small arms.
\ citizen bought himself book the 9TH
er day, and wrote this On the f1y-leaf: Pre-
seuted to John Jones by himself as mark
of esteem"
They have new names for old things. A
big thief is sometimes called rehypothe-
Gator, and gross plagiarism unconscious
absorption.
Some of the alleged black monkey fur
looks as if it grew on dogs back; in fact
looks much more canine than any OF the
dogskin gloves.
The ancient mariner says the modern
sailor makes too much of the storms of the
Atlantic for his own glorifcation in the
newspapers.
American wagons have the market in
South America, and the American wheel
barrow is to be met with in every portion
OF China and Japan.
Among the various new red shades are
Mephisto, bull's-eye and he'll fire. Amo-
rous frog is warm green tint, and spanked
baby delicate pink. whats In
name?
Says a cynical old bachelor: Never
marry woman unless she is so rich that
you would marry her if she were homely
and so beautiful that you would marry her
if she were poor.
1t must be curious event. the proposal
of suffering lover He would have some
difficulty in telling his fair one that she
was the pup pup-pearl of his life, and the
dud-dud- darling of his heart.
The bang question will crop out again
now and then. The Milwaukee Journal
says that this kissing on the forehead is a
hollow mockery, and the sex did we'll to
make it impossible by inventing the bang.
A new role for women in London city is
that Of serving wriNs A pretty young
woman there is said to fnd doors open to
her which TO nearly every other sheriff. Of
fcer are shut fast.
Mahogany and cherry, furniture often gets
dull for the want Of a good cleaning with
a moist cloth. Polish with the hand, rub
bing well, and the result will be surprising.
Windows can be cleaned in winter and
the frost entirely removed by using a gill
of alcohol to a pint of hot water. Clean
quickly and rub dry with a warm chamois
skin.
A sixteen-year.oid boy in Kansas City
attempted to steal md carry away saw
mill one day last week. He first stole
horse and wagon and was busily engaged
In taking the mill to pieces preparatory to
loading it upon the wagon, when the mill
owner appeared on the scene and gathered
him in.
The new American navy, when COM
pleted, will consist of twenty-five vessels,
ranging from the armored cruiser Maine,
carving 444 men, down to a frs-tclass tor
pedo boat, carry four officers and eighteen
men. There will be 5,7S6 men on board
the twenty-five vessels-500 officers and
5,2S6 sailors and marines.
One of the smartest Western towns grow
ing is Gladstone, Mich Fourteen months
ago it began to be, and was named after the
Grand Old Man. Today it has two thou
sand inhabitants, the principal streets are
paved with cedar blocks, there is com,
plete fire apparatus, four thousand dollar
town hall. an electric light plant, five
churches three school buildings, two bank
buildings, three hotels, six manufactures,
one weekly newspaper, and fifty business
houses representing the various branches
of trade.
For months past crows, to the number Of
from one million to three million, have
swarmed in the eastern end of Douglass
county, Illinois, feeding in the fields in
daytime and collecting at night. About
dusk these birds gather in from the sur
rounding country ii myTiads, and the noise
they make is deafening. Frequently they
alight in such vast numbers on the trees
that large limbs are broken under their
weight. One day last week. black cloud
of these birds was crossing the Inilroad
track, when the smoke from the engine
blinded them. They few against IT,; side
Of the swiftly moving cars, and >-ssons
who watched the strgnge sight ct.Inted