The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1897-03-09
wAxsiDE GATHERINGS.
Bits or Humor an,i nuggets OF Truth
for tho Multitude.

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Bits or Humor auu Nuggets of Truts,
(. for tho Multitude.
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Iet the ear be more diligent than
the tongue.
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While coveting the opportunities
our own.
-All our possessions are as nothing
compared to health, strength and q
clear conscience.
For want Of energy to fill up a
lamp there was no light; for want Of q
light there was wreck.
No one Is so poor as the man who
worries over the fact that he has moth
Ing to grumble about.
-Resolve to see the world on the
sunny side, and you have almost won
the battle of life at the outset.
Almost all ripe fruit may be freely
allowed to convalescents, their action
on the liver and kidneys being favor
able rather than otherwise. -
1t Is estimated that the present
wealth OF the United States exceeds
the wealth Of the whole world at any
period prior to the middle of the 18th
century.
TO cure barber's itch, moisten the
part affected with saliva-spittle--anti
rub 1t over thoroughly three times q
day with the ashes of a good cigar. It is
said that this treatment has cured the
most obstinate cases.
In what two cases are precisely
the same means used for directly OPP
posite purposes ? Why, bars, to be
sure. They are put on bank windows
dows to keep them in.
The negro race can be traced
back to 23OO b. c., when the Egyptians
became acquainted with them through
the conquests OF their rulers. The or
1g1n OF the race and their history pre-
v1ous to that time is unknswr.
=" Now II understand it correct,j y
the first principle of socialism is 10
divide with your brotherman." "Then
you don't understand it correctly. The
first principle of socialism is to make
your brother man divide with YOU"
The theatres of Japan have three
tiers of boxes, so arranged that the
women can change their toilets, for it
is long established custom that the
woman shall not be seen for an entire
ments.
links lat a party)-"I don't see
what's the matter with that pretty
woman over there. She was awfuliy
flirty little while ago, and now she
won't have anything to do with me-"
Stranger-"I have just come in. She's
my wife,"
The headache which is the result
of exposure to cold draughts or sudden
changes, is best treated by hot applica-
tions, hot water bags and gentle fric-
tion of the place in pain. II this does
not Danish the headache in day, then
deeper illness Is indicated.
"A most remarkable luminous tree
grows in Brazil. 1t Is about six feet
or seven feet in height, and is so lumi-
nous that it can be plainly distinguish
ed in the darkest night for a distance
mediate vicinity it emits sufficient
light to enable person to read the
finest print. ~
"A certain lady, whose absence of
mind was proverbial, happening to-
meet In society a young widow who
had lately lost her husband, condoled
with her sympathetically on her be.
reavement then, after O. pause, dur
ing which she lasped into her accus-
toned forgetfulness, inquired, to the
stupefaction of the mourner, twas he
the only one you had ?"
=" When I marry" said a young
egotist, the other day. shall expect
my wife to have bright fire blazing
in the crate when | come home, and
| my slippers and dressing.gown and
easy chair must be ready for me. She
must cook nice, dainty little dishes for
me, and" ooh come" interrupted
another man, what you want Is not q
negro boy"
"A president OF one of our colleges
once said: "The habit Of standing
idle, waiting for dead mems shoes,
kills the life in many rich mans son,
1t is a paralysis OF body and mind.
[ can pick out nearly every boy in this
college whose idea Of life is to spend
the money which somebody else has
earned. His looks, his acts, his talk,
are infected with dry rot"
The iron horseshoe permanently
fixed to the hoof was not introduced
until the fourth century of the Chris
tian era. On the grassy plains of Asis
and on the open ground elsewhere
shoes were not needed but the Ro
mans soon found that their paved
roads wore the hoof away. They
could devise no better remedy, how,
ever, than leathern soles and bags ~
protect the hoof, though there isr
son to believe that they had an
shoe which they put on and took 9
pleasure.
Needles are all made by ms
cry. The piece of mechanism by
needles is manufactured take
rough steel wire, cuts it into !,
lengths, files the point, fiattep
head, pierces the eye, then she
the tiny instrumen'
polish fami'''
There !"
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