Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1849-08-11


of the day Wit cigars 10 their mouths,
the following system is recommended,
A single puff, serves for comma,
Puff, puff, senicolon;
Puff, puff, colon:
Six puffs, period. fz
A pause with cigar kept m the mouth
represents dash--longer or shorter in
continuance.
With the underlip, raise the cigar al
most against the nose for m exclamation
and to express great emotion, even to the
shedding of tears, only raise, as before,
the cigar to the end of the nose. For an
interrogation it is only necessary to open
the lips and draw the cigar round the
corner of the mouth
Taking the cigar from the mouth and
shaking the ashes from the end, is con-
clusion Of paragraph.
And throwing 1t into the fire, is final
and stylish pause.
Never begin u story with half smo-
kcd cigar for to light another while con-
vers;ng, is breach of politeness.
THE KrNTUCKY INrANT.--Therc Is
youth named Andrew II, Brand, living Oil
Green river, near Rumscy, in Davis coun-
ty, Ky, whose description may interest
numerous readers.
He is "perfect monster" in size, and
isjustly entitled TO the appelation of the
"Kentucky Infant" being only fifteen
years old, five feet three inches high, and
measures six feet in circumference around
the waist, three feet six inches around
the thigh, two feet six inches around the
calf of the leg, two feet two inches around
the arm, and weighs five Hundred pounds.
He is another evidence of the extreme
fertility of the growth of Kentucky, and
of the luxuiiant magni6cense with which
she does up things when she tries. Hois
youth of excellent common sense, and
even spnghtliness, and says he thinks of
visiting Louisville as soon as the hot sea-
sen is over, so as to give the citizens an
opportunity of looking upon one "whose
like they will never see again" He thinks
he can throw the giant Porter in the deep
shade.
SHARK CATcHING.-Three OF four of
our young gentlemen went out on shark
hunt yesterday, and in the course of two
hours landed a couple, one of which
measured 10 feet inches, and the other
IL feet inches in length. They had
fastened another, quite a monster, esti-
mated to be at least 10 feet long, but he
tore out the harpoon, leaving on it por-
ton of his entrails and escaped. There
is fine and fruitful field in our harbor for
this exciting sport. Char. Mercury.
IMPORTANT INVENTION IN RESPECT TO
THE DECORATIVE ARTs.-1fiss Wallace.
a lady of fortune, has recently discover
ed a mode of gliding and coloring the in
terror Of tubes of glass, which, when SO
prepared, form most magnificent bead
ing for the decoration of rooms. Itis al
soapplied to the framing of pictures with
great success and in a variety of ways, in
connection with decorative art, ut once
novel and attractive. Several specimens
of this beautifulinvention are now exhibi-
ted at the Society of Arts, Adelphi.
london Magazine of Science.
singular, FREAK OF LIaHTN1NG.--
The Bangor Courier says that during
thunder shower few days since, the
machine shop in Newport, in that county,
where are manufactured cast iron Bench
Vices--was atrnck BY lightning near the
centre of the building, and it then erin
kled about among the iron works in the
shop, melting out little bits of iron here
and there, Welding together punches OF
sheet iron, and setting the shop on FIRE in
a great number of places, at least fifty,
and then disappearing without injuring |
any person Or doing any very serious
damage. !
a MERITEp HoNoR.-Elwood Fisher
is to partake ofan honorary dinner from
the membersof the Virginia Legislature
next Monday at White Sulphur, in tes-
timony of their appreciation of lecture
he delivered some time ago in Cincinnati, !
showing that to the North chiefly will !
disastrous consequences ensue in case of
dissolution of the Union. The lecture
was lately reviewed in the Southern
Quarterly.
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