The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1852-06-30
A Column for Every Hody.

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Small pox and hopping cough arc prevail
ent in New York. The Mirror saws there
are over hundred cases of small pox in one
ward.
A tex offive dollars day has been levied
on tne Misses Fox, by the authorities of
Leuisviie rs long as they continue to give
spiritual manifestations in that city.
A Frenchman delicately defines a white
lie to be, @valking round about de troot"
Never be afaid to do right He that
body.
No professional man lives 80 much from
hand to mouth as dentist.
Ex-President Tyler, It is said, promises n
hearty support to Pierce and King.
The water on Lake Ontario is higher at
this time than It is remembered to have been
since lS4S.
During the past year, 1867 children at
tended the public schools in New York City.
There has not been a couple divorced in
the State of South Carolina since the Revo-
lutionary war.
Watermelons are now selling in the streets
OF New York at 25 and 80 cents a piece.
The violent slamming of door will, il is
said, kill young canary birds in their she'll
We never yet knew man disposed to
scnrn the humble, who was not himself n
fair object of scorn to the humblest.
Don't live with your arms foded; fortune
smiles on those who roll up their sleeves,
and put their shoulders to the wheel.
tt is better to be born with disposition
to see things on the favorable side than to
an estate of ten thousand year.
EXTRAORDINARY SPEEp.-The new ar
rangement took effect on the l4th inst, by
which passengers arc conveyed from the city
OF New York, to Buffalo, by rail road, in
fourteen hours and three quarters.
TRAGIcAL AFFAIR.-At Helena, Arkan-
sas, few days since, n man committed vio-
lence on a married lady, for which he had
been arrested. AS the officers were toking
him to magistrate for a commitment, it is
said the husband of the outraged woman
shot the offender dead in the street two
bullets passing through his brain.
A coffin, says an Irishman, is the house n
man lives in when he is dead.
man can't help what is done behind his
back, as the loafer said when he was kicked
out of doors.
Indian corn is being largely cultivated in
Germany.
Read not books alone, but men; and
chiefly read thysef.
Why is n sermon like kiss! Because it
is composed of two heads and an application.
If travellers don't lie, they have immense
showers at Panama. During October a
friend informed US, the rain came down i'm
such quantities that the ducks had to dive to
keep out Of the wet
Ifanything will make man feel juicy
about the heart it is to talk velvet to pair
OF sky-colored eyes in clover field. Try it.
1t is rs cheap to raise ton of grass or
clover, rs ton of burdock or pigweed.
Nimrod, can you tell me who was the first
man! Adam Somebody. His father wasn't
nobody--and he never had mother, on ac-
count Of the scarcity Of women and the pres
sure of the times.
TO ascertain whether woman is passion q.
ate or not, take n muddy dog into her parlor,
or squirt tobacco juice on her stove hearth.
a wife may ascertain her husbands equani.
NIFTY, by using his best clothes brush to
clean her CATERS with.
Modesty is to the female character what
saltpetre is to becf-while it prcseryds its
purity, it imparcs blcsh.
@Do you take apaperw
"What one!"
ANY one l can lay my hands on"
The above, though good, is not quite so
good as the original -
"Take wife, Tom," said Richard Brins.
ley Sheridan to his wild son Tom, the father
OF Mrs. Norton, stake wife Tom and re-
form"
With all my heart" replied Tom inno-
Gently, @whose wife shall take"
""Tis strange" muttered Young, man as
he staggered home fiom n supper party,
"how evil communications corrupt good
manners. I've been surrounded by tumblers
all the evening, and now I'm tumbler N.Y.
self"
Johnny, my son, do you know that you
have broken the Sabbath Z"
Yes, Dad" said his little sister, aand
mothers great big iron pot, too, into five or
six pieces"
@Cuffee, is that the second bellg"
"No, Massa, dat's dc second ringing Of de
fnss bell. We hadn't no second bell in dis
here hotel" = -
Il is stated that thirteen thousand cows are
kept in London, confined in cellars and sheds,
in various parts of the town.
aNow, Sam, If you don't stop licking them
molasses, I'll tell the man." GBy chalks.
you tell the map, and I'll lick you and the
'lasses too"
AMoDEL PARIsH.-The Monroe Register
announces that the Parish of Ouachita, in
Louisiana, is out OF debt aud has money in
the treasury. .s.
A girl 10 years Of age, living at St Malo,
is said TO have been asleep six weeks, and
without having had any nourishment
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