Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1858-08-14
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no such season has been known The lit
tic rains fell fortnight before their time,
aud then ceased; and the land is one huge
steam bath. At Calpec, the thermometer
IN tents is l34 degrees; in Judgcsgore it
is l30 degrees; aud in Lower Bengal, with
in reach of the sea-breeze, it is 126. In
Calcutta, in house hermctically sealed
against the admission of light, and with the
punkah going, it stands steadily at 06 dc.
grccs. Sickness is all but universal. The
small pox is bursting out here and there,
half the European community have fcvers
and moiety of the other half only escape
the curse by am inaiction, though not un-
healthy, is even more unbemablc-
mcrablc boils. In Allahabad, cut of l.
600 Europeans, not 900 are fit for duty,
and the number of deaths from "apoplcxy"
that is sun. n.stroke-excceds the mortality
from all other soruces."
EFFECTS OF NOVEL READiNa,-
family, brought to destitutiou in England,
has had all its misfortunes clearly traced,
by the authorities, to an ungovcrnoble pas
sion for novel reading, entertained by the
wife aud mother The husband was sober
and industrious, but his wife was ndolcnt
and addicted to reading everything in the
shape of romance. This led her to utter
ly neglect her husband, herself, and her
eight children. One daughter, in despair,
fled the parental home, and threw herself
into the haunts ofvice. Another was found
by the police, chained by the legs, to pre-
vent her from following her sisters exam
pie. The house exhibited the most often
sivc appearance of filth and indigencc. In
the midst of this pollution, priyation and
poverty, the cause of it sat reading the latest
Sensation" work of the season, and rcfus
cd to allow herself to be disturbed in her en-
tertainmcnt.
WHEN George " went to ireland, one
of the "pisintry," delighted with his afra-
blllty to the crowd on landing, said to the
toll-keeper, as the king passed through ::
"Ocl, now and his maicsty-God bless
him .-ncvcr paid the turnpike an how's
thatF ooh, kings never does--wc let's
EN- go free" was the answer. "Thcn,
thorc S the dirty money for We" says Pat,
1t shall never be said that the king came
here, and found nobody to pay the turn
pike for him."
"SHoN," said a Dutchman, "you NAV
say what you please bout bad ncighbors !;
had to worst ncighbors as never was.
Mine pigs and mine hens come home nit
der ears split; and fodder day two of dem
como hc!ne missing"
a PRUDENT and well disposed member
of the Society of Friends once gave the fol-
lowing friendly advice: "John," said he,
81 hear you are going to get married p
YES" replied John, clam" "Well,"
replied the man of drab, {" have little
piece ofadvice to give thee, and that is,
never marry a woman worth more than
thou art When married my wife, L
was worth fifty cents, and she was worth
siNty-two cents, and whenever any differ
ence has occurred between us since, she has
always thrown up the odd shilling"
| A BEAUTIFUL little bluc-cycd girl of
three years old, was nestled in her mother 5
arms, at twilight, lacking out at the stars.
Mother" said she, "it is getting dark"
And what makes it dark" asked her
mother. " Because God shuts his eyes"
replied the little one.
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