Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1866-02-14

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News and Miscellaneous Items.
{. E% A little boy, returning from Sunday
school, said to his mother: g Ma amt there
q kitty-chism for little boys? This cat-echism
is too hard for-me." :s,. -.
t. Agood deal ofthe consolation offered
in this world is about as. .solacing as the as-
surance Of the man to his wife when she fell
into the river: You'll find ground at the
bottom, my dear" ,s,s.
E% The Washington correspondent of the
New, York Oommercial; Advertiser describes
q new excitement Petroleum is played
out as a fancy. speculation. here, and cotton
planting is all the rage. High Government
officials are acting as presidents and vice
presidents and treasurers Of organized COM
panies, while there are; some scores of-unin-.
eorporated associations, which have sent soma
one down into Dixie with few thousand
dollars, more or less, to.cultivate the feculent
FIBRE" i.sis-. - .~ ..,-
EE The new commissioners of the town
of Charlotte, N. c., have fixed the tax On re-.
tailers of liquors at $500, and on those who
sell in any manner $780,; sv~s.e..
rEa. A Paris architect is said to have in
vented q brick which hardens with time,
completely resists humidity, and is said to
realize an economy of forty per cent. in
building.
E Japan must be good place to go
to. It is said you can: n:buy first.class house
there for thirty dollars, and live comfortably
in it for two cents adny. Servants charge
Fifty cents a month, and horse and groom
may be had for the same time for one dollar
and fifty cents.
@ A fact highly, honorable to topas is
disclosed by q late report of the New York
Inspector Of State Prisons while all other
occupations are represented in their large
number of convicts, there is not single
printer.
IL Women are indispensable to the do
mestic sphere Of life, particularly in sickness.
What would have become of Adam, if he had
been taken sick before Eve came? Who
would have made his Cruel and beef tea, or
bound his head up in a wet towel? -
BE- The editor of a country paper says
thet he felt called upon to publish father
Lewis sermon on the Locality Of He'll" as
it was'a question in which nearly all its rea-
=ders were deeply interested.
saS More than s5o0,OOO,OoO Of gold have
been received from California Curing the last
twelve years.
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E. The Emperor Napoleon is seid to be
very much pleased with some Iowa wire
which was lately sent him from this country.
Ex-Generals Marnaduke, Preston and
Walker, of Texas, are in London, as is also
Mr.. Judah p. Benjamin.
E A london firm began business on
six hundred and fifty dollars three years ago,
and has just failed for over million.
k There was avoiding recently at the
Berlin Court, and the English and French
Ambassadors, with thcsr~ ladies, left the ban
.quett hall, because they were assigned places
by the Lord Chamberlain at lower table.
E An exchange says: al would bc
perfectly willing to share the fortunes Of war
with the noble army of contractors"
ls Douglas Jerrold calls women arms
the scrpents that wind about mans neck,
killing his best resolutions"
pg- There are $40 houses to be taken
down in the old Eart of Paris before the 18th
OF April, which will cause 10000 families,
comprising 10000 souls, to be displaced, and
compel them to seek other lodgings.
nar How to become real estate agent
Marry rich vile.
W Lip service is discreditable to Chris.
tian, but it is a'delightful thing between two
lovers.
. B&- Ladies and Indians paint their faces.
Extremes meet--clvilization and barbarisIn.
E- A very talliative little girl used Of
ton TO annoy her mother By making remarks
about the visitors that camo to the house.
| On one occasion a gentleman was expected
whose nose had been hattened nearly TO his
face. The mother cautioned her child par
ticularly to cay nothing about this feature.
Imagine her CONSERVATION when the little
one exclaimed, Ma, you told me not to say
any ything about MIR. Smiths nose; why he
hasn't got any,"
EA It was not Suook's wife who .:loYcd
to mako bread because it cleaned her hands
so beautifully, nor who wanted dark-colored
tea-set Tat wouldn't show the dirt" 1t
was base SANDER upon Mrs. Snooks, and
we are happy to record the fact.
EN A two.headed girl was exhibited at
Lexington, KY, during State Fair, held at
that place a few weeks ago. If she has two
mouths and two tongues, and can talk with
both, the mau who L1arrics her will see
"sights."'
IL The Syrian salute is the most signif-
cant that there is; the hand is raised with
quick but graceful motion to the heart TO
the lips, and to the head, to intimate that
the person salutingi is wiling to serve you, TO
think for you, to speak for you, and to act.
for you. 80 - - '
~ A Connecticut schoolmaster asked a
lad from Newport, /" how many Gods are
there ?" The boy, after scratching lis head
somo time, replied: "1 don't know how
many you have in Connecticut but we have
mono in Rhode Island"
gsp A mathematician, being asked by
stout fellow g if two pigs weigh twenty pounds,
how much will stout hog weight replied,
dump into the scales and I will tell you i'm
mediately."
na-A GoxNuBIAL CoNrAD.-" Arrah, Pat,
and why did I marry ye ]ist tell me that
for it's mesclf that's had to maintain ye iver