The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1869-01-21


PEELED to return to their homes without
seeing the great physician. Hitherto he
has positively refused to receive any COM
pensation for his services, but We un-
derstand that his family are now receiv-
ing donations from those whom he has
cured Chambers Tribune.
Ripe Strawberries raised in the open
air, were brought to Jacksonville Flor
ida, a few days ago.
A physician examining student as
to his progress, asked him: Should a
man fall into we'll forty feet deep, and
strike his head against one Of the tools
with which he had been digging, what
would be your course if called in as
surgeon p
Il would advise them to let him lie,
and fill up the well,' replied the stu.
deut.
The nephew of Thaddeus Stephens,
who was to have 100000 of the great
Commoner's wealth if he abstained ten
years from liquor and tobacco, or would
be obliged to surrender it to the orphans
of the soldiers if he indulged, says he
will not rob the poor orphans.
Village Record.
BAD BARGAINs.--A teacher in q
Sunday School once remarked that he
who buys the truth makes q good bar
gain, and inquired if any scholar recol-
lected an instance in the scripture of a
bad bargain.
~ do" replied little boy. "Esau
made bad bargain when he sold his
birthright for mess Of pottage."
A second said, "Judus made a bad
bargain when he sold his Lord for thir-
ty pieces of silver" "
A third observed, "Our Lord tells US
that ha- makes q bad -haraain who in
trying to gain the world, loses his own
soul" A bad bargain indeed.
1t is not until the flower has fallen
off that the fruit begins to ripen. So
in life it is when the romance has pass
ed that the practical usefulness begins.
A curious fact is established that hail
is sSgcndered by two clouds, one above
the other, when they cross each other
at cerrain' angle. A low rumblins
is then heard, and a shower of hail i'm
mediately follows
A darkey in, Natchez, was boasting to
a grocer of the cheapness Of ten pounds
ofsugar he had bought of rival store.
"Let me weigh the package" said the
grocer. The darkey assented and it
was found two pounds short. The COL
ored gentleman looked perplexed for a
moment, and then said, "Guess he
didn't cheat dis child much, for while
he was gettin' de sugar I stole two pair
of shoes"
A.distinguished chemist makes the
unpleasant announcement that every
spoonful of raw sugar which is put in
a cup of tea or coffee is alive with ver-
min. Refining the sugar kills the in
sects.
Massachusetts,, with a population of
1,267,631, has, according to a state
ment of the New York World in her
aims houses, county prisons, reforma-
tories, etc., 77,26l, and more than 20,-
900 strolling vagabonds. Bad for the
model State.
A Boston, paper remarks: "Many
people are moving from New England
to the South, to avoid the insecurity Of
life and property in this section"
A benevolent citizen of Brunswick,
Germany lends blankets to the poor
from October to May. Each article is
stamped, and for six years the system
has worked without abuse.
A person who is considered landless
has sometimes two or three achers in
his mouth.
An English pauper who made faces
during divine service and set his neigh
bors to laughing has been senteuced to
tweuty-one days hard labor as punish
mcnt for the offence.
What species Of love is that which is.
never reciprocated? A neuralgia affec-
tion.
Red noses are lighthouses to warn
voyacers on the sea of life off the coast