The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1869-05-01
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f. Why is an infant like diamond2 2
Because It is dear little thing.
"What is the best remedy for "dead
lockw A skeleton" of course.
+ Encouragement to Crime-When a
wife asks her husband to shook her
dress.
Queen Victoria will again visit Swift
zerland this summer, extending her visit
to Italy.
A Senator says he was called out of
bed three times in one night by Office
seekers in Washington.
In Maine, the people are still CON-
planning of snow.
The Chinese, it is said, now tolerate
every religion.
Charles Wesley is said to have written
1000 hymns.
Short riding habits arc said to be the
fashion now in England.
The New York Herald has opened its
branch Office in Brooklyn.
The Havana press advocates the ex-
pulsion of all Cuban American citizens
from the island.
A British astronomer, after q years
investigation, has proved that the fixed
stars warm us 'to limited extent"
During the past seven months, IA
locomotives have exploded in the Uni
ted States, killing 20 persons and injur-
ing over so.
Five Hundred and Eighty-scv exc
cutions by Spanish drum-head courts
martial have been reported by the Ameri-
can agents in Cuba.
A Grand Jury, in Georgia, has pre-
scnted the late Legislature of that State
for reckless extravaganza in voting then
selves nine dollars day.
A small piece of Indigo moistencd
with spirits of camphor will, it is said,
cure the bite of a rattlcsnake.
In China the Ginseng plant, or root,
is regarded, weight for weight, rs silver.
for medicinal purposes.
The only vegetable product that will
salivate like mercury, is preparation of
Blue Flag root called Iridin.
Syracuse, N. Y, following the exam
pie of Philadelphia, is importing flock
ol English sparrows.
There is power enough in the rise and
fall Of the tides, to drive all the machin-
cry that man would ever have occasion
to use.
A big blast was recently made in Cal
ifornia. Twelve hundred kegs of pow
der were used and mountain was blown
up.
There are 9l5 Mormons left in their
colony, in London. They expelled 1o2
members last year. for sun, Mormonlike
behavior"
New York enjoys two newspapers
named the "The Revolution )" one de-
voted to Cuban rights, the other to wo-
mans rights.
a young lady had her vote refused at
the last election in Kansas, and she has
brought suit against the election officers
for $4,000 damages.
The Jacksonville (Fla.) Union COM
plains that owing to the corruption of
jurics, it is impossible to execute the
law against criminals" in that State.
AS remarkable fact, it is announced
that the clergyman at Grace Church,
Lafayette, Indiana, "refuses a salary,
and says he will depend on voluntary
contributions"
Among the Greeks, Hippocratcs first
caused medicine to be regarded as
science, while Esculapius was the first
who made medicine an exclusive study
aud practice.
The man who recognizes the right of
every laboring man to sufficient leisure
to develop his mind and soul, is infinite
ly nearer Christianity than he who can
only discuss the points of the god head.
The District of Constantine is again
menaced with plague of locusts, as i'm
mense heaps of the eggs of that insect
have been discovered underneath the
soil. A reward of 500 francs for evcry
100 kilogrammes have been offered by
the authorities, aod the natives arrive
daily with mules heavily loaded. The
eggs are then carefully crushed and