The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-06-16
ODDS AND ENDS.

in 1869, in Paris, 275s horses were eaten,
irving more than million pounds Of this kind
OF ubeef'-alarge increase onsany former year
- -Short-horn cattle are yaluaSie for their
remarkable aptitude to fatten, the perfectlon
of their form and the smallness OF their oony
structure giving them great advantage as oeel
cattle. ,,,-,
q long room when the women who don't like
YOU are looking at your back, there is moral
Support conveyed by Paris dress not to be
derived from the flrmest religious principles.
Robert Hall, when asked how many ser
mons preacher can conveniently prepare IN
q week, replied: "If he is man OF pre.emi-
nent ability, one; If he is man OF ordinary
ability, two; If he is an ass, six.n
An advertisement was sent to the Cleve
land Herald, in which occurs the words. "Ihe
Christians Dream: No Cross, No Crown" The
laundering compositor made 1t read, "Ihe
Christians Dream: No CoacS. No Cream !"
"A Scottish nobleman one day visited law
yer at his office, in whichat the time there was
blazing fire, WHICH led him to exelaim, mi;
-, your office Is as hot as an oven." $50 IL
should be, my lord" replied the lawyer, ''as it
is here that make my bread"
Lawyers have q ludicrous habit OF idently-
ing themselves with their clients, by speaking
in the plural number. ''Gentlemen OF the jury,
said Western lawyer. ''at the moment the po-
liceman says he saw us In the trap, will prove
that we were locked mp In the station-house,
in state OF int0Xication."
1T has be n the practice of wealthy Berlin
stock exchange men to secure diplomas OF no.
bility from the petty German princes. The
Prussian Government is putting q stop to this
business, the feudal barons protesting against
the monied tntruders.
-"Old potatoes transformed to new" Is one
of. nf Dorf t~tn
There is regular establishment under the
first arch Of the Louis Philippe Bridge, In the
French capital, where, by y procesS0f soaking
and rubbing, the dark skin Of the last years
potatoes Is removed, and fine, light satin
Surface produced, which enables the Vender
to pass them off In neat, paper-lined baskets
for the fresh spring article.
The American Stock Grower, talking Of
the "sex of eggs" says ''When, on exami-
ming an egg by holding it between the eye
and the light of the sun, or of candle, the
yivifying Speck is seen exactly On the top,
such an egg, it is said, will produce a male
bird; but, II on the contrary, the speck be Oh
one side, 1t will produce female"
An English writer is making war upon the
vowel u, demanding its expulsion from all
such words as labour, favour, honour. He
says the useless use of this letter In single
copy of the London Times costs ten pounds,
and that in English books and periodicals
alone it increases the cost OF publication fully
100000 year, without yielding any practical
good.
"A Scottish clergyman, happening to so
into the churchyard while the beadle was EN-
ployed, neck deep. In digging grave, thus ac-
costed him: "Well, Saunders, that's work
you're employed in well calculated to make an
old man like you thoughtful. wonde:' yo9,
don't repent of your evil ways" The old
worthy resting on the head of his spade, and
taking pinch Of snuff, replied II thought,
sir, you ken'd that there was nae repentance
in the grave"
The people Of Hindostan used to make
threefold division Of interest on money. One
they called vice, another neither vice nor vir-
tue, and the third virtue. The interest which
was vice was four per cent. per month; that
which was neither vice nor virtue was two per
cent, and that which was virtue was one per
cent. month. This last was, in their opinion,
an act of benefcence which belonged to the
most heroic minds. Many sell-sacrifeing gen.
tlemen among our mOney-lenders are willing
to assume the exalted virtue of the Hindos-
tanees, if it would pay one per cent. a month.