The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1870-03-03
RdtS says Josh Billings, originally

Rats says Josh Billings, originally
cum frdm NorWa, and I wish they had
originally stade thar. Tha are about az
unIallea for az pane in the back.
Tha cag gbeedomesticated dreadful eazy;
that far az gittin in cubboards and
eatin cI es, aud knaWin pie is concern.
The ba way to domesticate them that
eversM is to surround them gently
with q sssel trap; you kan reezun with
ahem great advantage. Rats are
migratofious; they migrate whenever
tha have mind tew. Pizen is also
good for rats it softens THAR whole
moral patnres. Cuts hate rats, and rats
hate calls and who DON'T
/ suppose there il betwoen SO and 60
million osratsin America quote en-
tircly from nemory-and 1 don't sup
pose there IL single necessary rat in the
whole !oS This shows at glance how
many waste oats thereiz. Rats enhance
in nuub Es faster than shos pegs do by
mnchiisl One pare Of healthy ratSiz
all that eeDJ man wants tu start the rat
biztness With, andin ninety daze, with
out emmy outlay, he will begin tn hay
rats-SSto turn.oph..
Rats Wired from emmy platform yu
build arp unspeakable cussid.
PLANT goRNl-A word to farmers
before theFcrops are so "pitched" as to
crowd ont corn! Not one man in ten
makes enough corn, .and not one in
hundred hss q suf6ciency Of small grain,
and none saise enough grass. Until
small! grain and The grasses are more
liberally cultivated, the wants Of tbs
country demand agreat deal more corn.
tits 4 mist ken idea that cotton plant
ing, sotBe exclusion ot grain crops, is
the most pssftabIo system Of farming.
The men Isl this section who have made
most none bg farming are those who
nave raissd Corn and bacon. They not
only. furnished cotton planters with
those indispensable articles, but fie.
.quently held mortgages osthcir lands
for money loaned theml
5One fact Of this sort is worth peck
of theories, If you would prosper,
plant corn, SOW small grain and cult
vate the grasses. After these things
are done, devote the remainder of Jour
tine and labor to the production of
cotton, and whatever it brings can be
invested in railroad or factory stock, or
loaned to cotton planters at high rates
What does it profit man to make a
thousand bales of cotton, if it takes all
the surplus after paying for labor and
fertilizers, to purchase corn, bacon and
other supplies which ought to have been
made at home ?-Athens Ratchman.
When Daniel Webster and his bro
ther Ezekiel were together, they had
frequent literary disputes; and on Que
occasion, after they had retired to bed,
they entered into squabble about
Certain passage in one Of their school
books, and having risen to examine the
authorities in their possession, they set
their bcdclothes on fire, and nearly de.
stroyed their fathers dwelling. On
being questioned the next morning in
regard to the accident, Daniel remarked,
that "they were in pursuit of light, but
got more than they wanted"
WHAT BECOMES OF OLD Shoes
A contemporary answers this question
by stating that they are cut up in small
pieces, and these are put for couple of
days in chloride of sulphur, which
makes the leather very hard and brittle.
After this is effected, the material is
washed with water, dried, ground to
powder, and mixed with some substa2ce
which makes the PARTICLES adhere to-
gether, as sheHac, good glue, or thick
solution of gum. 1t is then pressed
into mouTds and shaped into combs,
buttons, knife-handles, and many other
articles.
Rlv J. R. PICKETT.-The Chester
correspondent of the Yorkville En-
guirer, says: 1.-THE many friends of this
popular and able Methodist divine, will
be panied to learn that he is rapidly
giving way uudcr the in6rmities of the
BODY. He is afflicted with paralysis of