The Sumter watchman. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1855-1881, 1870-03-23
Spice Boz.

"A ringing maohine--the income
tax.
Why is it easy to break into IN old
mans housef Give it up Because his
gait il feeble aud his looks arc few.
- The greatest luxury of wealth is
ono the rich but little avail themselves
of,-the pleasure of making the poor
happy.
-"Tom, said girl to her sweet
heart" you have been paying your dis
tresses to me long enough. Il is time
you make known your contentious, 90
as not to keep me in expense any long
A dandy swell in New York is in a
bad fix. His pants were made so tighs
for him that he can't get his boots on,
and if he puts his boots on first, he can't
get the pants on.
Whittemore, like one of his illus
tious predecessors of Congress, knows no
North no South-in fact, no point in
the compass, except one, on which he is
particularly strong-West Point.
Over three thousand invitations
we're issued for marriage ceremony at
st. Paul's NJ. e. Church, in New York,
the other evening. 1t took bishop
aud three ministers to "tie the knot"
Habit is like the dropping of water
upon rock, 1T wears into the life, and
the marks il makes can never be effaoed
without the chisel aud hammer of self
denial and self discipline.
We arc constantly hearing new
names for the villainous compound at
present sold for whiskey. The last
comes from Iuks, Mississippi, and hits
the nail on the head. "Ripgixsard" is
tho word.
- -Advertising is the financial railway
to success. It is an art possessed by
few but these few are the merchant
princes of to-day.
Sidney Smith once said: "Philan.
thropy is universal sentiment of the
human heart. Whenever A sees B in
trouble he always wants G to help him"
The executioner Of Paris has been
by turns navy surgeon, a bill broker, a
commission merchant and guillotiuist.
First he lanoed, then he shaved, then
he scalped, then he beheaded.
"A certain amount of opposition is
a great help to man. Kites rise against
the wind and not with the wind; even
bad wind is better than none No
man ever worked his passage anywhere
in dead calm. Let no man wax pale
therefore, because of opposition oppo.
sition is what he wants, aud must have,
to be good for any thing. Hardship
is the native soil of manhood and self
reliance.
The annual report of the New
York commissioners Of immigration is
in course of preparation. There have
landed during 1869, two hundred and
fifty. eight thousand nine hundred aud
eighty.nine aliens, a greater number
than has been registered 10 any one
year since 1854. or these the majority
settled 10 New York, while the remainder
were almost entirely absorbed by Illinois,
Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. The Sun
states that the class of immigrants now
coming 10 seeks employment rather than
land.
The very pretty optical illusion by
which gold fishes and canary birds are
made to appear to be joint occupants
of huge vase Of water is getting to be
popular. 1t is very simple. The bot
tom Of the vase is concavo- convex, the
apex rising about fifteen inches above
the base Of the circumference. This
dome forms the superstructure of the
bird cage, aud the bottom supplied with
drawers and properly ventilated, serves
rs pedestal for the vase. Until recently
this pretty arrangement has not been
seen outside of museums. 1t is now
getting to be part of household orna.
mentation.
"A letter from New York, says
"Thcre is marked pressure, just now,
to sell real estate. Houses Of almost
every description in the upper part ol
the city, rs we'll as in Brooklyn, can be
had on very easy terms. In many
cases sales have been effected by the
purchaser paying doYD only year,
rent. This would seeIH to indicate thu
holders have no confidence in maintain
ing existing priccs. In Jersey cit,
there is great deal of property adver-
tised, without finding solitary bidder
thus far. The effect Of this state o
things on rents, MS May day draws near
is auxiously looked for"
- How incidentally would the ton,
of conversation be improved if it Of
fercd no exceptions to the example O.
Bishop Bcveridgo: "Resolve never t,
speak Of mans virtues to his face, no
his faults behind his back :" a goldc,
rule, the Observance Of which woui,
Danish lattery and defamation from TIL
earth. Conversation stock being
joint and common property, every on
should take shure in it, and yet ther
may be societies in which silence will b.
our best contribution. When Isocrate es
dining with tho King of Cyprus, wa
asked why he did not mix with tn
discourse Of the company, he replied
"What is seasonablc do not know, an,
and what know IL not seasonable."