The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1871-11-09
PiccalilIi

Funny-thut square" dances are coming
round again.
| Sixteen ttindred slaves have already been
en- ncipated in Brazil: -
In regard to newspapers, young ladies
prefer those which makes the most hustle.
Water reddens the rose; yhiskey the nose,
and tight boots the toeg :
Rosenzweig, the abhrtfoMH, has beent con-
victed and sentenced to Seven, years hard
labor. ~ g. t:s1 'tf',, 40 ,
"Oh, for thousand tongues" as TIE lsd'
said when he crawled into a molasseess' bhbgs-ai
head >, 's- ~ bGr IN.
An Irish Judge said, when addressing u j
prisoner, "You are to be hanged, and i hope
1t will prove; warning to you.R :, dYaGi -.
Ex-Secretary Seward; sincshe left Auburn
to, heyin his tour aroun the world, has travel.
ed 72,00U miles, ,, .~llig. f l,,-.,...s r. :.
New Hampshire, it is said, possesses a :
real curiosity in the shape Of, a Congressman
who refasssto frank his wife $ letters.
Josh Billings says men 6E little authority
are. like men ov little strsngth alwus@ anIs
ious tew lift sun:thing. sT93 2df
When Disraeli pronouneeda "a pipe Of tor
bacco "the tomb of love-" he probably refer,
red to tEg ashes it always contains. fu .Sirr
Ii is said that in London Safchildis is born
every FIVE esminutes" 1t must be little ,u,r-
pleasant to the children to have the ,procesS
repeated so often, .r,.,
Barnum's agents are already out on the
prairies looking for the COW whose kick at a
kerosene lamp started the fire which burned
Chicago. ~! p! ~ st.4D-
The latest euphemism for red hair fs
Cpnandaigua color-CanaRdaigua being. as
every New York traveller knows; u little be
fyond AUBURN. ~ q hna.a.,. ..;,.,l
What air does does the young mouse:sing
to the old mouse when biting his way through
the scenery at the opera Hear me gnaw
ma Norma. k~y
The woman who never owned Biblej
supposed she was quoting it whenA,sh greet
ed her son, whu came home to keep Thankss
giving, in the following words: @Here comes
the fatted calf" "''sh
Ornaments for the hair are beetles, But
terfes and sBails, made Of small gay y.culGred
feathers, fastened in the centre Of laige
ribbon bow with three long ends. .,gaf
Horrors accumulte. A companion piece
to "Cut off my Curls with your Scissors,
Mamma" entitled rip my Chignon with
your Jack-knife, Papa" has just come:
A Missouri newspaper e!fms- Chat tFs
hogs of that State are 80 fat, thut in fler
TO find out where their heads are, it is ne
cessary tu make them squeah, and then jude
by the sound. ''.'''. ''.'~r''"'
General Grant IS now employing his leis:
ure time in preparing text book for schools
and colleges 1t is entitled "Grant's Speak
er or the Standard American Orator -, Or
ders received ut the White House. nm,
care the jury agrecd?" asked judge Of
court attached whom he met on the stairs
with bucket in his hand "Yis," replied
Paterick, "they have agreed to sind.out for
half gallon" ..,. ''.'
/ The negroes Of Maryland, in their; first
exercise Of franchise, manifested COM
neudable wariness. One is mehtioned' who,
objected to voting at window; and insisted
OH being shown the ''pole" '"a]
1t is said that Theodore Tilton and Vic
I -INnndlull are to be married on the Euro
pean plan, this being the UHTy way 1e1v rueu1
as Tiitun has one wife already, 'ana' Victoria
two husbands .. .....r
Fashion gossip ahhodnces that this win
ter between the figures Of the German will
be- administered to the weary dancers, not,
as formerly, cake and cream, but as stlmu-
liant, Beef tea. 1t is supposed they won't
becftea .gued after that. ,..aA...
7 A poor Widow woman was relating to
,ncighbor how fond her husband was OF hav-
iIiht good fire, how busy he would make
himself in fixing it so that it would burn.-
"Ah, poor dear mar" said she, 81 hope he's
gone to where they keep good fires
When a negro jury in Mississippi went
out to deliberate, one juror asked another:
us dis hanging case :" TO be sure, nj e
ger" was the answer. "Well, said the
first juror, ''dis nigger heard one dem law;
yers say dat boys gose' comm back here and
haunt us If we hang him. 1 no goifor hang
ing, and have dat boys gose f"ller mc Mo-
sir" Verdict Of mahslaughter.'
Among the school children Of certain
town was a poor little fellow. He could mt
tell the number of the house in which nc
lived, and when he next came to school to
bring ii: The next time he appeared he
was asked if he brought the number; mo,
sir" said he; lit WIS nailed on the door so
tight that couldn't gett' off,"
1t is reported that Horace Greeley has got
into muss With Texas editor 1t appears
TINT in an agricultural essay cn tobacco,'
Mr.. Greeley asserts that fne-cut will not