The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1872-06-27
jOTTINGS.

Two lltLie leeG. :.
A Detroit baby has swallowed brass
watch. 1t has stopped, and that creates difhculs
ty.
O. ". Holmes says that crying widows
marry first. There is nothing like wet
weather for transplanting.
Tt is remarked as a singular fact that much
of the ancient Japanese ware is decorated
with Roman and Grecian borders. .. ..
A Cincinnati man is searching through
the West for runaway wife and $4,000 in
bonds which she tcok-especiaily the
binds.
Otto Freese, Chicago person, got throughls
the winter safely in spite Of his name, and
was run over by bakers wagon the other
day. ~ x
In the State Library at Albany, New
York, are the very papers that were found
in the boot of Major Andre, and which led
to his conviction as SPY.
Who can have any respect for man who,
on passing the laundry and seeing the girls
at work, will consent to make such remark
as "Wring out, wild bellies"
The tree of tho "Night Of Tcrrors' at
Mexico, souvenir OF the night when Cortes
captured the city, which has been carefully
preserved all this time, was recently, burned
by an incendiary.
There has been discovered new cure for
the bite cf mad dogs, in plant, Anagallls
arvensis (Gamhhcil, in Germany a few
pinches of the pulverizcd plant strewn on
sandwich, arc to be taken daily.
An Arkansas EXCHANGE tells of a colored
sister who recently gave birth to three sons
the first, white, the second black, and tho
third yellow Ready-made delegates to the
next Dolly Warden Convention.
A lady in Clinton, Iowa, gave burglar
a very severe fogging with dust brush the
other night. She said she wouldn't have
done it if she hadn't been under the im-
preston that it was her husband just getting
home.
When applied to unmarried women the
rule s'onc counts the hits but not the misses"
should be, one counts the misses but not the
hits, on the suppositiou that none Of them
have ever been struck with Cupids parts, or
they would not be single.
Mr.. Michael Dice, of St. Louis, has horse
which gambols and throws Dice.
"Feminary" is the latest for female scmii-
ary.
A LEAKING LAxE.-Thc water in White
Lake, Sullivan County, N. Y, celebrated
summer resort, has rcceded several feet in
the past three days, and is still sinking. The
lake is on the mountain top and has probab-
ly found subterrancan outlet,
They said the Lords Prayer in this wise
in 1856: Fader urc in hcune. halclwede
booth thi nennc, cumcn crthe Ure euerych
dave breid gcf us thilk dawt And.vorzef
ure dettcs, as vi vorzcfcn ure dcttercs, and
lcde yus nouzt into temptation, bote de-
liueri vus ofuycl, Amen.
Sir said an iratc little gentlemen Of
about four feet eleven inches, to one Of six
feet two, Il would have you know, sir, that
1 have been well brought up" Possibly
said the tall one looking down, .butyou haven't
been brought up far
An exchange tells that "at 90 years ofage,
Leland Stanford arrived in California with
only one shirt to his back Since, then, by
close attention to business, he has accumulat-
ed over 1O.0O0.O00. What can man want
with 1O,OO0,OOO shirts?
4 gentlemen in Baltimore had been ap-
pointed to third-cass clcrkship at 81 600
salary. but failed to pass the examination.
His wife applied for it, and more successful
than he, received the appointment and per-
formed the duties required. This item is
for the benefit Of the woman suffrasists.
California ladies speculate in mining stocks
in place Of bothering their dear little heads
over iulpracticablc political theories, after the
manner of many Of their Eastern sisters.
Some of them operate upon their sagacious
Judgment, while others rely upon the advice
of male friends who know what's going on"
One lady has rakcd in the snug sum of S1O,-
600, another counts her gains at S3O,O
while another fair one is spoken OF among
her friends as having ''rcalized quite for
tune" This is certainly more profitable, it
not better in every way. than struttns upon
platforms in outrc clothing and shortened
hair, dispensing drcary patitudes to as drcary
audiences.
Easy way Of turning an honest penny
\ blind musician stood in one Of the priuci-
pal thoroughf;res performing on his instru-
mcnt, when little boy was observed to take
up his position by the side Of the poor, affiict-
ed mendicant, and, with cap in his hand
solicit, aims from passcrs-by. After receiv-
ing few pence, he turned the street corner,
and 6 lictly moved off with the money, leav-
ing the musician actively continuing his
performance on the CHEEKY fageolct. Such is
life.
JOSH BILLINGS has been experimenting
with pills, and ccrtfcs as follows:
Il never hav used emmy ov doctor
Emanuel's Liver Consoling and Kidney
Encouraging Pills and therforc kant tell
yu how inauenshal they are but eff yu arc
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