The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1872-01-18
PARAGRAPHS.

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If speech is silver aud silence gold, how
: much is ablind man worth 9 -
Mrs. Wharton will not ALLOW plea Of IN
sanity in her defense
Dead letters contained 100000 last
, yer =
Colds should be warmed over Frequently
and sore throats should be taken in before
sundown =. 81. = ~
] 1t is singular fact that not an actor at
tended the funeral of Hackett. zt
J, All the western trains, except George
Francis, are stopped BY the weather,
This year is called leap year because the
hearts Of the ladies leap for joy at tue priv.
elegeit affords them.
( An item IN a lawyers bill to his client ran
thus: "To lying awake at night, thinking
over your case, forty.6ve dollars.
Mr.. Archer, of Indiana struck at his dog
with the butt Of his gun. The forgiying
beast now howls above his masters graYe:
A vigorous Connecticut preacher actually
kicked his pulpit to pieces, and it was with
difficulty that he was fshed out of the ruins.
An Indianian who hadn't whole pair Of
boots or trousers received three silk hats as
presents at Christmas. .,--.srsaE-
Boston furnished every newshoy in Chi,
cago, at Christmas, with pocketbook and
with dime in it 'nest egg."
A Western editor speaks ofa contemporary
who is $50 dirty that every time he goes up
stairs there is rise in real estate"
Xenia, Ohio, girls have pleasing habit
ofkissing strangers in the street, and then
wildly excldiming: "Oh my! I thought it
was cousin Charlie"
The boy who makes the most noise in the
world, when he is boy, is not the boy who
makes the most noise in the world when he
is man. 5T
A colored Georgian drew his rife out ofa
wagon muszle foremost. Wagons and rifles
are not used in that country where be iaaoV
soiourniIg. r1s -
A youpg lady upon one occasion requested
her lover to define love. "Well, Sall," said
he sit IS an inward impressibility and an
outward alloverishness So
A sneak thief recently stole coat at Mar4
shaltown Illinois, which had been hung
across the fence to be disinfected ofsmsll pox,
and, as q consequence has gone to that
bourne &c.
TIE happy people of Paterson, N. j. will
scoa keno how it is themselves, as that little
game has just been opened there, and the
most popular song among them is II keno a
bank" =
The HorM says. rs. Peck, of Ohio, has,
by an eceentricity on the part Of Mrs. p,
been made the father Of three simultaneous
girls; which is nseze than he S. Peckied."
A young lady who had many admirers
among the limbs ef the law, on being asked
how she escaped heart whole, supposed that
it was owing to the fact that in multitude
of counsellors there is safety.
The salaries of pastors in the Episcopal
church in Philadelphia are from 81 900 to
$1,000 per annum, St. Stephens being the
Only one paying the last named amount:
The Spencer House at Niagra Falls charg-
ed the Grand Duke and his party 81, 500 for
staying there thrce-fourths Of day and eat.
ing ore meal.
A love letter picked up in Springfield H.
inois contained the following paragraph: My
best loved one, chawed the postage stamp
on your last letter all to thunder, because I
knowed YOU had licked it on
There is great demand in England for
partridges delivered alive and in good CON
dition. One house in Richmond has an or
der for one thousand birds. =,
A citizen of Connecticut being unexpect-
edly called out to address sunday school
rose to his feet in some confusion. and after
some desperate but vain efforts ia say some:
thing appropriate, hoarsely murmured, "dear
little children, never fool with powder"
A man having fallen into slough, an Ir-
ishman called to another person standing by
for assistance. The latter who was bqsily
engaged in cutting log, leisurely inquired:
:'How dapc is he in ?" "Up to his ancles:"
"then there is plenty Of time" "No there is
not" replied the first, 81 forgot to tell you he
is in head first" r',.i
;. A-Gcrniun got his dander up the other
day on the arrival of second pair Of twins,
and said to the family physicians: "If you
blees, toctor, it ish peter dat u schtop be put
to desc tings Won pair Of squince, I dings
is allus recht, but more ash dat ish blaid
out, don't it? Oats vots de matter NIT
me. You know how it ish, myself"
A contraband who found his way to Bos.
. ton with returning troops related his experi-
D ence on the battlefield as follows: "You sec
= massa, I was drivin an ambulance, when a
: musLet ball com'd along and killed my hoss,
and nSItts den pretty soon she'll comd along, and
he biovd my wagon to pieces, and den 1 got
0 off, ........ ,a
! John B. Cough tells the. following story,
: though the joke be at his own expense
Once while on travelling tour in England,