The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1872-03-07
PARAGRAPHS.

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Boston has Prohibitory law, and 1921
harrooms. 10
Boston has an engineer of the female
sex. -
! John H. Surratt is teaching school at
Brookvillc, Montgomery county, nd. -
/ A'Newark bride prepared as her wedding
cake, a composition that required 2so eggs.
A man can get along without advertising;
SO can a wagon without greasing, but it
grinds s2I
! The New Testament revisers have 4gots to
the second chapter Of Luke, and hopesto
finish thcir work in six years.
When you go to drown yourself, always pull
ffyour clcths; they may fit your wifp's
second husband.
When you can't think what your wife
charged you to bring homo, get hair pins
They are always handy about the house:
The children of John Slidell, at New Or
leans have brought suit torecover their faith
cr's estate, con6scated during the war. y
Oh the blessings of home where old
and young mix kindly-,he young unawed,
the old unchilled-in unreserved comm1-
MON. -
They tell of railway in Kentucky wheron
the locomotives are assisted up steep grades
by yoke of oxen.
"The dearest spot on earth to me'-The
store whose card [ never see; There every
price mark seems to cry, ~ say old boy
how's that for high?' ~
Pretty Teacher-"Now, Johnny Wclls,'
can you tell me what is meant by miracle ?'
Johnny-"Yes, ma'am. Mother says if you
don't marry our new paEson that it will be a
miracle"
A gentleman expressed to lady his. ad-:
miration for her toilet She said she sup
posed he had been impressed y,her angel
sleeves He answered with effusion; "No; ).
I'd like to be~ Il
When you speak of diminutive argentaf
cone, convex on its summit, and semfperfo-J y
rated with symmetrical indcntations, you !:
probably mean thimble, but there is no
saying for certain,
The largest stationary engine in the world !;
was lately put up at the Lehigh Zinc Works, !;
in Philadelphia. 1t is of 1900 horse power,
and is capable of pumping $4,000 gallons Of ,
water per minute. sr,.,s.. 4 -, -. y
A Savannah darkey, to whom Senator
Summers supplemental civil rights bill was
explained, characterized it as GA trap to kill
fool niggers You see, sab, some fool niger
will 60 to de Pulaski House and jess set
heself down by white man, and de white
man will fro dat ar niger out de winder and
broke his neck"
An exchange says "Some of the Louis
vile ladies have formed q 'Tie-the Garter
abovc-the-Knee Club Every gentleman in
Kentucky is anxious to be master Of ceremo-
nes at the iniatory exercises. In justice
to the gentlemen of Kentucky we must be
permitted to say that they feel no special in
terest in the object of the club. just so
they are permitted to tie the garter, they
don't care much whether it is to be done
above or below the observation-disclosures.
A guest at hotel in Belfast, Mane on
being told that dinner was ready, stripped
off his coat, and, accompanied by his wife,
entered the dining room in his shirt
waiter brought him bill of fare, which he
regarded curiously and then laid down. Pret-
ty soon another bill of fare was placed in his
plate. Then he arose in his warth and ex-
> claimed: II didn't come here to read show
bills, I came here after some dinner" called
} to his wife, and the twain departed.
Tho Titusville HcraMsays: Janauscheek
whose name is doubtless mispronounce
more than any other in the city at present,
acquired her perfect mastery of the English
language in leas than one year. Her name
is pronounced as if the J were Y, and the
accent on the frstsyllable, thus: Yan-a.shek.
Since her coming has been announced, We
have heard her name pronounced as follows,
and by some individuals who sleep with a
dictionary every nj ght: ''Johon-a. shay" jan
ney shank, 'Shau-shake, Janna-chek, and
'Zan-u-shay'
The Methodist ministers of Boston have
had great debate, the question being wheth-
er women should be admitted to the ministry,
Nothing very fresh was said, nor anything
especially entertaining, if We except the fol-
, lowing declaration made by the Rev. Mark
Tafton, who was once. we believe, a Know
Nothing member of Congress Il think the
most miserable of all objects under Heaven
is henpccked husband, and If were one
I would leave the country, so help me God!
Mr.. Tafton appears to have spoken teelingly'
But suppose that Mr.. Tafton should be hGn-
pccked without knowing it-what would he
do then q? Many an excellent man mas ,:: passea
his whole married life in that condition, and
has been really happy under the inAietion.
1t all depends upon the man-and woman.
GREELEY on TIE SOUTH CAROLINA Re-
puBLIcAys-About the coolest thing that
has occurred this winter is a resolve of q
State convention of the faction dominant in
South Carolina in these words: "Resolved,
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