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

men from marriage until they have passed
their 29th year.
The last sensation novel is, we hear, to be
entitled "The Poisoned Gum Drup; or, The
Candy Woman's Revenge" 49,
A Green Bay man was mean enough to
elope with the only school-teacher in the
town, thus shutting up the school 70
1t was brilliant Fond du Lac boy who,
seeing dog with muzzle on for the first
time, exclaimed: "NIamma, MAMMAL bet
five cents the dogs are going wear hoop-skirts;
there goes dog with one on his nose.
"How far shall this excrucisting uncer-
tainty go, Adelaide, my beloved t" said gal
liant young Romeo to his pretty Juliet the
other evening. "Go to-father," was the
prompt and satisfactory reply.
AN old topper, being asked one day why he
persisted in drinking, replied: "Dry makes
ME drink, drink makes me drunk, and drunk
makes me dry again" The explanation was
considered quite sufficient.
On printer
Here rests his form within case, :.
Dead matter its condition,
To be reset and reappear
A new revised edition.
\ The Indianapolis Neaos can be poetical ev-
en- about hearse. 1t says, new child's
hearse was displayed on the streets to-day.
The glass plates are square, the trimming is
white and gilt, and the entire appearance is
airy and attractive.
A fellow lately started store in Kansas.
The following was the sign he hung out:
"Dry goods by John Smith, who wishes to
get married." This sign drew ell kinds Of
custom. The single ladies went, of course,
and the married men all told their wives to
60, under. the impression that they could
easily cheat so great fool. ai
A Western editors editorial statements,
ave are living at this moment under abso-
lutte despotism," is explained by his cotem-
poraries by the fact that he has lately been
married.
|. Miss Ellen l.. Fletcher, of Charleston, N.
H., having learned the trade, has opened
jewelers. shop, and the watches of all the
young men in town are out Of ordcs in conse-
quence.
They have not come to perfect weather yet.
out West. An iratc journalist writes: "This
is a fine time to set out flowers and have
them frozen as stiff as an iceberg in less than
an hour. In planting seeds, put each one in
pill box, and wrap the box up in cotton
batting. In setting out onions, put an
over-coat on each onion, and place layer of
hot bricks under the bed. If you hear any
one predicting thaw between now and
June, shoot him on the spot"
The Danbury Ne,es says that Salisbury
Germon went hunting for a crow recently.
He put couple of quarts of powder and shot
in his gun, shut his eyes, and blazed away
The village physician promptly sews in every
piece of the German barber as rapidly as it is
found The crow has not since been seen:
it is likely it has left town until the excite
ment blows over.
Josh Billings says: "I am rather favor
ably impressed with gin and milk az an ex-
trakt, and think minister ov the gospel
mite contend with some oy it, on the sli, sue
.cessfully, but when he Gums to recommend it
to his people, L have mi doubts about 1t, un-
less he knows his people better than l do"
The Davenport, Iowa, printers seized a cir
Gus and menagerie the other day for not pay
ing their bills, and now each editor is the
happy owner of a Swineouphalus, or Giaste-
cutus, or q Hippoptatemus, or an AlaskaSea
Lion. When subscribers rage and a. man
comes in and wants to know "who wrote that
article" the editor unchains his mcnagerie,
and the insuted fellow has sudden call to
''see man" clsewhere.-TOlelo o., Blade.
In the Office of New York paper there
stood in type the report of Il sermon, and q
paragraph describing the career Of mad
dog. In making up" these two articles
cot mixed, and the readers of the paper next
morning were astonishcd at the following
melangc: "Rev. James Thompson preached
to a large audience last Sunday. This was
his last sermon previous to his embarkation
for Europe. He exhorted his brethren and
sisters, and after offering dovout prayer, he
took whim to cut some frantic freaks. lie
ran up Smith street to Brown, and down
Car to College. At this stage of the proceed
ings some boys seized him, tied tea-kettle
to his tail and let him go. A great crowd
gathered, and for few moments there were
lively scenes"
Az OPTICAL CURIoSITY.--Ilcre is SIM
ME little experiment, by which we can prove
the existence of blind spot in our eyes.
Shut your left eye, and with the right one
look steadily at the cross just below, holding
the paper ten or twelve inches from the
eye.
X %
Now move the paper slo'o!y toward the
eye, which must be kept fixed on the cross.
At certain distance the other fgure-thc
letter O-will suddenly disappear; but, if
you bring the paper nearer, it will como
again into view. You may not succeed in
the experiment on the first trial, but with a
little patience you can hardly fail, and the