The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1872-03-21
PARAGRAPHS


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1t is not uncommon for girls 10 and II
years Of age to be married in Japan; 10
California claims to be able to support
thirty millions of people within her own bor-
ders. +Jee - tgI
North Georgia anticipates the largest
wheat crop ever raised in that section.ad.
Gen. Joseph F.. johnson is to be made
President of the Georgia Military Institute.
It is mentioned as an astonishing fact, that
two Bibles have been found on Long Island,
New York s.. os.,I
Rev. VIM. Baldwin, of Great Bend, Pa,
offers $4,000 to any one who will pick
lock which he has invented. 80.
There is never man so bad, says a.cele-
brated writer, but some woman loves him
and has faith in him.
A detroit bridegroom was so affected by
the marriage ceremony that he burst into
violent fit Of nose bleeding. q. ''f
A paper mentions case beyond The
ordinary oculists. 1t is that Of a younglady
who, instead of pupil has college student
in her eye. :Qt
Two hundred and fifty thousand francs is
the value of the cigar stumps picked up
annually in the streets of Paris, and sold to
the tabacco manufacturers.
Say, Jones! What's the matter with your
eye? 'Oh! nothin', only my wife said this
morning, you'd better get up and light the
fire, I told her to make it herself that's
ALL ,IaadH II
"Do you keep matches 7" asked a Gwag,tof
a grocer ooh! yes all kinds" was the re-
ply. "Well, I'll take trotting match, said
the wag. The grocer Immediately handed
him box of pills.
"Another comical endorsement of the Ad-
ministration," is the way the New York Ma
tton speaks of South Carolina's nomination
of Grant. The other "comical endorsement"
was given by "bleeding Kansas" All the
thieves are for Grant. :,
A celebrated French preacher, in sermon
upon the duty of wives, said, i see in this
congregation woman who has been guilty
of disobedience to her husband, and in Or
der to point her out I will fling my breviary
at her hcad9 He lifted his book, and every
female head instantly ducked.
A yerdant youth of West Donegal town
ship, Lancaster County, sent a dollar toNew
York for a method of writing without pen
and ink. He received the following inscrip-
tion, in large letters: Write with pencil
. A gentleman died recently in Bucking-
ham county, Virginia, who owned at the sur
render of Gen. Lee twenty two negroes.
Twelve of them left him, but the other ten
remained with and worked for him until the
day of his death, taking for their services
Just as s much as he chose to give them. AT
his death, to show his appreciation of their
services and his gratitude, he gave them his
farm, en- which they can all live comfort bly,.
A Texas colorcd jury, were told by the
Judge to retire and "fnd q verdict" They
went to the jury-room. The sheriff and
others, standing outside, heard the opening
and shutting of drawers, the slamming OF
doors, and other sounds of unusual commo-
tion. At last the jury came back into the
court. when the foreman rose and said:
"Massa Judge, we have done looked every
vhar in the draws and behind the do, and
can't found no verdc.' 1t warn't in the
room." ......
The .S,oiss Times has created very in
cenious story, in the name Of NJ Plantamour,
the astronomer, who is said to have determin-
ed the path of a comet to be such, that on
the twelfth of August the earth must, Of
necessity, be in collision with the fiery mes
seneer. This charming bit of sensation
writing grows out of the simple fact that
about the twelfth of August our little globe
crosses the meteoric stream, which made SO
fine display in 1866, and which has some
singular relation to the orbit Of the comet OF
1862.
S. j. Bestor, an eccentric gentleman Of
Hartford, regularly stamps all letters held
for postage in that city, attaching to the en-
velope a printed statement Of the fact. The
responses he has received would fill large
volume. A resident of Elizabeth, N. j.,
writes that Marcus L. Ward became Cover
nor of that State through that course. A
A Boston burglar says: "Bestor, yonre a
gentleman; l ammo matter what; but
9 cot letter you stamped just in time to
dodge the bcaks and be off. Here's stamp,
and ifI ever happen in Hartford in profes.
sional way, Ishan't crack your bin i'll knows
myself"
ANOTHER ExAMpLE.-The young men
have another example of shipwreck in the
painful experience of the Boston Post Office
clerk who has lately been detected in pur-