The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1872-06-13
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land.
What single State will Mrs. Woodruff be
sure to carry? Tennie e. r
| A Boston printer, made "dippcd in the
mud" out of "nipped in the bud"
DYING Frenchmen make wills bcqueathing
their sins to Prussia.
.Whiskcy distilled frJm sawdust is the
latest Wisconsin enterprise.
A western woman m advertising her run.
away husband says: David has scar on'his
nose where I scratched it.
The debt of nature should never be paid if
it can't be collected without an execution.
"God might have made better berry, but
He never did," is what Charles Lamb says
about strawberries.
"Greely smashcs" and "Natick cobblers"
are respectively the attractions of rival bar
rooms in Philadelphia.
''No cows no cream" was the way an in
telliSent compositor set upon the words "No
cross, no crown"
An Alabama cemetery bears the inscrip.
tion over its entrance. positively no admit,
tance here"
A Western youth playing William Tell
shot his arrow into the apple Of the boys !.
eye instead of the apple on his head.
Mark Twain is reported as saying that one
of General Sherman's smiles cracked saucer
on the table; he smiled again and smash went
aplatc.
Nellie Brockway, dressmaker1of Ham
burg, Conn., has become $50 600 richer by,
the death of an uncle in Philadelphia.
The heart of the Emperor Macmillan is
preserved in golden urn at the private
chapel of his mother, the Archduchess
Sophia, Of Austria.
The Duke of Devonshire. allowed his son,
the Marquis Of Harrington, while he was
still under age, S45O,0OO year as college
pocket money.
The Paris Figaro announces, on what 1T
claims to be the best authority, that Mile.
Christine Nilsson will be married to NJ.
Rousead in that city early in July next.
A Texas judge lately imprisoned the en-
tire bar of the place, except the District
Attorney, for contempt, although his court
was not in session.
Z To grow rich; earn money fairly, spend
less than you earn, and hold on to the differ
ence. The first takes muscle, the second
selfcontrol, the third brains.
They do things differently in different
parts of the country. An Utah settler has
Just scalped his Yife At the East men over
load their wives with back hair and kill
them with kindness.
An old lady who was passing a blind id-
dler ON the street in New York, day or two
since, rewarded him by placing in his box
a piece of paper, with the motto, "Be virtu.
Gus and you will be happy"
A Memphis duclling parto were driven in
to a cemetery by facctious hackman, $50
that they might be buried without any un-
necessary expense"
Mr.. Greedy, always ready to tell what he
knows about farming and gardening, answer
Colfax's inquiry, with the assurance that
"squash season" will arrive this year early in
November
4 lady teacher in an Iowa school lately
punished boy for kissing the big girls by
making him stand up before all the scholars
and show how it was done. She found this
policy wouldn't work The boys thought
it capital punishment, and it had to be abol-
ished.
Horace Grcely says that lightning rods
should be planted on the side of the build
ing. in the sun. The vines are more
thrifty, and suffer less from exposure to heavy
winds.
An Iowa man recently died from swallow
inc a pocket knife and injurious medical
treatment combined. He got along very;
nicely as long as the Knife was closed, but
when the doctor gave him opening medicine
it killed him. -
The following telegram was sent to the
Cuitis 1Louo0' "V Dh'ehPoip, 1omd, Wy Iuc
conductosof the train which CARRIED Red
Cloud and his fortunes: "Fihy-fye passenS
gers for breakfast; twenty-seYen Indian
chiefs. Indians cat mostly meat; dog
preferred; kill Charlie and stuff him for
Red Cloud"
Progressive teacher to pupil of the period
-'Saary Jane Hooker, just take that chew
ing gum right out your mouth. Little
girls who chew gum in school need never
expect to become President of the United
States.
II will not strike thee, bad man," said q
Quaker one day, "but will let this billet Of
wood fall on thee and at the precise mo-
ment the bad mau' was iloored by the
weight of a walking stick that the Quaker
WAS known to carry. 49,
\ California editor thus eases himself:
Dolly Nardcnism, Ticwed from philosophi-
cal standpoint, is the realization in material
iorr, of all that is most loud glaring, odd,