The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1873-07-10
OUR CHIP-BASKET.

Grave subJects-Iomb-stoneS.
Broguc Ann. come from Ireland.
The present day--birah day.
Belle mette--\ young.lady's. temper.
10 protect the chcst-Put lock on it
Church bcles-Thc rector's daughters
The great art of life is to play for much
and take little
Every one blames in his neighbor what
the world blames in himself.
In all thy quarrcls leave open the door of
Cancellation
The hornet is beautifully defined to be the
red hot child of nature.
''Love," says an amorous writer" is an in
tcrnal transport" The same might be said
of canal boat
A coal black negro in Georgia has one
white hand and arm, which he is very much
ashamed Of
He is happy whose circumstances suit his
temper but hc is more excellent who can
SUIT his temper to any circumstances.
\ boy pressed the muzzle of pistol against
his body in cooking it. and the. bullet came
ont at his back
Very few horses eat corned beef, hut We
saw one standing the other day before store
with bit in his mouth
If you saw woman trying to pick your
pockets, what Roman generals name would
you call out ? Cesar (scize herr
Why may carpenters believe there is no
such thing as stone ?--Because they never
saw it.
-"Patrick, what makes you start after that
rabbit when your gun has no lock on it?"
Hush hush. my darlin', the rabbit don't
know that"
Bridget, has that blockhead cleaned off
the snow from the pavement" !" "Yis, marm."
did he do it with alacrity2" 'No, marm-
wild shovel"
\ female contributor to one of the literary
weeklies declares that ''grayhaired bachelors
are such simply because they have never
known what is TO love-
\ blessed old lady being asked if she
ever had her ears pierced by the wall Of
distress, said she couldn't very we'll rcmem-
Der. but she believed it was done with
fork
.ln exchange paper gives the following
''alvcc for the times " Live temperately-
90 to church--love all the pretty girls
marry one Of thcul--liyc like Il man, and die
like Il christian.
1t is declared by an Indiana editor, who
cant stand it any longer" that the only
difference between the entrance to q barn and
a lounger around 4 newspaper Office, is that
the first is barn door, and the latter
darn bore.
An Irishman who had Just landed. said:
The first bit Of mate | ever ate in this
country;was roasted potato boiled yester-
day. And if you don't believe it. | can show
it to you. for have it in my pocket"
81 have just met your old acquaintance,
DAILY" said and lriShman to his friend, "and
was sorry To- see he has almost shrunk away
to nothing You are thin. and | am thin,
but he is thinner than both Of us together"
An Irishman telling another who bad just
arrived of severe spell Of sickness he had
had, said, Och. me friend, was fiat of me
back and Spachless for six weeks and four
teen dayS in the long month Of August, and
all my cry was for wathcr. wather.'
You arr the dullc>t boy ever saw.
GROSSLY exclaimed 4 bald-headcd old uncle to
his nephew We'll, uncle replied the
youth, with glance at the old gentemans
bald head, You can't expect me to under
stand things l> quick rs You do. because you
don't have the trouble of getting EN- through
your hair
DEEAMS-\n Iowa man. a few DAYS
since, dreamed that he saw his brothers
head severed from his body without the loss
of a drop of blood. Mex, day he learned OF
his brothers removal from snug po>tmaS-
tcr,hip. nero in Columbus. Ga. dream
cd tha, hc found five dollars in certain
place i'll Il street. lie went to the spot next
morning. found one dollar. and is blaming
the ghost who told him of it. for taking the
other TOUR.
Have YOU noticed an icicle as it is formed?
Nou have noticed how il iroZc one drop at
time until it was a foot long or more. ltthc
water was clean the iciclc Sparklcd brightly
in the sun: but if the water was slightly
muddy the iccc looked foul and lis beauty
WAS spoiled. Just ~ our characters are
forming One little thought or feeling at
time adds its influence If each thought be
pure and right the soul will be Lowell y and
will sparkle with happinc>>; bu: if impure
and wrone there will be Il final dctormity
and misery
TI. r,,u,,ti,u ot' tho mon,bnrS of tho -,