The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1873-07-26

Spots on the sun, -Frscklos on your
boys face.
Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
--of some one else.
In Michigan one peacock can van
quish an acre of potato-bugs.
What word is always pronounced
wrong? Wrong.
A man that ought to be Remembered
"A one.legged soldier.
A Western paper heads description
of bride's trousseau "Duds-"
Memphis has a population of sixty
thousand inhabitants. and 1000 liquor
saloons.
Thercis an omnibus in Cincinnati that
has killed thirteen persons in its event.
full career.
Monroe, Wis. boasts of having fur.
nished four Fourth OF July orators to
oore otner towns.
The same mule that killed man at
Lexington, Ind, was permitted to haul
the widow to the funeral.
A religious scot at Laconia N. II :, has
revived tho practice of publicly washing
each others feet.
Raspberries are said to give Iioh red
color to those that eat them. It mani.
tests itself in the nose
A swain at Salinas, Cal, had to leave
his bride waiting while he rode 12O
miles to get marriage license.
A Danbury saw-fler always wears
waddiug in his ears when at work, so as
not to disturb his neighbors,
Iu Brazil they have d!sas-sss
BILE species of ants which attack horse,
aud men and sometimes overcome
them.
We read that there are in Chic agos
new hotel, the Grand Pacific, fifty.piuc
fights of stairs. thirty eight miles OF wire
and 1,070 doors.
A young Californian who became in
toxicatod for the first time recently, felt
SO keenly his disgrnce that he took
strychine aud died.
A Buffalo girl attempted suicide on
account of the degraded character of hor
father aud mother. Parents are great
trouble to young people nowadays.
Since the clergy have hold prayers
for the bsneft of the press, the Chicago
Times suggests that editors unite in sup
plication for the diffusion of intelligence
among the clergy.
Young men with a disposition to
"burgle," will be interested in knowing
that a full set of. burelar's toola= inelnd
ing reyolvers and slungshots, costs about
$1,000.
A bare-footcd Ohio girl, who walk cd
ten miles to hire out to hoe corn, was
admired by u widower worth 500, 900,
and the two are one now. Isn't there
lesson in this?
"You sell watcIed milk, see," re.
marked a well-known dry.goods mer.
chantitoa restaurateur. "Weil, whnt
of that; don't you sell watered silk ?"
vas the prompt retort.
Norwegian girls who have been doing
kitchen work iu Iowa at SO so week,
are hiring out to work in the harvest
fields at SO or So per day. About ten
cents a day was their figure "at home"
The Hcmboldt Journals poet brings
out the following version,
Mary had little lamb.
Twas always on its muscle,
She pulled the wool out of its back,
And stuffed it IN her hustle.
In the late editorial convention in
North Carolina, Capt. WIN. Biggs gave
in his experience as follows. He has
been several years conducting news
paper, most of which had been spcnt iu
raising tho means of doing it.
1t may be very we'll for men to spend
their lives in getting up an illuminated
Bible that will bring $40, 900, the price
which was obtained at European book
sale, but it wonld be better still if more
of Its professed admirers would let the
Bible illuminate them.
A lawyer in Charlotte was bssisged by
n bevy Of the fair seq to contribute some
thing for church purpoaes. Ladies'" he