The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1873-11-01
A trade is half a mans fortune.


"You don't do that again." said the
pig to the boy who cut his tail of.
A return to the old plan of appreu-
ticing boys to trades is being advo-
Gated.
T. Mast is registered on tho alphabe-
tical list Of arrivals at Boston Us "Nast
T."
A correspondent Of paper having
described the Ohio as "a siokly stream
! the editor appended the remark: "That's
ao--it is confined to its bed"
"A Western paper has an article on the
care Of idiots" A contemporary says
that paper is always dragging family
Affairs before the public.
A citizen of Housewife, p, boasts
that his village can beat Boston out Of
sight on crooked streets, and then have
b crooks enough left over to start another
: town.
The abolition of the national banking
tesaystem, and the substitution of free
y banking, with nothing but legaltender
circulation, is now attracting some atten-
tion.
An Iowa pal er proclaims itself an
"honest newspaper" and in another
, paragraph says: "Wheu a man pro-
fesses honesty now -a-days, keep your
. eye peeled for thief"
= A Partisan, whose wife lately died,
imagined himself transformed into
weeping willow, and went about the
streets of Paris with flower pot on his
head to announce his transformation.
The Louisville Courier-Journal says
that ia Tennessee editor, who has been
drinking Cincinnati whisky for month
has written TO an Eastern publishing
house FOR u patent inside ,"
a. Texas barber who ornamented his
front door with white knob is said to
have had no peace until the last vestige
Of it had been shot away by his sprightly
neighbors, who made use of it as target
So witty compliment is rarely made
sas that of Sydney Smiths 30 his friends,
Mrs. Tighe and Mrs. Cuffo: "Ah,
:. there you are the cuff that every one
would be glad to wear, and the tie that
no one would loose"
8saaAE insurance. decision in Richmond
Is to the effect that Northern company
sis iable for the amount of premiums
paid before the war on policies which
alapsed during the war, if the companies
refused application for renewal after
The war closed.
1.-The people of Providence are highly
iBesnsed at the discovery of an old
English Gazetteer, published in 1776,
which describes Bristol m a tuwr in
Nazszs sE1giand having ,ommodious
harbor, at the entrance of which lies
Rhode Island"
'Greensburg wants directory. 1t is
auightly n occurrence that many of her
citizens cannot find the way to their
homes. 1t will require peculiar direc-
tory to elucidato the intricacies of the
streets Of the town on such occasions,
however
The host Of young men in every large
city who apply for employment and fail
aOget it for the reason that they are
mol, educated or specially fitted for any
particular business constitutes potent
argument in favor Of reform Under
the apprentice system wO should have
fewer ignorant mechanics and incompe-
tent business men.
A young grass widow, aged 25 years,
and ex-spouse of four living husbands,
iS about to harvest her fifth hay crop in
Salt Lake City. Her first husband vas
@ Yankee, her second au Italian, her
shird Swiss, her fourth G erman, and
her prospective fifth is Polander. The
The Widows ia stes are truly cosmopoli-
tain, and she seems ready to take the
world to her glowing and capricious
bosom.
The Missouri Republican says Of the
panic "We may as woll prepare for
second shock at no very distant day,
whether it comes or not a preparation
for It will destroy balf its force The
preparation needed is general payment