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


"You don't do that again." said the
pig to the boy who cut his tail off.
A return to the old plan Of appren-
ticing boys to trades is being advo-
Gated.
T. Mast il registered on the alphabe-
tical list Of arrivals at Boston rs "Nast
r."
A correspondent Of paper having
described the Ohio as "a sickly stream
Z the editor appended she remark: "That's
Ro--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
q crooks enough left over to start another
town.
The abolition of the national banking
sesaystem, and the substitution of free
banking, with nothing but legal. tender
circulation, is now attracting some atten-
tion.
An Iowa pal er proclaims itself an
"honest newspaper" and in another
paragraph says: "When a man pro-
fssses honesty nowadays, keep your
. eye peeled for thief"
e A Partisan, whose wife lately died,
imagined himself transformed into a
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 ga Tennessee editor, who has bcen
drinking Cincinnati whisky for month,
has written TO an Eastern publishing
house for patent inside"
A Texas barber who ornamcnted 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
es So witty compliment is rarely made
.eS that of Sydney Smith to his friends,
Mrs. Tighe and Mrs. Cuffc: "Ah,
there you are the cuff that every one
would be glad to wear, and the tie that
no one would loose"
essAn insurance decision in Richmond
Is to the effect that Northern company
sis liable for the amount of premiums
paid before the war on policies which
slapsed during the war, ifthe companies
refused application for renewal after
Eha war closed.
1.-The people of Providence are highly
iDesnsed Mt the discovery of an old
English Gazetteer, publishcd in 1776,
which describes Bristol as a -.rwL in
Nav -Rnglsnd shaving q ,ommodious
hafbor, at the entrance of which lies
Rhode Island"
"Greensburg wants directory. It is
Q nightly occurrence that many of her
citizens cannot find the way to their
homes. It will require peculiar drec-
tory Ia 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
TO get it for the reason that they are
not educated or specially fitted for any
particular business constitutes a potent
argument in favor of reform. Under
the apprentice system We should have
fewer Ignorant mechanics and incompe.
tent business men.
"A young grass widow, aged 25 years,
and ex-spouse of four living husbands,
il about to harvest her fifth hay crop in
Salt Lake City. Her first husband vas
o Yankee, her second al Italian, her
third 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 preparation
FOR it will destroy half its force. The
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