The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1873-09-25
OUR CHIP-BASKET.

lions sometimes forgets. to bring them back.
Kate Scott, an old Indian squaw, wholivs
at Grant, Wisconsin, has killed eight bears
this summer.
The experiment of importing laborers from
Spain is being tried with marked success in
Louisiana.
There is nothing so effective in bringing
man up to the scratch as healthy and high.
spirited flea.
A boy who is polite and pleasant in man
ners will always have friends, and will not
often make enemies.
"Pretty bad under foot to-day" said one
citizen to another, as they met on the street.
"Yes, but it's fine overhead" responded the
other. "True enough" said the first, but
then very few are going that way"
| A Brutal old bachelor declares that pretty
women kiss one another on coming into a
room because it graceful custom they do
the same on going away because they are de.
lighted to lose sight of one another.
To see how eagerly human being will
catch at straw, it is not necessary to wit
ness the drowning. The phenomenon is
now manifest chiefly within saloons, where
one end Of the straw is immersed in tumb.
ler.
Be not diverted from your duty by any
idle reflections the silly world may know
upon you for their censures are not in your
power, and consequently should not be any
part of your concerns.
A German adds this to an obituary:
"Mine wife Susan is dead. IF she had life
till next Friday, she'd bin dead shust two
weeks. AS tree falls so must it stan. All
tings is impossible NIT God
When you see others laughing at some
thing you have said, try and find out wheth.
er they really think you are smart, or only a
fool.
"Where is parts unknown" asks q cor
respondent of the Danbury Nescs To which
Baily answers very truthfully, "where they
don't advertise"
The editor of Lawrance, Kansas, Tribune
pleasantly speaks of the ''hoary-headed old
hook-nosed devil of the Leavenworth Times"
The editor of an Illinois paper thinks fish.
ing, as q general rule, doesn't pay. eve
stood it all day in the river last week." he
says, "but caught-nothing until we got
home"
Ex-President johnson, it is said, is again
a candidate for Governor Of Tennessee, and
has aspirations for the United States Sem
ate.
Nature always knows her business, and
she never NEEDLES with other peoples. In
this latter respect, she differs from many
other folks whom could name.
One of party of friends, referring to an
exquisite musical composition, said: ''That
song always carries me away when hear
it." "Can anybody sing it 7" asked a wit in
the company.
Charles Cearson, colored man has been
lodged in the Edgefeld jail on charge Of
numbering his own child, little girl, aged
two years. He beat her to death.
Obstacles in the path Of q man of true
courage are but indictments to enterprise,
and the warrants Of ultimate success
A lady wished seat. A portly, hand.
some gentleman brought one and seated the
lady. ooh! you're jewel" said She
"Oh, no." he replied, ~ am a jeweller. I
have just set the jewel"
During fire in Memphis, the other day,
woman carried barrel of -four down stairs
without bursting hoop In ordinary times
it exhausts her to strike her husband twice
with poker.
An illicit distiller in Virginia, compelled
by revenue officers to move his establish.
ment "still higher" up the mountains side,
calls his whiskoy Excelsior.
A Cincinnati man, on his dying bed, re-
membered that his wife was smoking some
hams, and he said "Now, Henrietta, don't
90 snufling around and forget those hams"
A man with wart on his nose has re.
covered $500 in q Baltimore court against
the brute who reminded him of that protu-
berance by calling him "Warty"
When I gee modern tat.ler, always
think it pity he had not been created with
out any brains. As an idiot, he might have
been harmless success As an intelligent
being, he is the vilest failure imaginable.
Let every man be occupied, and occupied
in the highest employment Of which his ma.
ture is capable, and die with the conscious
ness that he has done his best
Mrs. A.: "Well, good bye, dear You
must come and see my new dresses from
Paris-one charming morning dress, among
others, quite simple, and only cost sixty
seven guneas You'll come, won't you? and
tell me what you think of it p Mrs. B.:
80, my dear, I'm no judge of cheap clothing,
you know"