Orangeburg times. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1872-1875, 1874-06-25
FACTS AND FANCrHs.

FACTS AND FANo1Hs.
Why is the letter Y like a young
lady? Becauseit it makes pa pay. l,4
"A Delaware obituary: ellis hat
wasn't always cooked over the left ear,
but he didn't owe q butcher in town.
"A costly monument has been placed
by the widow of James Fisk, Jr., over
his remains at Brattl leboro, Vermont.is
"A mother advised her, daughter to
oil her hair, and tainted flat away, when
that damsel replied, {. Oh; no, ma. ;; it
spoils the gentlemen's vests"
-Ayoung lady wants to know whether
girl may be sure q man loves her mn
utterably when he sits in her presence
for an Hour without speaking as d1i1,z
-"What kind of sausages is them o.
queried an old lady Of the young man
of literature and peanuts, as hefpassed
through the train, selling bananas.
There is one good thing about
those white gauze vel .s--a woman who
powders looks as respectable behind
one of them as a woman who d6esn't.di
"A teacher asked an advanced SCHOOL,
girl why beer in, French was feminine.
She replied that it was probably owing
to the fact, that the boys liked il, so
we'll. - '3t''''' - Z"
In Switzerland there is law which
compels every newly-married couple to
plant six trees Immediately after the
ceremony, and two on tho birth of every
child. Birch? 4, 49,, nm.
Dried tongue, Is the answer which.
G minister, just going ont TO exchange!
gave some one who asked him what he
had in his ca,pet-bag-which contained
seven sermons. m biia ,ltNl fsAi afs$
Elder sister" Mamma, do, come
here and see to Alfred. He's got the
urn off the mantel, and spilled some Of
grandmamma on the rug. and is mixing
the rest of her up with ink" u lsri3ss
"A curiosity is shortly, to, be placed
| in the ordnance museum at Washington,
consisting of federal and confederate
bullet impacted in the aiF, which was
picked up before Petersburg in 1864. T
! "A western editor thinks that the
habit of carrying tobacco in the pistol
pocket is bad one. = To meet man on
q lonely:road and see him reach for his
tobacco box suggests unpleasant possi-
bilities. t: 50 Tlita fo
The time has como when the wear,
er of the starched linen coat rises from
his chair and goes forth, unco conscious OF
the fact that the lower portion Of his
garment retains the position which it
acquired while he was seated. q siay'f
"A little. boy of five years, dressed
in his first sack coat, stood leaning
against his mothers knee. "Mamma," =
said he, after a pause, 81 wish you had
put tails to this coat (; / have wnnted O.
tail coat these good many years" There
was silence for space.
-"My dear boy" said fond aunt
to very fast-living nephew, "don't you
know that in leading this irregular life
you are shortening your days?" sit is
quite possible that may be shorten
ing my days, but then look how. 1
lengthen my nights, was the cool reply.
A Yale student has written twelve
verse poem entitled: "We kissed each
other by the sea-" "Well, what of it ?"
asks western journalist /" the seaside
is no better for such practice than any
other locality. In fact, we have put in
some sweet work of that kind on the
towpath of a canal in our time, but did
not say anything about it in print"
No French or English woman OF
cultivation nowadays wears her garterB
below her knees. The principal vein
of the leg sinks there beneath the mus
cles and varicose veins, cold feet, and
even palpitation of the heart may be
brought on by tight garter in the
wrong pla @. When it is fastened
above the knee all this pain and de-
formity may be avoided.
"A Dresden paper says that seven
teen experimel rs have been made dur
ing the previous year, with invariable
success, in the hospitals OF that city, to
infuse lambs blood into the human
subject. In the first case tried the pa
tient had long suffered from pulmonary
diseases, and the immediate effect OF
the operation was to raise the pulse
and impart sense of greater strength.
"A correspondent wants to know if it
is true that the human body has seven
million pores. The Brooklyn Argus,
after poring over the question, says /:
"The last time we counted them there
were seven million and nine; but we
have always had an idea that those nine
were nothing. but extras, spontaneously
generate for the purpose OF misleading
u.s."
"A new line of steamers is just ready
to commence its trips between New York
and Venezuela. The vessels are all
American built, and American manned.
Ttey will stop at st. Thomas, Laguayra,
Porto Cabello, Curacao, and Maracaibo.
Such communication has long been
needed, the trade of that rich section of
the world having been nearly monopo-
lized by England. Except monthly
steamer to Brazil. no other American.
steamers sail to South America upon
either coast.