Orangeburg times. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1872-1875, 1874-09-10
NUMBER 81.
FACTS AND rANcIEs.

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These lines .ore by n realistic Sagi-,
nav Michigan poet ~ ~ s. s,s;
IIss Wof'st tho rcd Injun hero ..ools their de-
Z Eisht, iit and blod. s y
Now most OF tie iilhah hitarss Il whites, yys
aehooiboy defines flea, Z IFlea,
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England and Scotland are, said to
jeontain six hundred thousand habituaI
drunkards, including both sexes. liof D
" Hayn,t Ia light to- be, sancy il
please 3? asked q young lady os an .old,
not il you displsase, & was the answers,
is true thst tl,ere is nothing like
advertising, but public officer. with.
nothing but his salary of 50 GOO d year
to live on, should be careful not to give
his wife more than Sc, ,OGO worth of din
monds at o time.
An Iowa Z lper reports Che follow
in that state: {. Join your right hands,
Do you want ono another % (They
both answer, 8. Yes" "WeII, then,
have one another. You're man and
wife,
"A Vermont man has the following
posted in his field: IF any mans or
womans COWS or oxen gets into these
here oats, his or her tail will be cut of, !,
as the case may be. / am Christian
man and pay me taxes but blast d man
who lets his critters run loose, says iI.'',tt
"A lady who had been teaching her
little four-year-old the elements Of
arithmetic was astounded at his running
in and propounding the following prob1
lem : Mamma, If you had three but
terflies and each butterfly had bug in
its ear. how many butterflies would you
have ?" IS g',, II.
Remember that appearances are
often deceiving. Many q pale. thin
young lady will eat more corned beef
than q carpenter. Because you find
her playing the piano in the parlor it is:
no sign that her mother is not at the
corner grocery running in debt for o.
peck of potatoes. ,l-,1
The New York Mail denounces as o
double-distilled fool, n young French
man who, seeing the dead body of "a
very beautiful woman displayed at the
Morgue, went and killed himself, first
writing letter, stating that he had
committed the, act in order to- have his,
cadayer put ION the next slab to hers.
"A well known brotherfof the press
remarks, in i recent issue It is not
our fault that we are red headed
land s,taal aad tbe next tine one of
room reaches down for our head, and
suggests that some one has lost rose
bud out of his button hole, there will
be trouble" 't9s'i
"A Walker street (Atlanta, Ga.)
man has goat for sale. While he Was,
at'dinner recently, the goat chewed up
his new panama hat, q box of cigars,
and his wife's new bonnet, and several
fruit cans that were out airing, pre-,
paratory for duty. The goat is an ex-
pensiye luxury, and will be sold cheap
on long credit. ,2iii
TO despond is to be ungrateful be-
forehand. Be not locking for evil.
Often thou drainest the gall of fear
while evil is passing by thy dwelling.
Verify evils may be courted, may be
wooed, and may be won by distrust; for
the soil is ready for the seed, and sus-A
picion hath coldlyput aside the helping
hand. Topper.
"A writer in Les Mondes says that
he is enabled to materially reduce the
number Of insects which prey upon the
flowers and fruits of his garden, by
covering the inside of nm old tub with
liquid tar and ut twilight putting
lighted lantern within, leaving the
whole out overnight. The bugs, at
tracted by the light, are caught and
held fast by the tar. ,sys
Grave city pastor to his fond wife
"My dear, Mrs. Wilson must be ex-
periencing change OF heart. She
looked 80 serious during my last SER
mon." Fond wife" Sho, you goose,
why couldn't you see that her new Sun
day hat has one artificial flower less
than Mrs. Browns, who sits in the next
pewp" The pastor collapses and takes
refHge in an armchair.
AT his late fancy.dress ball tho
sumptuous Wales "was dressed in q
light maroon velvet doublet and clocll
Of satin, embroidered in gold, trunk
hose, large buff boots and black felt
hat, with white feather. He wore al
SO wig of fair hair, which prevented
his easy recognition, and had his Star
OF the Garter on his breast, aud tho
badge hanging from o blue ribbon
round his neck"
"A commission appointed by the
French minister of public works, bav-
ing reported favorably upon the great
scheme for connecting England and
France by n submarine tunnel, French
coal owners to the north of Franco ere
beginning to discuss the probable effect
of the work upon their trade, and are
afraid that the tunnel would greatly in
crease the deliveries of English coal up