Orangeburg times. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1872-1875, 1874-08-06

FACTS AND FANo1Es.

FACTS AND FANOIEs.
No. .,ffg-f .tT or -----i N .-f15
An exchange mentions orange.peel
as a power behind the thrown
The Minnesota graisshIoo,p,Ipr,ers oan
cradle twenty1feur ceres ofswileat in an
hour. .,
a Boston man says: 1T lis very easy
to remember tile I,66r. I can remenbe.
cases twenty years ago. "uiosNaad
+. "A marble company att Brandon, VI.
1s making one hundred thousand, head
stones for dead soldiers. 'fas -
y Prairie grass has become athe next
thing TO, intel leet..al feed q. s - i.;sing
exported from Illinois to, Liverpool, to
be made into paper. - s.
- IA new York company will Insure
poodle dogs, but won I, stake, ,aqcent's
risk on babies. They; know which re-
ceives the most care.
"A chap who spent$ 4oOto gffaduate
from Harvard dis postmaster In ] iowa at
been but for his Latin and Greek.
La breach Of promise 81 marriage,
in which the damages were hadn't $50,
coo, has bepn compromised with o pres
e1lt of five dollars and new chignon.
;It,was in Kentucky. l'F9llisf'f
so, Lord, ~ prayed administer,
" keep me humble and ypoorl'o SO,
Lord, if Thou wilt keep him humble
said the deacon who next prayed, "we
will keep him poor."r ~ III bsrijnl
"A Louisiana man puts q. two
can Of nitro: ycerine inside of "a chick
en-, losses the chicken to an alligator,
and that alligator does not trouble the
bayou any more. ~, .-.g,,a
= - Mrs. Woodruff wants to go before
theN plymouth church ihvestig eating
committee. She predicts that she
could "raise the roof of that interest
ing building. ''S,''',' -
Those Texas are bad men TO be
trifed with One of them wanted a
foundry at Galveston to cast him q
glass bottle, and when they laughed
at him he peppered three men with
b ,b'uc1kshot. i4si. lfsds Tnn siisiw
When Michigan woman was talk
en- from the cowcatcher of o locomotive,
upon which she ,ha been caught and
carried half a. mile, she said with feel
ing, ST was Just ,scoopel up like gosh
almighty, wasn't I p % 7H
example OF Mr.. JAMES Lick is
beginning TO bear fruit, nItiislsaid that
Mr.. Henry Shaw proposes. to deed to
ST. Louis his extensive botanical gar
dens,i which have long been: the pride
OF that city. j; .,ii.,..t N, ,,sSfs
- 1t SIS said that the ,nosauitoes are
unusually largo this senso1i. The only.
satisfaction that people who are 'oblig-
cd to remain in tho city can get, from
this is the hope that the old bull mos
Iquitoes will loaf around eeback-yards
at night and eat up. the tom,cats.
In the. new university ut NeYbury-
port all the students acquiring any
special tongue are to be domiciled as
boarders with g family speaking that as
their native language; and all fogeign
professors are to be natives Of the coun-
tries to which their, particular langua-
ges belong. .,s5 r7.si, sill
"A walking stick with tar on the end
got a brace of suspicious looking men
into difficulty in st. Louis, and ieahsed
their being conveyed as prisoners to
the police-station. The police, seemed
to have an idea that the Tar on the end
of the stick was there forofnaneialI pur-
poses, and was meant TO facilitate the
hauling in of q portion Of the loose
change generally to found on the. shelf
behind the counter In beer halls when
the bar r-keeper's back was turned.
Melius. the % other day: This affair
will wrench a $40 bill from you Unless
,you want to 60 up for riuety dayH.s Be
after this. John 8. Heenan gained
something of a reputation by blowing
his n uscIe up, but public opinion has
changed. If you want to be famous
you must diseoyer comet .or hang
around a reservoir and look out for
breaks."',; .iai < 81 VI aSs!<;n,
An admirable improvement in the
present crude system of communicating
by telegraph has been inaugurated by
the government of Switzerland. It is
proposed to allow parties at different
stations to hold interviews, to be paid
for in proportion to the time psed, and
not by the number of words. This will
supply an opportunity for detailed ex-
planation in business matters which is
not afforded under the arbitrary system
that is in vogue is most couhtries.
THE Boston papers are getting to
be unintelligible. Here, for instance,
is the Transcript that overhears. this i'm
aginary conversation ~ /" Dearest, be-
lieve me, / do love you with myfwhole
nervous organism. You share with TO
other being the emotions which: pre-.
wade my undivided gray mattersS and if
were conscious of o gapglion, that
throbbed but for thee, be sure 1 would
not sleep till I had procured its neurot-
omy." It is all owing to the, recent at
tack, of DR.. Brown,Sequard. arj
The subject Of fhydrophobiais is under
going thorough investigation. Ameet-
| ing OF The medical faculty was recently
convened at the college Of physicians