Orangeburg times. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1872-1875, 1874-07-30
FACTS AND FANo1Es.


e Pearl river, Mississippi,f furnished
the lumber for the st. Louis BRIDGE.
= -Itis nothing for a Il g Geergia woman
e Nil fifty fifty snakes per- week.
Mrs. Lizzie Lloyd Phoenix, the
Russian diamond scandal person, is
known as the, "Grande Duchesse" ia
Paris.
1t is considered a a pretty we waeelI-settIed
fact that death has no aterrors for the
man who marries awoman after thir-
"A Toledo woman muzzlea her hus-
band to Keep him from kissing the
chambernaid: is itireallyi necessary
this time Of the year? co,,s., ,,,o-,
Nine. Lind Goldschmnnidt and Mr..
Sims Reeves are each said TO havet'a
child whose promise Of future renown
as singer is very great. 800, lllyaSt
Not one lady in ten bathes, at New-
port because it isn't genteel, 'and,g fur
thermore, because they. .look,l like hor-
rid frights" in bathing costume.
.. -" Only children and fools sit on the
beach under an umbrella" says the ex-
asperated Miss Olemade from, ,her, ,eleya-
ted seat overloo oking Swampscott beach.
Dom Piatt says the proper thing to
do when your horse is running away is
Is to hold fast to your seat and say your
prayers; anyhow, hold i fast TO ,,yy yyqpr
seat" 49,
h A man in Stark county, Ind, pays
his boy ten cents,a a. quart for potato
bugs, and the boy says that if ynext year
is as good as this he can buy the old
man out. - 3Ee y ezh RS = asftH
More than q hundred, people ARE
drinking warm blood at the Boston alb
attoir for various diseases, and there is
talk of building hotel to accommodate
the patients.ye .yenoIR ysIAT nagiitillqga
a5Catgnt is prepared from! the intes-
tines of the. sheep or. goat, and the
manufacture chiefly confined to Italy.
Mo- manufactures f,estgut is known in
this country. 4, -.
Another old pioneer gone. one. ssHe
lived at Troy, and hea"gonedp with
81, 900 which; did not belong to him,
fort his Old age. as'ss''iiR 1if''
"A little boy was asked about the
story,of Joseph, and if he knew what
wrong his brethren done in disposingof
him, when he replied, Z" i suppose they
sold him too cheap" gsye ts.iR 'pb
g5A-sstt sstt Yess George. Washing ton q was
steamboat captain, "but then, stranger,
he never owned o steamboat, which
could hitch past the White ,Queen."'s
An old veteran was relating his ex-
ploits to a crowd Of boya,' and men
tioned having been in nfiveengagements.
ssThat,s nothing" broke in o little fell
low, stmY sister Agnes has been engaged
eleven times. 'saS+'i us@ sfisS 9'
n1atThel Vienna, city, ,architectl ihasiob-
tanned permission to construct @ istoYe
in the principal cemetery, for cremation
purposes, and an Old 4adS hasssi gsiseh30,-
900 OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES of
"A greenhorn res sat long tin time s yery at-
fentiye, nitlsing upon "a cane- bottom
chair Atlsngth he said :tof'I wonder
what fellow took the trouble to find all
them ar holes, and put estraws around
EN- ?'' {'asT' ~ s2f'sR D7f"o' Fii ~ iu3
LA peddler calling ien,an old ladyEto
dispose of some goods inquired of her
if she could tell him of any road on
which no peddler had 5tfavelGd.H Yes;p
replied she's z" i knowiofl one, and that's
the road to heayep.,Jos 4 sr s,, a,.,,
Detroit Free Press "Tnrn. for b
moment from The Beecher' Esehndal loand
ponder otter thaIfacb that;the footprints
of o Chicago lady, on the prairie near
Michigan City got b crowd OF mon 0as
to hunt for a stray y'elephant."145ia2gba
l1a!-At recent reunion Of tho ,al qmni
of West Point it was voted unanimously
that all living graduates of the aead-
envy, both FROM the south and north,
be invited to join the anniversary din
ner next year, oa the 18th ofJune.
One of the oddities OF hot weather
advertising is that of o gentleman who
.announoes through the, evening paper
"his readiness to supply pulpits for
any denomination or do any other min
isterials work, during the heated term"
-Mias athaokeray,i dapghtsr OF the
late novelist, writes that great num-
Der of letters and signatures purpors-
| ing TO have been writtemby her father
are in circulation. The greater part
of these are forgeries, and Of renarka-
IDLY good execution.A Bfasi's SO u4s
The various government bureaus
are generally adopting o machine which
prints all letters instead Of writing
them, and which can print, it is claimed,
faster than PERSON .csn write. a clerk
in the postoffice department. has written
fifty-six words per minute with this ma
chine I" q sy't"ii,ar - api'At
About thirtyiapplioations for bank
charters under the new law have been
| filed with the comptroller OF the cur
rency since congress adjourned. They
come mainly. from Illinois, Wisconsin,
Indiana, Kansas and Iowa, with few
from the southern states. The amount
applied forIis in the eineighborhood of
three millions, of dollars. This leaves
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