The free citizen. (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1875-03-20
NUMBER 80.
FACTS AND FANCIEs.

ACIS AMI FAMILIES. -. 49,
, -Transmission of money by post in
Russia is expressly forbidden, and the
money is liable to confiscation.
Red used on railroad signifies
danger, and says stop. It is the same
thing displayed on q mans nose.
"A person Of inquiring turn of
mind asked, "Does the Lord love q
man who spends ut church festival
the money he owes his washerwoman?"
"A 81, 100000 900 tract deed has lust
been put on record i'll Denver. Rich
men have to study arithmetic out
there. t+.
What sort of grammar is it which
compels person to say, esI saw four
deer in one Drove" but won't let him
say, there are ten hog in the garden?'
"A tract on sThe Wickedness of
Gluttony" is said to have been found
among the good things sent to the Kan
sas grasshopper sufferers.
Texas towns are peculiar. An ex-
asperated Dallas paper asks: ss LIS
there no ordinance to prevent the firing
OF OF pistols as q means of alarm in
cases of fre?"
In an English town twenty barrels
of gun-powder were taken from shop
| and put in cart. The driver mounted,
! sat on one of the barrels, lighted his
pipe and drove away.
..r-A matter of-fact doctors wife at
| tempted to move him by tears. "Ah I"
said he, "tears are useless. I have
analayzed them. They contain n little
phosphate Of lime, some chlorate of
lime and water"
"A lamp p-chimney may be made al
most indestructable by putting it over
the fire in vessel of hot water and let
ting it remain until the water boils. It
will be found that boiling toughens in
this case.
The newspaper reporters of Chicago
propose to give theatrical entertain
ment ut an early day for the benefit of
the poor of that city. 1t will not. be
advisable to marry into poor family,
though, on this account. -
MIR. George Smith has discovered
among the Assyrian tablets in the Brit
ish museum the Elegend Of the building
of the Tower of Babel, The discovery
is quite as important as that of tho
tablet relating to the deluge, made
known by the same gentleman:
Sentiment is nothing but senti-
ment. An ex-army captain, fin Ool-
orado, when dying, asked 7,,stass ts
lad s=i no flag, and So ttGgg tGG'5gh wrapped him
in coffee-sack, and he exclaimed
(" ALI! may you all die rs proudly !"
Alexander Dumas, it is said. -neven
sketches scheme for any of his pieces.
He takes for Iour-act pieco: seventy
seven big pages-rof blue paper. He
uevotes twenty pages each to tho first,
second and third aSts, and seventeen to
the last.
You're right there, Tookcy. There's
allays two 'pinions. There's the 'pinion
a man has of himsen, and there's the
'pinion other folks have on him.
Ther'd by two 'pinions about cracked
bell if the bell could hear itself.
A dry goods clerk lately dropped
senseless behind the counter while
waiting on customers. Tho female GUS
toner for whom he had pulled down
every bolt of calico on the shelves
quietly requested the proprietor to re-
move the incumbrance and send on an
other clerk.
When girl crops her front hair
and pulls it down over her forehead like
Mexican Mustang, and then ties q
piece OF red velvet round her neck, who
can wonder at the number of palo-faced
young u1cil UIlub UuIOW away GuGlT Htu-
bition and pass sleepless nights in try
ing to raiso down on their upper lips?
The Troy Times says: At party
on Fourth street the, other night a
young gentleman tried to coax young
lady to play on the piano. She said
couldn't. "Why" said he, E.you can
play the Blue Danube waltz, can't
you?" "No," said she, "but I can
play penny ante just like little man,
She is beautiful and accomplished.
-"Yes, sir" yelled preacher in
! Dakota church one Sunday morning.
"there's more lying and swearing and
| stealing and general deviltry to the
square inch in this here town than all
the rest OF the American country" and
then the congregation got up and
dumped the preacher out of the win
| dow.
The Vesper Bell.
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