The free citizen. (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1875-04-24

"A faS1lOnaDl0 IarlB QTeSS-naKer
announces that ''ladies' shrouds are
now cut decollette."
"A postal GARD picked up on the
street at Norwich, Conn, the other
day, bore this solemn appeal: "Deer
mary for luv Of God send me pare of
pants.'.
"A Vermont lady tainted away at a
party, and, when young man cried
out for some one to saw her corset
strings in two, she arose, drew pair of
shears, and said she'd like to gee 'em
saw
"A wonderful exhibition has been
opened at Brussels It is collection
of about 100 landscapes Of great merit,
painted by boy named Fritz Ker-
chove, of Bruges, who died an idiot
at eleven years of age.
Hats are faring, with broad brims
turned up, or turned down, or raised,
SO as to display branches of trimming
under the brim on one side. They are
picturesque and pretty, and are vastly
becoming to young faces.
From young lady in town to her
friend in the country I'm sitting on
the latest spring style, Mary" And,
Judging by the number of monstrous
buttons one sees in the fashion-plates,
very uncomfortable seat it must be.
Too bad aha6dt sa.er Kntureh!
!, She wanted to ait onf Jury;
But the man who bsd on ~ i.gE
Didn't wish to be sot on tr' e -
I'm sorry for sister Katureh Il ~ s
Great preparations are afoat at
Trieste for the unveiling thsN statue :
erected to the memory of Macmillan.
Invitations have been cent to all the
companies who served under the en-
peror in Mexico.
Cardinal Manning, in accordance
with usual custom, will take his title
from some church in Rome, and has
selected the church of st. Gregory,
after whom he will be called. If by
any possibility he should be elevated to
the papacy, he would therefore become
Pope Gregory XVII.
"A gigantic swimming bath, COM
posed of iron and rooted in with plate
glass, has been moored in the Thames
at London. The water that is admitted
to it flows through thick bed of char
coal, and is so effectually filtered that it
sparkles and glistens as if it were drawn
from IN artesian we'll.
-Johnpy saved himself trouble but
lost marks in his definition exercise the
other day. He got bravely through
"presbyter," which he found, by look
ing it out, to he one who had had the
laying on of hands by the presbytery.
The next word was "dissenter," and in
an evil moment Johnny. without turn
ing leaf in his dictionary, wrote,
zone who has had the dysentery."
The following harmless (if hard) hit
G,,I &c o1i :, o1
The "doctor" referred to, it will be
perceived, is reverend doctor:
~ cannot praise the doctors eyes,
Inever saw his glance divine;
He always shuts them when he prays,
And when he breaches he shuts mine."
The present programme of the Brit
two vessels shall leave Portsmouth
about the latter end of May, and taking
the usual route to Baffin's Bay, en-
deavor to pass mp Smiths Sound. In
81 degrees or 80 degrees north latitude
they will probably separate, and while
one will explore the northern coast OF
Greenland, the other will push still
further northward.
AN IaNoMINIoUs CONCLUSION. Mary
Ripley, of Columbus, is sixteen years of
age, and feeling that the. time had como
when she should commence her work
in behalf of humanity, she hired hall
and invited the public to come and hear
her lecture on "Social Topics" Mary
began as follows: "Lades and gen.
tlemen: If there were no men in the
world there would be fewer poor, mis-
erable girls wandering --" Mary pro-
ceeded no further in her discourse, be-
cause at that point her father walked
upon the platform and led her out Of
the house by the ear.
The CUBAN INDIANS. The good ma
tured aborigines, who, according TO
accounts, must have numbered as high
as two or three millions in the island
Of Cuba, writer says, have been near
ly extirpated. Thousands perished
from overworking for invaders, who
treated them as slaves thousands were
shot and lacerated by dogs as If they
we're game and thousands were killed
by foolish and bloody Spaniards, who
had made q vow to slaughter every
morning thirteen heathens in honor Of
the Savior and the twelve apostles. It
is, therefore, not to be wondered at that
the Antillenos knowingly committed
tho suicide of their entire race by
solemnly pledging their women not to