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

Beneath his petticoats his feet,
Like little mice who pussy meet,
Did twist and twirl about;
And, oh! he roared in such way
No costard seller blithe and gay
Gives half 20 loud shout.
His tears All instant coase TO flow
| Anon he wildly squeale. az though
Some flea had bit him badly.
| Poor pa, he rises up in ire,
Strong argument does him inspire
Things end for baby sadly.
Go and buy COW right away. A
Wisconsin COW came home the other
night with bag of gold on her horn.
Ohio has n new religious scot called
the Eternalists, and they are eternally
fighting to see who shall lead them.
A fashionable Paris dress-maker
announces that ''lndies' shrouds are
now cut decollette."
"A postal card 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. y.
A Vermont lady tainted away at n
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 see 'em
saw7
"A wonderful exhibition has been
opened at Brussels. 1t is a collection
of about 100 landscapes of great merit,
painted by boy named Fritz Ker
chove, of Bruges, who died an idiot
mt eleven years of age.
Hats are naring, with broad brims
turned up, or turned down, or raised.
SO MS 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: g 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 had about sRter, Katureh
| She wanted to sit onf jury;
But the 4man who bei got on
Didn't wish to be sot on;
I'm sorry for sister Katureh Il
Great preparations are afoat at
| Trieste for the unveiling the statue
erected to the memory Of Macmillan.
Invitations have been Gent to all tho
! companies who served under the em-
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 i'll with plate
| glass, has been moorcd in the Thames
Mt London. The water that is admitted
to it flows through thick bed Of char
coal, and is so eff'ectualy filtered that it
sparkles and glistens as if it were drawn
| from an artesinn well
-Johnny 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 ont, to he one who had had the
laying-on of hands by the prcsbytery.
The next word was "dissentcr," and in
an evil moment Johnny: without turn
ing leaf in his dictionary, wrote,
cone who has had the dysentery. y
The following harmless Cif hard) hit
! we find in one Of our English exchanges.
The "doctor" referred to, it will be
perceived, is reverend doctor:
~ cannot praise tho DOCTORS eyes,
I nevor saw his glance divine
| He always shuts them when he praye
| And when he prenches he shuts NINE"
The present programme Of tho Bril-
ish arctic expedition proposes that the
two vessels shall leave Portsmouth
about tbs hitter end of May, and taking
the usual rontc to Bsflin's Bay, en-
deavor to pass up Smiths Sound. In
81 degrees or 80 degrees north latitude
they will probably separate, and while
one will explore tho northern coast of
Greenland, the other will push still
further northward.
AN IaNoMIH1oUs CoNCLUsIoN.-M
Ripley, of Columbus, is sixteen years Of
age, and feeling that the. time had come
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 Ladies' and gem
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