The free citizen. (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1875-08-07
FACTS AND F'ANgIEs.

The coffee planters OF Ceylon are
threatened with pccuniary ruin, the
rats having seized their plantations.
grasshopper style. Not being able to
import American music, they are trying
to frighten Off the invaders with tic
tom-tom, home instrument.
There is an English paper which
thinks that in ease Of war the chief
food producing nations, by combining
against England, could conquer her
soldier by simply declining to deal with
her. f9
Tho old superstitious idea that the
hand of dead man is a talisman against
evil, once prevalent among southern ne.
groes, seems not to have died out A
vault in Grcenville, Miss, was recently
| broken open and hand cut from n
corpse.
On one of the bridges of Paris a
baby sprapg out of its mothers arms
and fell IN the river, and the mother
jumped after it, but could not swim.
Another woman jumped in who could
swim and brought out both. Tho
mother was half drowned and tho baby
was dead. .ss gs#.a!
Some of the clergymen in Kentucky
propose to hang states in the church
vea1lbules. so that young ladies on en-
tering, can register their names, thus
saving n great expense for providing
sents i'll the vestibule for young men,
and making a great deal Of waiting I'M
necessary. e..gr,
-" James Brown" of ST. Giles, Lon
d,n, claims to be reckoned among the
ncble band Of vivisectionists,- his trade
being the catching of cats and 'skin-
ming 'em alive" ''The simple fact is,"
he says, ST got an honest living by
skinning cats, md because skins taken
from the live cats arc worth siXpence
apiece moro than those taken from tho
animal when dead I skin tho cats alive
whenever I can"
If there is manufacturing city on
this continent which might be called
the Manchester of America, it is
Lowell, Mass. There are daily en-
ployed nearly eighteen thousand opera
tives in the various mills. The capital
stock Of the several corporations is
over SIG, 100000, while the total valua-
tion would foot up six times sixteen
millions. In many instances the origi-
nal stockholders have, perhaps, more
than doubled their Investments by mag
nifcent dividends and it is q. notable
fact that even in iheso depressed times
tt6f t6faittGGnGs attGnl Is not l6f f ,5liea 2: ~
This is what bank cashier VIZ. @
to Washington when he wanted s'rcg-
istered bonds" 81 may not have ex-
pressed myself properly, not knowing
much about this business of shopping
bonds, but my intentions nre pure and
innocent. wish 10 have these bonds
in such a condition that when burglars
ONO to my room ut midnight, put
pistol to my head, twist my nose, ,tako
me by the ear, lead me to my bank,
compel me to nnlock my safe, can
contemplate the removal of my bonds
with smile that is child-likc and
bland"
The work OF excavating tho arena
of the coliseum at Rome, has been sns-
pended since May, Us it cannot be pro-
ceeded with until the discovery Of tho
duct or canal used by the old Romans
to drain off the water collecting FROM
the adjacent slopes. The canal has been
traced in it's starting point near the
ruins, and in it's passage through tho
forum, leading into the Cloaca Maxima;
but it's intermediate course has yet to be
uncnrthed, which operation, together
with it's proper cleaning and repairs,
will be Job of some difficulty, time and
expense. In the meantime the excava-
ton i'll tho coliseum already made, will
have to be kept dry, or MS free from
water as possible, in order thnt the
foundation of the building may not bo
serionsly damaged.
A popular theatrical manager says
he has been tho means of keeping be-
tween two and three hundred young
Indies off the stage within the space of
five wears. "Ono reason was, said he,
"because they had no talent, and an
other was because I knew that before
thcy had been in tho profession many
weeks they wonld be heartily sick and
tired of it. The life Of an actor is n
hard one. People come, said he, !'nnd
see the actor walking around the stage,
speaking few lines, dressed in mag
nificent clothes, anu winning the ap-
pla,sn Of the multitude. How do
iiehtful!' they exclaim Nothing III
the world to do but to dress well and
look pretty They do not know what
dogs life it is And travelling through
tho country If the hardest work OF all.
Out till Twelve md ono O'Clock at night,
and out Of bed by ionr or five in tho
morning to take au early train TO the
next town. Sometimes thoy do not get
to bed at all.
That SAVED HIM.-It has been gen-
orally supposed that IL bald head was Of
m occoi,nt even to tho owner, but