The free citizen. (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1875-04-17
NUMBER 36.
FACTS AND FANCIES.

And beau to dance tho German.
A front row box at the opera
Whenever wanted to go:
A neat coupe and landau. too,
And meals-a Ia Dclmonico.
| Thon in summer go to Newport
| With dressoa rich and many:
And to SEQ niy name in tho fashion report
| While pa hands ont tho money.
"A Chicago man thinks that tho
worst spcller ought to get the dictiop-
ary, and tho winner should have
"wreath of sorrel, or some other garden
sass, like them Greeks"
Tho production of raisins from
California grapes is n growing business
and is strongly urged IA likely to be of
great profit. The whito muscat of
Alexandria is named rs tho bcst raiein
grape.
Among tho numerous phases of
crime daily developed, did you ever
hear of anything equal to the not of the
Jersey City mau arrested for forgery,
who says he did it in order to be sent
to the state prison to escape from his
wife!
AS an illustration of the limitless
number of combinations which tho
three primary co!ors are capable of, 1T
may be intere sting to know that in the
Gobclin tapestry manufacture $4,000
distinct shadings Of yarn are employed,
each one distinguished by tho practiced
eye.
| "A French soldier is to be punished
with death for insulting an upstart Off
Ger. This gives Victor Hugo M oppor-
tnnity to thus compare the case with
that of Bazaine Having sold his flag,
having surrendered his army, having
| 1>nfr 1,sc
struck his corporal death -
-Percire got little tired of return
ing the bows Of an uncomfortable polite
man in his ts'ablishmt MT, and finally
| gave the polite man this conundrum,
at point blank range: "Sir. what
would become of the hours if the min
ute hand stopped to bow to the second
hatd every time they met"
The Parisians devour 100,000,OOO
apples every winter. An eminent French
physician thinks that the decrease of
dyspepsia and bilious affections in Paris
is owing 20 the increased conSumr ton
Of this fruit, which he maintains, is all
admirable prophyacy,. nd tonic, as
well as very nouriehing and easily
digested article OF food.
Mfr. Valentino, the sculptor, has
nearly completed the life-size recumbent
statue of the late Gen. Lee, and it will
be placed over the contemplated mau-
soleum at Lexington. Mr. Valentine
modelled a bust of the general from life
in 1870. and after the hero's death il
was determined that he should be Sc
ecte I to execute the statue.
-" Woll, Uncle Billy, don't you want
any more civil rights - "Not anything
mo- L tank you, replied Billy. "Near-
ly done ruind now. Hev t. pay my
own Doctors bill, lost all my money ia
the Frecdman's bank. NJ bbcr got no
forty rcres an dc mule dcy promised
me, an caa't help myself to little
chicken, fryin' size, wiiout gwine to do
penitcntiary. l'se got huff cibbil
rights !"
JEAN NALIEAS-
a merry wight fond of his ease,
While ho sings his songa and strokes his knecs,
And light as tho air which sways tho leaves,
Is joan Vatican, the cobbler.
Through tho summers day he sits and sings
or tho olden days and Of ancient things,
or tho danes OF yore and OF bygone kings
Sings Jean Faljcan. tho cobbler.
Tho birds arc singing in every tree
Till tho air is filled with tho melody
or song az light and gay and free
As Jean ValjcAns, the cobblor.
NltI lHS WanlllS SlluuO"b ITO DlTu Ill lLS NJ,
And Joan in his cot, each scok tho rest \
Which sweet sleep brings, with no cares op-
pressed,
Ali! happy Jean, tho cobblor.
The London Sporting Gazette, refer
ring to tho statement that the Emperor
William has forbidden tho expectation
of horses beyond the German frontier,
says: "Ths startling announcement
hcralds revolution, the results of
whi;h are likely to very seriously affect
the horsc trado in England, rs three
fourths of the carriage aud draft horses
in London at this moment have been
imported from Germany. Moreover,
we are dependent on Germany in very
argc degree for orr troop-horses, and
it is not clear whence we shall obtain
the necessary supply now that we are
shut out from Germany, especially MS
both France and Spain ere also in want
Of troop-hors s. tho former requiring
10000, and the latter 5000.
in Brington church are two sepul-
chrai stones, one bearing the date OF
1916 over the grave of the father Of
Washington, the emigrant, in which
his arms appear impaled with those of
his wife. The other stone covers the
remairs of his uncle, and presents on a
bass the simple family shield with the
crescent appropriate to n younger
| brother We have before us tran
| script of this shield, and from it we are
constrained to believe that the United
States flag as seen now very certainly
took it's origin. In this shield are five
| horizontal stripes, of alternate gu1es