The free citizen. (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1875-07-17
NUMBER 40.
FACTS AND FANCIEs.


ant in the horse-marines, after which he
was promoted to the oaptainoy of q reg
ular squad of sap.heads and miners"
Out of 2o6, 1000 of the last levy Of
conscripts in France $4,000 have been
declared exempted from both active and
passive duties in the military line. It
even fit to be food for gunpowd.r.
though the fact should be considered as
good sign in behalf of peace.
Only two hundred years ago the old
moss-back who was governor of Virginia
got up and said: 81 thank God that
VIC have no FREQ schools nor printing
presses, and hopo we shall not have
any for hundred years for learning
has brought disotedience and heresS
and sects into the world, aud printing
has divulgcd them and libeIed govern
ments. God keep us from both T.
1t is we'll tint parent should know
tho peculihrity of the pulse of each
child. The pulse Of healthy adult
beats seventy times in minute, though
good health may be enjoyed with fewer
pulsations. But if the pulse ALWAYS
exceeds seventy, it indicates disease. The
human macbino liz working itself out
thero is fovor or inflammation some.
where, and the body is feeding on itself.
The college orator is now abroad in
tho land. His voice is heard from the
four quarters of tho Garth, telling OF
the efforts he has made for distinction
in the past, and his hopes and aspira-
tions for the future. He ia saneuine-
far more snnguine, than he will be a
few years hence, when he shall have
encountered and been con 1uered by
some of the stern realities of life Thus
tar his education has been only theoret.
ical in the future it will be practical.
Whether the former shall fit the sub
jectD for the latter, tho future alone can
determine.
If man wants to go anywhere in a
brief space Of time ho must walk fast.
but he loses his popularity in propor-
tlon to bis rapldity. Balzao, who
seems to havo thought it worth while to
notice this contemplate fact, says !: I,
/" Violent gesture or quick movement
inspires involuntary disrespect. One
looks for n moment at cascade, but
ono sits for tours lost in thought and
gazing upon the still waters of lake.
n deliberate gait, gentle manners and
ggaeeIl9us tope ef .Yoice.Nzzlaell Of which may
immense al vantage over those vastly
superior to him." l.2 u.
AL good men should live in Arch
angel; all angry men in Ireland; all
murderers in Kildare; all circus-men ip
Somerset; nll brokers in Stockholm all
cold men in Chill; all geometricians in
Cubn all fools in Folly Island all
horticul,urists in Botany Bay; all wags
in tue Bay of Fundy; all perfumsrs in
Muscat or Cologne; MI brewers in
Malta; MI glnttons in Turkey;
all beggars il Hungary; all lasonic
men in Laconin; all mourners in Siberia
rr Wplcs; all confectioners in Gambia;
all c';il.'vcI in the Crimea; NIL oil spec
nl:.iolp II Gre ace; all gamblers in the
FeKoo 2ni1n3s; all stumblers in Tripoli;
all cnEio1s men in Pekin; all shoe
makers in Bootnn al noldiers in Arme-
mia or Warsaw.
"A Brussels paper gives painful
Mexico. Her physical condition is good,
but her mental condition is hopeless.
Sho lives i'll constant communication
with imaginary beings, and dislikes the
preserco of any living person. She
speaks only when obliged TO do so, and
gives orders to her attendants in writ.
ing. She dresses herself without per-
mitting assistance, takes fixed walk in
tho park every morning when fine, fre-
quently plays on the piano-forte, and
sometimes draws and paints with de-
cided taste. She recognizes no visitors,
not even her brother, King Leopold or
the queen. The latter always accom-
panied the physician on his monthly :.
visit, whom, in reply to his inquiries as
to her health, the empress coldly says
she is well, and Immediately retires.
She has become stouter, and shows o
tendency to corpulency, but Mt present
it is stated that this has only increased
her beauty, Which is now truly striking.
1t has been Justly said that tho
greatest discovery of our lives is that
tho world ia not 30 bad as, in the first,
di. appointment of youths extravagant
expectations, we arc disposed to regard
it. The passage from boybood to mau-
hood is over the bridge of sighs - and
our first experiences of life as it is,
resemble the flavor of the forbidden
apple--we are enlightened and misera-
BILE. Gladly would we command the
secret OF feeling as we once did; but,
alas, every day takes from Ms Sonic
happy error-some charming illusion
never to return. We are reasoned or
ridicula,i out Of all our joeund mistaken,
till we are just wise enough to be miser.
nble, and we exclaim with Lady Mary
Wortley Montague, "To my extreme
modification 1 find myself growing
wiser and wiser every day." But q
time comes, ut length, when our views
are moro just. We leave orr imaginary
Eden with "solemn step and slow" and
begin to appreciate tho good qunlties
OF those whose friendship we thought
hollow, and the necessity OF that labor