Orangeburg times. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1872-1875, 1875-02-25
SAVINGS AND DolNGs.

4 . 6 aTiEIoiTIoF is the liighpress
nre power that keeps a man going3 and
duty is only the onkey-engine Ithat he
4 works at intervals. iii li.ua- 5li III
DoUeLAs JERnoID used TO gay ~ oft fem
inine writer's, e II you once dip
woman's finger in the ,inkfpot she will
60 ON writing forever" .i3"' Y .'9fI
SHrY Thousand Japanese id Yeido
are studying The Is.,s.@.el. (; @ iissssss ssuagS and
tearing their hair over its Stortdring
i idioms. Z stiIl; 9ltlis5te2
NEVER trust with o secret married
man who loves his wife, for he will tell
ihef, and abe will tell her sister. and her
sister will tell every body, /;
/ ANOTHER London idea has crept into
iNaWi iYork-t that of having ones door
bell answered by. O spruce little boy in
uniform and gilt, known as " buttons. y
THERE ere q, 900 idiots III this coun-
try, who are acknowledged iasI Such.
The majority Of people will regard
these figures as being allow estimate.
In three years two rats beconiev &c.
B0S,, and yet the druggists look with
tsuspicion on q man, who asks. for
dimes werth of strychnine.
WHEN q young man in, Patagonia falls
lin love with q girl he lassoes her, drags
her home behind his horse, and that's
lsall the marriage ceremony necessary.
4 IT is time to stop talking about the
Isoftening influence Of woman. "a Mas
tsachuHetts man who has four wives has
ljust been sent TO the penitentiary for
stealing horses. 4,
THE deputy constable, appointed to
look after the children employ ed in the
feetories Of chusetta, reports that
fully go, ,000, children are growing up in
ignorance on account of stheir being set
to work at too carly an age.
iG1ApsFoNE's retirement from public
!lifa,Hill be swegtened, it is said. by the
admiration of Queen Victoria, who n
ofered 4 peerags in her own right to his 81
wife. aud will confer q :baronetcy upors
1.-THE young Gladstone. This is Eondon
gossip.
ATorA1 eclipse of the sun will occur
on April 5. AS the king of Siam is the
only potentate advantageously aituated
to see the spectacle, he has kindly in
vited British, American, and other as-
| tronomers to dine with him on that day
| and bring along their Instruments.
ONE of the reasons why fight fre-
quently occurs in Montana churches
ia, while the preacher is praying. the
congregation sit on the backs of the
chairs and frequently eiaculate-
"That's right, old hossl" Bully for
you I" "He's book sharp!" etc.
Sometimes the ministers get riled, and
there's where the disturbance comes
| in"
GAMBLING has reached such pitch
in Nevada that the Legislature has ut
last concluded to legislate on the sub
| ject, which is MI that ever will be done,
probably. The proposed law is partic.
ularly severe on faro, monte, roulette,
lansquenette, rouge ct noire, keno, rom
do, ton fan, red, white and blue, strap
game, California dice game, NIL of which
are in full blast in silver batreled Ne
vada. tFR
ASTRONOMER BARTLETT, of Battle
creek, is circulating this bit of gossip
about the big dipper: "One hundred
thousand years ago the bright stars
which n. present form this familiar con-
stellation were arranged in the form of
. large cross end one hundred thou
saud years henos they will assume the
appearance of an elongated clipper
different in shape from the one now
seen and stretching over wide extent
of the celestial vault"
The royal baby begins TO notice
things, and TO handle 'em, too! The
other day he reached for the paregoric
bottle and smashed it on his pas nice
center.table, and then tried to make q
canal by running his finger in o circle
"all round about" Then Edinburgh
went in and borrowed his wife's old kid
slipper, and when he came back there
was considerable excitement for a few
moments. Men do that sort of thing
SO awkwerdly.-M Y. Matt.
SoME curious customs are still extant
in the Spreewaid villages in Wendieh
Prussia when the head Of the family
dies. For instance. if the. deceased
should have chanced to be a bee.keeper,
o.