The free citizen. (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1875-03-13
FACTS AND FANCIEs..

I'D like to give something to the
poor" remarked Toledo lady. "It's
hard times and they must be suffering,
but I've got to use this $40 to buy an
other SWITCH"
=" HELEN was proud, said an Indi-
ana widower of his late wife, F" and she
was great worker. You ought to
have stood by and see her jerk bed
stead down and go for bugs! J"
"A woman recently died in Alabama
leaving to somebody, it is said, an inher-
ltance of no less than 2S7 hoop skirts.
That woman was as we'll hooped as an
imported barrel OF French brandy.
A good many young men would be
content If they were only astronomers,
but when a man sets out to be really
great he will never stop until people
speak of him as pisciculturist.
"A Troy fool got beef's heart, put
a golden arrow worth $75 through it,
and sent it to Troy young woman for
a valentine. The fair creature gave the
heart to her poodle, but will Keep the
arrow.
A silly fellow whose ears were nm
usually large once simperingly asked
witty lady: "Will T not make fine
angel ?" "Won, no." she replied,
pointing to his ears, "I think your
wings are to high"
New England seems to be driving
up. At Brattleborough, VT, water
costs thirty cents barrel, and at Graf
ton, N. H., one man asks five hundred
dollars for tho privilege of drawing
water from his woll.
-1HE total receipts of tho trans
atlantic steamship companies plying
between New York and Europe were
only $50, 1873, 1856 in 1874, against s57,-
1880 in 1874, decrease of s27, ,423,-
1865.
-MurderouS affrays, burglaries, and
assasslnatlons arc OF constant occur
renee in Port Said, Egypt. The resi-
dents are hardly safe in their own
houses, and n lady scarcely dare venture
to appear in the streets for fear of
insult
"A very flexible temperance pledge
ls this, which is circulated among Bos-
ton fashionable ladies: 81 promise
TINT no Intoxicating liquor shall be
used i'll this house for cooking purposes,
and i'll sickness that it shall be given
consoientionsly." @ sci5s
Tho Pail Mall Gazette's CORES.
pUndsiiG at berl1n rep0f Gs that me Ger
man government has received n memo.
rial from the Protestant clergy of Spain.
complaining that tho liberty of worship
is Threatened. Similar memorials have
been forwarded toN other Protestant
powers IN Europe and to tho United
States.
@f1ow my old grandmotlier used to spank me,
over her knee, over her knee.
When was quite small boy!
1t was spank, spank, spank
No nso was itkicling, for on sho went lick
With spank, spank, spank
Tho thing she used to enjoy.
Chorus-Then it's ovor knee, etc.
"A wealthy and eccentric woman in
Spring field, ILL.,, contributes $500 year
to the support OF one of the churches
there, but cannot be induced to attend
single service. Nor will she allow its
pastor to enter her house. She says
that he ssmeans WE'LL" and that is why
she gives the money, but she doesn't
desire to :" hear any of his can't"
They have good deal of wind in
Holland and the people make good
deaf OF money out of it. There are
$4,000 windmiils in operation, each do
ing six or ten-horse power service,
through the twenty -four hours. These
mills are kept up at an annual cost of
$1,000, 900, and they perform all the
service required of steam engines at
one-twentieth the cost.
For the year cnaing September 80,
the p, ople OF ths United States con-
sumed $50, 900. 600 bushels of peanuts.
Tennessee furnished 185, 1000; Virginia,
225, 900; North Carolina, 10000; and
the balance, 1850 bushels, was i'm
ported from Africa. The maturing
Virginia crop is said to be large, prob
ably about $50, 600 bushels, while the
North Carolina crop is estimated at
100000 bushels.
The compiler of foreign gossip
doesn't often give us anything so ro-
mantle as this: The will of nm old man,
who died recently in Brussels, tells how
he once found valuable diamond in
Asia, which he concealed in cut in the
calf of his log, where he had made nh
intentional wound. The apparent mis-.
fortune procured his release from tho
mine, and he was made immensely rich
by the sale of thu gem, which is now
one of Russa's crown diamonds.
Old man Wheeler of Minnesota
wants n divorce from his wife. She
seLt him down the cellar one night last
week after bottle of yeast. He got it
and WAS trudging along up stairs, think
ing of nothing i'll particular, when the
bottle exploded, soaring Wheeler so that
he fell with one great whoop down III q
soap barrel under the stairs. When
they pulled him out he pranced around
yelling "Cuss wife !; cusa yeast cuss
the yybu1a Of ve % And tho 1,r,,.r