The free citizen. (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1875-03-20
NUMBER 80.
FACTS AND FANCIES.

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-Iransmssion of money by post in
Russia is expressly forbidden, and the
money is liable to confscation.
Red used Oh q railroad signifies
danger, and says stop. It liz the same
thing displayed on Il mans nose.
"A person of inquiring turn of
mind asked, "Does the Lord love a
man who spends at church festival
the money lie owes his washerwoman?"
"A 81 100000, 900 tract deed has Just
been put on record in Denver. Rich
men have to study arithmetic out
there.
What sort of grammar is il which
compels person to say, "I saw four
deer in one Drove" but won't let him
say, I" there are ten hog in the garden?"
"A tract on "The Wickedness of
| Gluttony" is said to have been found
among the good things sent to the Kan
sas grasshoppor sufferers.
Texas towns are peculiar. An ex-
asperated Dallas paper asks: sis
there no ordinance to prevent the firing
of of pistols as q means of alarm in
cases of ire?"
In an English town twenty barrels
OF gun-powder were taken from q shop
and put in cart. The driver mounted,
sat on one Of the barrels, lighted his
pipe and drove away.
"A matter of-fact doctors wife at
tompted to move him by tears. "Ah -
said he, tears are useless. I have
| analayzed them. They contain little
phosphate of lime, some chlorate of
lime and water"
"A lamp. chimney may be made al
most indestructable by putting it over
the fire in vessel of hot water and let
ting it remain until the water boils. It
will be found that boiling toughens in
this case.
The newspaper reporters of Chicago
propose to give theatrical entertain
ment Mt an early day for the benefit of
the poor of that city. It will not be
advisable to marry into poor family,
though, on this account. Z
MIR. George Smith has discovered.
among the Assyrian tablets in the. Brit
lsh museum the legend of the building
of the Tower of Babel. The discovery
is quite as important as that of the
tablet relating to tho deluge, made
known by the same gentleman.
Sentiment is nothing but senti-
ment. An ex-army captain, in COLI
orado, when dying, asked Kim M OFF essssr
lad itl1 no flag, and 50 ffRRggyg wrapped him
I" Ahl may you all die as proudly
Alexander Dumas, it is said. neven
sketches q scheme for any of his pieces.
He takes for four-act piecoE seventy-
seven big pages of blue paper. He
tlevotes twenty pages each to tho first,
second and third acts, and seventeen to
the last.
You're right there, Tookey. There's
allnys two 'pinions. There's the pinion
a man has of himsen, and there's the
Ther'd by two 'pinions about cracked
bell if the bell could hear itself.
"A dry goods clerk lately dropped
senseless behind the counter while
waiting on customers. Tho female Gus
toner for whom he had pulled down
every bolt of calico on the shelves
quietly requested the proprietor to re-
move The iGcumLranca and send on an
other clerk.
When girl crops her front hair
and pulls it down over her forehond like
Mexican Mustang, and then ties
piece OF red velvet round her neck, who
can wonder at the number of pale-facsd
young men that throw away their am-
bition and pass secplcss nights in try
ing to raiso down Oh their upper lipsf
Tho Troy Times says: At party
on Fourth street the: other night
young gentleman tried to coax yonng
lady to play on the piano. She said
couldn't. "Why" said he, "you can
play the Blue Danube waltz, can't
you ?" "No," said she, "but I eau
play penny ante jnst like little man. ,
Sho is beautiful and accomplished.
-" Yes, SIR" yelled preacher in
Dakota church one Sunday morning,
"there's more lying and swearing and
stealing and general deviltry to the
square inch in this here town than all
the rest of the American country" and
then the congregation got up and
dumped tho preacher out of the win
dow.
The Vesper Bell.
TO the traveller in Spanish America,