The free citizen. (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1875-03-06
NUMBER SO. !,
1 FACTS AND PANo1Es,


FACTS AND FANCIEs,t
"A New York man was recently SEN
tenced to three. months imprisonment
for barbarously killing cat. s @3s ,.',:..
Cincinnati girls refuse to kiss their
beaux who were shaved by female bars
bers, and SO the enterprise was starved.
to death. 5i iiq.,slits it; d ~ H 4 II
1 "A woman recently died5i Alabama
/ leaving, to somebody, it is said. an inher-
itance OF no less thans 2S7 hoop.skirts.
j That tswoman,w as we'll -hooped as an
imported barrel Of French brandy.
I'd like to give ething to thIe,f
| hard times and they must be suffering.
but I've got to use this $4o.to buy an
other switch"
-There's nothing in women, after
all. Gail Hamilton and George Sand
have both said they would willingly
| relinquish their talents if the sacrifice
would make them pretty.
RIA gentleman by the name of Har-
tott has been haunting the approaches,
to certain newspaper Office in San
Franc isco, looking for the editor2whoi
called his CLARA (aee Morris) Blonde
Bonanza" ~ H#s5 ~
e..-Walt. Whitman has. begun;to sing
about the cold weather. Warbieth
Wait i#43 ltf 'sl3i9gl -nesi 3-aat -
I howl whoop,
And with the howlment Of the whoop zip I
5p yawp, -.a d -sf .f..ssy..zf4 ~
And with million ohLbetingled' veins bow
me to the winters sovereigpty;} ssgt ~,
0 bitesome breeze! 0 quakesome waves and
all conglomerate elements Of geld tkings!
An obseryant usher in one of th
theaters has got so he can tell a! man'sf
business by the way he asks for pro-
gramme. 4 reai estate man wants a
description Of the play, a hotel pro-,
prietor (" tho bill Of fare, politician
"the run of the play, 4" an editor !" the
points Of, the. plot" and "a lawyer al
ways asks "Will you be good enough
to hand me bill of particulars Pms ~
In one of the ees:r..as.7 lately, there
was & long and heated discussion be.
tween the counsel as to whether wit
ness should be allowed to answer, the
say2t" Three judges took nearly an
answered it. The question was putt to
the witness bv; the defense, ,and tha
rer''- t and sweet ~ Not
wor Ta +Ssi q .sE.,E5t.
Ind ,well.bred SOM
sztt,s l,is s.r:ssa. : : : z:-,s -, -
they tiy 10 be pleased ;liit tauy body tries
to astoDish them they have the courtesy
to be astonishtd il people become tire, :,
some, they ask { ,pfbody else to playa
or sing. or wha, but they don't 7
this is the way it s]loald be in the world
1r-cl1 tbo Il ~,
nos like. critics and ) ct what eise, ,is be.
himself? - s-,s:.s4 sa:i. q So. 81
A coincidence in the matter of names
will be noticeabe III the senate of the
forty y-fonrth congress. There will be =
TIVE Camerons, two Joneses, and two
Morrills, and, with the exception Of n
{. two, Johnsops-- Senator Johuhton. of
Virginia, and Senator johnson, Of Ten
ilton, of Maryland, expire on the 4th of
March next, there would have been no
]ess than Eve couplets of similar names
in the senate.
Its deep mystery-the way the
heart of a man turns to one woman. out
of all the rest he's eeen in the world,
md makes it easier for him to work :
seven years for her, like Jacob did for
1stCuoj, eUOueTj tutu nave any OpucC
woman for the askiDg. / often think OF
these words: "And Jacob served seven
years for Rachel, and. they sG led but
few days, for theloye he hadfor her"
- George Elliot. .li
"A rich old widower OF Oswego told
young girl there 80 drop her other
beaux. She obeyed. He. often took
her ont riding, and assured her that
" when we get ready we can go off sud:
den like, and surprise the gossipaL
The young lady.did not demur. Then
the rich old widowsr popped off very
sudden like, and married Itch old
widow about his own age. The Jury is
sked for $15, 900 damages.
DR.. Wilkes, in his recent work on
physiology, remarks that sit is esti-i
rcated Tint the bones Of every adult
person requires to be fed with lime
enough to make q marble mantle every
eight months" 1t will be perceived,
therefore, that in the course of about
ten years each OF ns oats three or four
mantlepieces and few sets OF front
! door steps. It is awful TO think of the
consequences if man would he shut
off from his supply of limo for q while
and then get loose in cemetery. An
ordinary tombstone would hardly be
enough for lunch for him.
Inca few remarks upon tho action
of lightning conductors, Secchi, the
we'll l-known astronomer. describes the
storm of November, 1872, in which ths.
cathedral and palace of Alatri were
struck by lightning, these structures
having been free from such visitations
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