The free citizen. (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1875-03-06
FACTS AND FANCIEs,

udEu tlLueb, huu Guey IutlSb Uo Su1f6f1ng.
but I've got to use this $40 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.
ri "A gentleman by the name of Har-
oft has been haunting the approaches
to certain newspaper Office in San
Franc isco, looking for tho editor who
called his CLARA (ace Worris) "Blondo
Bonanza"
Walt. Whitman has begun to sing
about the cold weather. Warbieth
Wait: :
1 howl a whoop,
And with the howlment of the whoop yir
yRwp,
And with million chill-betingled veins bow
me to the winters sovereignty;
o bitesome breeze! 0 quakesome waves and
all conglomerato elements Of geld Things!
An observant usher in one of th
| theaters has got 80 he can tell mans
business by the way he asks for pro-
description of the play" hotel pro-.
prietor " the bill of fare," politician
1.-The run of tho play" an editor "the
points of the plot" and lawyer al
ways asks: "Will you be good enough
to hand mo bill of particulars ?"
In one of The ccur..s. lately, there
was Il long and heated discussion be.
tween the counsel as to whether wit
following question sWhnt did Mary
say ?.' Three judges took nearly an
hour to decide the point, and at last
answered it. The question was put to
the witness bv the defense, and the
rer'-- and sweet =" Not
wor taH
md well-bred "op.
- IL, J,is.... : J. -
tbcy t,y 10 be pleased ii anybody ir,es
to astopish the u they have Tho courtesy
some, they ask mnhody else to play,
or sing. or wha, II, but they don't
crlt,cise And Junn Ruskin holds that
this ir the wny it Should te in the world
as we'll az in tho drawing room. He does
no5 like critics; and yet wla. else, is be-
himself?
= 4 coincidence in tho matterof names
will be nniiccnhe il the senate of tho
forty-fourth congress. There will be
two CnmGrons, two Joneges, and two
Morri!ls, and, with the exception of
I. two Johnsons-Senator JcMuhton. of
Virginia, and Senator Johnson, Of Ten
nessee. Did not the term Of Mr.. Ham
ilton, of Maryland, expire on the 4th Of
March, next, there would have been no
less than Eve couplets of similar names
in the senate.
Its deep mystery-the way the
heart Of man turMs to one woman out
of ali the rest he's seen in the world,
md makes it ensicr for him to work
seven years for her, like Jacob did for
Rachel, sooner than have any other
woman for the asking. 1 often think Of
these words "And Jacob served seven
years for Rachel, and they ST, lcd but
n few days, for tho love he had for her.
--Gcorgc Eliot.
"A rich old widower Of Oswego told
young girl there to 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 tho gossipsl
The young lady did not demnr. Then
the rich old widower popped off very
sudden like, and married ich old
widow about his own age. The jury is
sked for $4,000 damages.
DR.. Wilkes, in his recent work on
physiology, remarks that it is esti.
mated Tint tho bones of every adult
person requires to be fed with lime
enough to make marble mantle every
eight months" 1t will bo perceived,
therefore, that in tho course of about
ten years each of us onts three or four
mantlepicccs and few sets of front
door steps. It is awful TO think of the
consequences if man would he shut
of from his supply of lime for while
and then get loose in cemetery. An
ordinary tombstone would hardly be
enough for lunch for him.
In a few remarks npon tho action
of lightning conductors, Sccchi, the
we'll astronomer, describes tho
storm of November, 1872, in which tho
cathedral and palace of A!atri were
struck by lightning, these structures
having been free from such visitations
for many years. The damag done on
this occasion wns, rs he shows, due in
great measure 10 the fact that the light
ming rods, ina cad of being directly
connected with tho metal 90 cutters and
other portions of tho roof, were isolated
from them. The fluid, therefore,
sought 10 make it's own way to suoh
other good conductors as were near.
After quoting other instances, he ex.
pressed the opinion that the conditions
most favorable to safety consist in join
ing the lightning-rod directly TO all the
metallic portions of the roof, and es-
pecially to the rain-water pipes, in or
der that greater facility may be offered
to the electric fluid in its paasngs to tho