The free citizen. (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1875-04-17
NUMBER 36.
FACTS AND FANCIESo

IT'S ALL SIZE WANTS 3
\ seal skin sack and camels hair shawl.
DiamOnGs, rubies and ormine;
\ brown stonc houso and marble hal,
And Il beau TO dance tho German.
a front row hoX at the opera,
Whenever | wanted to go:
4 neat conpo and landau, too.
And meals a in Dclnonico
Then in sunmcr go to Newport.
With drcs rich and many:
| And to my nane in tho fashion report
While pa hands out tho money.
"A Chicago man thinks that tho
worst spc!lcr ought to get tho dictiou-
airy, and the winner should have
wreath of sorrel, or some other garden
sass, like them Greeks
The production of raisins. from
| California grapes is n growing business
and is strongly urged IA likely to be of
great profit. The whito muscat of
| Alexandria is named as the best raisin
grape.
Among The numerous phases of
crime daily developed, did you ever
hear Of anything equal to the act of the
Jersey City mau arrested for forgery,
who says lie did it in order to be sent
to the state prison to escape from his
wife
AS an illustration of the limitless
| number Of combinations which the
three primary co!ors are capable of, 1t
mav be intcre sting to know that in the
Gohclin tapestry manufacture %, 600
distinct shadings Of yarn arc employed,
each ono distinguished by the practiced
eye.
"A French soldier is to be punished
with death for insulting nn upstart Off
tunity 10 thus compare the case with
that of BnZaine Having sold his flag,
having surrendered his army, having
betrayed his country-lifc; having
struck his corporal-dcath y
-Pcrnirc got Il little tired of return
ing the bows Of an uncomfortable polite
man in his tstablishmt mt, and finally
gave the polite man this conundrum,
at point blank range "Sir, what
would become Of the hours if the min
lltc hand stopped to bow to the second
hatG every time they met"
The Parisians devour 100,000,000
apples every winter. An eminent French
physician thinks that the decrease of
dyspepsia aud bilious affections in Paris
is owing 20 The increased consumr ton
CT tl.is fruit, whicl. hn maintains, is all
admirable prophyacv,> nd tonic, Us
we'll rs very nourishing and easily
digestea article OF food.
Mr.. Valentine, the sculptor, has
nearly completed the life-size recumbent
statue of the late Gen. Lee, and it will
he placed over tho contemplated MAIL
soeum Mt Lexington. Mr. Valentine
modelled bust Of the general from life
in 1870, and after the hero's death it
was determined that he should be se-
ecte to exec 1T, the statue.
=" VOL, Uncle Billy, don't you want
any more civil rights !" "Not anything
mo-, | tank you, replied Billy. Near
~ done ruini now. Hev t. pay my
own Doctors BILL lost all my money in
the Frccimans bank. II bbcr got no
forty crcs an dc mule dcy promised
ne, an can't help myself to a little
chicken, fryin size, wilout Swinc to do
rcnitcntiary. ESQ got 'nufr cibbii
rights !
\ merry wight. fond OF his case,
While lie sings his songs and strokes his knecs,
Aud light a. The air which SWANS tho leaves,
IL Jean Vatican. tho cnbhcr
Through the summers day he sits and sings
Of tho oldcn days and Of anciont things,
OF tic danes OF yorc and Of bygone kings
Sings lean Vatican tho cobbler.
Tho birds arc Singing III every Tree
Till tho air is filled with tho melody
or song aa light and gay and FREQ
AZ Jean Naljcan's. tho cobblor
With tho waning shadows the bird in it's n-.d,
And Joan in his cot. each seek the rest
Which sweet sleep brings, with no cares op-
pre- oscd,
All happy Jean. the cobbler.
THE LondonS Sporting Gazette, refer
ring to the statement that the Emperor
William has forbidden the expectation
Of horses beyond the German frontier,
says: "Ths startling announcement
hCralis II revolution, the results of
viii III are likely TO very seriously affect
the llorsc trade i'll England, rs three
fnurths Of the cnrriagc aud draft horses
III London at this moment have been
Imported from Germany. Moreover,
WE are. dependent on Germany in Il very
arRc degree for our troop-horscs, and
il is not clear whence we shall obtain
tn. necessary supply now that we are :
shut ont from Germany, especially ms
both France and Spain Gre also in want
Of tropp-hors $. the former requiring
10000, and the latter 5000.
In Brington church are two sepnl-
rhrai stones, one bearing the date OF
1916 ovsr the grave Of the father Of
Washington, the emigraDt, in which
his arms appear impaied with those of
his Nifc. The other stone covers the
rrmairs Of his uncle, and presents on
bass tho simple family shield with the
crescent appropriate t, a younger
brother. We have before us a tran
scrint Of this shield and from it we are