The free citizen. (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1875-08-07
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FACTS AND E'ANUIES,


Threatened with pecuniary ruin. the
rats having seized their plantations.
grasshopper style. Not being able to
import American music, they are trying
to frighten off the invaders with tho
tom-tom, a home instrument. :,
There is. an, English, paper which
thinks that in case .oflwar sthes chief
food producing nations, by combining
against England, could conquer her
without firing a shot or landing
soldier by simply, declining to- deal with
her. %''H''0',TF5f feS'7FEt
..!4The old superstitious idea that the
| hand of dead man is n talisman against
| evil, once prevalent among southern ne.
groes, seems not to have died out A
vault in Grcenville, Miss, was recently
broken open and a! hand cut from a
corpse.
--On one of the bridges, of Paris a
baby sprapg out Of its !niother's arms
and fell the river, and the mother
jumped after it, but could not swim.
E-Another woman jumped in WHO could
swim and brought out both, T.. The
| mother was half drowned and the baby
was idead. 81 O! sbzu bEa s9iJEut
/ Some of the ,clergymen in Kentucky
| propose to hang states in the Church
aveaIhules. sol that youngyladies on en-
| tering, can register their, names, thus
saving a great expense for providing
seats in the vest;bule for young, men,
and making n great deal Of waiting un-
necessary. - sjdAIpgia3Hi ii b,3os1
AZ" James Brown" /" of st. Giles, Lon
don, claims to be reckoned among the
ncble:bandl fyiHisec ectionists,a his trade
being the catching, of cats, and ..'skin-
ming 'em alive" s'Fhe1 sfnplel fact is"
he says, ST get nm honest living by
| skinning cats, and because skins taken
|tfromi the live tcats ara worth sixpence
| apiece moro than those taken from the
animal when dead I skin tic eats hlive
whenever I can" g; "a .,.
If there is manufacturing city on
this continent which might Sbe called
the, Manchester of America, it is
Lowell, Mass. There are daily en-
isployedi nearly eighteen n,thousandT opera
tives in tho various, mills. The capital
1'stock of the several 4 corporations is
/ over SIG, 900, 900, while the total yalua-
tion would foot up six times sixteen
4 millions gin many instanoes, theiorigi-
| nal stockholders have, perhaps, more
than doubled their Investments BY mag
nifcent dividends and it is n notable
fact that even in these DEPRESSED times
PSF tt3Has not f6E lla Is!is q a.
This is what a bank cashier Wr. %
to Washington when he wanted .tsreg-
istered bonds" :,"I may not have ex-
pressed myself properly, not knowing
much about this business of swopping
bonds, but my intentions nre pure and
innocent. wisl,-to have these bonds
in such condition that when burglars
ONO to my room ut midnight, put
pistol to my head, twist my nose, ); take
me by the ear. lead mo to my bank,
|! compel me to unlock my safe, L can
contemplate tho removal of my bonds
with smile that is child-like and
bland" Id 5AI afts
The work OF excavating inc arena
of the coliseum at Rome, has been sus-
pended eiuce May, as it cannot be, pro-
ceeded with until the discovery of the
duct or canal used by the old Romans
to drain off the water collecting front
the adjacent slopes. The canal has been
traced in its starting point near, the
ruins, and in it's passage through tho
forum, leading into the Cloaca Maxima;
but its. intermediate course has yet to be
unearthed, which operation, together
With it's proper cleaning and repairs,
will be job of sone difficulty, time and
| expense. In the meantime the excava-
ton in the coliseum already made, will
have to be kept dry, or as free from
| water rs possible,e III order that the
foundation of the building may not be
seriously damaged. ga$
"A popular theatrical manager says
he has been the means of keeping be-
tween two and three hundred young
ladies of. the stage within the space of
| five years. "One reason was, said he,
"because they had no talent, and an
other was because I knew that before
they had been in the profession many
weeks they would be heartily sick and
tired Of it. The life Of an actor is
hard one. People come, " said lie, .'and
see the actor walking around the stage,
speaking n few lines, dressed in mag
nificent clothes, and winning the ap-
plause of the multitude. How de-
thcy exclaim. Nothing in
the world to do but to dress we'll and
look pretty They do not know what
dogs life it is.G And travelling through
the country is the hardest work OF NIL.
Out tiifstwelve and one q clock at night,
and out of bed by four or five in tho
morning to take an early train to the
next town.. Sometimes they donot get
to bed at all.
~ THAT SAVED ?3HIM.--It has been gen.