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

i tAClO AMI Z ANO1EIE1s
IT'S ALL SHE WANTS =
| seal-skin sack and n camel's hair shawl.
| Diamonds, rubies and ormne;
brown stono house and marble hal,
| And beau to dance the German.
front row box at the opera,
| Whenevcr wanted to go;
A noat coupe and landau, too,
And meals a Ia Demonco.
Then in eummer go to Newport
With dressos rich and many;
And to SEQ my name in the fashion report
While pa hands out tho money.
"A Chicago man thinks that tie
worst speller ought to get the dictiop-
ary, and tho winner should have
wreath of sorrel, or some other garden
| sass, like them Greeks"
The production of raisins. from
California grapes is growing business
and is strongly urged as likely to be of
great profit. The white muscat of
Alexandria is named as tho best raiein
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 he 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 colors are capable of, 1t
may be interesting to know that in the
Gobelin tapestry manufacture $4,000
distinct shadings of yarn are employed,
each one distinguished by the practiced
eye.
"A French soldier is to be punished
with death for insulting an upstart Off
Ger. This gives Victor Hugo an oppor-
tunity TO thus compare the case with
that of Bazaine Having sold his flag,
having surrendered his army, having
betrayed his country-life; having
struck his corporal-death r.
| -Pereire got n little tired of return
ing the bows of m uncomfortable polite
man in his establishment, and finally
gave the polite man this conundrum,
at point blank range: "Sir, what
would become of the hours if the min
ute-hnnd stopped to bow to the second
haud every time they met.
The Parisians devour 100000, 600 c
apples every winter. An eminent French
physician thinks that the decrease of
dyspepsia and bilious affections in Paris 1
is owipS-iO sha increased consumr tion
OF this fruit, whiel rhe maintains, is an
PIopuJuCplSg-aSlo G0Q4S,. ,AS
well aas q very, nourishing and. easily
digested article Of food. ~ -
MIR. Valentine, the sculptor, has
nearly completed the life-size recumbent
statue of the late Gen. Lee, and it will
be placed over the contemplated maui
soleum 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 Sc
eotel to execute the statue.
Sc Woll, Uncle Billy, don't you want
any more civil rights pc Not anything
ly done ruind now. Hev t. pay my
own doctors bill, Lost all my money in
the Freedman's bank. NJ bber got no
forty rcres an de mule dey promised
me, an can't help myself to little
chicken, fryin' size, widout gwine to do
penitentiary. Use got 'nuff cibbil
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merry wight, fond of his ease,
While he sings his songs and strokes Lis knees,
And light ~ the air which sways the leaves,
Is Joan Vatican, the cobbler.
Through the summers day he sits and sings
or tho olden days and Of ancient things,
or the danes OF yore and Of bygone kingsA
Sings Jean Vatican, tho cobbler.
The birds arc singing in every tree
Till the air is filled with tho melody
OF song as light and gay and free
AS Jean Valjean's, the cobbler.
With the waning shadows tho bird in it's n-.t,
And jean in his cot, each seek tho rest v -
Which sweet sleep brings, with no cares op-
pressed
All! happy JEAN the cobbler.
The London Sporting Gazette, refer
ring to the statement that the Emperor
William has forbidden the expectation
of horses, beyond the German frontier,
says: "This startling announcement
hcralds n revolution, the results of
which are likely to very seriously affect
the horse trade in England, rs three
fourths Of the carriage and draft horses
in London at this moment have been
imported from Germany. Moreover,
we are dependent on Germany in very
arge degree for our troop-horses, and
it is not clear whence we shall obtain
the necessary supply now that we are
shut out from Germany, especially as
both France and Spain ere also in want
Of troop-horst g. tho former requiring
10000, and the latter 5000.
In Brington church are two seppl-
chra! stones, one bearing the date OF
1916 over the grave of the father of
Washington, the emigrant, in which
his arms appear impaled with those of
his wife. The other stone covers the
remaius of his uncle, and presents on a
bass the simple family shield with the
crescent appropriate to younger
brother. We have before us a tran
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