The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1878-09-12
FLASHES.

1t IS noticed that picnic lemoCaoe 10
built without lemon aid
Industry always 6ndeth something to
no. So does a mosquito.
Does man with one arm have an
off.hand way of doing things
A muff--A thing that holds young
lady's hand without squeezing it.
The "Sunday Question Il wonder
ifthey will take a collection to-day
"Blew out the gas and went to bed,
and the rising sun it found him dead"
A volume that is apt to bring tears
to anybody's syes-a volume of smoke.
The Bank Clerks Association is
not secret society. They have tel
lers.
''To step aside is human" especially
when runaway team is coming down
the street.
When a woman, however gentle at
home, goes to market, she's pretty sure
to have her own weigh.
When may a mans friends naturally
suppose he has gone amissings When
he has gone accounting.
Man passes his life in reasoning on
the past, in complaining af the present,
and trembling for the future.
It is better to be doorkeeper in an
icehouse than to dwell in sanctnm
~xith the wicked thermometer.
Aggravating-to think Of good
joke after getting TO bed and not be
able to recall a word of it next morn.
ing.
1t is Singular how early in life n
child gains the reputation Of resem-
bling the richest and best looking rela-
tions.
The New Orleans Picayune says: young
people resemble tea leaves they must
get in hot water before their strength
can be drawn out.
Satan was the original tramp. Years
ago he commenced going to and fro oo
the face of the earth seeking whom or
what he might devour.
every cloud has a silver lining.
But that is no consolation, after all,
when you reflect that things are never
worn with the lining side out.
An old vachelor explains the cour-
age Of the Turks by saying that man
with more than one wife ought to be
willing to face death at any time.
A Michigan woman hid her cow uu-
der the hay to keep her out of sight of
the Tax Collector. and newspaper calls
it case of cow-hidiug by female.
An Indiana girl says she finds moth
ing so good for the complexion as rub.
bing her face on young mans vest.
The young man must be inside, though.
A shark attacked to San Francisco
lawyers who were bathing in the surf,
and the Post calls it the 'fmost fragrant
case of want of professional courtesy on
record"
II suppose" said little fve>year-
old, in her quiet, thoughtful way, 81
suppose there are men underground
that push up the flowers, don't you,
mamma 2"
II come to ask your hand,' said q !
lover to his sweetheart "You ask a
great deal" replied she, as she pro-
ceeded to lay palm in his two"thirds
larger than his own.
There is something solemn in the
tones of great bell striking midnight
especially il you are mile from home
and know that your wife is sitting be-
hind the hall door waiting for you.
Epitaph on tombstone in Georgia. |
--"Here is the body of Robert Gordin.
mouth almighty and teeth accordin'
stranger, tread lightly over this won.
der; if he opens his mouth you are
gone to thunder.
George Hiltz. at Lancaster, Pa, asked
his wife for 500 to enable him to take
a trip to Germany. She refused,
whereupon he suatched up shot gun
and took n much longer trip on less
money.
A young lady correspondent (poetic)
desires to know if we have seen any
thing sweetcr than "a Chaplet Alone"
Certainly-we have seen chap let
girl kiss him, which WAS ever so much
sweeter.
A lady occupying letter B at hotel
wrote on the slate as follows: "Wake
letter B at :; and ifletter B says Let
her be- don't let her be, nor letter p
be. because if you letter i be, letter B
will be unable to let her house to Mr.