The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1878-11-07
FLASHES.

The sewing circle meets to gossip
sew to speak.
"There's many sip 'twi1t the cup
and the lip"
A weak pan-The one who can't
"raise" dollar.
Lumpkin (Ga.) has negro with ears
like an elephant.
These are stirring times as the spoon
said to the tea-cup.
The scales of justice are for the weight
Of the trangressor.
What o dressmaker can boast-,lm
engaged to sew and sew.
A barber in Lockport became dumb.
He is now immensely wealthy.
What is the only pane of which every
one makes light? A window pane.
If ANYTHING will reduce full.grown
fat man it is 4 well-directed bank fall
ure.
A true woman loveth flowers the
kind the new fall bonnets are trimmed
with.
Don't laugh too much it is only the
coe-vheel that can afford to show Its
teeth.
Whiskey may be an antidote tor
snake-bites, but not for snakes in the
boots.
The girl with speaking eyes has the
advantage of the girl with a luminous
mouth
The Indian summer is welcomed as
the "only good thing the Indian ever in
vented.
The National Hen Convention will
probably be held next season at Egg
Harbor.
Boggs says the times are so dull that
it is difficult for him to recollect even
his ideas.
When q man gets bad in Colorado
they say his head has got above the
timber line.
When is the best time to buy cider 2
When it is not very clear, es it will set
tie for itself.
The umbrella was invented during
David's rain: 1t was successfully used
as parry-Saul.
A dandy on shore is disgusting to
many people, but q swell on the seq
sickens everybody.
There are two things we'll bred peo-
pie always do ut the table, pass the
bread and bad hand.
A woman has to settle mans coffee
with the white of an egg. but she can
settle his hash with look,
He that runs may read--a great many
things concerning his character, especi-
ally if he runs for an Office,
Bees can no longer be sent through |
the mails. Their business ends are not
conclusive to the ends of business.
what shall be done with the children
when they leave school p asks cotem-
porary. Why, give them their dinners
and send them back.
A man who was in the habit of talk !
ing to himself, being asked by his wife !
why he did so, remarked that he liked
to converse with man of sense.
A Kentucky orator and Office seeker
exclaimed. I wish to be friend to
the friendless, and father to the father
less and widow to the widowless."
A woman was offered $1,000 if she
would romain silent for two hours. At
the end of fifteen minutes she asked,
isn't the time nearly up? She lost.
sWhat is your son doing in the battle
of life?' asks tbs Christian Helper.
Well, he appears to be drawing rations
most of the time, just at present, thank
you.
The man who borrows a newspaper
belongs to an economical family; he is
brother of the fellow who tried to cook
his dinner with the smoke from his
neighbor's chimney.
A candidate for Office in Southwestern
Virginia was telling the people the other
day that he was raised between the
rows of corn, when a fellow yelled out:
GA pumkin by Cd"
Probably the mi!d-eyed goat is the
only auimal ever invented that can eat
.wenty-four hours day, and then get
up an hour before day and deVour a
Aour.barrel and seven old fruit-cans for |
q lunch.
This is boys composition on girls
"Girls are the only folks that have their
own way every time. Girls is Of several
kinds, and sometimes one girl
can be like several thousand girls if she
wants to do anything. This is all
know about girls, and father says the
ess ! know ab5as them the better Of.
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