The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1878-12-12
FLASHES.
lotto for a tailor-press on.


hum.
Familiar quota.ious-price of butter
and eggs.
Men whose business is looking up
Astronomers.
Remark by man with new watch :
1 buyed my time.
Do not dcspise twenty cent cigar or
aS2 dinner because another pays tor
it.
All true women says the Boston
Post, wants to be patrons of husban-
dry.
Thoughts that burn-Amateur poe
try when the editors waste-basket is
over-howing.
lis said that toothache may always
be cured by holding iu the hand GER
tain root-that OF the tooth.
It's d that Bob lngersoll made
$4,000 out of 'Eell.' That's more
than he will ever make in it.
A travelling fortress, IAN irop-clad
coach, is now running on the Cheyenne
and Black Hills stage route.
A rather remarkable event occurred
at a city police court the other day
Two tailors were seen 10 the same
suit.
The girl of the is the girl that
makes a - for the CRATE and puts the
whenever her bcaux round TO see
her.
Some cannibals prefer human fat
to anything else for cooking. TRey
would like to live en- the Isle Of
Man.
A Western lawyer included in his
bill against his client: To waking up
in the night aud thinking about your
case, five dollars.
The foundation for the meanest man
is laid when snail boy turns the worm
hole in an apple for his companion to
bite from.-Harhye.
A Texas paper says that Texas girls
want less restraint and more liberty OF
action; more kitchen and less sofa; more
pudding and less piano.
"What are you writing such big
hand, for, Pat ?" "Why, you sc that
my grandmother is dafe, and am wri-
ting a loud letter to her.
A pretended cripple was EXPOSED in
Springfield, Mass. One arm was bound
close to his side, and fal>e stamp was
attached close to his shoulder.
No wonder Proctor asked, Is the
moon dead?' 1t takes no care Of its
health. 1t never gets up till evening,
and then knocks around all night.
As onward YOU march, with weari-
somo tramp, tootsore over carth's stub
bic, you may find it hard to borrow ga
stamp" but it's easy to borrow trouble.
A boo.,' called "The Bog Trapper'
has just been issued. The heroine doing
the trapping is about sixteen, having
blnged hair, chewing gun, and red.
trimmed hat.
.,@s'iIow t. get rid ola cold is being
discussed by the country papers. Put
little nitro-g -glycerine in your nose and
his it with a s!edge hammer, aud the
cold will never trouble you again.
A skipper of down-east coaster
named the "Hyena," was recently asked
what his vessel was named after. His
honest sober reply was, Il don't know;
some great man in Congress expect"
\ Minneapolis cat has achieved a
kitten with FIVE heads, and we Gin i'm
agine how sweet it will be when that
cat altains its majority. to have it sit
on the back fence and commune with
itself.
a driver Of i coach in Texas, stop
ping to get some water for the young
ladies in the carriage, being asked what
he stopped for replied, 81 am water.
ing my flowers" A delicate compli,
ment.
A little boy weeping most piteously
was interrupted by some unusual occur
renee. He hushed lis crying for
moment; the thought was broken. MA
said he, resnm;ug his sniflle, what was
I crying about just now ?
Augustus and Maud lnger long on
he porch these clear, cold evenings
anl drink in deep drau2hts of astron-
omy; that is, they atteutively and per,
sjstcn;ly stuiy the reflected stars 10
each others eyes while they take par
ticular notice of Mars movements.
Forget thee ? wrote young man to
his eirl-'inrget thee| ? When the
earth forsrts To revolve; when the stars
forget t. shine when the rain forgels
TO fall; when The flowers foreets to
bloom; then, AMI not till then. will
forget the. hrcc months later he
wa s"irg TO seq n'rl with Il wart on