The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1879-09-11
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Hard money Is that which is hard to
get.-Ricayu'as.
The letter D is truly an old salt-has
been following the c for years.
James Liar and Henry SANDER are
two of the best citizens Of Dubuque,
Iowa
There are said to be only four word
in the English language ending in c-i-o-n.
WHAT are they? ..
During 1878 there were 1877 miners
killed and 6O2 injured in the Pennsyl.
vania coal mines.
We see great deal about spelling
reform" in our exchanges. We don't
think "reform is very hard to spell
NorriStoaon Herald.
There is man in this city so averse to
being dunned for. his bills that he can't
bear to see q crowd "collect" in the
street.-BoSton Gazette.
The man who got into 4 barbcr-chair,
pinned the newspaper round his reck
and began to read the towel may justly
be called absent minded.
A housein the Avenue de Clichy, Paris,
was lately struck by lightning, which
first followed a water-pipe TO the earth,
and then reascended to tire fourth story.
Look not upon the watermelon core
when it is red. and tackle it not heartily
lust before going to bed. A word to the
wise is "nuff ced. ."-Cedar Rapids Re-
publican. -
Kansas has now $50 churches, SO of
which are Baptist, SO Congregatonalist.
80 Lutheran, % Episcopa. l25 M'tho,,
dist, 80 Presbyterian, and Is United
Presbyterian.
The Railroad GnzetLe says that John
Houghtaling, of Rochester, is the Oldest
railroad conductor in the United States.
He has served ferty-three years, and IS
now poor and disabled. i ,.a,-s-,,y,,r's.-
Sh! Don't give it away. We keep
bottle with stick in it constantly on our
table. And we find that itadds much to
tighten our editorial labors. ltpaste TO
keep it.-YonkerS Statesman.
The editor of the Hastings (Minn.)
Mcau Era was attacked in his office, re-
Gently. by three masked men. but lie
escaped from their clutches and now
gives notice thatlhc will be prepared to
receive companyat all hours.
A gentleman learned in the origin OF
social customs was asked the meaning OF
casting IN old shoe after 4 newly-mar-
ricd couple us they start on the trip.
Hr said, "To indicate that the chances
of matrimony are very slippery"
The small, meek looking wife of Tom
Cottrell, a Missouri horse thief, followed
linn weeping out ofa St. Joseph court
room. after his trial and conviction, In
the corrilor she flew at the sheriff like
tigress, threw him on the floor, and thus
enabled the prisoner to mount Il mule
and escape.
The weather was getting cool and the
empress told Peter that lie had better
get IN additional CRATE while he was
down town, but with his usual forget
fulness he came home without it, when
his wife remarked, reproachtully:
"Peter, the gratc," and the cognomen
stuck to him ever aftcr.-GrlSWOld..
.There is pleasure in tie pathess woods"
There is witchcry i'll summers kiss, :,
There is Il spell that charms our tendrcr
moods
When day brings on the twilights bcnehcc.
There is richness in the morning chant
vi DlTuS luSl NuNcHtN t'o'' - i'-'s
There ia n something in the oniom. plant
That's uncongcniNl to tie average nose.
-Yonkc!S Gazette.
The maddcSt newspapers OF the pres
ent time are those which are published
in the Austrian lunatic aSylumS. Con-
tributions are received from all the in
mates who have either hobbies or Sriev-
ances. Those who are afflicted with any
monomania whatever may explain thelr
delusions and support their convictions
by argument and example. The logic en-
ploycd in IN article of Il recent issue Dy,
one gentleman to disprove tie helri or
another that his beard was OF heather
and required constant watering. was so
! faultless and incisive as to hayc done
credit to Il Regius Professor Of Moral
Philosophy. Alas! he himself IlrmIy be-
licved that his own nose was made or
sugar. and to prevent its getting, wet,
and consequently melting away, aiwayS
drank through straw.-Ac" lof@
! Tribune.