The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1880-04-22
ITgMs OF INTEREST.


The man who dimes of pigs feet is re.
duced to extremities.
Truth is the foundation of all knowl-
edge, and the cement of all societies.
Wien an English peer is made a
Knight of the Garter his robes cost
bout $500.
Lots of men will waste dollars worth
of time beating a salesman down five
cents on his rice.-&eubenUille Herald
The directors OF the Philadelphia
Academy of Music have opened free
school for the training of opera singers.
Probably not less than $4,000 persons
are directly employed in the manufac-
ture OF shoddy into cloth in the United
States.
We. hear a good deal OF sport about
finding out q woman's age; but it is
even harder to find man sage.-Boston
Transcript. ..-..
Edward Elliott, stevedore at st.
John, New Brunswick, has been instru.
mental in saving twenty-one persons
from drowning.
The life of the late Marquis oil
Anglesey was insured in various com"
panies for an aggregate amount Of not
less than SO, 100000.
The fire which occurred at Toxic,
Japan's chief city, toward the end of
last year, destroyed $4,000 houses, and
left 10000 people without shelter.
What is the difference between
smashing window and smashing an
armP In the first instance you 60
through the pane, while in the second
De Lesseps estimates that the Brook
lyn bridge will endure for six centnt
ries. There is possible chance, there
fore, of its being completed before it is
worn out.-BsGalo Erpress.
The building in which the painting OF
the siege of Paris was first exhibited in
New York, and subsequently in Phila-
delphia and Boston, has been sold at
auction in the latter city for $3.50, and
shipped to Chicago.
The Hon. John A. Cuthbert, of Mo-
bile, Ala, is still practicipg law in that
ity, although ninety. one years old. He
was an officer in the war of 1912, and
was elected to Congress from Georgia ir
1919.
The digest of cases of the California
reports has one head that reads:
people VS.. All Chung, People vs.. All
Cow, People vs. All Fong, People vs..
All Fung. People VS.. All How, People
vs.. All Ling, People VS.. All Woo, Peo-
pie vs.. All Yek."
Mrs. Clark, of Indiana, was thought
less enough to present her husband with
petition signed by herself and her
seven children praying for new calico
dress. Mr. Clark thereupon threw the
petition under the table and his wife out
of the window, and now she is.s cripple
for life.
An inscription in an old cemetery at
Upper Sandusky, Ohio, is neatly and
plainly cut in the marble slab, as fol-
lows: AChristiana, wife of John Haag.
Died. February 81, 1862" How such
blurder ever got into the copy, or how
even the stone-cutter could let it 60 on,
is a mystery. ..,,-..
A pet monkey in New York tackled
an endless rope, which ran. like belt,
over pulley-wheel above, through holes
in the floor and over pulley-wheel
below, and it was two hours before he
came to the conclusion that he couldn't
climb the thing, and then he was fear.
fully tatigued and mighty mad.
At Gillingham, near Chatham, Eng
land, singular ball was recently held.
The party was made up of tfty-nine
ladies and gentlemen whose united ages
amounted to 4,259 years. A gentleman
born in 1890 opened the dance with
lady only four years his junior, and it is
said that their waltzing was as brisk as
that of any young couple Of twenty.
The famous museum Of no",aq, in
which so many interesting remains of
ancient Egypt are preserved, is threat
ened with destruction. The Nile has
already began to undermine its walls,
although few years ago an attempt
was made to divert the current by sur
the building with a solid stone
embankment.
A crimson rosebud into beauty breaking;
A hand outs,retched to pluck it ere it tall;
An hour OF triumph, and II sad forsaking;
And then, a withered rose lest-thatAis all.
Chambers Journal.
An ancient tom-cat on the summer kitchen;
A boot-jack raised, solemn caterwaul;
A moments silence, and quick departure