The Orangeburg democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1879-1881, 1880-07-09
Clippings.

Clipplngs.
The Chinese seem to bc getting
the better ol the Russians in The war
now going on u.at ~
THE nearer The bone the sweet.
er the meat" said The thin girl to her
countyilovcr. I"'t '"" &
The woman who makes sport of
an honest man will live TO bc the
sport Of rognes. a ,E. .!'..
IA printers girl fell exhausted
into his arms sta ball. 1t was Il icint
to work in an en- brace. ,.
Two church socials at Topeka,
Kansas, led to five divorces, one vio-
lent death and several fights.
joaquin Miller is said 10 lie very
busy writing war poem. MIR. Mil
Ter was very recently married.
If the government wishes 10 keep
colorcd cadets out OF trouble, il should
have watcrmclons patches at West
Point. ~ a,..
Property to the value of $685.
100000 has been destroyed by fire
in the United States during the past
five years.
The pracliccd hypocritc can imi-
tate virtue so faithfully that The ecnu-
inc article is frequently rejected for
the counterfeit. .H.
An Ithica man lost his wife and
n az ftf lkv CT hl,n fNF Inf
ming, and he tried for half day 10
revive the dog.
In the midst Of lie some men do
all the evil they can, and when they
due the papers tell lies about them, al
the rate Of fifty cents per line. ..y "a
The wife Of "Bluc Jeans" Will
liams, the Democratic Governor Of
Indiana, died few days ago from
tie effects OF n recent fall from wa
gon.
-Whcn you sec man sit down in
BARRIERS chair, pin the newspaper
ronnd his neck, and hegin TO read the
towel, yon may put him down as ab-
sent minded. H
-"Well, NIiss,ta takes will happen in
the hest regulated families" as the
old gentleman remarked upon hearing
that the tall and slender young man
had stolen his child away.
An old angler says a fish does
not suffer much pain from heing hook
ed. OF conrsc not. It's the thought
OF how his weight will bc lied abo3t
that causes him anguish. 81
Dennis Kearney was one Of the
shining lights of the national green
hack convention at Chicago. II Den
his don't kill the party it can easily
survive cholera epidemic.
go out, young man; she is not
here, said an uptown preacher last
Sundnr, in the midst Of his sermon,
to q youth whom lie saw standing
hesitatingly in the doorway.
"A medical writer asks: "Docs
position affect slccp?" 1t does, par
'icularly if the man is holding the po-
sition OF night wa,chmnn. He is liza
s,lc to be disturbed by the police.
"A couple Of newspaper reporters
spent the night in cell with a,man
who was doomed to he hanged, in
Connecticut, recently, and in the
morning the prisoner was perfectly
willing TO die. o... ,.0
The people Of Memphis are COM
PEELED to go outside the taxing dis
!rict limits to indulge in Sunday
nmuscments. TO get shaved or take
), horn, they get on one Of the steam
crs and indulge.
Some people arc born to ill-lucli.
An old woman who has pasted near
ly five thousand medical receipts in
hook during the past forty years has
never hccn i'll day in her life, and
she is becoming discouraged.
Gen. Burnside has been re elect
cd United States Senator from RI,odic
Island. Rhode Island is q small Re-
publican State, and can afford TO he
represented by small man with q
"big heald"-burnsides of course.
There is negro woman in Gcor-
gia, known rs Hannah Rountrcc,
who was q grandmother ut the age Of
2G years. She gave birth to a girl
when only l3 years old, md the
daughter, when about that age be-
came mother herself
"A contcmp" rary wants TO know
how, if Gen. Arthur was not good
enough TO bc collector Of the port
Of New York to suit the fnstidious
notions of President Hayes and Sec
leta,y SHERMAN, they will like to sup
port linn for vice-presilent.
"A Grccnbncli club has been organ
lied in Fairfield County. One of our
exchanges says it is composed Of n
number Of women and children, seven
white men who supported the Radical