The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1880-04-01
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

ITEMS OF INTEREST.
There are 153 daily newspapers pub
ished in Great Britain.
A man is very apt to feel girlish when
he makes his maiden speech.
The women who do fancy work don't
fancy work. .-DertoI Free Press.
Webster, Mass, has a new paper
called the Eagle, q seven-column folio.
Type metal is forty-four parts lead,
eight to ten parts antimony, and one of
tin. .'.
The author of "Seven Acres Enough
probably had seven corns on his feet
Saturday Night.
The special correspondence expenses
of one of the London daily papers is
nearly s5O,OOO a year. a...
There is something saddening abouta
pair of scissors -alas they only meet to
seYer.-Ceveland Voice.
Moses D. Hoge, D. D., of Richmond,
is considered perhaps the most eloquent
preacher at the South.
Those fellows who still stick to their
good resolutions have escaped many a
headache Waterloo Observer.
Persons punching holes in gold and
silver coins are, perhaps, not aware OF
their liability to a punishment of two
years. Imprisonment and fine of $4,000.
-G1'oeeo 1onraal; -.
A new book is entitled "a Manual of
Etiquette and Dress of the Best Ameri-
can Society,"" Any one at all curious to
know, how editors dress and behave
should have q copy of this work.-Nor-
ristoUn Herald.
The best newspaper men, it is said,
boil their matter, which probably ac-
counts for their work being so well
done.-Ronae Sentinel.
Will the compositor who set up our
Ode to Sailor" Owed to Tailor"
please call in about three o'clock this
afternoon and get nice present?-Ran-
sas City Times.
She may dress in silk, or dress in satin,
May know the languages, Greek and Latin,
May know fine art, may love and sigh
But she amt no good If she can't make pie.
-Steubenriile Herald.
Beauty, we must remember, says the
Rockland Courier, is only skin deep; SO
when a man rasps the front of his leg
down the serrated edge OF Il granite
pavement, he must bear in mind that it
is ten square inches of personal lowell
ness that he is scruping from his person
and not mere vulgar hide.
Food for weak baby: One teacup Of
oatmeal in two quarts Of boiling water,
slightly salted. Let it cook two hours
and half, then strain. When cold, to
one gill of the Cruel add one gill of thin
cream and one teaspoon of sugar. To
this then add one pint of boiling water,
and it is ready for use. This can be
digested when milk and all else fail.
The Molva, II financial, commercial and
literary paper published at St. Peters
burg. has been virtually stopped by
being prohibited from receiving adver-
tisements. The Molua is the only Rus
sian newspaper which has consistently
advocated retrenchm ent, reduction of
army expenditures and pacific policy
throughout, particularly toward Eng
land.
The New York State superintendent
of public instruction reports that over
l,O3O,OOO boys and girls attended the
public schools last year. Their teachers
were paid S7,6OO,392. The average
salary paid was S374.45. Cisy .eachers
get on an average SGs2.zo AM other
teachers S239.26. There are 1880
school districts in the State and 1884
school houses. classified rs follows: Log
"a; frame, .lo.O2l; brick, 1889; and,
stone, 40
A Frenchnfan named Pierre Falcour,
who lives on an ample income in a
modest country dwelling near Lockport,
N. Y, has unbosomed himself to the
editor Of the Lockport Union, regarding
IN invention which he is perfecting.
This. the enthusiastic Gaui claims.
will revolutionizc the world. Accord
ing to his account, it is portable cable
which each vessel will reel out rs she
departs. and take up as she returns, thus
keeping up constant tclegraphic COM
munieation with port during zach Gay
u the voyage.