The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1880-04-15
uEHs OF INTEREST.

TTEMS OF INTEREST.
A negro in Newton cousty, GA.
claims to be l2s years old.
The person who retires with the sat
must have . warm bed fellow.
Not buffaloes alone. but big game aid
over the world, is getting scarce.
Gray hairs in a young person indicate
preponderance Of lime in the system.
"Take carel' says q timid exchange.
Yes, but, take it in small doses. s.-Ao-
Grsgor Nesos. 81.
There Is no doubt but that an eagle on
aten-dollar gold piece is worth FIVE hun
dred in the air.
Where no wood is, there the fire goeth
out; SO when there is no tale-bearersthe
strife ceaseth.
A barber is always open to conviction.
Tell him his razor is dull, and he will
hone up.-Bostors Transnips. .'---
Since 1877 there have been forty eight
cremations in Milan. The society now
numbers nearly 200 members. -
DR.. Glenn, who was not elected COVER
nor of California last fall, has enlarged
his wheat area by 10000 acres.
Since 1869 the Pacific railroad has
landed Az, ,sl1 passengers in San Fran
cisco, and brought away 2e0, 1858.
railways struck us as being paradoxi-
cal that light houses are constructed OF
heavy stone work. Ottasod Republican,.
One ofthe Fifth avenue (New York;
clubs spends $1,000 a year in the pur-
chase of playing cards Of the best kind.
A manufactory at Indianapolis turns
out daily 100000 Of the neat little wooden
dishes in which butter is so generally
sold now.
It is said that recent count shows
that 10000 persons passed out OF the
doors of leading hotel in New York
city in one day. 'tia
A man asked for pass over the Balti
more and Ohio railroad on the ground
that his aunt was killed on theroad some
thirteen years ago.
The Chinese government has deter
mined to establish consulates in Boston
Philadelphia and New York, for the
better protection of its subjects.
An exchange asks: "What ia nearest
to the heart of the American citizen?"
We should say his undershirt, or his
hestprotector, if he wears one.-New
York Ezpresa. ., -. -
"Hi, boy! Pm stranger in town.
Show me where can get some wax"
And the boy sent him to the school
master, because he said the schoolmaster
had more whacks than any person he'
knew of.-Salens Sunbeam.
Little Gertie went with her mother to
see some wax-works. After looking
about curiously, as If she was trying to
find out something and could not, she
said: "Why do they call them wax
works, mammal They're wax, but
they don't work."
A woven book has been manufactured
} at Lyons, the whole OF the letter-pres
being executed in silken thread. POI
trnits, verses and brief addresses hay
often been reproduced by the loom, b
an entire volume from the weaye
hand, is;t novelty. ~ =.
Sunfowers are to be worn at the. Peit
this season, according to fashion lau-
thority. This is what we have been Wait
ing for; sunfowers have been worm 50
high in times past that it was imposS-
BILE to pick them without stepiadder.
--Ne,D Hdueas register.
ATennessee man accidentally shot a
dog and in trying to explain to the oWnT
how it occurred accidentally shot him.
A coroner thought he ought to explain!
how he shot the man, but he couldn't
get a Jury to listen to the explanation;
they were kind Of shy of him, as it were.
Boston Post.
An English journalist observes that
"every traveller in the United States
has had abundant experience that the
American system of checking luggage,
supplemented by the express agent, is
such an improvement upon ou% system
that it is impossible to underst nd why
we did not long ago adopt it."
There were seventy eight explosions
of steam boilers in the United States
last year, located as follows: In OHIO
eighteen; Iowa, one; Texas, one; lndi-
ana, nine; Michigan, five; Missouri,
three; Arkansas, two; Louisiana, two;
Tennessee, two; Maryland, one; New
York, two; New Jersey, one; North
Carolina, three; Kentucky, three; Cali
fornia, three; Mississippi, one; Minne-