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The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1880-02-26
Not q Panorama.

An old man with satchel and cane
Yesterday stood in front of the Detroi
opera house for long half-hour, sur
veving the building with curious eye,
and he finally entered, walked up to the
box-office and asked:
Whats the regular price to 20 in p
"Well, about six shillings," answered
Shaw.
"T'll give you ten cents!"
The treasurer hesitated for n while,
but finally took the money and told him
to 10 up. The old man went up stairs
to find everything dark and deserted.
He took seat, fixed his gaze on the
drcp-curtain and didn't get tired out
for about half an hour. Then he walked
down stairs with slow and dignified
step, put his head into the box-office and
said:
"It you call that panorama then
YOU don't know what panorama is, and
if folks come along and pay six shillings
to see it, there's heap of fools in this
country! Good daym-DetroI Free
Press.
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1880-02-26
A Mammoth Restaurant,

OF all the cheap down. town restau-
rants of New York the most extensive
and at the same time most peculiar is
Oh Washington street, opposite the mar
ket. 1t was commenced in a modest
way twenty-seven years ago the
premises at that time not being large
enough to accommodate fifty persons.
Little by little, however, the place be-
came celebrated for the extraordinary
cheapness of the viands' served there,
and the popularity of its proprietors in
creased rapidly, until to-day their
restaurants run from Washington to
Greenwich street and half way along
Fulton. In them more than 300 people
can be seated and served with meals at
one time. During the twenty-four
hours an average OF 5000 persons are
fed. 1t requires but little calculation to
show that they provide for the material
wsnts of nearly 100000 people year.
The establishment is open day and
night for the accommodation of the
market men, produce dealers and others,
which are its principal customers, and
a small army of $50 walters is required
to attend to their wants. These wait
ers are divided into Watches" as are
alsu the cooks and other attendants, and
at all hours of the day and night those
on duty are kept busy attending to Gus
toners. Two girls are at all times en-
ployed making coffee; relays of bakers
making from 500 to 300 loaves of bread,
and often as many as 1000 pies and tarts
a day, are continually employed. In
connection with the restaurant is q
hotel capable of accommodating 300
persons. 1t is continually crowded-in
the summer by fruit sellers and fruit
buyers, in the fall by the potato men
from the northern counties, and at other
times by people who are in different
capacities connected with the market.
The prices charged in the establish
ment are pared down to the lowest
possible figure. A plate Of meat, bread
and potatoes can be had for ten or
fifteen cents, and bed for fifty cents.
The average amount spent by each GUS
toner in the restaurant is twenty-five
cents. 1t is estimated by well-known
caterer that in it and the. other restau-
rants, large and small, below Grand
street, at least 10000 business men,
clerks and boys daily take lunch of
some sort.
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1880-02-26
A Story Of Borrowers.

There lived near my fathers ia mily
in d quiet little village in Ohio, two
families who were chronic borrowers,
and the pests of the neighborhood. One
borrowed by day, the other by night.
The former would take anything, from
a pinch of soda to bedquilt, but made
a specially of flour. The other family
made no requests, but wood, coal, joints
of stove-pipe, and garden implements
followed in rapid succession. The day
borrower became steady drain on the
-four barrel. My mother, being of
ympathetic nature, could not refuse,
and would doubtless YET have been sup
plying the same family with flour if she
had not had one bad girl among her
family of children, who was alone at
home one day when the lad who always
came for the -four entered, and in his old
words said: MAN wanted couple
spoonfuls of flour to make batch bread. !"
This same bad girl measured exactly
two spoonfuls of -four into his immense
wooden bowl. The hodr looked right
lonely, but it didn't feel as lonely as that
bad girl did when the mother of the lad
came in and threatened "to skin her. "
She changed her -four market, but the
otal depravity Of that girl was clearly
established. During one night two
peach trees were entirely stripped OF
beautiful ripe fruit. Early next morn
ing our night borrower called. My
mother told of our loss, and, of course,
had not the faintest suspicion rs to who
had taken them, and her neighbor ex-
pressed sympathy and disgust that any
body would do so, when this same bad
girl had to have her say, and remarked
That it didn't matter much, rs most OF
the peaches were plugged, and that who
ever swallowed them wouldn't get a
chance to digest them, for they were full
of epicac-all of which was strictly
false, and that bad girls mother was
Mortified ut such falsehood. Two
hours later, as some one was passing
through the alley in the rear of the bor-
rower's house, he discovered about n
bushel of cooked peaches. 1t was after
ward learned that the family spent many
hours in the night peeling and canning
peaches, and as many hours nearly get
ting them out of the cans. So, owing to
that bad girl, peaches, sugar and labor
were an entire loss, but we were ever
after rid of cur night as well as day Dor.
ROVER. So much for having bad gir
| in the family.
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The estate OF LIE wis" !"

Lewis county is knownEthroughout
Kentucky as the Estate of Lewis" This
cognomen originated with John D. Ed
wards, a wandering school teacher and
dissipated stumper, well known to the
older citizens. The phrase was then
made fixed fact by Hon. John D. Tay-
lor in his canvass for the Senate, in
which he touched the vanity OF old
Lewis by describing her forty miles of
river front and twenty-four miles in
widtll-twice the size Of old Mascn-and
asounding in variety of soil, pure waters
and inexhaustible wealth of timber,
populated with people whose hearts
are as big as her mountains, and the
women rs pure as the limpid streams
that flow from the rock-sided hills.
Thomas B. Stevenson was another who
elevated our vanity by persuading the
mountaineers they lived in territory
larger than the State of Rhode Island
and we were entitled to State rights and
sovereignty. So there are persons that
write, speak and caption letters and con-
tracts with the State of Lewis for the
county of Lewis. School teachers and
school houses are multiplying, which
will remedy the erro~. Jut j. ill take
time and generations 10 erase the name
MaySville Ky Republican.
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up fanatics, each with a sharp sword
two feet and half long. bearing down
upon you is not a reassuring sight, es-
pecially when your nerves have been q
good dealtried already, so the few spec
tators who were standing on the edge
of the procession backed precipitately,
but an extra surge of the bloody line
forced them or to the row of chandeliers
which all went over with crash on to
the French ambassadors toes. who in
his turn toppled backward, chair and
all, on which one lady tainted and the
others screamed and took to fight.
There was passage leading into a back
room, in which they took refuge.
Meanwhile the Persian secretary made
3 communication in loud tone, and
the whole mob fell back, and went
slashing and yelling out of the yard, to
the great relief Of everybody. 1t seemed
they had demanded the release of all the
Persians in prison in Stamboul, which
the ambassador promised that he would
apply for to the Turkish government.
1t was now nearly eight o'clock at night,
and we were thankful that we could
make our escape; but our troubles
were not yet over. we got blocked in
the crowd in the entry passage, and, to
my horror, found myself jammed be-
tween three or four of these bleeding
creatures, who were tying towels round
their heads, and looking wildly and un-
comfortably about. They were scat
tered thick all through the crowd. In
the last batch there were about two
hundred, and it seemed as If one was
going to be haunted by them forever.
As drove home I registered solemn
resolution that nothing should ever in.
duce me again to 60 and see the celebra-
tion of the Martyrdom of Hussein.
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1880-02-26
Women in the Washington Lobby.

A Washington correspondent writes
as follows: In recent years, particu-
larly during the period just after the
war and up to three or tour years ago,
the lobby performed,a most important
part in Washington. Its manner of
procedure, however, is greatly misun-
dersl ood by most people, and thoroughly
comprehended by but very few. For
instance, there is general impression
in all parts of the country that women,
beautiful, accomplished, and trained for
,tbe. service, T7--E'"00 70 -roul
upotation: At, uoamSss!nYys p!os
ous scribblers nave turned a somewhat
doubtful penny by writing for cheap
periodicals lowery and high-sounding
descriptions of what they are pleased to
call the "Queens 6 the Lobby" The
fact is that in these latter days women
have absolutely no general influence in
the direction indicated. To be sure
there are isolated instances Of women
who have used their influence upon
some member of Congress or officer OF
either house to secure the passage OF
some insignificant measure in which
they might be interested, put there is
absolutely no regu)arly-organized female
lobby in Washington, and for years
past it has not been customary to em.
ploy women to advocate or resist i'm.
portant legislation. The latest notable
instance of such employment was In the
case of DR.. Morton, who claimed to have
discovered the an@sthetic properties ol
ether, and for that discovery asked
Congress to give him a reward of $780,
100. To aid him in pressing this de-
mand, the doctor was ably seconded by
his wife, very beautiful woman, and
by a number of charming ladies, who
were not at all chary in paying marked
attention and bestowing many soft ca
resses upon theaged gentlemen who hele
prominent positions in either house
Despite all their Establishments, how
ever, the doctor never secured tht
money for which he asked.
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1880-02-26
An Electrical Stove.

An electrical stove has astonished
the natives of Valley View station in
the Far West. The proprietor recently
undertook to put some wood in the cook
ing range, and received such a severe
electric shot that he dropped the litter
and staggered back with an exclama-
tion of surprise. His wife then at
tempted to take stew pan from the
fire, and fell to the floor. About this
time the hired hands came in to get
dinner, but it was found impossible to
get anything off the stove. Charley
Palmer, the stage driver, attempted to
10 manipulate q coffee pot from the
stove and sprang two feet in the air with
yell of pain. Con Dense thought it
would be the easiest thing in the world
to move the pot of cabbage, when he
was landed in the corner of the room
and made no further attempts. The
stew pans were finally removed from
the stove by Mr.. Curtis, who encased
his hands in sheepskin gloves. Many
theories were advanced to account for
the presence of so much electricity. Mr..
Curtis finally observed that tho current
was strongest during the prevalence of
high winds, and this led hik to infer
that the electricity was generated from
Q .N,inhnills which was aboG fftsssl
stove pipe by the means OF az ys..1h
is fastened to the windmill. When p
windmill stops there is no electricityS-i
the stove, but after it makes a dozen
revolutions it is not safe to handle
o,,oilc ON hn rannp
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1880-02-26
Waiting.

The golden feet OF the sunbeams,
Are lettering at the door;
The woodbine's restless shadow
Is dancing on the foor.
The long, long day is waning
The hour is almost three
Oh. tagging moments, hasten,
That brings my love to mo!
That clock upon the mantel-
A pretty French conceit;
A winged sylph, with arms upwreathed,
And airy tripping feet
The clock, with silvery tick-tack, tells
Tho moments ceaselessly;
But, oh, how lags the magic hour
That brings my love 10 me!
The sunshine's golden footprints
Across the threshold fall;
The woedbine's restless shadow
Has fitted to the wall.
Oh, dear. An age behind the SUN
That tiresome clock must be!
Still ninety seconds to the hour
That brings my love to me.
count the tinkling footballs
Ofthc moments gliding by;
At last-at last tender flush
OF pink is in the sky
The sunsets rosy glamor f9ods
The air, the earth, the sea;
And, hark! the clock chimes out the hour
- That brings my love to me!
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1880-02-26

In l747 a German chemist named Mar
graf discovered that there was crystal
liable saccharine matter in beets. And
he demonstrated that the extraction OF
sugar therefrom would be made profita-
BILE. And yet with repeated expert
merits. through various v;cissitudes. no
beet sugar factory was established until
1870, and then in Silesia. This estab-
lishment succeeded in obtaining six per
GEN.. of sugar and three per cent. Of
molasscs. This they thought was a
success.
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1880-02-26
Snake Charming.


Snake Harry, as he is called, was in
terviewcd bv reporter The other day
ard the following peculiar facts were
cleaned:
"You ask me-" said Harry, "where
I mostly gather in the snakes. Well
I've made raids out in nearly all direc-
tions from Frisco, and I find that car
take more between here and Martinez
than any place. There is a greater vari.
ETY. of natural scenery between here and
Martinez nor between here and any
other place no further away, and ac-
cording to the variety of the natural
scenery is the number of kinds of snakes
fellow can rake in. PIowed fields is
natural scenery. There's lofs OF them
between here and Martinez. The field
mouse goes into the plowed field for
nothin' in particular that I know OF.
The ground snake goes into the field for
the mouse, and goes into the field for the
ground snake, and so far as I know, we
are all on US successful except, perhaps,
the mouse. This is fact fur I've
caught the snake often just as the snake
caught the mouse. But the purtiest
way of MI to take the ground snake is
just as it's charming its prey"
Rep.-And the rattlesnake?
Harry-Ah! that's the boss! Up
among the broken rocks on the long
crags is where Mr.. Rattlesnake lives.
can tell you, young man, there's a good
many fellers can kill rattlesnake. but
it takes an artist to take him alive. If
a green hand tries that, the chances are
even up the rattlesnake III take him
alive and leave him croakin'.
Kep.-And how do you take them?
Harry-Well. it is easy enough after
you know how, if you keep cool and
have nerve. All you want, young man,
is a two-pronged iron fork, set in a light
ash or hickory handle about four feet
long. BY practicing fellow can pin
down the most dangerous snake,
that, while it will not be injured, it ca
neither strike nor get away.
Rep.-How do you get him to marketP
Harry-;Put him in a box eighteen
inches long, twelve wide and six deep
them's the dimensions exact-a door
one end to let the snake into the boz,
and wire netting at the other end to let
the mir into the snake
Rep-How do you get the snake from
under the fork into the box?
Hary-You take the snake by the
thumb and the finger just back of the
jaws, pressing the thumb-nail into the
back-bone--that 'ere paralyzes any
snake, and leaves him rs limp as a wet
fsh-line-and then you take away the
fork and duck the snake into the box. I
can do rattlers that way, too; but for
fear of accidents, when I'm purity far
away from a big supply of whisky, I
take pair of tongs, something like
sugar tongs, along for rattlers. Now, if
I was you, and was going to start in on
thee Snake lay, instead Of the tongs and
sre you pin snake. Just aboft two
R4es back of the head will touch the
inft spot as near as may be. This will
allow a good deal of room for harmless
exercise with the tail, while the head
can contemplate things in general with
out being disturbed by the body.-San
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1880-02-26

A little girl of six OF eight years,
dressed nicely, with curling hair and
bright eyes. presents n pretty appear
ance, but she never seems quite happy,
in spite of fine clothes, unless she can
manage to step into every mud-puddle
sue comes to. Rome Sentinel.
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1880-02-26

Trains are again gradually assuming
the peacock shape, round ard spreading,
instead of an interminably long and
narrow breadth trailing after the wearer
and seeming as if it might be the resul
of an accident.
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1880-02-26
Improvement In the Breeding Of Horses

From the earliest times to the present
day i has been a great misfortune and
loss to mankind that so little attention
has heen paid to the breeding and rear
ing of more perfect and powerful race
of horses for heavy farm and road work,
and the use of the city dray and large
express and truck wagon. Poets, from
the sublime Job down to the high
spirited Byron, have been profuse in
their descriptions and praises of the
horse for war, the chase and the course;
while historians, travellers and sports
men, have been ever eloquent over them
in volumes of prose. Strange that the
most generally useful of all the different
breeds of horses should, with few ex-
ceptions, be ignored and passed by in
silence, and so much be written and
spoken of others wheh, although re-
quisite for special purposes, and worthy
of high admiration, have contributed
less to the benefit of humanity. But
fortunately great change in this respect
has taken place in the past few years
in Europe as well as in America.
A numerous society,". composed of
noblemen, the landed gentry, and farm
ers of Scotland, has recently been
formed for the purpose Of improving the
breed of their larger sort of horses. This
society takes the name of Clydesdale,
and that distinguished nobleman, Earl
Dunmore, has been devoting consid-
erable part OF his time during the past
two years to editing stud book Of their
horses, classed also as Clydesdale. The
first volume of this has already been
published, and the matter for the second
is collecting. England is now zealously
following the laudable example set her
by Scotland for what has long been
known as the Shire and other of her
best large breeds of horses. The
Prince of Whales, Earl Ellesmere and
other noblemen are giving no little at
tention to the getting out of their stud
book, and the whole landed interest of
the United Kingdom is fast waking up
to the Importance of improvement of
this most useful Of all their breeds of
horses.
Within the past three years 200 to
1000 guineas (Sl, 900 to $4,000 has been
the common price in Great Britain for
select heavy horses for breeding pur-
poses, and even l,5OO guineas (S7,50O)
has been refused for few of the very
choicest, while fifty to eighty guineas
(S25O to S4OO) is the ordinary. price of
those for farm and dray work alone.
In France. Belgium, Holland, and a few
districts of Northern Germany, prices
have also advanced considerably, and
greater attention is given than formerly
to the improvement of their horses,allof
which shows the rapidly increased in
tereW in the subject abroad. Nor has
this matter been neglected in America,
particularly in the past four years, during
which large numbers of powerful heayg-
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been more generally preferred lor
Canada, while the Percheron and Nor
man have taken precedence in our own
country. ...s-.,.
For the Percheron and. Norman In
America stud book was published In
1877, by Mr.. J. H. Sanders, of Chicago,
Illinois. A revised edition followed the
next year, of 2l2 large octave pages,
handsomely got up, with numerous fine
enravings. The object of this stud
book is to preserve an accurate record
of the males and females imported from
France and their full-bred descendants,
so that the public may not be imposed
upon hereafter by unprincipled dealers
palming off their inferior grades for full
breds.-A. B. Alle,sin Harper's Maga-
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1880-02-26
.re you PIN snake. Just abof fit two

Ia616- JOU PM ss
les back of the head will touch the
insat spot as near as may be. This will
allow good deal of room for harmless
exercise with the tail, while the head
can contemplate things in general with
out being disturbed by the body.-San
Francisco Letter.
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1880-02-26

his back. Some of their backs were
raw before they had made their three
rounds, and we heard that they took
longer to recover from the effects of this
self-inficted punishment than the men
who cut themselves. There were, more
over, in this procession five or six more
horses than in the other, and more flags
and banners; men, too, were beating
their chests NOR wildly and cutting
themselves more fiercely, and the e1-
citement generally was more intense. l
saw one man so frantic thathc had to be
disarmed and forcibly removed from the
line, and as he was being carried away
between two men, he kept on striking
his head with an imaginary sword and
shouting, evidently in complete state
of unconscious exaltation.
The proceedings wound up with and
episode which for a moment created
quite panic. On their last round the
bloody line stopped in front Of the Per-
sian ambassadors division, in which
were also seated his friends and the di'
plomatic corps. Then they began to
shout and sway TO and fro and cut
themselves, and refused to move on,
shouting out especially something in
Persian which we could none Of US un'
derstand. Suddenly they surged in to-
ward the point at which he ambassadors
secretary was sitting, together with the
French ambassador and several ladies
To see q row Of blood-stained, hacked
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1880-08-06

Census returns have been received by
the Democrat from thirty-one of the
tifty-eight parishes of the State. These
including Orleans, show gain of no.
4GG, an average increase of 80 per cent.
Two ofthc parishes from which returnes
have been Observation-Disclosures aud St.
Tammany-shoW a decrease. That in
Claiborne is easily explained. A large
portion of the parish has been Topped
off since the last census to aid in form
ing the parishes of Lincoln and Web.
ster. Had it not been for this curtail-
ment Of its boundaries the parish would
have shown a large increase. Thus far
st. Tammany is the only parish that
has decreased in population, old and
new boundaries being considered. OF
the twenty.seven parishes yet to be
heard from Jackson is the only one
that will fall off, in all probability, and
this falling Off will be more apparent
than real, as two-thirds of the parish
was taken when Lincoln was formed.
Isapides may show decrease, as
Vernon formed principally from that
parish since 1870, but it is more likely
that there will be small increase.
over one-third of the population Of the
State ten years agO-about 249, 900. II
the same rate of increase Is maintained
in them as in the parishes heard from
and there is no reason why it should
not be, as they represent every section
of the State-tho full census returns
from Louisiana will show a population
Of about 0GO, OO0.-N. o. Democrat.