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The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1883-10-11
. .An, YOU ana how many weeks be.

, AN you am how many weeks be-
mind on yer board ?"
"Not ober six, sab. .
can you owe this lodge three dol
lars duesp"
eyes, sab"
can you owe members here as
much as twenty dollars fur borrowed
money"
aIze borrowed some, sah.' 2 -
"Brudder Bungs, I,ze had some
'sperience wild purity men, an; | nebber
seed one yet who WASH ia fraud on de
word manhood. When man sots out
to be purity all de hoss sense leaves his
head. No man kin labor and be purity
too. He darfo let's work alone. He
beats his board, his tailor, bis shoe
maker, an all his friends. he looks
killin', an smells like {. cologne fac
tory, but he doan' pay up. Ebery
smile beats somebody outer twenty-five
cents, an cherry giggle costs somebody
half a dollar. I'ze had my eye on you
fur some time" i1g
eyes, sab"
"Six months ago you had steady
work, good pay, respectahle clothes an
was outer debt. You sot out to be
purity, an to-day you wouldn't sell fur
'nuff to pay yer debts You smell
awful nice, but you owe a twenty
six-donar board bill. Your ha'r curls
beautifully, but de tailor am
whistling fur his money fur dat
suit. Your form am elegant, but
you has borrowed money until no
one will lend you anoder cent. You
smile like buttercup al. raise yer hat
like a Chesterfield, but yer butes amt
paid fur p t7:..,
"Ize gwine to squarsup sab"
gMaybe you is, Brudder Bungs, but
it am too late, so fur sSdis club am
consarned. Secretary
eyes, sal" !"
"Scratch de name Of Brudder Clar-
ence de Melville Bungs off de roll r.
"She's dun scratched, sah."
"Janitor I" 5Fs
eyes, sah."
Escort dis pusson toide alley doah !
He am too purity to remain heah wild
us. He am gwine QUITO us fur
dues an'-wall, nebber mind"
There was no need topost the janitor.
Every one could picture him as he
cleared aspace to swinglhis right leg,
and if anybody doubtedithat Clarence
de Melville Bungs was lifted into
the alley he had only to, listen to the
labored breathing Of the janitor as he
returned to his seat.-Tee Press.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1883-10-11
Proportions in Human Figures.

Clara Belle, the New York fashion
correspondent, inquired Of an artist
concerning the proportions Of human
figures, and received for reply:
"In well proportioned figures it is
usual to find the length Of the body
from head to foot to be about eight
times the length Of the face. The
length Of the hand bears certain pro-
portion to the forearm, and this to the
arm from the elbow to the shoulder.
The foot is in length shorter than the
leg from the ankle to the knee-joint,
and this is shorter than the leg from
the knee to the hip. An idea Of the
proportion which the limbs bear to
each other may be inferred from the
following numbers, which appertain to
figure measuring five feet ten inches
from head to foot; from ground to
ankle, two inches and seven-eighths;
from ankle to knee, eighteen inches;
from knee to hip, nineteen aud two
eighths; from hip to collar-bone, six
teen and six eighths; from collar-bone
to top of head, thirteen and one-eighth;
length of foot, from heel to toe, ten
and fve-eighths; hand, finger-end to
wrist-joint, eight and three-eighths;
wrist-joint to elbow-joint, ten inches;
elbow to shoulders, twelve inches"
Taking a long stick, or alpenstock,
that some pedestrian had abandoned
in corner of the yard, the artist said:
eff you wish to test your own symme-
try here's a good method. Gut this
stick to exactly your own length.
Then mark it off into twenty-four
equal parts. Number one should mark
about the ankle-joint from the bottom
Of your foot; number seven the knee,
thirteen the hip, twenty the shoulder
and twenty-four the top Of the head.
The length of your foot should be
somewhere between three and four
parts, from your middle fingers end
to wrist-j joint three parts, to elbow six
and one.half, and to shoulder ten. The
female head is smaller than the male
head"
"Because it holds less2"
II didn't say that. Only, to meas
ure the body by lengths Of the head is
a method, though common, by no
means infallible. The body is longer
in the child than in the adult figure, to
which alone the foregoing measure
ments apply. The growth Is greater
in the limbs during youth until wo-
manhood. There can be no settled or
fixed measurements employed to decide
what should be the widths or circum-
ference Of the chest compared with
the height Of the figure or Of the
limbs"
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1883-10-11
Hangman MarW00d's Curse.

When the Phoenix Park victims
were hanged by Marwood, in Dublin,
the mother of the youngest-who was
really a boy-kneeled on the ground,
all in the rain, in front of the Jail, and
called down curses on all concerned in
the execution.
Marwood was then in excellent
health. Almost Immediately he took
to drink. This weakened his vitality.
At q subsequent execution in Eng
land his cunning, that had hitherto
been proverhial, deserted him, and he
made a wretched bungle Of an execu-
tion. A short time ago he contracted
pneumonia, which to rally from he did
not have strength enough, and now
he is dead.
Was there any connection between
the curse and the vent?-Nea0 York
Truth,
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A Youthful Prodigy.

The poet Wadsworth once said tlzat
Coleridge and Sir William Hamilton,
the famous metaphysician, were the
two most wonderful men. taking all
their endowments together, that he
had ever net. Hamilton. indeed,
began to be wonderful" at a very
early age. At three years old he could
read the Bible; at four years and FIVE
months he was accomplishing the feats
thus related by his mother in a letter
to her sister:
"He is one of the most surprising
children you can imagine; it is scarce
ly creditable; he not only reads well,
but with such nice judgment and
point, that it would shame many who
have finished their education. His re-
citing is astonishing, and his clear and
accurate knowledge Of geography is
beyond belief; he even draws the
countries with pencil on paper;
and will cut them out, though
not perfectly accurate, yet so
we'll that anybody knowing the
countries could not mistake them; but
you will think this nothing when l
tell you that he reads Latin, Greek
and Hebrew! It is truly funny to see
the faces some of the wise heads put
on after examining him; they first
look incredulous; then they look as If
he said it as a parrot would; but after
an examination of various books and
various parts Of the same book, and
when sometimes, to correct those who
from long neglect to read these dead
languages have forgotten some letters,
he puts them inf they say no, he
says, well, but it is so,' and when
they must agree with him, he says,
"Now see the advantage of attending
to what you read they stare, then
say that 1t is wrong to let his mind be
overstocked. They cannot suppose
that all this Is learned by him as play,
and that he could no more speak or
play, as children in general do, than he
could fly. Everything he must have a
reason for. The things at dinner are
the different countries in the world !;
if he wants his handkerchief
tied around his throat, it Is
please put this round my 18TH
mus; if his eye itches, it is his east
eye or his west. He reads the BE
brew with points. 81. H. is learning
it without. She, being rather incredu-
lous, brought her book, to see the diff
ference in pronunciation, and what
was the advantage Of points. She
read for him, but he got SO yexed at
her perseyering to pronounce the
words so differently from what 1t Is
with points, that he began to cry most
piteously, and came and told nae she
went to examine him, and thae she
knew nothing about it at all, that she
called her letters wrong, and could not
say Haeamain as 1t should be said, or
any other part any more than q Ounce,
We had some trouble to pacify him,
and after that, if be was asked to read
Hebrew, he always asked: do you
read with points?' But BY, this time
you are completely tired of asmother's
enthusiasm about her prodigy Of q
onn -
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1883-10-11
An Operatic Managers Experience.

New York is overrun with young
ladies ambitious to shine in the operatic
world. They come mostly from the
West, Wisconsin sending the great
majority. The Journal estimates the
number Of these stage-struck beauties
at 2,5O0; but a gray-haired manager,
says it seems to him there are 50,000,-
600 Of. them He-is perhaps cipher
sortwo out Of the way. Max strakosch
thus relates his experience with one of
these girls:
Every woman I meet has some new
song to sing me, and do what I may I
can't get away from her until I have
listened to every verse. Imet a young
lady yesterday on Fourteenth street.
Oh, she was so beautiful-like q rose
bush. "Why, Mr.. Strakosch," she
say, chow well you do look How
have you been all the while9" Of
course, I think, maybe I know her
mother or I was her godfather or some
thing like that, and I ask her to come and
see me. She came right along to the
house, and the moment she got inside
she made dive for the piano. "Ho,
no." / say, "You was singer !"
EYES," she say, II came all the way
from Kalamazoo to sing for you, be-
cause l know you wan. .Cne prima
donna" "My dear lady," I say, 81
have more prime donne as I could
pack into d double-horse furniture car,
and they was all singing in the chorus,
waiting for the head one to die" "Ha,
ha," she say, ait was very evident
that you don't ever hear me-" After
that she pull about twenty-five sheets
Of music out Of her pocket, and she
began to sing. Oh, how she do sing !
If I live 500 year will never forget
how that young lady sing. She unite
her bonnet-strings, and by'n'by she
take off her shawl. She got so excited
over that "Heart Bowed Down"
or "Star Spangled Banner" or
whatever it was that she was
hcllerin' at, that I think maybe she
would burst her head off. Every time
I try to get out Of the room she be-
gins to scream, 80 that 1 was afraid
maybe she would blow her brains out,
so 60 back and sit down little
while longer. When she was through
she ask me how 1 like 1t, and like a
fool told her that was better as Patti.
Cara mio. cara mio" exclaimed Mr..
Strakosch, wringing his hands and tear
ing his hair, cit was the mistake of
my life when I told that to that lady.
She don't do nothing ever since but
chase me up one street and down
another. I tell you, my friend, it's an
awful thing to be an impressario."
"Do you understand music your
self?"
'That's the funny part Of 1t. I
don't know one note from another.
Before I engage anybody I have to
send the singer to my director; but it
is OF no use for me to tell them that,
for they would not believe me"
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1883-10-11
The C0untry's Horses.

The horse population of the United
States is now over 100000 or about
one horse to every five humans. Ac-
cording to the 1880 census the leading
horse States, with number Of horses
respectively, were: Illinois, 1929 ,0S2;
Ohio, 736,749; New York, 610,356;
Pennsylvania, 53S,5S7; Michigan, 37s,-
IT'S; Kentucky, 372,64S. Two-thirds
are draught and all-work horses, and
one third are used for pleasure driving.
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JOB PRINTING
HERE AND yoNnuue

walk in the crowded city,
And the pavement pains my feet,
And nothing but piles of buildings
Shut in the stones Of the street;
But only see the meadow
And the wood SO cool and sweet.
walk in the crowded city,
And mix with the noisy throng,
And the din is like to the beating
OF a great, incessant gong;
But T only hear the brook flow
And the brown wood thrush'ssong.
Iwalk in the crowded city,
And daily the many grow more,
And they fill up the street like amin race
AS hither and thither they pour;
But only see q cottage VI
And maiden at the door.
walk in the crowded city,
And buy and sell in the mart,
But still in its crush and clamor {!
Ifeel that have no part;
For the sweet, fresh life Of the couutT
Forever ebides in my heart
T walk in the crowded city,
But see the green meadow still,
And look through the piles of buildings
To the wood that crowns the hin,
And alone with the cottage maiden
T wander afar at will
-Edward Willett, in Ne,O Yoris Sun.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1883-10-11
Pr. pairing SealskinSo

In small, gloomy room at the top
of a dingy building in a downtown
street in New York eight girls sat
working stoldly. The light seemed
dusty and hot as it shone dimly through
the soot-incrusted window panes, and
the rumble of machinery below Jared
the floors necessarily. The girls sat in
little groups. They were shabbily
clad, though there were touches Of
bright color here and there, and their
faces all looked pinched and careworn.
Their backs were bent in weary way
as they leant over the work. Each girl
held sealskin stretched across her
lap, and picked at it with great rapid.
ity. Their hands were quite black.
They seldom spoke, and when a
stranger entered they looked at him
listlessly for moment, and then
dropped their eyes on their work again.
"They are picking the long black
hairs out Of the skin," said the fore
man, rubbing his hand over one of the
glossy pieces of fur. "We get all of
our sealskins from London, where they,
are taken direct from the arctic regions.
Sealskins cannot be colored outside OF
England. They not only have a Pc
culiar process there, but the climatic
influences result in better coloring
than can be done here. So the skins
60 to England first. After they have
been colored they are shipped all over
the world and made into sacks, dol
mans, muffs, gloves and hats when
they arrive at their destination.
"Why are the long black hairs you
speak Of not taken out in London"
"Wen, I don't know that there is
any particular reason except the
economical one. The London concerns
charge quite heavily for the work, and
the result is we prefer to do it here
where it doesn't cost us much. 1t
does not require highly skilled labor,
The black hairs you see are not so
very much longer than the rest of the
fur. There is difference of perhaps
q sixteenth of an inch. BY blowing
against the grain of the fur the black
hairs can all be made to stand out"
"How many hours do the girls ork
a.day?"
"They come at Z o'clock and leave at
six. They are paid fair wages. Of
course they do not make their fortunes,
but still the pay is fair"
"Monotonous work"
"Oh, it's overpoweringly so," said
the chatty foreman, struggling his
shoulders impatiently. "The incessant
picking almost drives me mad at times;
but then, I suppose it's worse for the
girls"
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1883-10-11
A rrother,s Disappointment.

A Detroit lawyer who had business
in one of the northern counties short
time since put in a night at a farm
house. 1t was long structure con-
tanning two rooms, and such furniture
as pioneers get along with. The family
consisted of an old man, his wife anda
girl of twenty, who was slashing
around barefooted and had fist like u
slugger. After supper the old woman
took a seat. in front of the lawyer and
suddenly asked:
"Do you wear sich fine duds all the
timer"
Gall the time, madame"
"Is that a real diamond in your
shirt?"
"It is."
"And I heard you tell the old man
you had horse and buggy at homer"
eyes, ma'am."
"And that watch and chain are real
gold, I suppose?"
eyes, the real stuff"
"Cost as much as SCOOP"
I eS, over SoUU.
"My stars Why, you must get as
much as $40 a month and board r she
gasped.
"Madame, I Isomeuimes make $50 per
day." he placidly replied.
"Shoo Why, you are worth a
thousand dollars!"
Eyes, ten times that"
"Stars and stars y
There was an interval Of silence as
she recovered from her amazement.
Then she tiptoed to the corner OF the
house to see if there were any caves
droppers. Coming back she walked up
to the lawyer and dropped her voice to
O whisper and said:
"Say We've bin saving Sally these
last two years for the boss OF a saw
mill four miles up the creek, but If you
are struck on her and she is struck on
you, I'll run the old man six miles
through the brush after preacher to
do the splicing!'
The lawyer had to decline on the
grounds of having wife in Detroit,
and the old woman felt SO bad that the
husband had to rise at midnight and
make her a mustard plaster.-fTee
Press
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National Population

elf the various countries maintain
their present rate of increase" says
NJ. Gosselin, secretary Of embassy at
Berlin, fifty years hence the United
States will have population Of 190,-
100000; Russia, approximately, 1885,
O00,000; Germany, s3,000,000; the
United Kingdom, 63,03p,000; Austria
Hungary and Italy, botb A, 900, ,000,s
and France only 40,o00.000. Ger
many has already in round numbers
I, 100000 more inhabitants than
France but in this reckoning Algeria
is not taken into account . For war
purposes, however, it is obvious that
the balance is not soslleayily against
France, for, whereas ia Germany there
are only a65 males 10 every thousand
females :n France there ars 991.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1883-10-11
The Shetland Pony.

The native live stock of Shetland
cannot generally be commended, but
the wel-known pony of that part Of
the world is perfect of his kind. As
carts would be out Of place on the
steep sides Of the hills, ponies are kept
by every family fer the purpose Of
carrying peat for winter use. The
fuel, after being dried, is placed in
baskets called cassies," one Of which
hangs on each side Of the animals
hack, a strong, broad back, admirably
adapted for the purpose Of bearing
heavy burdens. The "Sheltie" is an
animal which for many generations
has been bred and trained under
special and peculiar circumstances,
and hence his physique and,
general character, his hereditary in
stincts and intelligence, his small size
and his purity and fixity of type. A
pony belonging to a breed which has
had to pick its zigzag way down a
steep declivity during many genera
tions must be sure-footed. BY the same
rule, pony, whose grooms and play
mates include a dozen juveniles-the
children of the neighborhood, who roll
about underneath him or upon his
back must be gentle, and the same
pony, living on the scathold on air
sometimes, rather than on herbage,
must he hardy. The pony Of the Shet-
land Isles is, in fact, the offspring Of
circumstances. He Is the pet Of the
family, gentle as the Arabs steed un-
der similar training. He will follow
lis friends indoors like dog, and lick
the platters or the children's faces. He
has no more kick in him than a cat
and no more bite than puppy. There
is no precedent for his running away
nor for his becoming frightened o.
tired, even when he has carried some
stout laird from Lerwick to his house,
many Scotch miles, across the hills. He
moves down the rugged hillsides
with admirable circumspection, loaded
panier fashion, with two heavy teas
sies' of peat, picking his way step by
step, sometimes sideways. In crossing
boggy spots, where the water is re-
tanned and a green carpet Of aquatic
grass might receive some steeds, and
bring them headlong to grief in the
spongy trap, he carefully smells the
surface, and is thus enabled to circum-
vent the danger. In the winter tho
Shetland pony wears a coat made Of
felted hair, and specially suited to the
occasion. His thick winter garment
is well adapted for protecting him
against the fogs and damps Of the
climate. 1t is exceedingly warm and
comfortable, fits close to the wearer's
dapper form, and is not bad-looking
when new. But when the coat grows
old toward spring, at the season when
the new on should appear, it becomes
the shabbiest garment Of the kind that
you often see. Its very amplitude and
the abundance of the materia! render
it more conspicuous when it peels and
hangs for awhile ragged and worn
out, and then falls bit by bit till the
whole Of it disappears.
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COl0red Provisions.

Every man has his favorite story,
and the Hon. Roswell P. Flower, Of
New York, tells the following:
Zone dayan old negro, clad in rags,
and carrying a burden on his head,
ambled into the executive chamber, and
dropped his load on the floor. Step
ping toward the governor, he said:
EN- you de gubner, sah?'
Being answered in the affirmative,
he said:
"If dat am fac Use glad ter meet
yer. Yer see I Ibis way up oar in de
back OBJ de country, and Is a poor man,
sab. Thar dar is some peryishuns in
de ns'tution fer de culled MAN, and
am har to get some OBJ EN- sab.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1883-10-11

Quinine is said to be decreasing in
demand at the West, a prominent Chi
scago firm reporting that weekly sales
are fifth of those few years ago, a
circumstance due to the disappearance
of malaria, as farms are drained and
land cultivated. In New England, on
Che other hand, the sales of quinine
have greatly increased Of late, as ma
saria has succeeded typhoid as the cur
rant type Of diseases. 80 =
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1883-10-11

La Presse has an account Of a peas
ant named James Tygelof, who has,
gust died at 0de:sa, aged 147 years.
His son is still alive at the age OF l5;i
he has grandson of seighty.flYe, and:
q great great grandson Of forty. He
neYerdrank oriImeked.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1883-10-11
.James Sherman. of Lafa

James Sherman, of Lafayette, N.
Y, has d brook trout thirty-two years
old. It's kept in well, has lost its.
spots and looks aged and faded, but is
apparently as hearty as Washington's5
body servant.
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Monors Mt Wholesale.

It is said that while James Keene,
generally referred to by the boys as
jam Keene, was a resident of the
Pacific coast, a California farmer burst
in upon him one day with:
"Say, Kurnel, my wife has got a
Dran-new baby, and we've named 1t
Jim Keene Thompson"
"Y-s-s," slowly answered the gentle
man, as he passed over q twenty
dollar gold piece.
In about an hour another man from
the same neighborhood entered with
the salutaJion:
"Say, Keene, what do you think ?
We have built church up our way
and named it the Jim Keene chapel.
Can't you come down with a sinner
or two?"
"Well, T suppose I'll have to-"
replied Keene as he sheled out a ten
dollar piece.
Thirty minutes had scarcely passed
when in came a third man with:
"Good-morning, Judge. We are
/, building a schoolhouse oyer the creek
to be called the Jim Keene school.
Want to contrihute fess
s. !, g -e-s, = was the reply, as q five was
over tSgenSy minutes be.
tore "a fourth man BUSTED in and
called out
"Keene, I discovered new canon
up the country the other day., and 1
dedicated it to you."
''Look here" said the gentleman, as
he turned in his chair; "I wantyou to
90 back and hunt up all the new ba-
bies, schoolhouses, trotting horses, can
ens, lunatic asylums. burying grounds
and berry-patches in your county which
are to be Jim Keened, and come back
here and give me the lot at wholesale,
for I'm blamed if I'm going to fool
with the retail business any longer.
Good.d day, sir !'-WaU Street Nesos.
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Head Tn Tf.

"Oh, Bennie, you nanghty, naughty
boy" exclaimed mamma, "to throw
papa's watch down the cistern !"
" Didn't hurt it," replied Bennie,
stoutly; "I heard rapa tell Uncle Ed
ward he had it in soak nearly all last
summer -BGr1etts.
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One thing is certa n, the man who
perpetrated, There's nothing like
leather had never tried to eat tripe,