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' GERVAIS & ASSE&fKi/i STREETS
ftw COLUMBIA, S. C.
Convenient to the Greenville and Charleston
Railronds and tho Busincs* portion of
the City. Rate of Transient
Board?Two Dollars
per Day.
Regular Boarders received at Reasonablo
Kate*.
<*?? 10 If
Our Oldest Iuhabitants?Two of
Them*
By J0811 Billings.
John Bascomb is now living iu Coon
Hollow. Raccoon co., State ov Iowa.
Hu iss 196 years old. nud kau road
fiue priut by moon light 33 feet oph.
lie remembers Gen Washington fu8t
rate, and once lent him 1 > dollars tou
buy a pair ov kaff akin boots wi;h.
lie fit in the revoluahuti, also in the
war ov 1812, likewise in the hvu melee,
und Rvz he won't take buss now from
euny tllUn living.
He is a hard shell baptiss by roligiou,
und sez he will die for his religion.
He was kouverted 150 years ago, nnd
thinks the hard-shell iz the tuffest re
ligion tbure it fot every day wear. He
6ez that one hard shall baptiss ken do
mure hat J work on the same vittles dur
ing u hot day than teu episkopalitics.
He buz ulways used plug tuhuko from
a child, und sez he lernt how to eh en
hi watching a cow cheu her cud.
He buz never druuk euny iutoxi
kuting licker but whiskey, and sez that
no other licker is healthy. He thinks
3 horns a day is euufl for health.
He 'has alwus voted the dimokratik
ticsct for the last 170 years, and
walked, last fall iu sloppy weather, 18
miles to vote for dim Buohauaa.
ilo huiut never seen a rule road yet,
nor a wimmin's right convenshun.
His greutcst desire, bo tells tue, iz
teu see Gen. Jackson, und sc/, that he
shal go next year down teu Tcnnesee ?
teu sec him.
Ho fatted a bog last year, with his
own hands, that weighed GIl? pounds
after it was dn-st aud well dried out.
lie is very cheerful, aud sez he won 7
dollars on tho weight pv this bog, out
ov one ov the deuk'ms ov the hard shell
church. flu deklares this teu be one ov
. the pioudesl acksidcuts ov his life, lor
the deakuu was known fur und near as
a tit0 kuss.
He tells me that for 1 >fl years he huz
went ten bed at just 17 minutes after U.
and has 11 rose u at precisely 5 o'clock the
next day.
The fust thing he dues in the morn
ing iz teu take a short drink, about 2
inches, and theu fur tin hour before
breakfast he reads the ulinanax. {J
trill here sta e ha' it iz "Josh liillingj
Farmer* Almanax" that he reads )
I asked him hiz opinyun or gin uud
milk us a fertilizer. He prononnscd it
bouua, u..d bed that the good ??!?! hard
shell drink, whiskey unadorned Was the
only speer?s that uever Went buk on a
man.
Hiz habits are simple. For break
flist he generally cte lour slices uv salt
poik, 3 biled pertat<>se topze and all, a
couple ov t-UMiigis, 5 hot bisk its, n d>>z. u
h id boiled eggs, 3 kups ol rhye coffee,
a Hlitull plute ov slupjax, mihi phew
pickU-S arid did cabbage und vinegar,
if thare was enny left from ji.-tcrday's
dinner.
His dinner was a little one, and he
seldom el r my thing hut some biled
muttoti, sum k or net! beef sum kold ham,
and sum injun pudilin teu >op oph with.
Hiz suppers were mere nothing, arid
konsisted simply ov kold kornod beef,
? 1.1 i't I.?t. .t ? .j .....1 *.1
while, n phew slices ov kold ham, with
mustard and boss reddish.
1 examined hiz head and found that
he had ail the usual bumps iu a remark
able state ov preservushuo.
He huz u goud car for music, and
whisselled me Yankee duodlo, with
variashuns.
Ho Was born n shoo ma k?r, hut hasn't
dun ennything at the trade for tho last
125 years. He etijojs the best ov
health, but just now he iz teething,
which hu tells me iz hiz 7th sett.
On tjie Subjekt ov marriage biz bed
seems to be on a ded level. He sed
??that he hud been married 15 times,
uud proposed) n>gato letl Haumth Camp
'hell, a lady in the neighborhood, who
wus 28 years old.
I asked him. what he thought hiz
changes were- for obtaining tho lady's
hand, ami be set! "it lays- between him
ami one Theodor Whitney, u traveling
korn doctor/' ami udded : "if Whitney
don't, look out i will eolarge his hcud
lot him."
Upon mi asking him what he attri
buted his immense life und vigor to, b ?
scd, iu a ekar and dis'inkt voice :
''To 3 small horns ov whiskoy a day,
b?leaviug in the bard shell docteriti, and
voting unanimously the democrat ik
ticket."
I tliaokt hi in very much for tao in*
formation he had given me ov himself,
und t eked him if he hud enny objekshun
to mi putting it iuto print, and he
manifested a greut desire that i should
do so, nor forgetting to make speoiul
meushun ov what he had scd ahout
enlarging Whitney's head for him, for
he thought that would clear him out ov
the naborhood.
I left John Basoornb after a delight
ful visit oV four hours, aud thought
over teu raised f, if thuro wus enny two
rules for long life that had been thus
far discovered that waz uliko.
Tho more*i thought ov this, tho more
i wished i could euUl ncrost Mcthuscler
for a feu miiiutts, and hear him tell how
he managed.
ELIZABETH MEACHEtf. -
Lab Mcuchetn (ns she iz familiarly
called in the township wllure she resides)
iz one ov the rarest gems ov extenuated
mortality that it has ever bceu mi blessed
luk ttu eukouutcr.
* .^he is uot so old aa BuSCOUib bi about
two years, being about 194 years old.
Next to Lots wife she iz the best preser
ved woman tho world oontaius.
I reuched her place ov residence curly
in the morning and in ouc mininitt after
i told her mi bizziucss, her tongue bad
a phull hed of steam on, und lor three
hours it run like a stream of quicksilver
down an iukdiocd plain.
1 asked her a thousand question at
least , but uot ouc of them did she uns
wer, but kept talking ull the time faster
than Pochahcut.is kau pace dewn hill
tell "saddle.
Az near as i could find out she bad
lived 19-1 years simply because she
couldn't die without cutting short one ov '
lu-r btorys.
I 'nsked bar teu sho uie sho me her
tongue. I wanted to see if that member
waz badly ?vorn ; but she couldn't stop
it long cuuff teu show it.
This woman hnz readied her cnor
inous u^e, without cny partikular
habits.
She haz outlived every body she hnz
conic ukrosr., so far by out-talking them
The only subject, that I could lor a
moment k.trt the flood over her languugo
with, was the iusltious j but this was a
subject upon which i unfortunately
wasn't much.
As a last hope ov drawing her out
upon sum ftiktj as teu her mode ov lifo,
i tu?:hcd upon that nil-absorbing (opick
teu both old und young?1 rofcr now
teu matrimony.
Her fust husbatiu it seemed, was a
karpeoter, and teu use her own words,
"was too lazy leu tal-, or ten listen
while she bilked, and so he died
Mer seckond husbati i was a pretty
goi.d talker but u poor listener, and,
tharelorc lie died
Her third husband Was a defF and
>lum man, and, az she remarked, "either
he or she had got leu die, aud the mm
died."
lief fourth husband Undertook teu
out tulk her, aud died early.
lu this way ?be wen', on deskribiug
her husbands ; 1 J in ull.
Az i rose ten depart i ecd teu her
sotlemuly :
"AlilZABKTll MeaCHEM, you have
lti?on u>n?<d> uittrrtf'l .1 "?" ' ''
iukonsolutd widder?at what time ov life
do you think the married state ceases
teu be preferable ?"
She replied :
"You must ask somebody older than
1 am "
An Upsetting Sin?Dr. M'Cosh,
Prcidcut ofl'rducetou College, tells the
story of a negro who prayed earnestly
that he und his colored brethren might
bo prese?vd from what he called their
??up.-ett ill sins.
"Hi udder," said one oi his fiiouds, at
the close of the meeting, "you ain't got
de hang Of du( ar word: it's 'besettin."
nut upsettin.
"Bruddcr," replied the other, "ifdut's
so, it's so. Hut 1 was a pray in ( de Lord
to Babe us from de bin of intoxication
and if dul ain't u upsetting, sin, L duUDO
what am.
Say what, you have a miud to nbfut
mules, they will have their own way when
thuy make up their mind to lu Louis
ville, the other day, one of them kicked
up behind and after knocking a pint oi
tccih out of the drive r he luid down iu
the shafts aud wcut to sleep with u
smile oo his face that was perfectly child,
like and blaud.
Tho Experience If "Urls'' In a
' . . . d.. m_
Strict Temfc
ranco Town.
"Gris" writes ';> tho Cineiunatti
Times-Chronicle tbq :
I stopped over ni ht in a littTo town
in Illinois roceotlyji|rieiQ(thor9/i8? large
temperance trajoritf among the favored
sex, who sling th?'| illot, aud tho conse
quence is they dispe feed altogether with
the dramshops and Iwtrs.
No license to *ei any liquor is per
mitted to any oil*, and a pretty shurp
watch is kept to fc$? that none is given
away. This wottifi
not.have troubled
me any, aud I pro$)*.bly would not have
known it, except that thut luudlord
?is I registered utot'.itjicd me mysteriously
into the hall. V
"Stronger," sai-tihc, as he closed the
door, keeping hijJbaud on the knob,
"this is the wor<=t. inuperancc town in
America. Tboy ?AJtLit allow us to sell a
drop, taveru koepe^ nor any one else.
Cau't buy it at tho ^MJg store ! But I know
how it is with trav?Hidg men ; they like
a drop of suth'u' t? tukn when they go
to a hotel. Now here (putting his
baud in bis coat-ti^l pocket and produ
cing a stna'l flask) h some Now Englan'
rum that 1 can :Veoinmend. Take a
good horn ; it'll do
can sec you."
I thanked the hu*
you good. Nobody
ipitable and sympa
thetic landlord, wly> wanted to put a
bott le to my. lips,
right," said he, aft
self," ''whenever yj
\ Tdcclitied.. "All
taking a swig him
bu feel like having a
small nip just lemnn know."
I sought my ro^tu, aud was making
ablutions, whou tlfero was a knock at
the door.
"Come in I"
lie came in, a gfod humored locking
man. with a suns.'"/ glow on tho end of
his noto, who, wit,4a fnrtive glance out
in the hall,"closed?5he door and trfrneu
the key. TJieti'Ue advanced mysterious
ly toward me on tiptoe, with one hand
to his mouth, as he staled. "S h-h,"
while the other was reaching for his coat
tail pocket. I was a little startled at
tiist, 1 must confess. Didn't know but
1 was to be made a victim to emotional
insanity by an injured husband who had
mistaken me for another man. But my
fears were dispelled when he drew out a
willow llask. It is a suihoiently deadly
weapon in some hands. I know, but it j
d icsu't scare me a.-> a loaded revolver
dot.-. someh' w.
".Stranger," said my visitor as he sat
the flas-li down on the table, "our folks
here has got temperance on the bruin.
Teetotal abstinence has struck in. Th?r
hain't beeu a bar opcu goiu' on two
years. S-gOOd thing, t.o doubt, for them
as can't govern their uppetitc for liker,
hut it's kinder lough uu tho boys as
occasionally likes a drop. And it's
rougher on strangers as stops in the
town?gives on a had idea of the pluce.
Is e )e whenyc turn in, and I thought
ye looked dry. so 1 made bold to walk up
here and oiler you a dram out'u my par
ticular flask. It's good; y iu can 'pond
oii'f. I'nre old Bourbou whiskey right
from Cineinaati."
"My mysterious and Unknown friooJ,"
said I, "1 thank you for your extremely
thoughtful kindness. An experience of
sever.;! years iu observing t'uu efleots of
Cincinnati whiskey satisfies me tint von
have got a good article there, and one
that 1 could safely warrant. L>ut i
dou't fool the need of any just now."
"Ail right, old Cap," said my culler,
taking a hnig pull at the llask himself.
"All right, you dou't have to. If you
get dry, though, anil on luv.''
It was a pleasant afternoon, and I
sauntered down on the street for a walk.
The landlord Was sitting on. the front
step. With that de-ire to make it ploas
ant for we which was so marked n fea
ture in our fir-it interview, ho introduced
me all around. If there is anything 1
hke betti r tluiti ;mothor it is being in
troduced all around to a party, say l\"> or
30. You will kn>w them al! the next time
you see them, you know, and call thoir
.?ames so- readtty. And it u ao pleasant
to be suddenly and unexpectedly called
upon to converse with twenty live or
thirty strangers, particularly when you
arc not in a humor to converse with your
nmst common forms of American in
troduction, and you know how it is your
self.
I at longnt mentioned that I was going
to take a little walk, and immediately a
couple of my uew friends volunteered to
accompany mc and show me tho town.
After seeing tho town, which didn't r<?
quire much time, ac it wasn't verry largo,
they were very7 MfMbfa<faa9$hliTO!dj gee,
their rievr tarjo track, b.is Ri/fgb adi
Of o naM?rtfJly:yi?Wiog;n#tui:e(ft? tn'e?
track was-When^I left), I compliodl **?
praised their track, as they seemed to
expect I should. I eulogised their jea*
trance gate1?udinirod' theiP "g?tb, you^
know?extolled the ticket effie?," and,
lavished wordsof comrueudution on the
judge's stand. That stand, I tohi them
could staud anything and Ivery^uno*
ccntly inquired if. it could not slaud
treat.
Then they WistccVbh taking frlc "upon J
the judge's standet** t-stonily relistejl'
that though I finally compronjised by
lookiug into a little room beneath the
stand called tho judge's room! Once in
there they shut the door, and-?you may:
not believe it, bat it is so??euch; of? toque
young men drew a flask oUt of his pock -
ct and offered me u drink.
I will not repent to' you the indignant'
and scathing rebuke I administered
those youug men, and it is hardly
necessary lor me to say I emptied thuir
flasks?both their flasks?right where I
stood, as a saiutary warning io them
against trifling with the temperance
regulations of their native towu or at
tempting to lead an innocent traveller
astray.
I positively uevcr had no many snares
laid lor me ami temptations, juid before
me as I hud iu thai tempurango town,
where they didu't sell a drop. They
were a most generous and hospitable
peoph', thouguy tind did hate to seo a
stranger suffer. TftVy didu't seem to
.care for themselves, but likod to have a
little within reach wheu a traveller
came along.
Wearied with resisting those clandes
tine invitations to "take suthiu'," I at
last announced my desire lo go to bed.
A colored man showed me up to mpr
room, and asked it there wa* anything
I wanted.' *I told him no ITo licaitA-'
ted, walked to the stove ant] poked the
lire -. then turned his attention to the
lamp to sec if that was properly trimmed
aud burning, got as far as the door, and
hesitated again. "Wv.ll, what do you
want. George?" said 1. I always call a
i ?Ion 1 man Ocorgo, because more than
half of the time that is h:s name, and
wheu it isn t he likea l> be called
(Jcorge, because the father of his adop
ted couutry was.
I supp^nio 1 know a dozen colored men
whose uaU i.-S were originally I'eter, or
Julius Ctcsar, or Kphramiuodas, who
have gone and j:'>t their names chuuged
to Ueorgc because they liked to hear mc
call them George so well.
"What do yoii want George?"
'?Oh nuthiu', Bar," said Gerunge, turn
ing bis old soi'l hat on his thumb, aud
leaning against ihe door-easing; "but 1
tin ught"?here his head dropped in an
embarrassed way.
"Well, wh it did you think, Georgo,
said 1, encouragingly, supposing he
wanted a little scrip to send to the
missionaries iu Africa.
"If you will 'souse wo.'' replied
George, at length, givi'.g up scratching
his shin and sera 10 hing his he ed, "I
thought, bein't? ybu'a a stranger, heah?"
"Well, George, go on."
"And the license laws a little el US??*?
" j es, jes* so.''
"You might want a little drink 'fore
jmu -lies tu oeu. i>ow, iu my pocket 1
jest got-"
He got no further in his speech, but
ho jes' "got" out of the door and dov. u
lue Blairs in about two jumps, for ho
saw by the excited way iu which 1 was
pawing aV'OUud the SiOVC that I was
lookiug for the poker.
CaT0IU.no.?"Johllny where is your
pa?"
?Gone fishing, sir."
Ho was fishing yesterday, was ho
not?"
Yes, sir."
What did he oaten?"
??One catfish .the rheumatism, two eels,
the toochache and soino little bhes. Ma
says he'll eatch-to nigh'; jttet wait
till he gets home?"
An old bachelor, who had become
melancholy ami poetical, wrote some
verses for tho village paper, in which he
expressed the hope that the time would
no mo when he should?
"liest calmly in a shroud,
With a weeping willow by my side"
Hut to his inexpressible horror it came
out iu print:
"When I shall rest clamly in a shawl,
Witt a whopping widow by my cide.
DK
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Our daily cotonfjjorarles fere giving us
yrhafe ifrey terWlocSl fflevtiles^llRItj an
enterprising '^Trti^
county has* invented for; bis paper a
atr^ag o^ labojr-^ving-iteujs.^-.'TUej !^Wp{
do. for any( lgculity,.and as they ajjojnot
patented, Wo have as good.a r'ig^t. tojuso
them ufkd^brtcly'eiso. ' We mike'riom
for th* tbllbwfagV ! i?wlaiw vnato j aj s|
HA-bViab. ' p. b?* 4*y .<
Cbcwcbow.
Railroad. ,
et raid.'
Much mud' bole.
Immense ankle crop]
City spreading.
Pig styes multiplying. . ? .. . , ,
. Alleys Odoriferous.
' 'll a> ijsoMB.?.John Smith's cow shed".
K b'arut'child n^fikVi tue h'e:ari!biCk4,|
:IBi'll Stomp has '*' rieit-WoVj'diplIe''
When rogues fiill out tho mice will
-play.
Enterprising citizen, . Jonathan
YVhoopenhizcr has erected a fine hen
coop.
Hope deferred1 gathers no moss.
Clever neighbor Jako Stcbbins, has
enlarged hin ash pile.
, A bird in the baud dreads the fire.
.That philantrophic gcutleman, Munu
efButteucuttcr, extracted a rat from bis
trap by inserting his fihger"between its'
tooth, and immediate!., liberated the
gentle sufferer. A merciful man bj mer
ciful to his beast.
A suspicious stranger wants to buy
rags. Beware ! Supposed to be ridi
culing the apparel of the community.
An exehuugo boasts that its office is
at 1 ist lighted with gas. Spoutaueou's
combustion, probably*.
November follows October aud pre
cedes Dek-nlbcV. "W?a^hljlui?ntrVtnirty-l
oW'?Vye, IfWoultfoH ^AirtMa>lts*'eh;;.s
tilt day after to-Uiorrow. Seiah I
This year Christmas fulUou December
25th. Last year the 25th of Dccembor
LH on Christmas. Siugular coiucidonce,
the whereof may not happen more than
ouce in n year.
If day before yesterday bud been day
after to-morrow. Saturday would have
been kicked into the middle of next
week.
The difference between Niagara and
bur last serenade is rather in favor of
the serenade. The former is a cataract,
the latter a cattyracket.? Caveat filed
herewith.
The riso in the river has produced
many good results. Anioug others, we
unto that the resumption of navigation
having enabled the exhausted supply of
vermifuge to be replenished, our worthy
cotcmporary of the Roaring Ru$tdbout
bus recovered his former sweetness of
temper.
Small boys are saving their coat
sleeves by wearing aud using pocket
haukcrchicf.
Encased in Ice and Yet Alivv.
?On Saturday morning, as Mr. Joseph
MOttern, frh up-town ice dealer, sawed,
out a piece of ice about two feet by twen
ty luches, a bug resembling a June bug
execptiug that its wiugs aud body were
of a buff color, rolled out upon tho side
walk. It had not remained there many
uiiuuiea uetore it eviuccd signs of life,
and in a few minuets the effect of the
sun war bo marked, tlut the liberated
prisoucr started to find new quarters.
The bloek of ice from which this picco
was sawed was very heavy* and came
from the far North. How the bug could
have lived iu this mass of ioo, is a ques
tion tho ice dealer could.net answer. It
must, however, have been encased in i*s
ice prisont for several months.
An editor out West who thought t\jo
wa ,es dcinandud by compositors was
imposition, discharged his hands and
intends doing his owu type-setting in
future. He says: "owing. To the
oXolldiTaUj Wa<; k.s ?fttna^defl bY
pjinjorRs w'E b.\.\e Cr,iiClnde(t To da
on It ow <vt tYpo 8h/|tiaCr IN tho fuTuRe!
; narr ai.i'tp>uou w^ never iKannEQ
i'ho jfusiuoss' Ato dO jyjo} Soo u\y gltoni
tn.CsTctty in tile all*.
In former days, when the cook-book
was included in the educational course
for young ludie?, they were taught iu
this rule; ''First catch yonr hare, then
dress it." In the enlightened presout
the cook-book docs not shine, but this
rule, with slight alterations, is: First
buy your hair, then dress it youag
l?dier."
badthsm?.
ploasanThaEIE of FeepTBy a taaae tiger
it is known, possessea for some Ucee a
savage wolf as l?4vorite oompeoio* ?t
N8*lt|&st ?^)4J;rVtfr ?^/bjpe seiden,
uJSJsnSJLsf s?ilr?i?iJffi pn Hflgaa'fW**
engro, bead/j^jfj^e ?* English birth
having any very particular predilection
for snakes. A gentleman "of urbane man
nerd and great, libesa?tsV' itfatf weid
iQK.nMrOSh^hyiMr?, ^nt?dft?|9?ssi(
tasten He collected about hjs office the
op? aJKiS mafntM.ji tilrh t?Mb
most venomous snalcea to oe Toona ist
[Vhlfi region. W'plMse^Sro#%rVrieed
'Visitor to this singular" cbatWHW ' WSould
see "one snake oieoiledm ?b]L sftgjrf1*'1?
another on th e(^s?J^v|^l^^eys)fas,
^nd^hpi^^^djiirt |ro?hK?.
oUsJh^e." >Vjp a>e all Uable to meet
witn accidents, however an$u?ls'io*er
df snakes met atlafri wfttfjlq^sfeiotts
one3- He had ^tt^tasptT?j|lfc bat
lively garter snake, and:witbpntj?tf oaring
it any time to get ? accustomed to. Utt
changed quarters, he nut it in his hat.
and his hat on his head, with the result
that he was soon Eliten? aWohjo0 the
next morning. Remarkable to relato,
his widow, instead of keeping bis snakes
to remember the dear deceased at
once bad them all kiltc^ ^ ^
A Drsovsrst) jTj^??.^A^^rfiosas
judge had* his laW otfdo'so cto*d%o a
certain MdoctojQa4r5?c-i(fc*. they^tWere
separated only by. a plaqk gs^tigjLrwith
a door in it. The jud^o was at his tale
bi^sy with hitji grie&jmd bills, in chan
cery. The doctor was writtir/gf tt letter,
aud iia<i3itfg:ai'Wdl'wb^di "eftonomioal,
called out. - "Jod^ise't f tywfcthe way
to spell cquiuoralcaliC' . I think it
is, said the judge; but here's Webster's
Dictionary I c^^ ta^^J^.
ed the book, auo turned over the leaves
repeating aloud, <4o-quinoniical?-e-qui -
nomical, "Finding rhe proppef place,
he ran his eye and finger up and down
the column two or tlr 3 times Until he
was throughly satisfied that the Word
in question was uot there. dlcMog* the
book with a slam, the judge" late! his
specs on the table and rising wldwly,
broke forth* Well, sir, I have always
been a Daniel Webster man, and voted
for him for President; but auy m?r| that
will write as big a dictionary as this and
not put as common a .?Word as^cjuino
mical in it cau't get niy vote for anything
hereafter.
The Sau Francisco Chronicle chronicl
es the death and funeral of a young
spiritualist medium named Henry Chase,
iu which there is a rather ludicrous il
lustratiun of the strength of the" rulidg
passion after death. The young man's
mother preached his fUtferal sermon*, io
which she said thst since his death she
had bad several interviews with him- In
life he was a jolly and frolicsome youth
and while his corpse was being prepared
for burial, he entered therbotoand gave
his mother to Understand that f 'he did
uot think he would make such an ugly
looking corpse." During the whole pro*
cess of dressing him after death ho Was
present in the room, catting up antics,
jumping about, standing on his head,
and doing other funny things. 80 little
use is thero f o* b,fy?'J,.- rr?
may perform all these* aftofeatk) feat*
even when deprived of it<
A clever old lady, apparently just
arrived ou a train from the country,
enterod one of tho refreshments rooms
at, iho Springfield dopot, the other day
aud gazed eagerly about the apartment
ns though searching for something. At
last a waiter inquired what she was
looking for, and sho replied, that sbet
left her pnrnsel on tho settee, and was
trying to find it. A general aoaroh com.
menced, and lasted for some time. Fi
nally ouo of tho waiters asked the old rlamo
when sho left it, to which she answered
after count!rig up on heT'fragCrB. **Well,
it was just three years ago las* 4th of
July." There was a general roar,
much to the astonishment of the old lady
who weut away with a very puzsled look,
upou her countenance.
At a recent examination of one of thor
school* in Washington, tb?question wan
put to a class of small boys; Why>s the
Connoetiout river so called ?" when a
bright little follow hold vtp bis band.
"Do yoa know, James?" "Yes, ma'nra;
because it connects Vermont und New
Hampshiro, and cuts through Massa
chusetts," was the riumphxmt te>