Beaufort Republican. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1871-1873, 1872-11-28
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Brevities.

| CarpeCS are pOuSHt py eiS J"
worn by the foot.
A women who tells fortunes from
teacup need not he sauceress.
English statistics make the total pop
uIation of India little less than two
hundred million.
The first exclamation OF On American
belle on entering the cathedral at Milan,
was: "Ch, what aichurch to get married
in.n
Voltaire was asked what he thought
was the age of the world. don't know,
said he {; but I regard the world as an
old coquette who conceals her age.
Queen Victoria was so much pleased
with the five barrels of apples presented
to her last fall by some Michigan fruit
growers that she this year sent an order
to that State for IA times as many for
winter use.
A National Convention of Goose!pick.
ers is to be held in Chicago next year, to
devise some way of plucking geese by
machinery. and deodorizing the dead
goslings that are so often found In board
ing-house pillows.
There are thirteen shot-guns, with
women at their butt-ends, proving
around the Western States looking Tor
truant husbands and their naughty
feminine companions. Thunder from
the West may be expected soon.
A woman in the last stages Of intoxl-
cation from opium was picked up in the
streets of Rochcster few days since.
citizen explained that it was "nfcotics'
and not whiskey, when the officer IN
charge at once released her.
In Marseilles, France, recently
young girl named lrma Gras, very
handsome brunette, assassinated her
lover because he refused to buy her
gold watch. To the general astonlsh-
ment of the Court and audience the Jury
acquitted her.
A Pomfret, Ct, woman recently lost
favorite hen, and rcvenged herself by
poisoning the corpse with strychnlne,
the result being dead owl, one OF the
largest varieties known in new England,
with six-seet spread OF wings, dead
fox, and skunk.
The Canadian way of measuring tree
is said to be as certain as it is grotesque:
You walk from the tree, looking at
it from time to time between your knees.
When you are liable toi seei the top IN
this way, your distance from the root OF
tie tree equals Its hight.
A Connecticut farmer having an
elephant on his hands in the shape of
l 200 bushels of apples, for which there
was no market, settled the matter by
feeding them to his cows-at the rate OF
one bushel per day-with very satisfac.
tory results, securing largely increased
flow of milk"
An Anti-Horse Thief Association -
having Sc subordinate and tributary
societies, and total membership OF
2. 2.OOO-includes farmers of Illinois, Iowa,
and Missouri. At recent conclave it
was stated that only two horses. were
stolen this year, both of which were
recovered and the offenders speedily
brought to justice.
Two ladies, named Schoonmaker and
Spencer, residing in the same block on
Jefferson street, Albany, last week died
from starvation, the result Of cancer in
the stomach. In consequence of the
terrible disease they were unable to re-
tain any food in their stomachs, and Tor
several days had partaken only OF small
quantities of liquids. like tea and broth.
Some time ago, says the american
Manufacturer, Boston offered $4,000
for an invention which should certainly
and prominently give warming at railroad
crossings of an approaching train, and
thus put an end to the torture produced
by the steam whistle. Thirty or forty
different plans have been submitted, none
of which appear to be OF a practical char
acter.
A man was awarded premium at the
cattle show and fair at Northampton for
two-year-old colt, when the animal he
entered was horse eight years old !
The man had colt in pasture, and sent
man to bring him to the show the
man made mistake and took the eight
year-old horse, which was in the same
pasture, and the committee "put him
through"
A letter has been received at the
General Land Office setting forth that q
movement is on foot by the Israelites OF
Europetor settling colony OF Roumanlan
and Continental Jews in America. 1t
appears there is o company formed,
possessing paid-up capital OF Sl,5C,o.-
; 600, who contemplate settling IN this
csuntry some s, 900 families, comprising
10000, persons, and the question, IS
presented to the General land Office
whether the United States Government
will extend to the company title to q
tract of land, say 250,OOO acres, for this
purpose, on condition that SO many
families should be located annually, 1t
being the desire to have but one settle
: ment.
| The INCREASING IMMIGRATION OF
; cu,nre "A Euronean correspondent OF