Beaufort Republican. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1871-1873, 1872-10-17
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It is proposed to tax dogs in Selma,
Ala, to pay the city debt, ,.,7fy
A COW has been poisoned by eating
peach leaves in Alexandra. =, -
In the district of Ruhr, Belgium, not
one illiterate miner can be found.
The rinderpest has appeared among
the cattle in Lincolnshire, England.
A raan.s not like a chicken the older
he gets, the tenderer he becomes AL
the young ladies please note
Bears are causing great deal OF trou-
BILE among the Wisconsin farmers. They
are getting numerous and bold. ,
Coal is higher now in London than it
has been before for forty years In
1851 the price was about one half what
it is now, ,Jj1. gas
A st. Louis rat recently made COM
Portable bed out of one thousand i've.
hundred dollars government six 'tper
cent bonds. ''fa .f'fr
A London gentleman, Mr.. Thomas
Holme, has bequeathed to the British
society for the prevention of cruelty to
animals ffty-fve thousand dollars.
A Nevada paper tells OF herd Of stock
cattle, numbering 1900, which passed
through town out there bound to Cali.
fornia, having been driven from Texas.
If you desire to measure an exact acre,
within square, you must form square
of 2O9 feet on each side. An acre con-
tains 1910 square yards, and square
mile contains $40 square acres.
Since the occupation of Metz by the
German troops the emigration from'that
place has been so heavy and continuous
that the population is now said to be
but one-third of what it was before the
war. .rr r~.y ~
Papa-"I'm sorry to hear, my dear
boy, you have failed again in. obtain
ing prize this quarter. You must be
very wooden-headed." Dear Boy-''Yes,
pa, I'm afraid I'm chip of the old
block" d
The Commissioner of Internal Revenue
has decided that certificates of naturaG-
cation issued by the United States or
State courts are not such certificates as
require stamps under the Internal Rev.
enue laws, and are therefore exempt
flom the stamp tax. ,
When John Adams was ninety years OF
age he was asked how he kept the vigor
Of his faculties up to that age. He re-
piled: "By constantly mploying them:
The wind of an old man is like!an old
horse if you would get any work out OK
it yod must work 1t all the time"
In the United States District Court at
! Boston, Horace S. Russell retracted the
plea of not guilty and pleaded guilty to
abstracting letters from the Charleston
Post-office. He was sentenced to two
years's imprisonment in Jail at Northamp-
ton. The amount embezzled in this case
was only S12. 10
The national debts of the principal
!, nations of the earth, we believe, now
rank about as follows: The United
States, So, 453, $50. 900; England, So, 758-
42O. 600 France, 50, 613, 100000 Russia,
: 81. $50, 800, 900; Austria, 81, 210, 600, GOO;
Italy, 81, ,O94, O4O,OO0; Spain, $793, 76o-
600; Prussia, S325, sec, 900; Canada,
} S72, 500, 600; Switzerland, S774,4O0.
A man walks per hour, 8" miles; a
horse trots, per hour, 7 miles; aihorse
runs, per hour, 90 miles; a steamboat
runs. per hour, IS miles; a vessel sails,
per hour, 10 miles rivers run, slow,
per hour, 4 miles rivers run, rapid
per hour, 7 miles; an ordinary wind
blows, per hour, 7 miles storm moves,
per hour SO miles; hurricane moves,
per hour, 80 miles a rlfe-ball moves,
, per hour, 1000 miles; sound moves,
per hour, TAB miles light flies, per
bour, $4,000 miles electricity moves,
per hour, 2SS,00O miles. ..I q. =.