Beaufort Republican. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1871-1873, 1873-02-27
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Items OF Interest.

In New 1orK BtO0kS are uuli uuu ~"
er.
New York city imported s5,OOo,oCo
worth of dry goods.
Three more Communists have been
shot on the plain of Satory.
The deer taken in New Hampshire
are all affected with the epizootic.
Capt. Halls skeleton has been sent
from the Arctic regions to England.
Business is almost suspended in Salt
Lake on account OF the epizootic.
Monogram window curtains are the
freshest pustule of New York society.
Oscar H., the new king of Sweden,
is to be crowned on the 10th OF May.
An eagle was shot in Iowa recently
while endeavoring to carry of an eighty
pound porker.
There is law in Rhode Island by
which any man may be lined % 1or
calling another liar.
The new census of France shows the
population to be SO, 102, ,921, a decrease
of 366, ,935 since 1865.
The ex-Empress Eugenie has decided
to leave Chiselhurst, to reside In some
other part of England.
The Congregationalists Of New York
State have 229 ministers, 264 churches
and 27, 1877 communicates.
ANorth Carolina wood-cutter, wearied
of life, SO felled tree that it fell upon
him and crushed him to death.
There is nothing formidable about
death but the consequences OF IL, ana
these we ourselves can regulate and
control.
An Iowa man bought chair at dol
lar store the other day, and before
night he fell through the same and
broke couple of his ribs.
A husband in North Carolina can
strike his wife three icks with q
switch"-that is what the Judge calls 1t
and escape punishment.
Northampton boasts Of O young lady
who has framed and raised barn. we
know q maid who raised q whole house,
and all because she could not find her
back hair.
A writer in o long ago copy OF the
Brooklyn Monthly says: "The judi
cious mixture of printers ink with the
arterial system tends to longevity and
content"
A novelty for. early spring costumes
is foulard laine, and all-wool fabric.
fine and closely woven, as soft and tiex,
ible as cashmere, yet OF as little weight
as foulard.
By saturating your coal pile with tar
water Won will triple its heating power.
This IL one of the manifold devices prac..
tised by the English poor in the present
scarcity Of coal.
The King of the Sandwich Islands,
inst dead was great borrower, great
bepoar, and was always in debt. Dur
ING his last days he would eat nothing
but shark-meat soup.
Dreadful it is to note from such sta
tistics that in the year 1870 nearly 5,ooO
illegitimate children were born IN New
York city, of whom 80 per cent. dlea Oh
neglect, opium and disease!
Emigration from England to BrazIl
seems to be growing in extent, al
though the reports received from Euro
mean farmers and mechanics already on
the ground are very conflicting.
1t is gently limited that if young
ladies would use little more discretion
in the application Of the powder pun,
society men would not find 1t necessary
to have two dress coats in one season.
The bill for the creation Of commits
s;oners of commerce and for giving
bounties to American shipbuilders was
virtually killed in the .. >. House Sy
being laid on the table by vote OF III
yeas to 60 nays.
The benefit of advertising was recent
IL illustrated in Boston, where mer-
chant advertised for L" boy wanted IN
a morning paper, and on going home IN
the evening he was presented with TWO
babes OF male persuasion.
AT the Moreue in Paris there is nl-
WAYS n detective in plain clothes, whose
hn siness il is to observe the impression
wb;ch the sight of the bodies makes
mon the spectators. Many murderers
have thus been discovered
A gentleman at Lancaster, Pa, has
horse that takes his children to school
in the morning, returning home driver
less, and at night returns for them IN
th. same way, rubbing his nose against
the window-pane to indicate his pres
ence.
II fish did not devour each other and
men did not devour the victors, there IS
no telling what would become OF tho
ocean. Two herrings in three years
would produced 154, 600, 600, and IN
twenty wears would fill the ocean 80
that they would have no room to move
} about i'll.
There are thousands OF gallons OF
inflammable oil, stored in old wooden
buildings IN New Yolk, that are almost
as easy Of ignition Us is a handful OF
tow. Some of these days Lowell paper
saws. a fire will break out. and the FIRE
Department will find itself entirely un-
able to cope with it,
A little romance about Ben. Wade's
daughter and her "tall young carpen-
ter" will have to DE given up. Ben.
, saws that to begin with he made no OBJ:
lection to their marriage, in the second
place that his daughter never was en-
gagged to the carpenter in question,
:, and thirdly that he never had daush'
ter.
, The Amherst Student tells OF On
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