Beaufort Republican. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1871-1873, 1873-07-24
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Items OF Interest.

Fifty cents will buy a thirty.pound
salmon in Portland, Oregon: In ean
Francisco the same fish would be WORM
about three dollars.
A Minnesota paper asserts that q kero-
sene lamp, so set that the rays OF the
sun passed through it and came TO .
focus on a window-curtain, set the cur
tain on fire.
A gentleman having horse that ran
avay and broke his wife's neck, q nelgh-
bor sought to buy the animal as means
of divorce. "No, no." said his owner ;
81 intend to marry again myself before
long"
The aggregate membership OF the
Farmers Oranges is in the neighbor-
boed of two millions. If this organlza-
tion can be induced to vote q tt''tt,
some political calculations will come to
naugM
Lovers of claret and Burgundy vii!
be pleased to learn, on the authority OF
an eminent French chemist. that REQ
wines nowadays are commonly colored
with rosantline, which contains arsenic
enough to cause symptoms OF poisoning
If it be taken in frequent doses.
Texas is large and scarcely popula-
ted State, but the people appear TO pe
doing their best to fill it up. Ihere ls
a man in Waco who is the father OF nity
children, thirteen by bis first wife, eigh'
teen by his second, ten by his third,
six by his fourth, aud three by his fiith
wife. who at last accounts was still llV-
ing.
The Waterbury (Ct.) american tells
the story Of very scrupulous man VINO
recently left that city for the West.
Being indebted to a shop-mate In lbs
former home in the sum OF eighteen
cents. he forwarded the amount the
other day in old-fashioned pennies, the
express prepaid, costing him fifty-one
cents.
Mrs Addie Ballou, who is q regular
CLERGYMAN, writing "Rev." before her
name. was called all the way from Terre
Haute. Ind, to Cincinnati, Ohio, TO
marry a couple, the bride having de-
termfned never to be united by man.
r. is strange she did not extend her
strong.minded ideas to the choice OF a
husband.
A New York Central Railroad conduc-
tor seized nobility dressed young fel-
low who had dropped an insulting note
in lady's lap on his train, the other
dav. dragged him from his seat, and led
him by the ear through the train to the
smoking car, where he bade hlm 70,
main. The passengers hugely, enjoyed
the young reprobate's discontinue.
There is an Irish woman Of gigantic
strength in st. Paul. One morning she
lifted barrel of sugar from the ground
into a cart. The next evening she pre-
sented her husband with twins. Two
days after she did the washing for q
family of ten persons. Not 80 forum,
ate was Missouri girl. She washed Al
day. made supper OF twelve hard
boiled eggs, and then danced all night.
It is mentioned that her funeral process
sion was nearly mile long.
Mr.. Gail Borden, of White Plains, n.
Y, the preparer of condensed milk,
has made some experiments forthe Pur..
pose of determining the correct welght
of crude milk. He took the milk OF
several cows, and mingling it together
and thoroughly cooling it, he carried 1t
directly to the q. s. Sealer OF Weights
and Measures, who measured ana
weighed the milk by accurate Govern.
ment weights and measures. The result
was that a quart of milk 80 measured
and weighed on delicate scales was
eoual to Q lbs. 24 OF. The tests were
made with different samples OF milk at
different times, but without materially
altering the weight.