Beaufort Republican. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1871-1873, 1873-02-20
1870. PER ANNUM.
lsingle Copy, s Cents.
Facts and Fancies.

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eud and gazing contentedly in mirror.
A Chicago paper says it is wonderful
how quick the blind beggars can tell
the difference between two cents and Q
quarter.
1t is q great mistake for q lady to
wear a bonnet too young looking for her
age, as it serves only to make her age
more apparent.
Gov. Washburn, OF Wisconsin, calls
upon the Legislature todeyise some law
that will break up rafdes, grab-bags and
lotteries at church fairs.
Aladyhas been robbed in q Milwaukee
church, during service, Of quantity OF
costly lace from her cloak, and cansot
imagine how it was done.
Mrs. Fremont is described as having
grown stout and gray, and never, in the
days of her girlish beauty, was 80 fas-
cinating as at the present time.
William F. Hague, deputy United
States Marshal in Omaha, and brother
in-law of Governor Scott, of South
Carolina, was frozen to death near
Cheyenne, W. T.
A paper.in the oil regions denies that
q denizen OF its locality was seen doing
up nitro-glycerine can for Christmas
present to his mother-in-law. He hired
another man to do it up.
A ladys hat, trimmed in the height
of the fashion, and nicely packed in
band-box, was carried by the United
States mail from Maine to California
for eleven cents postage.
Miss Lena Clark is cashier of bank
at Newton, In. Last week she missed Q
train, and, determined to fill an appoint
ment, walked seven miles whom the
mercury was thirty degrees below zero.
The Carlists are reported to be acting
with terrible cruelty in the north OF
Spain, numbering and mutilating those
who oppose them, and forcing hundreds
Of young men to join the insurgent
ranks.
James Creamer has been sentenced to
twenty years additional imprisonment
in the Massachusetts, State Prison for Q
murderous assault on Deputy Warden
Hall during religious service in the
chapel.
A lady in Fort Wayne has cards out
for her silver, crystal, and tin weddings,
which occur on the same day. Her first
two husbands (divorced) have received
invitations, but peryersely decline at
tending.
With quiet sarcasm Maine paper re-
marks that after the "Chase heirs +" get
their thirty-fve millions of dollars,
more or less, from England, they will
confer favor by liquidating small
bill at its office.
That was delicate compliment given
by ragged newsboy to the pretty girl
who bought a paper of him. Poor
little fellow" said she, "ain't you very
cold?" 81 was, ma'are, before you
passed" he replied.
Chicago has been rebuilt with un-
exampled rapidity, but writer in the
Frnancier states that the Indebtedness
of Chicago property holders for money
borrowed of outside capitalists is sixty
five million dollars.
variety weddings" have been intro
duced into Rhode Island. They take
the place OF wooden, tin or crystal we'd
dings, tho happy couple receiving.
variety Of presents instead OF having
them oil of one material.
o, the snow, the beautiful snow; such
a hunky thing, you know; blueing your
nose and chilling your toes; as whirling
along the street It goes. No silly praise,
not any for Joe, for that coolest OF
frauds, the beautiful snow.
In the year 1S4S, the population OF
st Paul was scarcely 500; in 1865, but
l3. 900; now it exceeds $4,000. Build
ing statistics show 992 buildings erect
Cd during the last year, at an average
cost of $1,759 the total being $2,346,-
4S7.
A Yale College student lately wnt
through civil service examination, and
after passing triumphantly, astonished
the examiners by telling them that he
did not want any Office, but merely
wanted to see what the examination was
like.
The London Morning Postrecentlyce eel
ebrated its first centenary by devoting
eight of its wide columns to the remin-
iscences of men and things 100 years
ago. By noon a copy Of the paper
could not be had for love or money IN
all London.
While the Prince Imperial was return
ing from the chapel to the family man
sion from the Emperor's funeral, he was
saluted with the cry Of "Vive Tempe
reur." In reply to the salutation, ne
exclaimed "The Emperor is dead.
Wre la France"
If one may credit the Chicago 7ri-
b,nc the snow on the line Of the Winona
and st. Peter Railroad, during storm,
was deep. 1t says the track-clearers IN
several places encountered drifts so high
that they stepped over the tops OF the
telegraph poles easily.
The farmers in and around Aarburg,
Canton Aargau, have recently suffered
much from the injury done to crops by
mice, which are said to have been more
numerous this year than was everknown
before. One mouse-catcher Of Bot
tenwyl, near Aarburg, alone caught in
three months II, 1881 head, for which, at
Is centimes apiece, he received 1,1oi
francs Is centimes.
In September last man with his n:
fies, two boys, two dogs, and small
wagon, passed through Cassvile, Mo-,
on his way to the swamps Of Arkansas,
on o trapping expedition. He has re-
turned with 100 mink skins, 900 coon
skins, and deer skins, the whole yalrl-