Beaufort Republican. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1871-1873, 1873-02-13
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Facts and Fancies. y

OaIuuel 1EedI uuueElooh w oliS as hto
brothers wedding in Reading, England,
and fell down dead.
Rev. Henry Austin, Of Texas, prea-
chas with his hat on to cover the place
where his scalp once was.
1t has been frequently proved
that cattle to be kept sleek and healthy
must have regular weekly allowance
Of salt. 49, lr.
In one house in Pubnico, Yarmouth
County, Nova Scotia, there have been
seventeen cases of smallpox, of which
six were fatal. ..
An American Colonel at Baden-Ba-
der having lost his money lately,
thought he had no use for brains and so
blew them out. ~!
A novel idea at the funeralof North
field, VT, man who died the other day
was the taking up OF collection for his
wife and six children.
A Chicago paper says the women of
Utah have recently altered the ortho-
graphy of their creed. They now spell
it Moremen instead of Mormon. -,
There are not scafolds. enough in the
State of New York to hang at one time
the persons charged with murder now
in confinement in New York City.
Bret Harte denies that he is the ID
ziest man in the world, but admits that
he don't see the use of rushing around
when his boarding house isn't on fire.
John P. Hale is confirmed paralytic
and has softening of the brain. He
can not leave his room, and will not
probably live great while. He is
nearly si1ty-seven years old.
An eminent statistician has calculated
that California will produce wheat flour
enough this year to make so, 15S miles
of French loaves, or more than sutfi-
cient to girdle the, earth twice. .'
A good method of keeping potatoes
for family use is topack them in barrels
with sun.dried sand, covering the tops
with turf, and keeping th' m in a dry
and cool atmosphere. Then they will
neither shrivel nor shrink to any real
extent. ..r q.
A physician, on presenting his bill to
the:executor Of the estate of q deceased
patient, asked, 'Do you wish to have
my bill sworn to ?"---" No." replied the
executor; "the death of t.e deceased is
evidence that you attended him profes-
sionally."
To cure n smoky chimney, initiate Il
,rge OK bladder with air, and tie it 10y
he mock to stick, and place it across
the inside about two feet from the top.
The buoyance of the air keeps TN. biad-
der in circular motion, and thus pre-
vents the down rush OF air. ..
Josephine Mansfield, through coun-'
sci, has attached the property OF Nathan
Appleton, of Newport r. l., to the
amount Of $4,000, for loss of 81, 500,
which she deposited with Bowles Bros.
inst before their failure. A hearing OF
the case will be had in April.
The inconvenience OF frozen cIsterns
and gas meters may be obviated byput-
ting lump of salt into the water oncea
week, and into the closet trap the last
thing at night. The explanation is that
water holding salt .in% ISOLATION requires
% degrees of cold more than pure water
to freeze it.
The Presidential vote for 1872 is
Grant 1852, $40; Greeley, 2,SS52, $50.
In 1868, Grant, 3,013, 1888; Seymour, q
7O3, 600. 1t will be seen that Mr.. Gree
lev received about 100000 more votes
than Mr.. Seymour. OF Gen. Grants
increase. PAT, 900 came from States dis
franchised in 1868, and of Mr.. Greeley's,
pa, 900. f.. tr
The following We clip from '1r.
Punch's Almanac for this year: Doctor
81 am pleased to say, Mrs. fltz-
browne, that shall be able II vaccinate
your baby from a very healthy child of
your neighbor, Mrs. Jones'" Mrs.
Fitzbrowne-" Oh! dear, doctor, / could
not permit that. We do not care to be
mized up with the Joneses in any way"
A party of swindlers from the East
have taken advantage of the fact that
there is no low in Nebraska against lot
teries to advertise extensively the Omaha
lottery, in aid of the State Orphan Asy-
lum. The scheme has no connection
whatever with the Asylum, is not under
charge of State officers, and those who
buy tickets in it can expect to lose their
money.
There arc nineteen large tanneries in
Maine, which use annually ITO, 900 cords
of bark. This bark tans 10000 to H.
600 tons of leather. The average cost
of bark is $50 per cord, and aggregat-
ing $4,000 annually. The leather is
generally tanned by the hundred or ton,
for which $40 per ton is paid, and this
costs over 100000. The freight on
hides and leather costs $50 per ton, and
aggregates $500, 900.
A correspondent commends onions as
q specific against epidemics-not as an
esculent, but sliced and kept in a sick
room, where they will absorb any at
mospheric poison. They should be re-
placed by fresh ones every hour. 1t is
noticed that in the room OF n smallpox
patient they will blister and decomposc
very rapidly, but will prevent the
spread OF the disease. Their applica-
ton has also proved effective in the case
of snake bites.
II your horse should accidentally
stumble, never raise your volce-the
creature breads its masters chiding;
never log the reins-the mouth OF the
horse il far more sensitive than the hu-
man lips never nse the lash-the horse
is so timid that the slightest correction
overpowers its reasoning faculties.
speak to the creature /; reassure the pal
pitating frame seek to restore those