Beaufort Republican. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1871-1873, 1873-04-24
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Facts and Fancfes.

Massachusetts, has S79 inhabitants 10
every mile Of railway. ys-1ro7r i1
There is said to be skeleton in ey-
ery house, but not always q skeleton
key.
The poet says, Shoot folly as 1t
flies" but the trouble isthat folly never
flies. '.'at 20 hg.
Smallpox is still scourging the in
habitants of San Peto and Salt lake
City. ,,,. -.
of the United States amount to $685.
$50, ,997.
San Francisco, by local census con-
tains $4,000 people, of whom II, ,OOoaare
Chinese.
A party of forty persons emigrated
from Syracuse, N. Y, to found acoiony
in Kansas. -..s br..
tits not an uncommon sight in Russia
to see women working with men paving
the streets. ...s.agoo & ls
The immediate slavery emancipation
law for Porto Rico has passed the Span
ish Assembly. mid mont
Plesiosaurus California is the pleas
ing name of bug which inhablts San
Francisco beer. HH-h 3le
George Taylor, captured by the
Apaches in Arizona, was burned 10
death at the stake. ~ d 80
Wisconsin is another State that Irsp-
rimanded her representatives for IN
| creasino their salaries.
The girl in Iowa who as announced
by telegraph last week danced SIX sqc-
cessive sets on O wager died on Friday
last. ." '''''N
The French and German governments
have exchanged notifications ms, Of the
treaty for the German evacuation OF
France. .." At'.R ,s'uD'ib
In Fremont, Nebraska, you can buy
potatoes for thirty cents bushel, eggs
at twelve to fifteen cents o dozen, and
beef at ten cents pound. % sIT
One of the mills of the, American
Powder Company, at Acton, Mass,
blew up recently, killing two wofkmen,
one named Wentworth, and npd1n ippjiYqEFians pjYEa
three others.
Lappston, who murdered theold lady
and little girl in their beds near Para.
disc, ILL.,, recently, makes confession OF
the crime, and duplicates his w1fea as
his instigator. .4H @f.g.Fsgr lisdt
Defalcation seems to be Q contagion
among the county treasurers OF New
York State. Fonr counties haveihad their
affairs sadly complicated by the malfeas-
ance of treasurers.
Don't sit lop-sided when you write,
squintine at your chirography across
the bridge of your nose. A distinguish
ed oculist declares this attitude extreme
ly hurtful to the eyes. -dg e.
The United States Government sale OF
seventeen of the engines OF the New
York Central Railway Company real
ized only S17, 900, leaving $445, 900, of
the tax claim still unpaid. ~
A new horse disease has appeared In
Portland, Maine. 1t effects the legs,
making them so weak that it is with
diffic uty the animal can stand. No
cases have proved fatal yet. f-szGq
Two young ladies in q Minnesota "
town volunteered to nurse the family OF
e neighbor during an attack OF q con-
tagious disease, and both were taken
i'll, died, and were buried in q common
grave. ..'. '".n
An anxious gentleman, bargaining
for a house to rent from old MacMasters,
asked If the house was cold. well,
said the old gentleman, seriously, 9"
can't say as to that; it stands out
doors"
"Why," asked governess OF her
little charge, edo we pray God to give
us our daily bread? Why don't we say
four DAYS, or five days, or o week?"
"We want it fresh" replied the ingen-
uous child.
A silly fool OF lover at Des Moines
draws blood from his arm and uses 1t
in the place of ink to writc to his girl.
Ten to one that he don't pound her with
the stove-handle in less than o year
after marriage. r,rr y .h,on
A Buffalo drug clerk, who was instru-
mental in badly poisoning citlzens
son by mixing an injurious article m
salye he was ordered to make, cooily
remarked that it was "only slight
mistake of his" HHH
Francis Joseph of Austria offers five
thousand forins, equivalent to TWO
thousand dollars, for the best editorial
on Austrian affairs to be written In
German and not to contain more than
one thousand words. 10 ..1 '-S3
The father of the simple-minded boy,
Willie Clark, has brought suit for So
600 damages against the Massachusetts
sheriff who ari ested him on the charge
of placing distractions on the Boston
and Albany Railroad.
A lady about to be married was told
that her intended, though good man,
was very eccentric. Well, she SAID,
&c am glad to hear it, for if he is very
unlike other men, he is the more likely
to be good husband" -
A New Haven lady, who has been
dumb for two months past, was fright
ened into distinct utterance, by the
sudden and silent approach Of mem
Der of her family while she was ran
sacking the attic of her house.
When city editor of the Tribune
once suggested the reformation OF his
neck-tie, Mr.. Greeley answered, r"Sou
don't like my dress, and I don't Ike
your department. If you have any i'm.
provements to make, please begin az
home"
A Vermont paper remarks: IVA resi-