The tribune. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1874-12-23
Items of Interest.
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| 1VemS Oh interest,"
In Indiana $780, 600 children go to
school.
A paying young man is better than a
promising one.
Some girls are angry when you tell
them you love them. Others are angrier
when you don't.
"Sekretz," says Josh Billings, "is
the principal, and if you keep it yu loze
interest"
The report that q successful poultry
dealer set up'a carriage, arose from his
statement that he had made his coop pay,
| this season.
Now is the time when the poor little
castaway exclaims, essay, Johnny, don't
we pity them little fellows as hain't got
any nice warm barrel to sleep in2"
A Milwaukee woman's bonnet costs,
upon an average, about $15, but she has
the bill made out for $50 or $40, in order
to show it to the woman next door.
A Maine college professor throws out
the suggestion that hazing might easily
be prevented if parents fully understood
the virtues of the corrective shingle.
A foreign journal rofers to the story of
great speculator who foated a COM
pany for working salt mine of mex
haustible extent, which turned out to be
the sea.
An individual who was about to start
paper in the interest of the glove
makers and dealers was rather disgusted
at the suggestion that it should be called
The Hand Organ.
Five colored men have been elected TO
the next Congress, all new men. Two
are from South Carolina, one from
North Carolina, one from Alabama and
one from Louisiana.
An English girl laughs at the idea that
q woman cannot live comfortably with
her mother-in-law, and advertises for
some good-lookng young fellow to give
her a chance to try the experiment.
He who every morning plans the trans
actions of the day and follows out that
plan, will accomplish twice as much as
one who makes no plan when the dis
posal of time is left to chance, all things
will he huddled together.
A girl in South Carolina, playing with
an empty champagne bottle, fell down,
broke the bottle and cut her throat with
the glass. AS gun is dangerous with
out lock, SO is o champagne bottle dam
gerous, whether It is loaded or not.
No nurse girl should hold pins in her
mouth-it is too dangerous. 1t is much
more convenient and safe to make q pin
cushion of the baby. If the baby cries,
drive the pins home by patting the child,
and if that won't do, give it paregoric.
An acre and three-tenths of land, bear
ing 1,639 vines, near San Jose, Califor-
mia, yielded this year 49, 760 pounds of
grapes-the Charboneau-from which
the most famous Burgundy wines are
made-and 5000 gallons of wine will be
made from them.
A gentleman said to his gardener
George, the time will come when q
man will be able to carry the manure of
an acre of land in one of his waistcoat
pockets" To which the gardener re-
piled "I believe it, sir but he will
be able to carry all the crop in the
other"
Corpulent old lady-"I should like
ticket for the train" Booking clerk (who
thinks he will make a joke Yes will
train 2" Lady" Well, if you are a
specimen of what I shall experience in
the passenger train, give me ticket for
the cattle train by all MEANS"
: If in your business you are grasping,
sordid, tricky, some clerk in your employ
Will be the same ten years hence, made
so by you. If you are fretful and en-
vious as woman or wife, more than one
girl will catch the fever of your con-
duct, and somewhere ahead make her
home as unhappy as you are now making
yours.