Port Royal commercial and Beaufort County Republican. [volume] (Port Royal, S.C.) 1873-1874, 1874-03-26
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MANY valuable horses have died OF
lung fever in Lewiston, Me. l62
OF 9OS births in Hartford in one year,
7O2 were of Irish parentage.
The liquor dealers call the women's'
movement sugar.coated pill. ''f'
A hog has been trained for hunting u
purposes by an English gentleman. 'i7
Harvard says that "enquire is
right, and Yale says it is enquire"
eff we can't hear it amt for lack OF
ears" as the ass said to the contield.
st. Louis, with envious malice, calls
the national capital Whitewashington.
A Chinese plant which changes color
three times a day has been sent to
Paris.
The Catholics are said to be making
many converts among the natives OF
India.
Three sisters own and operate o
Maine Touring mill, and they are max
ing money.
A dog acts as mail carrier over q
twelve mile route in Minnesota, and he
is always on time.
A modern writer las defined the
"last word" to be the most dangerous
of internal machines.
Some vocalists take pride in exhibit
ing fine falsetto voice; others IN dls-
playing fine false OF teeth.
A talking man makes himself artii-
cially deaf. being like the man In the
steeple when the bell rings.
Dakota has been doing sums and
finds that she has only three-eighths OF
o white man to an acre OF land.
A newspaper in the oil regions bears
the name of the Daily Sand Pump. Its
editor should have lots Of grit.
microscopes for two" are regularly
called for with the cold ham and bo-
lognas at Cincinnati restaurants.
The funeral expenses OF men killed
in the Hoosac Tunnel, and paid by the
contractors, amounted to $4,000.
If the warfare of the papers be waged
with very small jokes, it must be re-
membered that they're only wee-puns.
One thing, said an old topper, was
never seen coming through the rye, and
that's the kind of whisky one gets,
nowadays.
A malicious person says that cotton
sheets and newspaper sheets are ailke
in the respect that great many people
lie in them.
A man in Keokuk lately dropped
dead while combing his hair, and yet
there are people who will persist IN the
dangerous habit.
The Madisonville, KY, Times gently
reminds contributors that it is not neces,,
sary to quote every other word and
italicize the rest.
A Master of tho Kentucky Grange
offers to marry members free OF charge,
thus dispensing with the services OF
clerical middle-mea.
A Cincinnati journalist has been look.
ing over the old laws OF that State, and
has found that every marriage for the
last 81 years is illegal.
Chester Pike broke his leg in Con-
cord, and was carried home. His wife
was frightened, and in running to meet
him fell over dog, breaking her arm.
A Young lady of spirit in Indiana was
so disguised with her young man for
running at the sight OF ghost that she
is making preparations to marry the
ghost.
II Won wish to live the life of a man,
and not of fungus, be social, be
brotherly, be charitable, be sympathet.
ic, and labor earnestly for the good OF
your kind.
A harness kept soft and pliable with
good neat's-foOt oil will last almost
lifetime. 1t is stronger, because
slightly elastic, and will seldom wear
off tho hair.
Your horses shoes will hold on
longer if the clinches are not weakened
by the file in finishing. Insist that the
6ie does not touch the end OF the nail
where turned over.
Tt is averred that the reason American
girls refuse TO enter domestic service IS
that they object to anything approach
ing menial employment. What they
seek is hy-menial.
The Parisian's love for black toilettes
is on the increase. For street wear
there is scarcely anything else to be
seen, and for dinner and evening parties
they are universally adopted.
It has been found possible to impart
any desired perfume to honey, by al
lowing the bees free access to the box
to be perfumed only while the flower,
the odor of which is desired, Is IN full
bloom.
One day little girl, seeing in the
last part of one Of her Christmas books,
that sequel to it would soon be pub
lished, called out to playmate, 80,
Kitty! isn't this nice? My new books
got saueel to it !!
Take everybody's advice and act upon
it. This is the way to suit everybody.
No matter about yourself. To wish to
have n mind of your own is only m
insidious form of selfshness. Boggs
has tried pleasing everybody, and he
wants others to try it, badly.
An ingenious wiic in Des Moines
cured her husband of snoring thus:
She had o gutta- -percha tube with two
cup-shaped ends, one she puts over ms
nose and mouth, and the other over MS
ear. He consumes his own noise, as
stove does its own smoke, and wakes
up instanter.
Daniel Webster once said to an as
pirinp but modest young lawyer, who