Port Royal commercial and Beaufort County Republican. [volume] (Port Royal, S.C.) 1873-1874, 1874-03-05
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Facts and Fancies.

hanged for cowardice.
Is the chiropodist's work always com
plete because it IN toto
Druggists are not insppropriasely
termed the "pillers" Of society. fpa
Some one has discovered that . spoil
ed child is one who plays with kero-
sene. .i-,-...
McCarty, the Virginia duelist, helped
his case by coming into court on
Take care Of your health and wife {;
thew are the two better halves that make
aman Of you.
Here is the newest floral sentiment:
"N you wish for hearts ease, don't
:. look to mari.gold. hsd
That man is bore who persists in
talking about himself when you wish
to talk about yourself. -.
Dio Lewis says that people who use
tobacco lose their buoyant spirits and
become moody and peevish. ~ s
A legal stone weighs fourteen pounds,
or the eighth OF hundred, in England,
and sixteen pounds in Holland.
At the great fire in Yeddo, japan, in
December, one merchant lost 1O0,Oo0
bales of silk, valued at 81, 500, 600.
A grand Interstate exhibition for
Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Illinois VIII
be held at Dubuque In September
next.
Tt Ia affirmed that heating the water
in which steel is to be tempered pre-
vents the development OF faws and
cracks.
"How the o. P. has prevented the
K. P, from discharging its obligatlons
to the q. g." is the headline In q Kan
sas paper. a.; t!G -
Five women and yoke Of oxen pro-
duced seven bales Of cotton. and grain
enough for home consumption and To
sell, on o South Carolina plantation
last year. @ 4.s
One cause Of coal-oil lamp explosions
ia said TO be using too small wicks, by
which space is left at the edges for
the communication Of explosive ele'
ments.
The entire root Of o very large tree
was found in aperfect state OF preser-
yation in an Indiana coal mine, few
days since, at great depth below the
surface.
Senator Sur.ner says: "There seems
TO me nothing in this wide world,
either above or below It, that the 40.
complished newspaper man WIN NOT
find out.
A Dubuque young lady gave up the
man she loved. and took the one her
parents favored In consideration OF the
sum OF three dollars and sky.blue
merino dress.
Old Curmudgeon, who has always
hated the small boy, expresses his graft
fication at the mildness Of the winter.
he expects much from the thinness OF
the ice this year.
The whaling business is rapidly be-
coming extinct in this country. The
entire whaling feet OF the country
numbers but I'll vessels, 80 vessels
having been taken off during the year.
According to the official account on
exports, the value Of telegraphic wires
and apparatus forwarded from the Uni
ted Kingdom last year had increased TO
Q, ,359, ,663l. from only 405, ,31st. in the
previous year.
The cranberry growers of New Jersey
have sent Queen Victoria two barrels
of cranberries to eat with her turkey
and venison, providing her also with
recipe for cooking and serving them In
American style.
Anew Orleans paper boasts that their
CITY can produce TO the square yard
more Young men who part their hair in
the middle, wear canes, and daily ar
themselves in front OF bar rooms, tnan
most cities Of its size.
Cod.liver oil has been used with sue.
cess for fattening poultry by an e1ten:
siye owner of feathered stock in one OF
the CITY suburbs. The grain given TO
the chickens is soaked in the oil, and
the chickens like it
The Providence Press tells of'a mar
ried couple who were passing o jewelry
store the other day. Her attention was
attracted by perfectly lovely pair
of earrings. Said she: ooh Ned, 60
buy 'em r'. And Ned went by 'em.
A young German Prince, the cousin
OF Prince Louis OF Hesse, recently
lunched with Queen Victoria at Os
borne. He is in the German naval SER
vice, and is a suitor for the hand OF the
Princess Beatrice, and, it Is said, suc'
cessful one.
The House Committee on Invalid
Pensions has appointed o sub-commit-
tee of Ave to consider the question OF
giving pensions to the soldiers OF the
Nerican war. It is believed the COM
mittee will report such bill with great
unanimity.
The Methuselah Of horses is still liv-
ing, hearty, fat and active, in South
Durham, Vermont. he is the property
of Mrs. Pinkham, and in his forty
second year. Every fair Sunday he
NAV be seen on his way to church-an
example to all old horses.
II is now said that many OF the Maine
logging teams are making failure, the
present winter, in consequence OF no
frost in the ground and no snow in the
woods. tits thought that there will be
a very small amount OF timber got this
winter.
The Director General Of the Centen-
pial EXPOSITION declares that he has
been, asked by eight newspaper CORE
spondants in Washington for money iof
their influence with Congress in iaVor
of an appropriation.
The yarnish applied to tea chests by
the Chinese is made Of freshiy-drawn
G5 !. I;ttIa aluun. and four parts OF