The tribune. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1875-09-08
Items OF Interest.

Items Of Interest.
To prevent short weight in coal-Put
more in the cart.
It doesn't take long for a man with q
little mind to make it up.
The aggregate population of the earth,
is now set at ], ,391 ,O32, 900.
They say that the widowers are the
jolliest looking men at Saratoga,
Benjamin Franklin said he could tell
a nice woman by the way she kneaded
dough.
An Indiana newspaper mildly but firm
ly protests against putting O two dollar
collar on twenty-five cent dog. d"
France keeps ship of war at Ajaccio
constantly at the order of the Pope, in
case he should desire to leave Rome.
The 1,150 Mormon recruits lately
passing through Chicago are described
as dirty, ragged, and mostly middle-aged
men and homely women.
The man who made strawberry short
cake In Chicago restaurant was 30 un-
equaled in his business that he received q
salary of $3.50 per week during the sea-
| son.
A father has fled notice upder the
Adair law with the clerk of Chillicothe,
Ohio, warning saloon keepers not to sell
intoxicating liquors to his daughter and
two sons.
According to the Inter- Ocean there
are $4,000 young men in Chicago who
can't afford to marry. And we've no
doubt that %, 900 young women are all
the happier on that account.
Late advices from the Sandwich
islands state that whisky, opium and
concubinage are carrying off the popu-
lation 80 rapidly that natives will be few
and far between in q short time.
There is centennial bed rope. Chas.
Crossman, of Brunswick, Me-, has it. It
is made of whales sinews, and has never
been-taken out of the bedstead since it
was first set up, hundred years ago.
"A migratory sheep raiser in Beatrice,
Neb., has flock of eight hundred sheep.
His home is on wheels, and with his
family he moves from place to place,
wherever he can find good grazing lands.
There's $500 of hard-earned money
in that dress" said Smith, as he watch
ed Mrs. 8. mincing along, before hinf.
"Which explains" ," remarked his friend,
why money is so tight. Smith wept.
Mrs. Joseph Custer of Worcester.
Penn, stung by a bee, died few days
after, her arm swelling to the shoulder,
and yellowish liquid being discharged
from it in several places where it broke
out. s&si
The suggestion of fear that Stanley
may have been caught and eaten
by cannibal, provokes from, the Louis
vile Cou1ier-Jou,7aal the response that
nobody cares what happensto canni-
bal"
The loss by destruction of crops
through the recent foods and rains in
the United States will amount to about
the same as the loss by the Chicago fire
in round numbers, two hundred millions
! of dollars.
The Milwaukee circuit court has done
something of which it may we'll be proud,
having cheerfully consented to change
the name of MIR. Charles Ignatius Sye-
lyepanklieweez, Of that city, to Charles
Ignatius Engel.
The United States Centennial COM
mittee has resolved to refuse space to
private exhibitors whose governments,
like those of Russia and Italy, have de-
cGned to take official recognition of the
international exhibition.
Another instance of the decline of
British justice is found in the fate of an
Englishman who recently appropriated
another mans umbrella on q rainy day,
and has, since been sentenced to three
months imprisonment by London
magistrate. st
There are over 2,70O varieties of
apples known by over ], 800 names, 1900
of pears, 200 of cherries, $50 of plums,
300 of our native grapes, fifty of currants,
eighty of raspberries, and thirty of
blackberries, according to q counting up
of somebody.
Better put on your overcoat," she
said, as he was starting for down town,
"it will surely rain before night" "Not
a bit, my dear" But look at those driv-
ing clouds !'' "Oh, pshaw, that's only
flying scud." =" Very WE'LL" she rejoin-
ed, but you'll find it will be sky.ing
flood before dark"
| Twenty six yearsago when a Bohemian
Jew wished to stop at the mining town
of Prizbram, in Bohemia, he could stop
for two hours only. He could not stay
longer without obtaining official permis.
sion. At present there is in the town
well conducted jewish congregation,
which has the good will of the christian
residents.