The tribune. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1875-09-15
Items OF Interest.

Items Of Interest.
The census of Wisconsin shows a
population of 1,207, ,S21, being an in
crease of 183, ,251 since 1870.
Precise old party Conductor, do,
pray, get on. I've an appointment -
"An right, sir Now look alive, Bill
here's a hold gent wants to meet his
young 'ooman."
An electric magnet weighing 1900
pounds was lately shipped to West
Point, N. Y, by Wallace & Sons, of An
sonia, ct. The magnet has sustaining
capacity of sixty tons.
They don't ask woman in Wisconsin
to teach school for any paltry 50 per
week. They offer her 81. 25, and If she
refuses they nail the door up and hang
up q sign of "noa skule hear"
A young American girl in Paris lately
stopped with her friends in crowd to
observe q carriage accident she had
very long hair hanging down over her
| shoulders which some thief completely
cut away.
A young man, searching for his
fathers pig, accosted an Irishman as fol-
lows "Have you seen stray pig
about here 2" To which Pat responded:
Faix, and how could tell a stray pig
from any othera"
A Scotch preacher, who not long ago
had entered into the happy state of
matrimony with maiden named Grace,
rather surprised his hearers on the en-
suing Sabbath by giving out as his text !:
"Unto me is this Grace given"
An old man living at Guelph, @. W.,
was discovered the other day by his
neighbors chainedto to the floor in o stable.
His son had pinioned him thus because
they could not agree on some question
affecting domestic management.
A very neat bit of satire is embodied
in this clipping from the Danbury Netos::
A milk pitcher, thrown by his wife at q
Nelson street man, missed the aim and
ruined handsome frame which inclosed
the words /: "God bless our home"
The whole number of convicts in the
Georgia state .penitentiary is said to DO
eight hundred, only one-tenth of whom
are white persons. Many young negroes
are constantly sent there, ranging all tho
way from ten to fourteen or fifteen years
old.
A rustic youngster being asked out to
take tea with friend, was admonished
to praise the eatables. Presently the
butter was passed to him, when he re-
marked: Every nice butter-what
there is of it," and observing asmile, he
added, "and plenty of it-such as it is"
During dense fog q Mississippi
steamboat took landing. A traveller
anxious to go ahead, came to the unper-
turbed manager of the wheel and asked
why they stopped. Too much fog
can't see the river" "But you can see
the stars overhead" eyes, replied the
urbane pilot "but until the biler busts
we ain't goin' that way" The passenger
went to bed. a.
A small image of human head carved
in stone, which was dug up in farm in
Webster township, Michigan, some years
ago, was exhibited at the Detroit meet
ing of the American Association. It ap-
pears to be made of Potsdam red sand
stone, which does not exist in nature in
that part of the country. The features
of the face are of an Egyptian cast.
A new prophet has arisen in Europe.
He is photographer. By means OF his
camera he made visible an attack of
smallpox twenty-four hours before it
came out. Although no one could as
yet observe anything on the skin of the
PaIieuI Guo ueShtlVe pihto suoWeO Sttti1b
on the face which perfectly resembled
the various exanthem, and twenty four
hours later the eruption became clearly
evident.
In Providence, r. L, o fellow called
at the house of q man who was out of
town, and told his wife that the captain
of vessel in port-a particular friend
of her husband's-had five gallons of
rare wine ON board for him, and wanted
some demijohns to put it in. His story
was 80 plausible that she went to the store
and purchased the articles for him. He
disappeared with four demijohns, and
has not been seen by her since.
Mr.. Jacob Keller, of Pittsburgh, Pa,
while dredging the Mcnongahela river,
has taken out of the mud several pieces
of skeleton which are thought by local
scholars to belong to q mammoth. A
tooth weighing ten pounds is the speci-
| men which attracts more attention than
any other. Mr.. Franklin Platt, the as
sistant geologist of Pennsylvania, is de-
eirous Of unearthing the whole skeleton,
and will probably interest himself In the
| work.
Curious Story.