The tribune. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1875-07-14
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Items OF Interest.

Items OF Interest.
Albany, N. Y, now has double the
population of the State of New York in
Japanese law requires that when per-
son cuts down o tree he shall at once
plant another.
A pigeon roost has been discovered at
Preston, Mimi, nine miles in length and
three in breadth.
A metallic sort of marriage is one
where the brides tin is matched by the
bridegroom's brass.
English spelling match. Teacher:
"Saloon." Scholar: Hess-hay-hel
-ho-ho-hen-saloon."
1t is thousand years this year since
the first naval victory of the English was
gained by Alfred over the Danes.
At Ventura petroleum has been
struck 80 pure that adventurous per-
sons burn it in their lamps unreined.
The secretary OF the treasury will SOON
direct the payment of the final install:
ment Of $500, 900 of the Farragut prize
money.
Phil. Sheridan's bride is nearly half q
head taller than he. But he counter
balances this advantage by keeping his
hair cut short.
It is q pleasant thing to see roses and
lilies glowing upon q young lady g cheek,
but a bad sight to see mans face break
out in blossoms.
"That beet's ALL" as the man said
when he sat downto his first dinner in
the new house on moving day and found
the supply short.
It is said that the wealthiest journalist
in America is A. s. Abel. Of the BaIti-
more Sun, whose property is estimated
at from seven to ten million dollars.
A man is said to be absent-minded
when he thinks he has left his watch at
home, and takes it out OF, his pocket to
see if he has time to run home and getit.
An "honest" Indiana man, when
caught in the act ct distilling, the other
day, explained that he was Just making
little for his sick wife, merely twenty
gallons.
A Newark girl hastened the departure
of lingering gentleman caller the other
evening by remarking as she looked out
Of the window: Z" think we shall have
beautiful SUNRISE"
A Kansas City man Las written three
affecting letters announcing his suicide,
and is waiting for his father to send on
some money for funeral expenses, which
will enable him to begin life anew.
A prosecution has been begun against
Nuremburg paper for Inadvertently in
serting an advertisement apparently in
cypher, which when read backwards,
consisted of reflections on Prince Bis
marck.
A reprobate held an old shirt up by
the neck before discarding it forever,
but he wasn't mourning for the garment.
He only said /; '.I wish had all the
drinks again that have gone through that
old neck band"
An adventurous aeronaut in London
has expressed his intention of living for
q week in balloon. It will be captive,
but the ropes which confine il are to be
unusually strong, and his aerial home is
to be moored at a good height above
the earth.
Gen. Sherman assured reporter of
the Chicago Times that it was ut the
urgent personal solicitation Of George
Bancroft, combined with that of the his
torian, DIR. John Draper of New York"
that he allowed his recently-published
memoirs to see the light.
How sweet is perfect understanding
between man and wife. He was to
smoke cigars when he wanted them, but
he was to give her ten cents every timehe
induleed in one. He kept his word, and
every time she got fifty centsahead, he'd
borrow it and buy cigars. And SO they
were happy.
A young lady died in New York,
whose death ia said to have been cauaed
by having her hair bleached from black
to bright golden color, the poisonous
bleaching material, it is supposed, affect
ing the brain. The safest way is to let
nature dye the hair as she thinks best,
and bleach it in her own way, when the
proper time comes.