The tribune. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1875-02-17
Items Of Interest.

nine members OF the COVln&tOn (hy.)
| City Council.
There is nothing more hazardous than
to be bothering an irritable woman with
folsh questions on wash day.
The population of Louisiana, accord
ing to the last census, numbered 3O4, ,450
whites and 463,06 blacks, colered
majority of 61,617.
One OF the curiosities to be found at
Hot Springs, Arkansas, is blind dog
which leads its blind master safely about
in his peregrinations through the valley.
The obituary notice of much respect
ed Lady concludes with" In her life
she was pattern worthy to be followed;
and her death oh, how consoling to her
| friends.
Friendship is a good deal like china.
1t is very beautiful and durable as long
as it is quite whole but break it, and all
the cement in the world will never quite
repair the damage.
An experienced papa, speaking of a
youthful baby, says: "Its mouth when
shut ant bigger than worm kole in
hickory nut; but it is generally open,
and as big as stove-pipe hole"
The praying women's temperance
union Of Worcester, Mass, furnish the
firemen of that city with hot coffee at
every fire, the aim being to forestan the
demand for intoxicating beverages.
Twelve States have adopted compul-
sory education laws New Hampshire,
Vermont, Massachusetts,, Kentucky,
Rhode Island, New Jersey, Michigan,
Kansas, Texas, Nevada, California, and
New York.
Gen. NJ. L. Smith, whose sudden
death has been announced, is said to
have had his life insured for nearly $780,
600, and Just before leaving Washington
for New York took out sc, COO accident
policy.
If every one were to begin the new
year with resolve to do as we'll as he
knew how until it ended, and accomplish
only half Of that purpose, what large
advance in the direction of the millennium
1875 might witness.
Women have q great respect for old
age. Watch young Lady seated In D
street car between young gentlennan
and an elderly one, and see how detAr-
by crowding against him. "
"The child has since died." is the
laconic remark which q paper affixes to
an account of twelve-year- girl who
had already mastered logic, rhetoric,
geology, botany. and the mysteries of
mental and moral science.
The present system OF penal servitude
for women in England is one of solitary
confinement, and it is asserted that not
one woman in twenty undergoes i'm
prisonment Of over q years duration
without showing signs Of temporary in
sanity.
At Trevoux, IN France, n farmers boy
killed two young owls in a nest near the
house, and the old owls watched around
for several nights, till or the fifth night
an old male owl struck the same boy in
the face and put one of his talons in the
boys left eye.
A popular clergyman says it is inter
esting to observe how many people go to
the circus "just to please the children"
and very curious to notice that some
times it takes several able-bodied men
and motherly women to look after one
little boy or girl on such an occasion.
A Western poterfamiiias, who has
raised two families, has discovered that
children grow more between january
and July than in the other half of the
year. His theory is that the growth Of
humanity is governed by thu same laws
which prevail over the vegetable king
dom.
eyes, I like these short days." said
old Truepenny, the other morning, join
ing in the discussion; "the interest
counts up so fast. Why, when 1 come
into my place mornings, and get ont my
securities, 1 can fairly hear them draw
interest, right through the side of the
box"
A New York life insurance company,
in a recent publication giving list of
gentleman who hold policies on their
lives, puts down Alexander Il. Stewart as
insured for 100000. This pm. ,Ar is
authorized to state that theirs is and
never has been any insurance VIII rar
ON Mr.. Stewards life.
A party OF Juvenile fiends out in Mis-
souri tied an unpopular schoolmatn to
the railroad track, where the life was
crushed out of him by q passing train.
These young villains, when grown up,
will probably black their faces asd assist
in the administration of the laws accord
ing to the code of Judge LypcA.
The committee of relief for the
famine stricken people of Asia Minor
urgently request the English and Ameri-
can press to let it be known that their
funds are exhausted, while the distress
10 ,,,,aooinr fN1.a. ot,ta that II will l,sa