The tribune. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1875-08-25
Items OF Interest.

Fishermen should always take lunch
along with them, for they may not be
able to get bite during the day.
| Sister Lize sighs many sighs at the
size of the flies. Then she shies her
broom at the flies, and cries fly flies, and
they dies in agonies.
A South Carolina woman took q pair
of No. shoes because she could get
them for the same price as No. 3's, but
you hardly ever find woman as sensible
as that.
| A Southern farmer said that carpets
looked hondsome on n floor, but he
couldn't afford to hire some one to carry
carpet out doors every time he wanted
to spit.
So large were the hailstones which
fell at Damascus in a tempest which
visited that city on the LIST of June, that
three men were killed by them and eight
wounded.
A boy living at Drowned Lands, N.
Y, gave a horse paris green "just to
was gratified, as the horse lived but
short time after eating the poison.
If flirt is fool who delights in fool
ing fools, and the fool who is fooled by
such a fool is the foolishest kind of a
fool, then the girl that gets "taken in
by that foolishest kind Of fool must be
fool, indeed.
According to the United States census
reports the average value of the hay crop
for the five years up to and including
1873 amounted to $340, ,000, 900, which is
! in excess of any other product Of the soil
except corn.
The Leavenworth Kansas) people are
afflicted with flying snakes, that crawl
through tho air four feet above the
ground. They are little things, about
foot long, spotted, with fappers as large
as mans hand.
A sister of Ex-Governor Senter, of
| Tennessee, fell into q trance 80 closely
resembling death that she was prepared
for burial. Upon revival shs said she
had been with her father, who had been
dead many years.
Mr.. Cleveland, ON leaving the Con-.
necticut House after his speech on woman
suffrage, met man who said che
wouldn't vote to make man of his wife"
Mr.. Cleveland responded: ST hope
your wife will succeed in making man
of you"
A party of belated gentlemen, shout
certain hour, began to think of home
and their wives displeasure, and urged
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of the guests, " fifteen minutes can make
no difference; my wife is as mad now as
she can be-"
A woman Of indianapolis has shown
that she could be as murderously brutal
as almost any man. She pursued her
rival in love into q closet, shot her fatal
ly, and then, patting her revolver glee-
fully, exclaimed: "Oh, quiverl That's
right, die hard I enjoy this, I dol"
A South Boston lady was recently in
terrogated by Benedick as to why she
did not get married. She replied: CT
prefer to be an old maid" He said he
did not believe it, as he felt sure she
envied his wife. "Oh, no that would
be breaking the Thou
shalt not covet thy neighbor's ass"
At Dolmen the Germans pointed four
of Krupp's cannon, loaded with balls
that collectively weighed twelve hum
dred weight, against a target made Like
n section of the skin of the best English
iron clad, and the cannon were then dis
charged simultaneously by the electric
wire, and the target was annihilated.
An officer of the French army wore
his uniform about the streets of Rome
the other day, and was on the point of
being mobbed by the indignant citizens
when the police took him under their
protection. That uniform is not very
popular among the Romans, owing to
Napoleon Ills military occupation of
the city.
If men are the salt of the earth, women
are the sugar. Salt is o necessity, sugar
is luxury. Vicious men are the salt
peter hard, stern men the rock salt
nice family men the table salt. Old
maids are>the brown sugar /; good-natur-
ed matrons tine loaf sugar pretty girls
the fine pulverized white sugar. Pass
the sugar, please
A resident of Pottsville, Pa, has a
coin which has been decided to be q
Hebrew shekel of the date of 335 B. @.
1t has on one side o representation Of
Aaron's budded rod, and on the other
priests censer with incense. The same
gentleman also has an old Saxon coin,
an Elizabethan shilling of 1891 and an
English coin of 1898.
A young and newly married couple
passed along the line of the Chesapeake
and Ohio railroad, both travelling on free
passes. Some years ago the groom
granted right of way to the railroad
company through his lands on condition,
among other things, that when he
married he should have two free we'd
ding excursion tickets.
A Maine man has preserved the follow.
ing curious legal document Hancock,
IS. Novr 11th 1900. Then personally
appeared Ibrook Eddy of Eddington,
and acknowledged himself guilty of
having uttered two profane oaths on this