Port Royal standard and commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1875-12-23
Items Of Interest.

The "king of the pumpkins in
France this year weighed nearly four
hundred pounds, and is the largest ever
raised in that country.
A voter, praising favorite candidate
at late election, said : "He's as fne
fellow as ever lifted hat to Lady or
boot to q blackguard."
"Mamma, can I have some beeif
asked little girl at supper table. "No,
nv dear but if you eat your bread and
milk, 20 to Sunday-school on Sunday,
and keep your apron clean, / will show
you picture of a cow"
Here ia q Mormon reason for marry
ing q GENTLE "Why, isn't ne hand
some and then he is good, and then
and then-I wanted every bit OF hlm 70
myself 4! Father didn't like it, mother
didn't like it, but l did,
Near Mount Vernon, H., aman named
Jackson got up befo: Q daybreak, and
accidentally stepped Oh the chest OF his
ifteen-year-old daught n, who was sleep
ing on the floor. His weight being two
hundred and twenty pounds, he crushed
in her chest and killed her almost IN
stantly.
During the late fire at Virginia City,
New, all the rats in the Ophir and Cen
solidated Virginia mines were killed 6y
gas. The rats are the scavengers OF the
mines, eating up the refuse food lett oy
the miners, and their disappearance
from the mines is therefore q mlsfor-
tune.
Our Dan remarked to his wife one
evening, as he left home for the Office:
"IIl be back by ten o'clock il ! don't
meet with any serious pull back. 1t
won't be well for you to meet any pull
backs, Daniel, serious or smiling, II
know of it, said his better hal, In tones
which indicated that she meant it.
A Chinese philosopher rejoicing IL
the expressive, and, if truthful appel,
lation, the valuable name Of "Tin,
SAYS "There was place set apart In
heaven for good wives who could Judge
| q wicked thing as harshly when a man
did it as when woman did it. But II
has never been occupi, d, 1 believe.
There is q rector in England who,
after his establishment in parish,
preached the same sermon to his congre-
cation Sunday after Sunday-avery good
| sermon, but always the same. At last
the farmers sent deputation to request
a change. every well, said the rector,
"but now let any one of you tell me all
about that sermon" Not q person
could give an account. "Then, re-
sumed the clergyman, "Iu continue
to preach it till I'm sure you all know
what it contains"
A bold and ingenious swindler IN Ohio
collected about $500 by the following
process: He made the acquaintance OF
a dealer in fruit trees under the pretense
of wanting employment, and, having
learned that large number OF trees had
been shipped to certain point to be de.
ivered in the neighboriEg country, he
went to the place, paid the freight on
the trees and delivered them according
to the address marked on the several
packages. collected the price and dis
appeared.
Captain J. G. Symmes, United States
navy, fifty years ago believed tn + the
earth is hollow, and that it is ha5itsble
within as well as without. Symmes
thought there were openingsat the poles;
and Count Romanoff offered to help him
with money in investigating the theory.
Symmes patriotically declined to serve
Russia. A vessel, according to the
theory, would sail into pole, without
apparent change of course, except from
the hiding of certain stars or o change OF
horizon. The main fact upon which the
theory depends is the warm air and tenn
perate fora that float southwark from
the north pole.