The tribune. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1875-06-02
Items OF Interest.

r. % Z Ggktsrtg
In some parts of Louisiana when
girl sets the marriage day, she counts
up her ague days SO as. to have the
marriage come on the ofaay,
Civiiiza'io slowly bus Certainly ele-
Yates the mean duration Of human life.
As nsany- live-fesr to-s seventy as lived 20
forty-three three .hundrea years ago.
According to the census of 1870 there
We're inthe ten States Of Illinois, Indiana,
Ohio, Kentucky, Missouri, Kansas, I1nt,
Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan
1,241, 780 farms. d l''i1 "'n.'', - %
|pHssNow don't be Tough, remarked
person who ihaG been arrested for
thievery the other night :" Pray don't
ssyI am a thief BE polite and call me
o canal contractor" ~. l,I b, ,re.!,.,
r. Bush; your business through the
newspapers. :. It is just as legitimate as
putting sign over your door, and far
more modest than sending out drum
mers to- worry people intoI trading with
yousnGr ~ yEm enor:b ads tEI1 f.t-i;r
: The coming insane asylum keeper to
visitor: T. g Do you mean that man with
his head bowed, his eyes cast down and
his lips movvinga Oh, yes; he was
spelled down, too; but he Keeps right on
practicing just the same; j believe his
word is ssyzygyryRS 90 dim ,5ce te 1.,aa
A.rare case,of political self-abnegation
has just occurred at Portage City, Wis.
The candidates fof aldermen we're the
editor of the village paper and the town
druggist. TheR editor 9magnanimously
voted for bis opponent, and elected him.,
the druggist getting eighty -one, s votes
IA few weeks agoa Hteie boy ylitihg in
GiIroy, California, d frank ID quantity Of
quicksilver iout lof f9awbottleiihe found
among his toys He did not suffer from.
the effects of the draught, except that he
was witt" difficulty Kept awake. The
merctiry remained I'M hiBsyst dqabout
ten days, land he riso now sas bright as
eYer.u III siGapnuo tEi:! yrst yni odj ef
If married men will attend the spelling
matches, they had better leave their
wives at home: 1t isn't comfortable to
walk home with her and shave the ~ dear
creature muttering at every step, g I'm
ashamed of your ignornnce, and 9H
you can't spell 'agitate, I'll teach yon
when I get home. No; it B dishearten9
ing. Ia S.'d ! u o.s.osaioIsw i-lsse.p
Few people are aware how near the.
Monroe doctrine came TO being enforced
by the Unitsd States In reference to the
brief, reign of Maximilian I'M Mexico.
President Grant now says that one time
General Sheriden was In readiness, and
awaiting orders, to proceed With an. army
to Mexico and !" clean out the foreign
invaders. - ssl.Ig hsn sp92s9i 80
There are fonr hundred religions r6eslisii
;onrnols in the, Tinted Statea' The
Metbod;sts have foriy-seysn t5s SIarcast
number then come the Catholic. Who
number fcrty-one !; the Baptists, thirty
five; the Al Presbyterians, twenty nine ::
the Episcopalians, twenty lone !; the
Lutherans, fourteen German Reformed,
fourteen jews, nihe, and Congrega-
tionalists, eight 's''' 60 ssi;S- : s1ss,f
Par;s has aSiI G;nn Ghn iiitsI ia y walls ais az 86s
bonses Of whicS 394 are IN course a rses Of con-
strTct;on and I647 nniphabited. The
off;c;a1 fg,,rns, sshosy t,aI fbe entire pr,opu-
Iafinm numbers 7 All 795 TrHss,s IN
hah;tants live 'inl ~ l6I 623 ho5,isessI of which
6e4 are nublic Observation-Disclosures. which
o;ve an yc, ayeraooa of tfirtv nersoiIs 10 each
5onse or ,tjsiTtyHs two If we gesr fake into
calculation the floating POPULATION,