The tribune. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1875-09-01
Items OF Interest.

The scale Of good breeding-B natu-
raj.
A fiery charger-A summer hotel
keeper.
It is reported that several horses were
recently made deaf by lightning at Lam
caster, Pa.
Chicago people drank $4,000, 900
glasses of lager beer during the year
| ended August LIST.
The hay crop of Connecticut will
amount to 5S7, 900 tons, worth $7,000,-
600 or $8,000,O00.
A man is 1850 times as large as SOM
mon honey bee, and yet it is useless to
try to argue the matter with the bee.
An exchange pathetically sings:
"'Tis sweet to wait, but, oh how bitter =,
To wait for girl and then not git 'er." 81
A woman sixty years old was recently
convicted ofmurder in the midland circuit
in England for killing her husband, aged
ninety-nine.
A man has just been before the mag
istrates in Stafford, England, 5l charges
of drunkenness, having already appear
ed 172 times.
In Meriden, Conn, recently, two base
ball players, running for the same ball,
bumped heads 80 hard that one of them
got brain fever.
The gentle citizens of De Soto, Mo-,
have passed resolutions declaring that
they will hereafter hang every horse
thief they can lay their hands on.
"Puts" and I" calls" may be proper
ly defined thus You put your money in
the hands of broker for the purpose of
speculation and call for the profits in
vain.
The fiddler Of q minstrel company ran
away the other day In debt to the mana
ger, who declared that he had engaged
the fellow for fiddler, but he had tahh-
en- the part of base violinist.
Did you ever meet Alonzo Brown of
Virginia If you never did you never
will. He was found out West, hanging
to a limb, the other day, and paper
to his coat read 4" He stole hams"
So great is the rapacity of sunfish,
bass, and pickerel in Lake George that
of the 10000 or 80, 900 trout placed in
these waters by Seth Green, scarcely one
in thousand will come to maturity.
AJoung man in Lancaster Pss,. sent a
dollar to firm in New York who adver-
tised receipt to prevent bad dreams.
He received small slip of paper, on
which was printed: ''Dont go to sleep"
A suffering wife has come to the con-
clusion that it is easier for a man to
tramp all day through swamp with q
double-barreled shotgun on his shoulder
than to bring in the kndlings or put up
clothes line.
An awful fate has overtaken q Texas
lawyer. The Bonham Enterprise says
Joe Dupree made his first speech recent
ly, assisting Capt. Sims in the prosecu-
ton of Alex. Rodgers. The jury senten-
ced him to be hanged.
New Jersey is the State for low taxes.
debt is only $500, 900, and her remain
ing war debt is only %, 500, 800. The
excess of receipts over expenditures last
year was $299, ,817.27.
It is noticed, bat not explainable, that
the party who manipulates the s' boss
fiddle in an orchestra is inveriably
bald-headed, and that If the big drum in
band is very big drum, it is always
pounded by short, fat man.
A. r. Hack, of Baltimore, stopped at
niagara Falls last week, but every time
he went on the streets he met 80 many
friends who kept calling, Hack, Hack
here you are, Hack II although he could
not recognize soul of them. He stood
it for one day, and left for Rochester.
The Freemasons Of Iowa are very
much exercised over O recent decision Of
the grand master that dancing in the
lodge rooms Is inconsistent with the
good of the craft. Two subordinate off,
GERS have been deprived of their posi-
tions for acting in violation of the de-
cision.
DIR. Barrett, of Middletown, Conn,
thinks he has discovered the cause of
hay fever in the pollen OF the ambrosia
plant, which natures about August, and,
carried about by the wind, causes irrita-
ton of the nasal passages and says
that 4he way to escape the disease is TO
60 to some town where this plant is
not found.
A newly arrived family was lately gag
ing at shop window in Rockport, Ill.
Little girl-"Oh, mammal is that emf"
Mamma" No. my child, that is
howl" Father" No, my wife aud
daughter, that ia neither EN- or howl,
but 1t is beagle, the hemblem Of this
blarsted country I"
At Meriden reform school the other
day boy who had been called up for
chastisement began to run around the
room instead, the instructor in full chase
with ferrule, Finding that he could
not catch him, he ordered several large
boys to seize the fugitive, which they no
sooner did than they were set upon by
the rest of the school, and O free fight
ensued that was only quieted by the ar
rival of an officer.