The tribune. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1875-10-27
Items Of Interest. ?

What men going down want-checks.
Headache is the name Of 9 Post-ofice
in Michigan. W ''Hr 721iR 10 iH'
I ! A BARRIERS epitaph He dyed and
made no sign.s F." -is g'1.als p-t:
Contentment is saidito be better than
riches, but the latter is good enough for
ye writer. ,..,,-.,..-i -, o,-tor;,,,,.-,
Ham is the name Of boy arrested in
go together. r'"'-' AK '7.,h'"s $500
If young ladies wish q get stout. they
should eat their food slowly. Haste
does not make waist in such hjoases.
First4class Chinese hotels have raised
the price of board to.twenty-eight cents
per day, and tourists should make their
arrangements accordingly. "'s''
Many woman who is too feeble to
peel O dozen potatoes for dinner will
walk four miles past rivals house to
display O new, dress, and ,prance back
home like three year-old flly.,
A shopkeeper in England calls him
self "boxing ssglove maker to her
majesty" It is only o. few years since
| an old Edinburgh sign wasfaken down
Breeches- maker TO her majesty
Two antique chairs, one formerly in
the possession Of Louis XVI, and the
other brought from Venice in Tie seyen-
teenth century, y,s;were sold at Boston o
few days ago, the formerifor S13s60 and
the l,.e.lLaat, latter for $17, ,69,,,,a .,.,..r,..
A panther rushed into a bedroom in
house a few miles from Willis, Tex,
and carried OF d baby In his mouth, but
the twelHe-yearsold SISTER followed and
screamed so Justify .thatIa the Iobrute
dropped the youngster yonly only slightly in
IA slab Of quartz rock " Was Fqss Recently
shipped from the Greene mine, Nevada,
containing more: than two square feet,
through which there was streak about
four inches wide that was nearly, or quite
one-half gold. The piece was estimated
to be worth at least 81, 500. j ~ -
A serious case of poisoning has oc-
CURED in Sheffield, Canada. A tin of
Nova Scotia Holsters was opened on
Saturday night, but they were not eaten
until Monday night. The PERSONS who
ate of it-Joseph Butler, aicutlsr,, and
six members of his family--allf shortly
afterward became very III, and three of
them are in critical condition,
The Sturgeon Bay wis Expositor
says: A. J. Biblsy has Hgged him a
boat with sails, &.eaaed it over FORWARD,
with comfortable quartersfo family,
and is about to start for Florida, or some
other place. He is going to Green Bay
up the Fox river and the canal to the
| Wisconsin river, down the Mississippi
river. and through the Gulf Of Mexico to
= sci 10 1uiBpesoIq sd; ~ l.
"A st. Louis doctor wrote o sprescrip-
tion for Lady who was slightly i'll, call
ing for ga syphon Of cafboiic acid,"
meaninga large syphona bottle Of soda
water. The Intelligent druggist con
strued " carbolicy acid TO mean car
Latin for "two' ounces, and, acting on
his conviction, burned O hole In the
PATIENTS stomach. >; .ig sn4ssi
The smallest Bible il, the world, just
produced by the Oxford Uniyersity
Press, is printed on q tough India paper
of extreme thinness and opacity, fneas-
ures four and onelhalf inches by two and
one-fourth. inches, is one, and one-half
inches thick, and weighs, bound in limp
morocco, less than three and one-hnif
ounces. It can be sent through the
British post for penny.
The editor Of the Alabama State Jour
nal is now Sam Bard and he wnnts il
eahNkO1cCSou buuo pupoE VIII 6ttlHtb uO
long contribution whatever, and g per-
sonally abusive articles will be charged
at the rate of 800 per line. ~ He states
that he "has been connected with Jour
nalism, directly rand indirectly, since
1916, and has learned at last what not to
put in the columns Of newspaper.
The girl who sold wax Aowsrs at Long
Branch, and was ever searching for her
=" long lost father, like the unfo fortunate
female In the play, has found him ,atilast
through the kindness of "a gentleman at
one Of the hotels, who escorted her 60
the depot, where the " long lost father I"
stood waiting to receive % her stamps.n
The game, although very, Transparent,
deceived great many charitable, people.
A new swindle In s-being played in the
central part of the States qkwell dressed
man stops at q farmhouse and engages
accommodation for a drove of sheep and
man who drives them. The sheep and
drivers are to come along the next day.
The pretended agent stops over night,
has the best the house affords, and slips
of the next morning without paying his
bill. The sheep and drivers never APP
pear, Of course. '''' 'i'' stsWss s9si'
1t is claimed for 'the Dorninion of
Canada that it ranks thirdA.at lowest,
fourth-in importance among the ship
owning countries Of the, world. The
list OF vessels exhibit total Of $50,
measuring !, ,258, 1858 tons. or these 63l
are steamers, 236 ships, 646 barks,
twenty-five barkentines, sixty two brigss
642 brigantines, 3,78b schooncrs. and
j, 100 smaller vessels. Four hundred
and ninety-six new vessels, measuring
l9o'76s tons, were built in 1874