The tribune. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1875-01-13
Items Of Interest.

a CmcaSO pumping nrm advertl5es
" lead sinks" As If everybody didn't
know that.
Turkeys who survived the holidays
appointed january 2d, 1875, as q day of
Thanksgiving.
They do say that the entire crop Of
mustard this year wouldn't make the
Kentucky Library draw when it agreed
to.
A young Lady says she longs for fingers
like the prongs of n pitchfork, with dia-
mond rings enough to fill them to the
ends.
A Richmond paper has n plan for keep
ing party in power. The party is to
give every girl in the land o sewing ma
chine and a feller.
a strong effort to have the next college
regatta at New London, Conn, Will be
made ut the meeting of the College Boat
ing Association in Hartford.
If there is one thing more than an
other that will thoroughly exasperate a
man, it is breaking n straw off when
cleaning out dirty pipe-stem.
An impertinent fellow wants to know
if you ever SIT down to tea where
skinned milk was on the table without
being asked EDO you take the cream 2"
1t is the thing to import &c indoor
men," and people who come back from
Europe bring, with the rest of their
fixings," German or italian Major
domo."
It is stated that of the $50, 900, 900 tons
of coal annually dug from the bowels of
the earth, Great Britain produces one
half. Germany and the United State
one-sixth each.
The question for discussion at recent
meeting of scientists was (Which
travels faster, heat or cold2" 1t was de-
cided i'll favor of heat, as many present
had often been able to catch cold.
OF course, a woman doesn't want her
plants to freeze, but still one can't
blame q man for raising q row when
he hops out of bed in the morning and
finds geranium plant in each trousers
leg.
It's truly astonishing how the papers,
while they persist IN charging u man a
dollaran inch for advertising when living,
cheerfuily give up whole column Of
space for nothing, when his obituary
comes along.
Mrs. Eshelman. of Shillington, Pa.
will arrest the fellow who poured coal oil
in her well if she can find him out. The
trick made her think she had really
" struck oil. and the disapp ppointment is
aggravating: s 'ssss:
"Madame take this hundred pound
bill Use it freely and never say that /
suffer your purse to be empty of pocket
money" said an attentive spouse in
public, but added, soto uoce, "if you
spend penny of it I'll kill you"
President Lincoln, sitting at the foun-
tain-head of official patronage, used to
say that it sometimes seemed to his dis
couraged mind that seven-eighths of the
people of the United States were trying
to live at the expense of the other eighth.
The sheriff of Cuyahoga county, Ohio,
lately had the disagreeable duty to per-
form of conveying to the penitentiary ON
three years sentence q repeater"
whose offense consisted In having voted
three times for the very official who was
conducting him to prison.
Building i'll Italy would seem to be q
peculiarly dangerous occupation. A new
Office is being erected in Rome for the
Ministry of Finance. The other day q
workman fell from the scaffolding and
was killed, making the hundredth victim
of accidents upon the same building.
A correspondent of Cincinnati
paper writes from Circleville, Ohio: st
have read with some degree of interest
Circleville telegram in the Cincinnati
press of to-day, reporting me in dying
from my own knowledge of the matter,
1 hereby certify that do not believe the
report to be true"
The Denver Ne,0s records this Incl
dent: A man was about dying in this
- ~lo f.<lL
lowing telegram to his wife, who was in
Come quick" She cooIly replied:
"Can't go now. If he dies, hand him
over to the Masons, he's one of them.
The man died. The wife hasn't bsen
heard from since.
A farmer, famous for his hogs, was
asked what was the secret of his success.
He answered {: " 1 always choose good
natured pig. Those that when they eat
are constantly running from one trough
to another, and knocking their snopts
against the next pig, / sell to my neigh
bors, who don't know better than to buy
such troublesome animals, while my con-
tented pigs get fat"
The Troy Times relates this ga
young lady in a neighboring village co
cepted an invitation from young gem
tleman to ride, and when the gentleman
came with his horse and buggy, the hdy
found it impossible to get in, so closely
had she adhered to the prevailing fash
ion Of drawing her dress tightly about
her. She asked to be excused, and go-
ing into the house, let out two or three
reefs in her dress. when she was enabled
to get into the buggy"
An accident has occurred on the Great
st. Bernard in Switzerland. Eight