The tribune. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1875-04-28
items OF Interest.

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The Smithsonian Institute has eight
Alaska mummies, taken from cave on
one of the Aleutian Islands.
The bad boys don't all escape punish
ment. There are more than 221, 900
schoolteachers in the United States.
A mother asked her little daughter to
do something, and the daughters reply
was: GA general tiredness pervades
me-"
There is to be foot race at Dayton,
Ohio, shortly, between o gentleman of
eighty and lady of eighty-one. Frisky
childrenl
The editor of the Manchester Union
concludes his first letter from Florida:
Yours, truly, in slippers and shirt
sleeves s a-
The fashionable thing now in cards
for an evening reception is to have the
words On spellera" printed on the left
hand corner.
If you are thinking Of offering your
hand to lady, and fear she won't accept
it, as good q time as any is when she is
getting ont of a wagon. 3.3
Here is little conundrum for strikers:
If, as they claim, they cannot live on the
reduced wages offered by employers, how
is it that they live without any wuges at
all? asaF aH
A house and barn of Calvin B. Ray, of
Bristol, N. H., were set on fire by
matches, with which the little son of the
owner was playing. The lad perished in
the flames.
It is not pleasant spectacle to see IN
able-bodied young man shielding store
box from the suns rays, when good
horse can be purchased for $1.50. We
mean a saw-horse.
A member of the Illinois Legislature
has introduced a bill providing that any
person asking another to drink any in
toxicating liquor shall be fined not less
than $40 and not more than 500.
The Saturday Reutetcis of the opinion
that there is no better sign Of the pros
perity Of the world than the liberal in
comes now allowed by the authors OF
novels to their heroes and heroines.
A bee tree, discovered in Schuyler
county, N. Y, o short time since, yielded
one hundred and eighty-six pounds of
solid honey and seventeen pounds of
comb and honey. ."' '-t- 81
The population of Denmark and her
possessions in 1874 was 2, ,0O3, 200, an in
crease since 1870 of not quite 100, 900.
Of this number 1854 600 belong TO
Denmark, II 100 to Iceland, 37,700 to
the Danish Antilles, and $500 to Green
land. ,.. -. ..-,. ...ra
The kind of woman that par
ticularly abhor," says an old bachelor,
"is the one with spirit of disputation
in her soul, who picks me up on the
point of sharp sentence as though 1
were dropped stitch in her knitting
work.
A man out West named Jack Begar
has been sentenced to twenty years i'm
prisonment and fine of one hundred
dollars. He has right to put u the
plea that since time is money the State
will owe him some change Shen he
comes out.
A young woman in Macoupin county,
ILL.,, recently sawed cord of wood in
los minutes, cutting each stick twice.
Pretty and not quite eighteen, she per
formed this feat because her mother told
her that she was good for nothing but to
read novels.
A girl screamed in q lecture audience
in Lafayette, Oregon. Then all the
other girls screamed. General consterna-
tion ensued, and rush for the doors.
the room at length emptied. The first
screamer had seen rat.
A destitute woman in the suburbs,
being asked by benevolent visitor what
she needed, said she didn't want to put
anybedy out, or be thought to be COM
plaiaing disposition, but if it was not
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box in the post-office.
The citizens of quiet Texas town
are somewhat agitated over the discovery
that the $500 which few of them re-
Gently won from q countryman at
friendly little game of "bunko" had
been intrusted to the loser for the pur-
chase Of lumber for church.
Miss Lucy Osborn lost her scalp by
accident some months ago, in New Mil
ford, Conn. Since then over one hundred
pieces of skin taken from her body have
been grated on her head, but very few
of theh have retained their vitality, and
Miss Osborne's head is In an unsatisfac-
tory condition.
The King of Sweden has transmitted
to the Riksdag proposition, asking for
400, 900 Swedish kronor, or about $780,
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that country at the exhibition in Phila-
delphia next year. Last year the Riks-
dag ordered about $40, 600 to be paid out
for the same purpose.
The Rev. Henry Coggswell, former
Royal Arch Mason and lecturer in the
order, has renounced and denounced
Freemasonry. At nm anti Masonic con-
vention in Mansfield, Ohio, he read q
formal recantation of all the oaths of
secrecy which he had taken. He said