The tribune. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1875-09-22
Items OF Interest.

SlouS lS peHlnu SzOO,OVV 1or tue year
closing August 81.
There has not been any one hanged in
Iowa for great many years, and there
is complaint about it.
Eastern Switzerland is afflicted with
the locust plague, and nearly all the
grain has been destroyed.
In the two hundred and twenty-five
churches in Brooklyn, N. Y, S17O, $50 is
paid annually for music.
Because two persons are of the one
mind it does not follow that they have
not brains enough for two heads.
1t is estimated that during the last six
months over sc, 103 persons in the United
States have been killed by violence.
"Walkin & Scar " is the firm name of
two female partners in the skirt-makine
business at Chicago, and people do.
A man in Paris has pair of spectacles
In his stomach. He got them there in
an effort to produce vomiting by pokine
them down his throat.
| They are trying to acclimate the FIori-
da cedar tree in Germany, as it furnishes
the only kind of wood suitable for the
manufacture of lead pencils. s.
The Presbyterian Church in the Unit
ed States has thirty-six synods, 4,7O6
ministers, 506, ,O34 communicates, and
520, 452 Sunday school children.
There will be q great gathering of
grangers at Louisville, KY, Oct. 1.
The national and State executive com
mittee and all the purchasing agents
will be present.
An accommodating man Buges-
Hello, IEpe, moving7" Tripe-"Yes."
Buggs-"What for Z" Triple" Well.
times are little hard, and am moving
to please my landlady."
A Milwaukee man made three at
tempts to blow his brains out, and then
his wife told him "Don't try it again
John !; you haven't got any" He goes
about now saying that he owes his life to
that woman.
And again the watering place hotel
keeper lights big fires in his parlors,
puts on his overcoat and promenades
his vacant corridors, even wishing that
he were dead. But the coal dealer
saith "Ahal"
Lead and silver have been found at
Haverhill, Mass. on the farm where the
poet Whittier was born, and shaft
twenty feet deep has been sunk, from
which ore equal to that found at New
bury has been taken. 80 4tsl
It is singular coincidence that the
examination 0f the unearthed remains
of Aztec villages in Arizona and the
mounds in the Grand Traverse region of
Michigan reveal large quantities of char
coal in close proximity to human bones.
Since the year 1900 England has
waged forty nine wars France, thirty
eight; Russia, twenty-five; Austria,
twelve Prussia, eight ; and in spite of
all the peace societies and international
conventions they all appear anxious for
another.
Respect old age. If you have maid
en- aunt thirty three years old, and she
is passing herself off for girl of nine
teen, there is no excuse for you to ex-
pose her. The more you respect her
age and keep still about it, the more
she will respect you.
Danbury has the champion patient
boy. He comes from q chronically bor-
rowing family. The other day he went
to neighbor's for cup of sour milk.
"I haven't anything but sweet milk"
said the woman, pettishly. "Tn wait
till it sours," said the obliging youth,
sinking into chair.
The recent discovery of extensive coal
deposits in California will add much
to the prosperity of the State in more
ways than one. Last year the sum Of
$40, ,00O,0 900 was paid for iron, which
cest half as much more for transporta-
tion from Eastern and foreign factories.
The following notice from the, war
Office appeared in the London Gazette
=" Half pay - Lieutenant Colonel and
Brevet- Colonel Valentine Baker, half
pay, late Tenth Hussars, has been re-
moved from the army, her majesty hav-
ing no further occasion for his services.
Dated August, 1873. - ti'R
The Sultan of Zanzibar showed him
self generally very smart chap to the
Europeans. He didn't wear any stars,
and garters, and crosses, and medals of
his own, nor would he accept of any, as
the wearing of such gewgaws is con-
trary to the customs of his country, per-
haps because, as the evening and morn
ing dress of his subjects is simple naked
ness, they would have to cut buttonholes
in their skins to adopt such fashion.
A chicken died in Auburn, Illinois
1t belonged to Mr.. Ney or Mr.. Loch
ridge, whose yards adjoined, but to
which could not be determined. They
quarreled about it, and tossed the car
cass back and forth to each other over
the intervening fence. Then Ney shot
at Lochridge without hitting him.
Then Lochridge seized club and
chased Ney. In the fight that ensued
the revolver and the club were both used
freely, and Ney was killed.
A Chicago man accidentally struck his
gas meter with q baseball club, and as a
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