The tribune. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1875-06-16
Items Of Interest.

it sometimes takes to spoil a good girl.
The Kansas grasshoppers are pleased
with the quality of this springs early
cabbages.
The Oneida community have stocked
Community lake in Wallngford, Conn.,,
with 80, 900 salmon trout.
A slow man can run in debt but,
naturally enough, the feat is oftener ac-
complished by "fast" men,.
Wheat crops in Great Britain during
average twenty-nine and q half bushels
per acre.
1t Injuries lead pencil to wet: the
point in the mouth, and there is in the
act no benefit to the mouth that we
| know of.
Traveller Ito landlord) )-"Show me a
room with good fire in it, for am
very wet and send me tankard of ale,
for I'm very dry"
The superintendent of Cincinnati in
firmary recommends placing can of
nitro-glycerine in the graves around
Ann Arbor and Chicago.
Sallie Morris, pretty Newark girl, is
a "mind reader" She said to bashful
beau the other night: " Why, believe
you are going to kiss me-" She was
correct.
A correspondent of the New York
| Tribune thinks that If we do not begin
soon to treat the Indians more justly
Almighty God will snite us with some
thing worse than locusts.
A Cleveland woman recently married
q Chinese laundryman and in three days
thereafter the unhappy celestial appeared
at a barber's shop and ordered his pig
tail cut off, saying In explanation: "Too
muchee yank." 3" g2gaai
A man picked the pocket of Mrs.
Towle, milliner in Saco, Me-, ,'of 500,
at Portland, the other day, but she flung
her arms round his mock and hugged
him SO that he was glad to give up the
cash and run. a@ e3E
A Berlin paper has a picture repre-
senting two men, one shutting the air
and saying: "There is smell of some
thing burning, like POWDER" the other
answering, with an ironical smile: "Only
newspaper"
The people of Shelby county, KY, be-
Eeve that John Cotton has been stricken
dumb for blasphemy. He cursed God.
because O frost had ruined his crops, and
on the same day was attacked by paraly-
sis, which bereft him of the power of
speech.
The figures published, obtained from
the archives of the captain generals
Office, show what charnel house Spain
has made Of Cuba. More then $4,000
troops have been sent there in six years
and the greater part of these are in their
graves. H 1.e
When young lady goes to an enter
tainment, and sees a lady friend accom-
panied by a gentleman whom she does
not know, she doesn't. enjoy the per-
formance worth cent, as the whole
evening is occupied in wondering who
the strangeris.
The number of suicides in the German
army amounted in 1874 to 1913, which
gives the proportion per 1000 men of
0.54 annually. The proportion ia, in the
Austrian army, 0.85; in the French
army, O.51; In the Belgian army, O.45
and in the English army, OBS.
In Nevada napkins are, not used at
table, but when they have eggs for din
ner the mother remarks /: "Now, Bill,
you an the rest just stick to yer sleeves,
and let the edge of the tablecloth alone,
like yer belonged to decent society, or
I'll baste the pelt off your backs"
A curious case of kidnapping came up
for trial in the Washington police court.
One Brooks is charged with tying boy
of nineteen, in 1878, taking him to q
schooner in Baltimore, and selling him
to the captain. He did not have an OPP
portunity to return home till q few days
since. The case was sent up for the ac-
ton of the grand jury.
The Prince of Wales in his tour in
India will be dressed like an Eastern
potentate, in a big turb6n and baggy
trowsers, and hisequipage will be asmag-
nificent sitcan be made. The intention,
of course, is to dazzle the natives with q
spectacular exhibition of their future
ruler The cost of this royal show will
be about million dollars.
The next contest for the United States
Presidency begins already to throw. itself
into shape, You never meet stran er
now that he doesn't ask you the first
thing ."Well, sir, who is going to be
our next candidate for the Presidency2"
We, of course, know who that candidate
is going to be, but we would see such
uuestioners hanged dozen times before
we would mention his name 30 far In adj
vance.
A boy in WilliamstOwn, Mass, became
a man in this way While hoeipg corn
one afternoon, he turned to his fathef,
who was working with him, and said
"What time is it, father 2" Half past
two" replied the senior farmer. Throw
ing down his hoe, the son graduated
from his farmer life with this remark
=. "Twenty one years ago, father, at half
past two in the afternoon, I was born