The tribune. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1875-06-09
Items Of Interest.

The Kansas grasshoppers speak very
highly of this springs early cabbages.
A cross-eyed girl advertises for hus-
band affected in the same way. What q
| cross-eyedearl
DIR. Livingstone found that the ostrich
could run at the astonishing speed of
twenty-six miles an hour.
Gently the dues are DER me steal
ing," as the man said when he had
thirteen bills presented to him in one
day.
The San Francisco directory just is
sued estimates the population at 230, 900.
The Bulletin is willing to believe it 3d.,
| 600 less.
Artificial butter making has never
proved success. The difficulty lies in
putting in the hairs 80 they look
natural.
Comforting isn't it, to be told now,
that if there had only been telegraphic
communication with the maitland, all
on board the Schiller might have been
saved?
The Milwaukee Sentinel says it is all
right for Lotta to give fountain to San
Francisco, but it would be more satisfac-
tory to the world if she gave her agent
a clean shirt.
"Why do you use paint2" asked a
v1olinist of his daughter. For the
same reason that you use rosin, papa"
"How is that2" "Why, to help me
draw my beau"
"Every tree is subject to q disease"
said a speaker in fruit-growers' conven-
ton. "What ailment scan you find on
an oak 2" asked the chairman. "A-coTrl,"
was the triumphant reply.
It has been discovered that the New
England lady who spelled six hundred
and fifty words out of the word " con-
gregationalist," has never learned to
make loaf of bread out of -four, yeast,
and water.
A gun factory in Upper Austria is
making $50, ZOO rifles for Germany. 1t
has delivered 1SO, 900, and has received
further order for rs, 200. AYienna firm
is reported to be executing German or
der for 30, 900, 900 cartridges.
One of the crew Schiller was arrested in
Hoboken for being drunk few days be-
fore the vessel sailed. Recorder Bohn-
stedt sent him to Jail for five days His
time expired the day after the Schiller
sailed and he escaped the fate of his COM
panions.
Talk of the s'EncyclopediaB Britannica
or Appleton's! An Imperial Chinese
Encyclopaedia is now, and has been for n
century, passing through the press, of
which nearly 1000 volumes have al
ready appeared, and 60, 900 volumes are
yet to come to complete the undertaking.
1t is said that during the thirteen years
that Oliver Charlick was president of the
Long Island railroad he never drew any
part of his salary, although it had been
fixed by the board of directors at 500
a year. This makes $3.50, 900 which his
estate will, of course, call upon the COM
pany to pay up.
The recent fire in Oshkosh, Wis,
burned four hundred houses, seventy
stores, fifty manufacturing establish
ments four hotels, four churches.
About 5000 people we.e burned out of
house and home, and three hundred
families are destitute. Over 1000 are
out of employment.
Inspector (who notices o backward
ness in history)-Who signed Magma
Charta9 (No answer.) Inspector (moro
urgently y)-Who signed Magma Charta2
(No answer.) Inspector r(angrily)-Who
(thinking matters are beginning to look
oShAoooJ hCtboS, Oh ~ WINS iloo AaO, Sill
Two friends meeting after an absence
of some years, during which time the
one had increased considerable In bulk,
and the other still resembled only the
"effigy of a man." said the stout gentle
man: "Why, Dick, you look as if you
you had not had a dinner sinceI saw you
last. !" And you," replied the other,
look as if you had been at dinner ever
since"
A stern father got wind of an intended
elopement of his daughter on certain
night, and when that sweet thing was on
the point of stealing down stairs, she
beheld ferocious looking bulldog
standing at the bottom; soshe concluded
to go back to her room and postpone
her elopement. Her father never told
her it was stuffed dog, which he had
borrowed from the man living next
door. 80