The tribune. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1875-10-06
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Items Of Interest.

Pound boy sufficiently and he will
become simple-ton
The skull of Troy man, who was kill
ed by its fracture, was only o sixteenth
of an inch thick at the base.
A New Haven boy would have been
killed by the kick of horse had it not
been for stolen apples in his pocket.
A boy in wild state, about twelve
captured by some hunters in nothern
Texas. .ysrr arr
When will men learn that there is
such a thing as Legitimate banking"
and that it is criminal to speculate with
trust funds2
The money appropriated for public in
struction in France does not reach the
level Of Massachusetts, budget for the
same purpose,
"Our common mothers unfortunate
fruit speculation" Is the latest way of
referring to that misfortune which COM
pels us to work for living. H,tarr
It is stated that Baltimore is now the
only city in the United States where
girls are not employed in some OF the
printing Offices as compositors. ~
An East Cranky (Conn.) farmer has
the original deed to the land on which
he lives. II has been in his family for
one hundred and si1ty-two years.
A drunken man slid head first into q
due of q church at Pittsfeld, and two
carpenters destroyed hundred dollars
worth Of the building in getting him
out. .. ..
SCI never sot my hand to writin' poetry
till two years ago, said q young ruralist,
fitting back in grocery chair, 'fbut the
minute took to goin' with that johnson
girl, by gosh I couldn't help it."
An equally unreasonable old landsman
once said of the tribe who carried walk
ing-sticks " Everybody is fitted for
something useful. Now young man
who can't do anything else can carry
cane. r. s.....-a
Feminine logic-Precise old. aunt
It's no use, Emily I should never al-
ter my opinion Of the young man, not If
you were to convince me ever 80 much.
I don't like him, and even wild, horses
couldn't make me-" f.,,r,. -.
Society News.-Mr. F. O. Follans-
bees terrier, "Jip," that went to
Swampscott in July, has returned to
town and will pass week with It's ma
ternal parent before joining the family
| Se1o ~ eAo oADJ Alhkiotous u.
A man remarked to friend of his the
day after the funeral of his wife that he
never saw man take anything so hard
and weep so bitterly as he had at the
house. The mourner responded "Oh,
pshaw! You oughter "a seen me at the
gravel"
There was once sea captain who de-
clared that In all his experience he mover
fos fD TO- Il 4
on board his ship man who parted his
hair in the middle. az don't know how
it is, said the ancient mariner, "but
the elements can't seem to tolerate that
habit. t3
1t is too frequently the case for papers
to ridicule the college graduate as O
helpless and useless Individual Mr..
Avery, of Yale, however, graduated only
a month ago, and already he has secured
a position of trust at salary of 5000 q
year. It is as pitcher of professional
base ball club. ,-l..s
A mother visiting Detroit with her
daughter, girl of fifteen, said to the
child who was about drinking q glass of
soda water j: " Now, Mary, be careful.
Don't gulp it down at three swallows
and get exploded all to pieces by the gas,
but sip, sip and don't run any risk"
It was rich old widow who wondered
that the handsome young man had fallen
in love with her. Yes, il is wonder
full" said Mr.. Spruceup ;f".b but I do
love you to distraction why, I even
love the ground You walk on" "I
thought 80" observed the widow I" but
I am not in want Of landlord at pres
ent."
Lightning struck telegraph wire
near the Connecticut river depot at
Northampton, Mass, cutting IL in two.
1t passed into the Office in the depot,
melting the wires, playing around the
instruments, and scorching the walls of
the room. Nobody was injured, al-
though the operator felt strange sensa-
tions.
This is the way compulsory education
operates in Scotland. In Glasgow, out
Of II, ,174 children not at school, 5,846
were sent on account of warming or re-
monstrance, 3,103 after service of no.
tice, I'll after the parents had met the
school board, and A after the parents
had been prosecuted. Both in city and
country the law is said to work well.
The wheat crop of France in 1874, ac-
cording to the report of the minister of
agriculture, was 124, ,000, 900 hectolit.r,
of 900. pounds avoirdupois each, the.
largest crop France ever produced, equal
to 455, 700, GOO bushels. The annual
consumption of wheat in France for all
purposes is about $50, 700, 900 bushels.
France had probably surplus from last
years wheat crop, over and above her
annual consumption, Of about 124, $780,
600 bushels.
A young man in Munice, Ind, was es-