The tribune. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1875-05-19
Items Of Interest.


How to make hens lay-Tie their
legs.
Never make wooden leg Of oak; oak
always produces (a)corn.
People who advertise are those who
set their sails for trade winds.
No true woman will ever marry man
80 tall that she cannot reach his hair.
Time is money, and many people ask
for time when requested to pay money.
Three hundred thousand immigrants.
have moved into Texas since last Octo-
ber.
What do you think of picking $500
oranges from single tree, as they do in
Florida.
It is better to live in q wooden house
and have plenty than in stone one and
be pinched.
Mrs. Snidkins says her husband is
three handed man-right hand. left
hand and little behind hand.
John Mitchell died in the house in
which he was born, and in the room in
which his mother and father died.
Don't locate your grandfather in " the
front rank in the Concord and Lexing-
ton fight. That was the one that re-
treated.
An Aberdeen girl supposes that the
reason she has never Endled fame in
any man heart is because she is not
good match.
It has been decided in French court
that the landlord who fails to have his
guests awakened to catch the trains they
wish to take is liable in damages.
A man in Missouri has been hanged
for killing his father-in-law. How did
he expect to get the sympathies of the
jury when he made such q mistaken
Several new German papers have been
started in Indiana. The last Legislature
authorized the publication of legal ad-
vertisements in the German language.
A farmer of Manchester went to his
stable and found valuable horse with
its throat cut, and it is supposed that the
outrage was committed because the
owner had incurred the spite of neigh
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A rich officer of revenue the other day
asked man of wit what sort of thing
opulence was. eft is a thing" replied
the philosopher, "which can give q
man."
At the very hour when Miss Bateman,
as Ophelia, was engaged upon the stage
of the London Lyceum in declaiming
upon the death of Polonius, her father
passed into eternity.
A Yankee editor says: If the party
who plays the accordion in this vicinity
at nights will only change his tune occa-
sionally, or sit where we can scald him
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hear of something to his advantage.
A physician in Maine has been in
quiring into the statistics of infantile
narcotism with Winslow's soothing syrup,
and states that the sale of this dangerous
nostrum annually desseminates 15,000,-
600 grains Of morphia among our nurse
ries.
Indian crows are great thieves, but as
they are sacred birds the Hindoos dis
like killing them. When they catch
them, however, they take their revenge
by plucking their feathers, leaving them
nothing but their wings and tails to get
away with.
Nine. the Baroness de Macedo, widow
of Portuguese admiral and domiciled
in Paris for thirty years, has just COM
mitted suicide. She had been operated
upon for a cancer, but second opera
ton was necessary and she preferred inn
mediate death to the repetition of pain
full postponement.
At child's birthday party, the little
guests were furnished with candy apples,
colored very highly, which they ate with
a relish. One of the children sickened
and died the next day, and two others
are in most alarming state. The apples
were colored with anilineS and the leaves
with arsenic. A word to the wise is
sufficient.