The tribune. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1875-07-28
Items Of Interest.

LII 1NS" IOIh-Uho L 1Suklll anu CarE-
kill mountains.
San Francisco consumes one-third
more liquor than Chicago.
The uses of adversely are to show you
who your friends are not.
The door between us and heaven can
not be opened if that between us and
our fellow men is shut.
"One thing" says IN old topper, "was
never seen coming through the rye, and
that's the kind of whisky one gets nova
days"
A saloon keeper in Louisiana has lust
been compelled to pay 81 200 damages
to q woman for selling liquor to her
husband.
The Detroit Free Press argues that
if he had the true instincts of journalist,
James Gordon Bennett would have
brought over settlers instead of pointers.
The total number of post-offices in the
entire Russian empire, both in Europe
and in Asia, is {, 200. In London alone
there are $50, and in England and Wales
there are $3.50.
There are 900 converts and monas-
teries inhabited by 1000 monks and
| nuns in Belgium. The income of the
religious orders in that kingdom is one
hundred millions of dollars.
A printers devil says his lot is hard
one; at his boarding house they charge
him with all the pie they can't find, and
ut the Office his employer charges him
with all the pi they do find.
A saloonkeeper in Jones county, Ia,
has been made to pay 81 200 to Mrs.
Nancy Jewett for selling liquor to her
husband. The jury put it 81 900 actual
damages, and 5000 exemplary damages.
In removing some bodies from the
Bennington (Vt.) cemetery, the other day,
that of Mrs. Bartlett, which had been
buried some twelve years, was found to
be petriied, weighing five hundred
pounds.
Grace Greenwood, i'll explaining that
she is not the wife Of one of the members
of the publishing house of Lippincott &
Co., Philadelphia, adds: "And hereby
warn all persons not to trust me on his
| account"
A little girl asked minister: "Do
you think my father will go to heaven 2"
"Why, yes my child. Why do you ask2"
"Well, because if he don't have his
own way there he won't stay long, was
thinking"
If there is anything calculated to
make even man of the most rugged
constitution nervous, it is to have two
or three children standing around eating
! bread and molasses when his new clothes
come home.
The death is announced of Sir Sand
| ford Graham, gentleman who some
twenty years ago conceived the idea that
the best way to make money on the turf
was to lay against West Australian for
Derby. The result was that he had to
sell his estates.
How the needs of the poor are minis
tered to in Ohio is shown by report of
the commissioners of Franklin county
recently published in the Columbus
Journal. One item reads " Whisky for
the poor, $50 co." Another "Bread
for the poor, ZIG 35."
Who says the grasshoppers don't read
the papers? They passed by the wheat
| field of Kansas farmer who had re-
fused to subscribe to the bounty fund
for their extinction, and left pinned on
one of the fence rails handsome little
note expressing their acknowledgements.
Jones (who has walked the length of his
lawn to expostulate with his milkman on
cruelty to animals) )-"Do you know what
happened to Balaam2" Milkman-"Yes."
Jones-"Well, what was it2" Milkman-
The same thing that happened to me
Just nova donkey spoke to him.
Gollangi"
Now that the "blue" and the "gray"
are shaking hands across the bloody
chasm, perhaps the next step in recon
citation will be that of the Grand Army
| boys taking into their circle the young
men who went over to Canada for their
health while the draft wheels were
turning.
A new machine for pressing coal-dust
into fuel was put in operation at the
Harrisbrrgh machine shops, and ton
of solid coal was made in six minutes.
The machine is simple and universally
practicable, and it is prophesied that it
will add millions of dollars to the coal
wealth of Pennsylvania.
Logic-Young wife Ito George, who
arrived home in the small hours of the
morning)-"We are one, dear. now that
we're married, are we not2" George
Certainly, my darling, Why" Young
wife-"Oh, 1 only wanted to know be-
cause, if we are, l must have been dread
fully inebriated last night"
A few days since farmer was telling
in our hearing that he had planted an
acre and half of potatoes, and he fcnr-
ed they would be devoured by the po-
tato bugs. care the plants up yct2"
asked bystander. "No," replied the
farmer, "but the dnrned bugs are sit
ting on every hill waiting for them"
The new ruler or guikwar of Baroda,
selected by the viceroy of India, is Gopal
Rao, an adopted son of the predecessor,