The tribune. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1875-10-13
Items OF Interest.
Nevada is overrun with rabbits.

Items OF Interest.
Nevada is overrun with rabbits.
A philosopher presents the following
general deductions from his observations
at picnic
One ordinary handkerchief is not large
enough for two persons to sit upon at
one and the same time.
According to the census there are IT,
305 more females than males in Boston.
And still we are not happy boston
Post.
It is easy enough to initiate Josh Bill
ings-thus: Doant karrey eggs in your
coattale pocket. Egs aint good after
they've bin sot on awhile.
About 5000, 900 feet of logs have
been RATED down the Penobscot river,
Maine, this season, and the booms are
now clear for the first time In eighteen
years.
The girl who will fly in terror to the
arms Of her escort at sight of toad,
will, if she happens upon snake by
herself, deliberately catch it by the tail
and jerk its head off.
The late Mr.. Singer, of sewing
machine fame, used to dress each one Of
his men servants in different livery,
and on one occasion he undertook 60
drive six horses three abreast.
There once was o time in the good long ago
When twas modestly said "she's two strings
| to her bow"
But the Portland girl thinks Ills hardly the
thing
UIiess she can say "rve two beaux on the
| string"
There we knew the day would come
some time. An Englishman has been
sentenced to three months in jail for
stealing an umbrella on rainy day.
And now-if we could only find the
hound that played us the same trick
while ago.
Some burglars, upon entering house,
blew ont the lights and tied the occu-
pants in different parts of the room.
One took tito heart sadly, and exclaimed:
"Oh, I'm undone I'm undone ~ Upon
which another replied: "T]s9 come
and undo me-"
The Colorado beetle, the advent of
which has been so much dreaded In Eng
gland, has not yet made its appearance
in that country, nof else wiiioIo n Eu-
rope. The unprecedentedlyw wet weather
in July has been very destructive to the
potato crop in Britain.
An officer in the army laughed at q
timid woman because she was alarmed
at the noise of a cannon when o salute
was fred. He subsequently, married
that timid woman, and six months after
wards he took of his boots in the hall
when he came in late at nights.
"Nobody rides over the potatoes that
way, my good woman" This was what
| French peasant near Sassetot said to a
lady on horseback, who, to get out of the
sun little, rode across a field In the
shadow of some trees. But he didn't
know it was the empress Of Austria.
Colfax has faith in woman's ability to
keep a secret. He says: "Out of all
the sixty thousand women who have be-
longed to the Daughters of Rebecca, he
had never known one to break faith;
and he protested against the miserable,
worn out, ,stereotyped theory of the world,
that woman cannot keep secret"
Polly Coe, a colored woman, has just
| died at Somerville, Tenn. aged one hum
American army during the war of 1872.
| She helped make the brick and saw the
lumber for the court-houses at Somer-
vile, Covington and Brownsville. Co.
| lumbia, Ga, pretends to have q negro
one hundred and twenty-five years old.
The discovery of Chicago woman is
how to eat a peach at the table graceful
ly. Cut the peach open in the middle,
and remove the pit. Hold one of the
halves in the left hand, and use spoon
to scoop out the pulp and carry it to the
mouth. Thus the fingers are not soiled,
and the bother of feeling is avoided.
No patent upon this device has been OBJ
tanned.
The banks of the Connecticut river are
being protected in places where the cur
rent washes them away, by covering
them with mating. The mats are wo-
ven about two feet thick, and sixty feet
are sowed into po sition, sunk SO as to
extend from above high water mark to
below low water mark; and covered with
stones and gravel.
The Davenport Qa.) Gazette says that
two women have been travelling through
that State selling corsets. Indeed"
adds that journal, :" their anxiety to give
ladies perfect fit and the insignificant
cited suspicion. Now not lady in Iowa
will admit that she has bought corsets
in six months, while the two peddlers
have resumed male attire and occupy
q dismal cell in jail"
The mistress of summer boarding
house in an interior town, finding her
self one day quite at leisure, In conse-.
quence OF the absence of her patrons on
an excursion, repaired to neighbor's
for chat. "I should think You would
feel lonesome to have yonr boarders away
so," said her Eeighbor. "Well," che
| ra,,liad ct do faal lsn,a,. lox,aon,nc.