The tribune. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1875-12-29
Items OF Interest.

The latest slang is :"Oh, pull down
your vest"
There are sixty persons in the Massa-
chusetts State prison who are sentenced
for life.
Switzerland possesses one hundred
and sixty eight cotton mills, running
2,059, $50 spindles.
There are twenty-three men under
sentence of death in various parts of
the United States.
A resident of Ecuador, being asked
what kind Of soil his country had for
/ agriculture, answered.: "Excellent-if
it would only keep still for O month or
two at time"
A lady applying for admission to the
Junior class Of an eastern seminary, be-
ing questioned by the president as to
her qualifications, replied: "I amt
much of an arithmeticker but I am an
elegant grammarist."
A case in one of the civil courts at
San Francisco had to be postponed ON
account of conflict Of jurisdiction, one
OF the Jurors having been sentenced to
twenty-four hours imprisonment for in
toxication by police magistrate.
A tyrannical Kentucky Judge has de-
cided that no matter how anxious a
farmer may be to push his work for
ward, he has no right to harness his
wife to plow. They had better JUS
tice than that hundred years ago.
Mrs Livermore says girls are not
particular enough about the men they
marry. Mrs. Stone, of Omaha, is SO
particular about the man she married
that she takes her sewing to his office
and sits there all day till he is ready to
go home. rage
John Frederick Gunter went from
Chicago penniless to Australia, twenty
three years ago. He now advertises In
the Chicago newspapers that he is able
and willing to help his relatives, and in
vites them to write to him. And won't
he hear from them2
A London correspondent of the Buff
falo Commercial reports that Col. VAL
entine Baker has offered his services to
the Emperor of Russia, that the offer
has been accepted, and that the colonel
will 20 to Russia as soon as his term of
imprisonment expires.
Four Vice-Presidents have died in
Office. These were George Clinton,
who died in 1912 Elbridge Gerry, who
died in 1914 William r. King, who
died in 1853, and Henry VIII on.
Daniel d. Tompkins, whose term as
Vice-President expired in 1926, died
the same year.
The following is said to be never
failing cure for earache: Take q bit of
cotton-batting, put upon it pinch of
black pepper, gather it up and tie it,
dip it in sweet oil, and insert into the
ear. Put flannel bandage over the
head to keep it warm. It viii give i'm
mediate relief.
Clay F. Smith, an actor in small
travelling company, firted with girl in
Chillicothe, Mo-, and sent note to her
through laundress. The girls father
Intercepted it, armed himself with re-
volver, and went to shoot Smith, who
hired horse and started cut Of town..
but the father overlook him and killed
him.
A murderer was recently brought from
Wolf county to Lexington, KY, for safe
keeping. Four deputy sheriffs brought
him, and led him along like bear, with
rope which passed around his. body
and pihioned his arms. One man led
him, and on each side and behind the
other men were distributed, each with q
drawn pistol. G.
4No Wall du HVtfd&6
sef-possession need be without an UNI
brella on q rainy day. All he has to do
is to step up to the first stranger he
sees carrying good one, and say: "Beg
pardon, sir believe you have my um-
brella!" The chances are ten to one
that the fellow will stammer out an
apology and hand it over.
James w. Bass, lawyer of Fond du
Lac, Wis, has obtained verdict for
$4, 500 damages against the Northwest
ern railway for injuries in being forci-
bly, elected from the ladies' car on one
of its trains. Bass began his suit in
June, 1872, and then obtained verdict
for 81 800. The supreme court granted
new trial of the case, and another jury
has confirmed the decision of the former
one.
John Aired, of Rome, Ga., remarked:
1 am fifty-two years o,d and don't owe
a dollar haven't bought bushel Of
corn or q pound of meat since the war
never had a cross word with neighbor
in my life, and never swore an oath
woven and made at home never had
lawsuit with any one, and never was
witness in court"
A Frenchmap, who had lost an APP
pointment he held, having publicly de-
clared that it would cost the Lives of
more than five hundred persons, thus
statement came TO the ears of the public
authorities, who had him arrested, and
asked him what be meant by such
threat. "I have threatened no one,"
he replied "I only meant that was
about TO turn DOCTOR"