The tribune. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1875-02-24
Items OF Interest.

| bue ldSt yehT tu6 DOSUOn pankS
paid 81 , ,o24, ,S19 taxes to the city.
Atlanta, Ga, has two widows, sisters,
aged respectively thirteen and, fifteen
years.
Many horses have died in Missouri;
from having been fed on chinch-bug
fodder. ,.s
The kindergarten system is to be in
troduced into the public schools of Mil
waukee. $50 T'.<
At Medina, Pa, seventy-fve-pound
devil fish," caught in the Delaware,
has been on exhibition . r7Rs
The grand jurors9o ,Isicas, county,
Ohio, have presented church raffles as
an illegality and nuisance.
There were two hundred and nine
marriages In Nodaway county, No., last
year, Notwithstanding that sleepy name.
Don't feed your birds ON, stale canary
seed more than half the birds that die
are lost on account Of ,musty, unhealthy
seed.
Mrs. Pepin, aged one hundred and
four years, and the mother Of twenty
three children, died Mt Essex, VT, re-
Gently. -., ro 7Iiro...
The agitation of tho question of re-
storing the duties on teas has already had
an effect on prices, which have materially,
advanced. ''''Af tH'19'
So we go. A young man In Otterville,
ILL.,, has actually married his 'mother-in-
law, and they are living happily in the
old homestead. - -
Miss Jennie Britton, of Lewisbure,
Pa, has won great glory by skating
thirty-two miles in three hours and thir-
ty-five minutes. '.w
A New Orleans paper offers the follow
ing sentiment: George Washipgto
first in war, first in peace, .andI last in
getting monument
Among the ccuurrieosities curie q ga advertise
ments is the following::f 'eSdloon for
sale at half the cost Of fttmsns Central
location.-g MeansbusinesssH sIpt
T. Miss Ada Sweet, .of, Chicago, is the
only female pension agent in the coun-
try, and receives the highest salary paid
to woman by the government.
A generous Terre Haute bditeher, in a
friendly scuffle, cut q cash M The hand
of q companiong To show his regret, he
Immediately turned aud siashed his own
~, on. r,,.2.f yT.fiiiR
The Iatiyes Of Africa are so, fond of
music that Sir Samuel Baker declares
tiiaI LOuoOu organ RT1uQeT COulu march
through Central Africa followed by an
admiring crowd. .. .a!r.8Ia
The plantation of Mrs. Mayblum, Fort
Bend county, Texas, has this year pro-
duced $4,000 worth of syrup from land
which, If planted in cotton, would have
yielded only about 800. 10
A gentleman whose house was repair
ing went one day to see how the job was
getting on, and observing quantity of
nails lying about, said to the carpenter
they'll certainly be lost. ."No," re-
in the bill" .-, -
The editor of the Country Gentleman,
after practical tests of the utility of the
plan Of picking the blossoms off from
growing potato plants to increase the
increase, If any, is too slight to be per-
ceptible, and that the process costs more
than it comes to.
Only q woman g hair Who has not
some time in his life, picked such a
golden thread from his best coat collar,
and felt his heart beat the quicker fo1
it Or gazed upon tress laid away Ii
some nook, and not felt the influence of
tender memories2 Only woman's hair
and yet we don't like it in biscuit.
The exactness with which the man of
the house shovels off his sidewalk is re-
marked AZ amusing. He will go Mt it
| tieroely until he comes to the line that
separates his territory from that of the
next door neighbor, and there he stops
and squlnts his eye, and treats the snow
that lies just over the boundary as
though it were so much poison.
An old man lay on his death h-bed in In
dianapolis surrounded by five or six
children and his second wife. He was
on the point of signing his will, when a
dispute arose between the prospective
widow and orphans concerning the dis
tribution OF the property, eliminating in
an actual hand-to-hand fight. Quiet was
not restored till the police interfered.
A hos table lady, of st. Louis, re-
Gently gave aparty for her friends among
the young misses and masters the other
evening. Round dances were proposed,
when the lady said "I cannot allow
you to have any round dances! If any
of the boys wish to hug the girls, let
them sit down upon the sofas, and go
right Mt it in earnest, but-no round
dances, mind you" !"
At Lima, Ohio, they adopted a very
pleasa 1t way for raising funds for the
grasshopper sufferers. A "spelling
school " was held, the admission fee
being placed at twenty-five cents, and
the successful contestant WAS presented
with a copy of Webstsr's Unabridged
Dictionary. The profits of these enter
tainments-often amounting to large
sum-are then sent to the charitable
societies of the desolated districts in the
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