The tribune. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1875-11-03
Items OF Interest.


A sleepy old town-A-nap-oli
A slow match-A ten years engage
ment.
How to get small quantity of nut
meg-Use CRATER. y5t
Long range practice-Twenty years
experience as O cook. b.
Kossuth devotes all his time to aqri-
culture and mineraloey.
It is estimated that Oregon will have
5000, 900 bushels of grain for export this
year.
France has 12s, 900 industrial estab-
lishments, giving work to about 1,800,-
600 men. ,.r. ,stIsg.
The witness who said she was never
without some bias proved afterward TO
be a dressmaker.
A bird with one wing shorter than the
other-like o bad chimney-is apt to
have defective few. IN Do
The stamp duty on patent medicines
manufactured in Great Britain last year
amounted to over $571 $40.
A young Londoner recently won atwo-
penny pot Of beer by diving In full dress
from the top of LoHdon bridge.
An English Judge has decided that no
rooster in the. country has q right to
crow at four o'clock in the morning.
In the four northwest counties of
Pennsylvania are one hundred factories,
producing 1857, TOO pounds Of cheese.
The st. Louis Republican says: The
jeweler who made the welkin ring made
also speciality of solitaire work in the
calaboose. g-.r r.. 4.as,
Hazing has broken out again in Har-
ward, and many of this years freshmen
have been most cruelty and disgracefully
maltreated. -FiH 7f2
A visitor in South Park, Colorado, has
picked up q curious piece Of stone,
which, on scientific examination, is pro-
nounced to be q petrified plug of
tobacco.
A man recently sent photograph
card from Hamburg to Chicago by ex-
press, which cost him about thirteen dol
lars, when it might have gone through
the mails for twelve cents.
A rich vein of petroleum has lust
been discovered at Shelbyville, KY, and
all the farmers daughters in the neigh
borhood arc planning European tours,
to be accomplished inst as soon rs " dad
strikes ile.
There is O. period in every boys life
when he's too small to carry handker-
chief and not big enough to- wear coat
tails, and if he's caught wiping his
mouth on the shed door no sensible
parent will raise fuss about it.
The president of the New Orleans
board of health has been threatened :.
with a coat of tar and feathers If he
does not cease sprinkling carbolic acid in
the streets of that city. The letter is
signed by ga Citizen, President of the
Secret Meeting" ,ias
From the top of the urt-house tower
in Greeneburg, Ind, which is one hun
dred and forty feet from the ground,
grows O maple tree eight feet high and
two and q half inches in diameter. The
seed was probably dropped into joint
of the stone work by passing bird.
A sea-gull of the largest size recently
swooped down on q crab in Lake Pont-
chartrain, imbedding the lower part of
his bill in the crabs back. but the crus-
tacean seized and crushed the upper por-
ton in his strong claws and boatman
rowed out and caught the crab and the
bird. stkjS ~
A young man who wore pair of very
dirty gloves to a party, explained hon
estly and promptly as reason for doing
80 was that the smell of benzine used in
cleaning gloves was very disagreeable.
Thus will an unselfish man sacrifice his
personal appearance for the comfort of
others. i,r.a
Much excitement was recently caused
among the workmen on the line of the
Boston, Revere Beach and Lynn rail.
road, by the discovery in the soil of
peculiar looking metal, which was pro-
nounced gold. It was afterward found
that the "gold" was only the metal
composition from the box of q car wheel,
which had been melted by the heat.
A tight-rope performer known as
Professor Leon, while exhibiting in
the streets of indianapolis few days
ago, let his balance pole fall from con-
siderable height. 1t passed through the
roof of q horse car, causing q good deal
of fright among the spectators and
brief suspension Of the entertainment.
Fortunately the car was empty, and no
one was hurt.
It is related that a Western minister
recently portrayed the history Of Jonah
after the following style: "I seem 10
see Jonah passing along the road TO
Nineveh /: I seem to see him entering the
ticket Office, buy his ticket, and pay for
it seem to see him walk upon the ves-
sci seem to see them lift their. anchor,
and the stately ahip moves gradually out