The tribune. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1875-11-24
Items OF Interest.

Epizooty almost everywhere.
A man has been arrested for taking
things as they come.
What's in a name . d. Seaver drives a
st. Louis milk wagon.
A bookseller lately advertised that he
had plenty Of scarce books for sale.
Madame MacMahon collected "a, 1884,
405 francs for the sufferers by the Cir
onde inundation.
Old lace is the object of the latest
fashionable mania, and the factories are
running double time to supply the de-
mand.
The population of Massachusetts,, with
the exception of one small town, is
1,647, 4I3: the total number of legal
voters 34O,0 ,056.
Cortina's friends near TamauHps are
still powerful, and menace with death all
who have taken sides against their chief
or we're responsible for his arrest.
Now is the time for weather prophets
to feel the bark on their dogs. If it is
thickest on the north side Of the dog, it
will be a cold winter, and he will howl
much at nights.
Coal oil has been struck at Park Ridge,
q suburb of Chicago. The land was
previously thought to be worthless, and
it is now proposed to form a company
and work the well.
A druggist in Bethel, Maine, after
closing his store, the other night, was
attended home by large bear, which
made no threatening demonstrations,
but only left him when he got inside his
house.
At New York restaurant the other
day man inquired, reading from bill
of fare :" What is this sirloin of beef
la fnanciere 2" suppose that is q cut
from the Stock Exchange bull, replied
his friend.
Davis, the Toronto abortionist, who,
with his wife, is to be hanged in Decem-
Der, threatens, unless his sentence is
patrons and all particulars as to his dia-
bolical business.
In ancient Rome all candidates for
Office were accustomed 70 dress in white
robes, as emblematic of the purity of
their past lives and future aspirations;
hence their name from cdraditts, white
candidates, whitened.
The biggest canoe ever built has been
bought from Moquillah, chief in Brit
ish Columbia, and will be sent to the
Centennial. 1t is sixty feet long and
eight feet wide and four feet deep, and
carries one hundred passengers.
The boundry line in the far northwest
is being marked by cast iron pillars,
eight feet high, set in the ground four
feet, at distances of mile from each
other. The English and American gov
ernments set the posts alternately.
A woman in Minneapolis recently as
tonished crowd who were trying to
start q balky horse by thrusting hand
full of dust and sand into the animals
mouth, exclaiming: "There he'll go
now." To the surprise of every one,
the horse started Immediately without
showing the least stubbornness or ex-
element.
An expert in fine penmanship recently
managed to write several thousand words
on postal card, and the smart country
postmaster where it was mailed thinking
this altogether too much writing to be
carried around the country for one cent,
sent it to tho dead-letter Office, It was
returned with the decision that il makes
no difference how much man writes If
he only gets it all one side of the card.
The kind of whisky they have in
Frisco "After that the cloth was
took off, and the liquors war bro't In.
And wot liquors they wuz, tool The
whisky was none of this yer kind that
makes man feel like sayin': Il kin
lick any son of gun in tho house, and
makes him smash things ginerally. No,
sir. It was the kind that jist makes
man lift his glass up gintly, and say:
Joe, old pard, I'm lookin' at yer.
In preparing lard for the market, il
should first be cut into pieces about the
size of walnut, and these should be
allowed to stand in water for half an
hour. Then work the material with the
hands in five or six successive portions
of water. Next pour off the water, melt
the lard in water bath, and strain
| through fine linen. In the first strain
ing, it will be impossible to get rid of
it will he necessary to remelt the lard
and finally to filter It through paper in
warm closet.
A good paint for barns and outhouses
is made as follows: Put one-half bushel
of good lime in clean barrel, and add
sufficient water to make thin white
until every lump of lime is dissolved.
Then add fifty pounds mineral paint.
fifty pounds whiting, fifty pounds
road .lust, finely sifted. Mix to q thick
paste with inseed oil and thin gradually
to the proper consistence with sweet
buttermilk, fresh from the churn. The
covering quality is improved by the ad-
dition of one gallon soft soap.
The son of a wealthy merchant in
large seaport was troubled with epilepsy.