The tribune. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1875-10-20
Items OF Interest.

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Ode to my landlady three weeks
board. fho1 s'Eus9Utnt. %ti - as9oze ~
Anew definition of an old maid is--a
woman who has been maid for o long
time. ,.,cr ~ ,,,.p, ,t,oos.5 .-,,..
The leather business, of the United
States represents working capital OF
$40, ,OOO, 900. 'ifl '."aI''''.t' tas
"Shingle weddings are now coming
into fashion. This novel wedding takes
place when the first born is old enough
to spank. ,e,, rao i.iaer tsot,, n, ~.
A st. Louis woman enumerates among :,
her friends twenty-five women who have
become bald from wearing heavy masses
of false hair. i.ii'2 'sI3ia sT So 91
An aspiring lady of Utica, N. z, is
expending $40, 900 to putaspire two hum .
dred and fifty feet high on one of the
churches Of that city.
| Col. Arthur CHM has ten-acre orange
grove on Lake Monroe, Fla, which con-
tains seven hundred trees, yielding from
$40, 900 to $13 600 per year. zsr s
A Pnltney CN.Y.) girl put in lively
ten hours work the other day. She nail
ed in that time 900 grape-bo1es, driving
10000 nails and handling 5000 pieces OF
wood.
Miss Hulett, the Chicago lawyer, will
not move in a divorce case, believing, as
she says, that g any woman who yin
marry a an ought to be forced tor live
: with him." ~. ,t4 = :
"What makes your face 80 red 2" said
! an inspecting generate hard drinking
soldier. " It's modessy, "freplied the
; soldier. I always blush when spoken to
by general. - IA so. .ecs u - ,se 81
It is stated that That she Philadelphia con-
, fectioner who advertised Centennial
Kisses" can't sell any They are too
old The isixteen-ials aree ipreferred by
men of taste. sri of snI@o ra5 nosi14ii'
The Rochester Express suggests that
the baby without q back bone, recently
born, be brought up with especial refer
ence to the art &C conciliating political
opponents. T2 rH'at assIa!' T9i;s -
As a novelty, the application of the
camera obscura. has been introduced In
English railway carriages, exhibiting TO
the traveller a moving picture of the
country through which he Ia passing.
The editor of the Kearney (Neb.)
Press acknowledges the receipt of q Gu
cumber five feet eight inches In length.
And yet some people insist that Ne
braska is not an agricultural country,
An impressionable Indiana journalist
has " seen swaying ily-like above the
churn beauty more perfect than that
which bloomed fullgrown from the
bright focusof the seas ecstatic travail /"
When foreigner finds that plague is
a word of one syllable, and ague, o part
of the plague, is word of two, he wishes
that tho plague might take one half the
English language, and the ague the
other.
It is hard to say who the happiest man
is, but the happiest women, according to
the Danbury tNe,Os, is she who is called
upon to decide the question as to which
is the cunningest of two Of the cunning
est babies that ever lived.
There is sanctity in suffering when
meekly borne. Our duty, though set
about by thorns, may still DO q staff,
supporting even while it tortures, CAST
it away, and like the prophets wand, it
changes to snake.
The Grand Duke Alexis, third son OF
the emperor of Russia, who some years
ago, owing to a secret marriage. with q
lady of the court of the empress, had
incurred the displeasure of his father,
uho uoW bOoh akSoiCcu AkcihA hAS WAAcstftsF
An unhappy nine, ,year-ola boy, near
Reading, Pa, complains that he sees
reptiles all around him, and his friends
are laboring under the delusion that he
has been bewitched by an old woman,
whom he saw sitting on a basket at q
neighbor's house, and laughed at be-
cause of her eccentric movements.
Since 1924 New England has received
from the general government for i'm
provement of it's rivers and harbors the
sum of $6,375, 488; the Middle States,
$11, 75S, ,915; the Southern States,
$6, 406, ,833; Indiana, Illinois and Ohio,
81, $50, $40; Missouri, Iowa, and Mime
sofa, 1915, 500; and Michigan and Wis
consin, 80, 799, ,776.
A man thirty years of age, plate
layer on the Settle and Carlisle railway,
England, hung himself on post in q
public drying ground at Carlisle the
other morning. Before doing so he
wrote with piece of chalk on q neigh
boring wall the following message: 81
take the pleasure of riting these few
lines IL it will be warning to all young
men, and never live with mother-in-
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