The tribune. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1875-05-12
Items OF Interest.

4oung ladleS nave taken TO the mama
of collecting stamps again. Their mania
for spending them is chronic.
Milk-puuch is now recommended as n
cure for diphtheria. 1t has always been
considered good for the throat
"Her style is Western to a painful de-
gree" says an exacting Philadelphia
critic, alluding to popular actress.
There's schoolma'am in Oneida
county, N. Y, who let's her best be-
haved scholars chew her gum a little
while.
Castor oil applied to n corn after par
ing closely each night before going to
bed softens the corn and it becomes as
other flesh.
The Carlist war is seriously affecting
the prosperity of Spain. The exports of
that country in 1874 were $4,000, 900
less than in 1873.
in Mexico in the First New York volun-
teersi If so, and you can prove it,
there are $3.50 for you up at Albany.
A Montana justice of the peace doesn't
splurge any when he marries couple.
He says " "Arise-grab hands hitched
six dollars ;" And that's all there is
to it.
At Gloucester, England, recently,
man was fined by a magistrate for steal
ing q ride on the railroad, and as the
man was very poor, the magistrate paid
the fine himself.
1t has been discovered out West that
as the prairie chickens are destroyed the
grasshoppers increase. Well, those
farmers pay their money and they can
take their choice.
A Minnesota sheriff carried bullet
in his head ten years, and when they
removed it the other day he became
foolish. They are looking for some one
to shoot him again.
There is man IL Montgomery county,
Pa, who can hold up his hand and say
that he never opened another man s lettor
by mistake. We refer, of course, to Mr..
John Pfafaelkaeffingar.
A Yankee editor throws up.a sponge
with the remark that "it don't pay to run
a paper in town where the business men
read almanacs, and pick their teeth with
the tail of q herring"
" That was a mighty good thing you
had in few days ago about so-and-sos"
romarkod gentleman with red nose
and vinous breath to the editor one day.
"Cant you lend me two dollarsi"
A newspaper out West thus heads its re-
port of q fire: " Feast of the Fire Fiend
The Forked-Tongued Demon Licks
with its Lurid Breath Lumber Pile -
Are the scenes of Boston and Chicago to
be repeated 2-Loss $3.50"
The Norristown spoilers ot the "Bee"
recently were nicely fooled. After learn
ing all the jaw-breaking words in the
dictionary, they were given only simple
words used in ordinary conversation,
and of course didn't know how to spell
'em.
A number of young ladies of the
"best families of the West End, at
Boston, have organized a cookery club,
meeting twice q week at the resi-
dence of each member in turn, who
treats her sister members to beefsteak,
dinner OF tea prepared exclusively by
herself.
A young lady of New York city was
recently struck with the usefulness OF
her life, and Immediately went to work
with vigor to l arm plain sewing. At
latest dates she had hemmed one side
of towel, which the proud parents have
framed and hung in conspicuous posi-
tion in their parlors.
President Grant and Attorney General
they shall do with an Indian who kills
another, as the Indians are not subject
to our laws. An exchange says Our
opinion is that when they catch an In
dian who has undoubtedly killed an
other Indian, the true course is to give
him a new gun and five dollars.