The tribune. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1875-01-27


Rents are enormous" as the loafe,
said on looking at his pants.
$50 dark, and yet so light" as the
man said when he looked at his ton of
coal.
Kansas IL now the twelfth of the Uni
ted States with a compulsory education
law upon its books
The poet Spencer made sharp pun
when ho wrote, "Lastly came winter.
clothed all in frieze.'
Iowa and Michigan are the two West
ern States which do not hang people for
murder, except by mobs.
The crow is not so bad a bird, after all.
1t never shows the white feather, and
never complains without caws.
A convict in the illinois State Prison
drove an awl into his head with O ham
mer, but did not die, as he had expected
to.
Sorrow comes soon enough without
dependency. It does no man good to
carry around lightning rod to attract
trouble.
A man who has voted and paid taxes in
Norwich, Ct, for forty years, has just
discovered that his residence is outside
the city bounds.
Where do people go who deceive
their fellow men p asked n Sunday school
teacher of pupil. "To Europe" was
the prompt reply.
The Canada thistle is supposed to
have sprung up in Europe from q seed
dropped two hundred years ago from the
stuffed skin of q bird.
can afford to be a little extravagant
now, as my husbands been elected to
the Legislature" said an Indiana woman
rs size ordered six bars of soap to be sent
up.
Times have come to that pass when
man can't set his house on fire, collect
the insurance and put on any style with
the money without some one is mean
enough to throw out insinuations.
Every form of carbon, whether dia-
mond or coal, when burned with full ac-
cess of air, produces carbonic acid, Just
as the particles of our bodies do when
burned In the process of breathing.
You have good husband, Betsey!"
Um $3.50 good enough rs men go.
But what makes you speak of him 2"
He told me yesterday that in twenty
years he had never given you a cross
word "Oh 1 should think not, in
deed; and he better not try it, either"
A French manager has adopted an ex-
cellent plan in responding to encores
No piece is repeated until the entire pro-
gramme is given, when, after those who
wish to retire have left the auditorium,
the numbers redemanded are given
again.
A pretty story is in circulation in
Hampden county, Mass. Some time
ago the sheriff found that he was receiv.
ing S1,250 year, while the iailor had
81, 500. He proposed an exchange of
salaries to the latter official, and, as he
preferred even 81, $50 to discharge, he
accepted, and up to the time he left the
Office, paid the sheriff $3.50 year.
Recently DIR. Anthony, the medical
officer of Dungarvan, in Wales, was
called to attend poor woman in an ad-
vanced stage of bronchitis. The cabin
III which she lay contained only two
small rooms. In one of these were o
horse and three pigs; in the other, where
the poor patient was lying dangerously
Ill, ten persons were sleeping. The
door was closed, and the only ventila-
tion was through the chimney.
A little girl living near New Castle,
Pa, mistook the nature of some con-
centrated lye which was carelessly left in
tin cup where she was playing the
other day, and drank it. The fye so in
famed her oesophagus that that organ
became too contracted to allow of the in
PRODUCTION of even the smallest-sized
cathetcr. She now subsists entirely
upon beef-tea, which is introduced into
the stomach by very difficult and pain
full process.