The tribune. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1875-08-18
Items OF Interest.

The Roman catholic clergy OF Troy
are determinedly trying to stop round
dancing at Irish picnics.
Query for naturalists-If bird in the
hand is worth two in the bush, is mole
on the face worth two in the ground
The Sicilians, of late so sharply over
hauled, assert that there is as much bri-
gandage in the streets of New York as
in their own island.
Fifty thousands Fijians are said, on
the best authority, to have perisbed
since the present epidemic of measles
began in the Fiji Islands.
A mosquito, buzzing around where a
young lady was singing "Come to mo
in beautiful dreams," said he would
provided there was no bar.
The niagara Register says that dogs
have been sent over the falls without
sustaining serious injury. Now suppose
you experiment with hackmen.
There is no place like home. Falla-
cious. If your home be in row of
houses, it is probable that the homes of
your neighbors will be like yours.
A young man in Philadelphia went
out rowing in n skeleton boat, few days
since, and strapped himself to it. The
bont capsized and he was drowned.
The sultan has eight hundred wives,
and devotes to his own and their use
60, ,OCO,O out of the 100000 that
constitutes the whole income of tho
Turkish empire.
Danbury, Conn.,, has just welcomed
the return, through executive clemency,
of one of It's oldest inhabitants, who has
passed over forty years of his life i'll
prison for horse stealing.
When boy falls and peels the skin
off his nose, the first thing he does is to
get up and yell. When girl tumbles
and hurts herself badly, the first thing
she does is to get up and look at her
dress.
Another indication that economy is in
fashion is furnished by Saratoga shoe
maker, who, surrounded by piles of old
boots, slippers and shoes, remarked:
81 never saw SO much Goblin in Sara
toga before"
Agassiz was accustomed to tell his
pupils to kill n fish as soon rs taken from
| the water, because the flesh of the fish
that die as soon as taken from the water
is much better than that of those that
suffer before dying.
A Denver boy pulled the bnng out of
O beer barrel and stuck in his thumb
the barrel rolled over and broke the
| thumb SO badly that it had to be am
putated; and the father of the boy sued
the owner of the barrel for $4,000.
A Georgia farmer has raised from one
grain of wheat one hundred and ninety
one stalks and one hundred and ninety
heads. The largest head has one hun
| lral ,,I az fsua oroina This 10 tho
most remarkable reproduction on record.
The old superstitious idea that the
| hand of dead man is talisman against
evil, once prevalent among Southern
negroes, seems not to have died out.
vault in Greenville, Miss, was recently
broken open and hand cut from u
corpse.
The Patrons of Husbandry of Indiana
have resolved that they will not buy GER
tain agricultural implements, for the
very reason that the manufacturers re-
fuse to recognize the grange agents, and
will only sell through the old established
agents.
California is giving fresh evidence of
the antiquity of man. Sawn logs that
might have been worked at by the man
of the Calavaras skull have just been dug
ont 1900 feet from the mouth of the
Sonth Fork tunnel, and 800 below the
surface.
A man was recently discharged from
the Berks county (Pa.) prison, where he
had been serving term of thirty days
for vagrancy, who is only thirty eight
years of age, and has been in twenty
seven different jails, spent twenty years
of his life in them and learned five
trades.
At Halifax, N. S., circus has fallen
into the hands Of bailiffs. A firm of
printers seized several of its effects for
debt, among the rest fierce lion. They
announce that they are going to put this
animal to use in collecting bills of refrac-
tory patrons.
In a case lately tried in Philadelphia
court, the presiding judge instructed
the jury that the act of killing by one
whose mind, from extreme intoxication,
was incapable of forming deliberate ln-
tention, could not be held as murder in
the first degree.
A mother and father are trying to
force their daughter tom rry. Daughter
Qoquitur)-" There are many reasons
why don't want to marry him. In the
first place, he is too hideousand stupid.
Mother with dignity" Stephanie, did
I not marry your father9"
Whoever has had occasion to find
out what high prices are charged by dem
fists in Paris will Appreciate this story !:
A lady went to ono of the fraternity to
have tooth extracted. He did the work
in q moment, and she gave him ten
francs He looked at it in disgust. els
this for my servant 2" he said. s'No,
sir, she answered, it is for both Of
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