Port Royal standard and commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1875-12-30
Items of Interest.

Items of Interest. .-s.s.
Queer inscription on nm English tomb
stone: "Methusaleh Cony, aged twslve
months"
The Virginia City (Nev.) relief society
re uires at least $10O, 900 to provide for
tho destitute during the winter.
The Utah Mormons number 100, 900.
In Salt Lake City there are 80, 900.
There are two Gentiles to ten Mormons.
New Richmond, West Virginia, is
shipping walnut logs directly to London,
where better prices are obtained. than in
this country. s,.r,r
New linen may be moro easily en-
bro;dered by rubbing it over with fine
white soap. II prevents the threads,
from cracking. 30 ~
One of the most polite gentlemen we
ever heard of was he who, on passing "a
sitting hen, raised his hat, and blandly,
said: "Don't rise, madam -.
Bowdoin professors we're little sur
prised the other morning at seeing three
COWS patiently looking down at them
from third story window in tho college
buildings.
These whisky ring frauds have greatly
unsettled our confidence in mankind.
The next thing we shall hear is that the
men of draw poker and faro are straying
from the paths of virtue.
A water spout at Harkcr's Island, n. !,
c., struck the dwelling of Mrs, Gaskill,
q widow, totally destroyedit, killed four
OF her children, wounded another, and
swept the sixth-a baby-away.
The hay crop of New Hampshire is
estimated at $40, 600, 900, the corn crop,
1900, 900 bushels; oats 1,6O0, 600; gar
den crops, 81, 900, 900; butter, $500, 900
pounds; milk sold, 5000, 900 gallons.
A woman was buried in Bath, N. T.,
the other day, who weighed before her
death three hundred snd eighty pounds.
Her coffin was six feet long, three feet
| wide and two and one-half feet deep.
The maddest man in Wisconsin is
John Leigh, OF Occnto. He was 9
candidate for member of Assembly, and
being conscientious man voted for his
opponent, who was elected by just one.
majority.
"From what you know of him, would
you believe him under oathP' "Thas
depends on circumstances. If he was so
much intoxicated that he didn't know
what he was saying, would if not /
wouldn't" t."
A girl with three arms is attracting
attention in Tescelo, near Jalapa, Mexico;
and when that girl gets her two arms
around her husbands neck she'll still
have one to fiirt with the other fellov
across the street.
The ladies of the Mount Vernon Asso-
citation of Richmond are going t. hold
grand centennial ball on the twenty
second of February, at which all OF the
dresses are to be in the style OF one hun
dred years ago. :.
"My dear Murphy, why did you be-
tray that secret told youf" "Is it be.
tray that you call it Sure, when l
found WASN'T able to keep it, myself,
didn't I do well to tell it to some one
that could keep it?"
A woman in Virginia City, Nevada,
who had been bedridden for months, had
to be carried out of the house daring the
late fire, and within half an hour from
that her great fright had effected COM
plete cure of her infrmity. 49,
A New Orleans physician has an
original way of securing his fee when q
patient dies.S He makes post mortem
examination and carries some portion Of
the body to his Office, and gives notice
that he will return it when the bill is
paid.
"Coal Oil Johnny" instead Of work
ing as q laboring man on railroad, Is
at present building fence around two
hundred acre farm which he lately pur-
chased in California. He saved 'S15, 600
out of the general wreck, and is doing
we'll.
John Frederick Gunter went from
Chicago penniless to Australia, twenty
three wears ago. He now adyertises In
the Chicago newspapers that he Is able
and willing to help his relatives, and in
vites them to write to him. And won't
he hear from thema s....~s
An apprentice sailor boy fell from the
ground top" to the deck, stunned, but
little hurt. The captain exclaimed, in
surprise "Why, where did you come
from g. "From the north OF Ireland,
YER honor" was the prompt reply as the
poor fellow gathered himselfup.
Said a Nevada lawyer concerning
man who had kicked his wife down
stairs: "Gentlemen of the jury, ne
h'isted her He-the brute, once, per.
b, ps, a man-raised his foot and applied
it to the form of her who, at the holy
altar, he had sworn to love and CHERISH.
Vice. President Wilson's brain weighed
forty-niae and one-half ounces. That is
rather above the average weight--which
is, in this country, probably about forty
four or forty-fve ounces. Daniel Web
sters brain has been mentioned IN
newspaper paragraph, published some
years ago, as having been found TO weigh
sixty three ounces.
"My DEAR" said Mr.. Lombrey, the
eiver of the party, 81 have just been
telling Mr.. Tuttle that uncle, who died
the other day, left us something that
should have run down in the family.
He saws clock, suspenders, pull back
elastic, whisky: my dear, what was it 2.
"Why, an heirloom, pa" ooh /! yes,
said Lombrey, 81 knew it Was some
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