The tribune. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1875-05-26
Items OF Interest.

Last Christmas there were 750, ,415
paupers in England and Wales.
A Vermont gentleman has recovered
5000 for being hanged in efigy.
A dentist of Hampstead, Tex, dropped
dead while extracting the teeth of q pa
| tient.
A Bangor editor boasts of having
suckers in that city from five to six feet
in length.
1t will require seven years of steady
work to construct the tunnel between
England and France.
Borrowed clothes never it." III they
would fit, the chances are that you
couldn't borrow them.
He who eats strawberries and cream
with his sweetheart at this season has
the dear things all together.
A grand jury in Ohio has undertaken
to suppress church fair raffies, as well as
other raffies not considered fair.
A politician who accidently drank from
the wrong bottle with friend is one of
the few men in America who knows how
horse iniment tastes.
cdr. Mary Walker" Washington
correspondent says, "looks like a mis-
sionary's wife," Then we are mighty
sorry for the missionary.
There are signs that the great dead
lock in the South Wales coal fields is
approaching O termination. Both sides
are evidently weary of the struggle.
In China mans friends congratulate
him on the birth of son, and condole
with him on the birth Of daughter.
They are very emphatic opponents of
"women's rights"
"Why are women so much more cour-
ageous than men" asked lady the
other day, after talking of politics and
war. Because it is not they who have
to fight" he replied.
A bad little boy, upon being promised
five cents by his mother If he would
take dose of castor oil, obtained the
money, and then told his parent that she
might castor oil in the street.
A pronouncing match took place in
Cincinnati. Twenty married persons on
one side pronounced against twenty un-
married on the other. The rules of the
spelling ring governed the exercises.
A man in London earns living by
going round waking people whose bust
| ness requires them to get up very early
in the morning. Many policemen also
increase their incomes in the same way.
There is a man in Guilford, Conn.,,
who has predicted all the bad weather
the past winter. He says there will be
another snow storm, but some of the
people down there say that If il comes
they will have that mans head.
Benjamin Franklin said: "It is hard
for an empty beg to stand upright"
This great truth is robbed of its sadness
when we know that there is no necessity
for bag or any thing else to stand up
when it would look better lying down.
The experiment of transfusing blood
has just been applied to Gen. Frank
Blair, who has long been prostrated with
paralysis at his home in st. Louis. Six
ounces of blood were injected into mis-
veins, and the result is said to be favor
able.
A canal boat with the captain, his
wife, little child, q colored man and
two mules on board, was carried over
the dam in the Potomac at Cumberland
by the wind, and strange to say no DAM
age was done to either the passengers or
the boat.
The latest discovery in France is that
the numerous gypsy bands securing that
country are entirely under marching
orders and military discipline from Ber-
lin. They are won't to pick out their
camping grounds fifty miles ahead, and
know in advance the name of the man
owning that ground as we'll as he knows
it himself.
According to the last census in Eng
land and Wales, the females of the popu-
lation outnumber the males by soc, 900
but above the age of twenty-five the
males exceed the females in number.
While there were 1000 widowers,
there were 873, 900 widows. Above the
age of ninety, females number two to
every male.
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