The tribune. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1876-02-23
Items Of Interest.

Items or Interest.
Whisky is dollar drink at the
Black Hills.
Gall lady "chicken," and ten to
one she is angry with you. Tell her she
is emo chicken" and twenty to one she
is more angry still.
The first fruits of leap year shine
forth in the case of Miss Belle Harper,
because he refused her offer of mar
riage.
Man" Do you think il would be- safe
for me to cross this pasturel" Maid
"Well, the old bull don't like red very
much, but if you will chalk your nose I
guess he won't attack YOU"
A lady, rid ing on the cars the other
day, was amused by the question of
little girl who, hearing the conductor
cry the stations, asked: essay, NAM
ma, do we get out at the next hollerf"
There is said to be three hundred and
fifty foundries in the United States en-
gagged in the manufacture Of stoves and
furnaces, using annually five hundred
thousand tons of iron.
As the Pittsburgh murderer passed
clump of newspaper reporters, on his
way to the gallows, he remarked, conf
dentially (says the Cincinnati Times:
Give me good send-off, boys" He
got it.
A somewhat juvenile dandy said to a
fair partner at ball "Don't you
think, miss, my mustaches are becom-
ing2" To which she replied "Well,
sir, the may be coming, but they have
not yet arrived"
The misfortunes of q servant girl
Yes, mum, dreadful destructive these
things il. If this here vase didn't sneak
down stairs from the parlor when I
wasn't a-noticin. and smashed itself to
atoms on the kitchen floor -
4 thief at Council Bluffs, Iowa, has
been detected in the act of catching his
neighbors' chickens by batting fish
hook with corn. attaching it to strong
line, and pulling through fence the
fowls which swallowed the bait.
Little Alice was crying bitterly, and
on being questioned confessed to hav-
ing received q slap from one of her play
fellows. "You should have returned
it," unwisely said the questioner.
ooh, I returned it BEFORE" said the lit
tie girl.
Professor Denton said at st. Paul,
Mimi, that the mound builders were
Mexicans, who came North for Superior
copper, and that the American Indians
are descendants of Asiatics, who came
over when America and Asia were con-
nected by land.
"What will you have ?" asked waiter
of one of the Indiana editors," at the
dinner in Philadelphia, as he handed him
a bill of fare. And the Hoosier with the
high forehead leaned back in his chair,
wiped his forehead thoughtfully with q
napkin, and calculated sternly "Gim-
me all ?" 0t
An eminent physician of Western
city says he has cured ninety mine out of
every hundred cases of scarlet fever by
giving the patient warm lemonade with
gum arabic dissolved in it. A cloth
wrung out in hot water and laid upon
the stomach should be removed as rap
idly as it becomes cool
Occupying clerkship in the Treasury
department at Washington is bright,
bewitching little widow, who refuses to
marry, although every single man who
sees her liz ready to lead her to the altar.
She is as good, too, as she is beautiful,
and takes care of two young brothers
and o widowed mother.
The funny man of the Rochester
Democrat frequently, when at party,
wanders dreamily to window, graceful
ly Lifts aside the purple curtain, and
while he sighs and looks at the stars the
maidens whisper: "He is thinking out
q piece of wit" and that gives him time
to chew up couple Of cloves.
A tramp, after a young lady had given
him some food, asked her for some
money, adding that the gift of a little
money would save him "from something
awful" This was clincher which in
dueed the 20 ng lady to furnish him
with a few pieces of paper currency.
Then she asked him what the awful
thing was from which her hberality
saved him. He replied " From hunt
ing up work."