The tribune. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1876-06-28
Items OF Interest.


The paying admissions to the Centen-
NAL on Decoration day numbered A.
Ill.
There are 10000 children living on
boats in England, who receive no edu
cation.
President Grant, it is said, expects to
make tour of the world at the close of
his term of Office.
Tennessee has forty cotton mills, en-
ploying 56.35S spindles, and consuming
IA, 443 bales of cotton.
During the recent drought in Jamaica
water was so scarce that it fetched eight
cen shillings puncheon.
The intelligent farmer never waits for
something to turn up. He takes good
plow to the ground and turns it up.
According to the new directory, San
Francisco has now q population of 272,-
345 souls, gain of 1000 during the
last year.
In the second week of March there
we're sc, ,808 paupers in London, of whom
Sc, ,915 we're in workhouses, and 40, 1893
received outdoor relief.
A bill has been introduced into the
Texas Legislature declaring drunkenness
to be misconduct, and making it pun
ishable by fine of 800.
The Benedictine monks are to estab-
ish a monastery at Fort Augustus, In
verness-shire, Scotland, after an absence
of three hundred years.
The exports of France to England in
the first three months of the current
year amounted to $50, ,O00, 900; those of
| Graot Rrifoin IN Fronoa 61Q mn nm
In Egypt three out of five children die
before reaching the age of two years.
This is about the rate of mortality among
Presidential candidates in the United
States this year.
The governor of Texas has issued q
proclamation revoking all immigration
agencies heretofore established, as the
new constitution does not recognize any
bureau of that kind.
In a certain apothecary's shop of
Pittsburgh may be seen q notice recon-
mending certain patent medicine with
the dubious heading: "Try the box
moot her medicine will ever be taken"
In Exeter, England, policeman
wanted to arrest girl, but she prefer
red the canal to her misery, and jump
Ell. He ieaped after to save her, but
she clung fast to him, and both were
drowned.
At a medical examination q young
aspirant for physicians diploma was
asked "When does modification
ensue2" "When you propose and are
rejected. was the reply that greeted the
questioner.
eff there is anybody under the canis-
ter of heaven that have in utter excre-
scence," says Mrs. Partington, sit is the.
slandarer, going about like boy con-
structor, circulating his colonel upon
honest folks"
Intelligent housemaid-" Oh, please
miss, there was young gentleman call
ed when you was out. He didn't leave
no card, miss, but I Can snow you vino ne
is, because there's three of his photo
graphs in your album"
A bar of gold, valued at 81, 900, was
carelessly thrown away with the ashes OF
the San Francisco mint, and the "fnd
was picked up by seven year old boy,
from whom the officials of the coin shop
without making the circumstance OF the
loss known to the police.
"Nothing," said recent writer, "can
form more dengntful study for bne
physiognomist than the light of hope
and expectancy on the countenance of a
maiden awaiting the coming of her be-
loved. Pshawl The man who wrote
that should just see the expression on q
New Jersey potato bugs visage as he
sits on o clump of dirt Watching for
the first sign of the new crop to come
up.
The carpenter may look with pride
upon the technology of his trade, for is
is used everywhere. To say nothing
of old saws, we have heard of case
where lawyer split hair, shaved q
note, got up case, made an. entry,
framed an indictment, challenged the
jury panel, put twelve of them In q
box, bailed witness, hammered the
Judge and bored the whole court. And
what adze to his offense he chissled his