Port Royal standard and commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1876-11-09
liens Of Interest.

People who don't pay their taxes are
not allowed to vote in Georgia.
This is not from "Daniel Deronda.
"She was plump and beautiful, and ne
was wildly fond of her. She hated num-,
but. womanlike, strove to catch hlm.
What was hep A flea.
The salmon product of the Columbia
river, Oregon, will this year reach the
enormous total of 40,000.000 pounds,
and the amount canned for shipment
will yield $3, 600, 900.
It was a New Jersey wife who said:
"My dear, if you can't really drink Daa
coffee without abusing me, how Is IL
that you can always drink bad whisky
without abusing the barkeeperf"
A bright little girl, having been asked
to write sentence introducing the word
"carrion," presented the following to
her teacher: "Bad children often car
rion in church, when they ought to be
quiet"
He now thinks it is unsafe to leave
blottinp paper around the Office. His
wife found this on piece:
:euS tseraeD
,sevolg TO 1ob dnes niw 1
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Fifty thousand elephants are killed
every year to furnish the ivory worked
mo in England alone. The best ivory
comes from Zanzibar, the silver gray
from regions south of the equator, and
tba favorite ornamental material from
Siam.
One of the largest droves OF cattle
ever seen in any place was driven irom
Texas, a few weeks ago from Capt.
Kings ranch, Nueces county. TO Kan.
sas. The herd numbered 80, 600 horned
cattle. and was attended by 700 drovers.
The outfit alone cost $50, 600, and the
herd brought $780, coo.
"Mr. Tompkins," said young Lady
who had been showing off her wit at the
expense of q dangler, "you remind me
Of q barometer that is filed with nothing
in the upper story" "Divine Julia, >"
meekly replied her adorer, /" in thanking
you for that compliment, let me remind
you that you occupy my upper story
T. ia ant 10 shake q mans confidence
in his wife to awake in the early morn
ING and find her sitting on the edge OF
the bed going through his pockets.
And it is apt to shake woman,s conn
dence in her husband to find nothing In
those pockets but lager beer check, a
piece of bologna sausage, q variety show
tickat and a perfumed note signed
"Ever yours, Julia.
A realistic reporter Of the Philadel-
mia Times, describing the crowds at
the Exhibition on Pennsylvania day,
saws: "The people moved into the
Buildings like fo1's tail seen dlsap-
nearing through an inch auger hole
throneh which it is drawn by pair OF
horses on the other side, and they moved
out of the buildings like minced meat
out of sausage stufer."
A circus that travels in Texas has an
uncovered canvas inclosure. At Brack-
ett a tree overhanging the ring was occu-
pied by men and boys, who thus saw
the show free of cost. A performer 8
feat included firing revolver on horse
hack. and at the first discharge specta'
tor fell dead from the tree. Ihereupon
the circus men were mcbbed, and
escaped by q practical use OF their skill
in horsemanship.
An Enelishman who insulated his
bedstead by placing underneath each
most q broken off bottom OF agiass DOT
tie. says that he had not been free from
rheumatic gout for fifteen years. ana
that he begun to improve immediately
after the application OF the insulaeors.
A local paper, quoting this item, wisely
adds: "There's many a fellow VINO
could cute his gout, if he would break
off the bottoms of his glass bottles In
time"
Not one person in dozen can tell the
names of those whose busts are TO Do
found on postage stamps. The bust on
the one cent stamp represents Franklin;
twos, Jackson; threes, Washington;
fves, Taylor; SKIES, Lincoln; seyens,
Stanton; tens, Jefferson; twelves, Clay;
fifteens, Webster; twenty .fours, Scott;
thirties, Hamilton; nineties, Perry. Inc
seven, twelve and twenty.four cen:
stamps are not now issued, but many Oh
them are in circulation.