Port Royal standard and commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1876-12-21
Items of Interest.


II bird in the hand is worth two in
the bush, is q mole in the face worth
two in the ground?
A cricket ball struck a boy, aged
thirteen, behind the ear, In London.
He fell senseless and died within two
hours.
The wine crop of France this year is
unusually large, being a third larger
than the vines promised at the outset OF
the season.
The annual death rate in London now
averages eighteen per 1000 in Edin-
burgb, twelve; in Glasgow, twenty
one in Dublin, nineteen.
DIR. Carpenter believes in confning an
habitual drunkard long enough to have
new food, without alcohol, produce new,
healthy tissues of tho body.
Mrs. Trimmell's terrible mode Of sui
eide, in Sterling, Ky, was to saturate
her clothing with kerosene and set fire
to it. She was religiously insane and
believed that the flames would watt her
to heaven without burning her.
Admirers of q former mathematical
professor at Dartmouth cite. as proof OF
his wonderful gift of calculation, that.
when he went to Europe, he estimated
his expenses 80 accurately that he took
Just enough money to pay all his bills,
and returned with one cent left.
Senator Norwood, of Georgia, is forty
six years old, AID the son OF tanner.
When elected to the United States Sen
ate he said he did not know thirty mem
hers of the Legislature that elected him.
He is known as "Tanyard Tom," and
can beat any man in Georgia telling
joke.
The good old days are dead and gone;
the rich coloring has faded out OF the
warp and woof of the past, and yet we
rejoice that it is still true that pretty
woman cannot ride by her lovers side
through tunnel without emerging Ill
hat that looks as if it had been struck
by Lightning.
Mrs. Polk, the widow Of the e1-Presi-
dent, says correspondent, now lives Id
Nashville, and takes lively interest IN
affairs of State. Her husbands tomb Is
laid in the lawn in front of her house.
It is solid block of gray stone, under
fat entablature Of the same stone, raised
above by four stone pillars.
A merchant, having sustained con-
siderable loss. desired his son not to
mention it to anybody. The youth
promised silence, but at the same time
requested to know what ADVANTAGES
could attend it. eff you divulge the
loss" said the father, "we shall have
two evils to support instead of one-our
grief and the joy of our neighbors.
Along the Virgin river, in Nevada, are
some OF the most remarkable salt forma-
tions in the world. They are mountains
of crystal salt, extending for more than
thirty miles. The salt lies under shall
low covering of earth, and is raised by
blasting. Most of it is perfectly pure,
and is 30 clear that fine letters can be
read through pieces of it foot In thick
ness.
President Chadbourne, OF Williams
College, during lecture was telling the
freshman class that the notion OF allow
ING girls to enter the college for the sake
of their good influence on the boys was
not as sound as it might be, when
freshman raised his hand and eagerly
inquired: "Don't you think it would
have q good influence on the young
ladies"
Though Mohammedan who msrr'Ao
q French girl is not required to renouIee
his religion, he cannot contract 'ald
marriage with another woman udring
her lifetime. These unions usually turn
out well and are extremely prolific. and
the Arab husband submits passively to
the dominion o: his French consort..
as though he tacitly acknowled himself
of an inferior race.
An English company has proposed TO
Governor Smith, of Georgia, to put on
q first-class line of steamers between
Savannah or Brunswick and Liverpool
at once, and keep them running steadl-
ly, provided the State viii give them O
bonus of $4,000 year for three years;
They guarantee besides that they will
land three hundred ir migrants per
month on our shores.
The recent report of the French min
ister of the interior gives the immlgra-
ton from France from 1855 to 1874 as
,245; the agricultural element const'-
tuted thirty-seven per CENT, ana tae
average of men was seventy one per
cent. and of women twenty-nine per
cent. During the same period the I'M
migration of permanent settlers, chiefy
by the eastern frontier, reached 63,O2o.
The Sea Serpent.