The tribune. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1876-03-01
Items Of Interest.


America produces I, 600, 600 paper col
lars day.
Girls in India marry at the age of ten
or twelve.
Venetians eat fried cuttle fish with
lemon juice.
Religious revivals are taking place in
various parts of the United States.
The Chinese of Belleville, N. J., cele-
brated their New Years by tea and
firecracker party.
Tom Paine's birthday was celebrated
by the different associations bearing his
name in the United States. -
Laborers in the Michigan woods are
working for their board. That's what
the woods are for, we believe.
A blind mendicant in Peris wears this
inscription around his neck "Don't be
ashamed to give only a sou. I can't
see."
The man who reads much finds
friends in all places in books. When
ever he takes up volume he feels a
tome.
There are fewer distilleries now run
ming in any of the large corn raising
counties of central Kentucky than in
any past year.
Lieutenant Cameron travelled on foot
q ,953 miles, from Zanzibar to Benguela,
trusting to mere accident for his iveli.
hood as he went along.
A New Haven tailor called in to testify
in the city court, stated that /" fancy
tailors generally put on about ten or fif-
teen dollars for Style" He drew it mild.
eff use it I'll be just as dirty after
it's gone II sell it can have peanuts
and ride home, too" soliloquized boot
black when he found cake of toilet
soap.
A popular industry in many river
towns is the catching Of drift wood. It
is an occupation requiring patience and
n disposition to take things as they
come.
There's always something new. A
foTiorn lad Of ten leads dog around
town and says to pedestrians +" Please
gimme cent, and you may kick my
dog I"
Boys under fifteen are not allowed to
bo on the streets of Falls City, Kan,
after eight P. NJ, and all profane and III
decent language is punished with fine
and imprisonment.
Among the food products supplied to
the London market is dried egg. The
meat of the egg, both white and yolk,
is reduced to fine powder, and can be
wet up and used for cooking.
The San Francisco Journal of Com
nlerce estimates the wheat crop of Cali
fornia at value g. S2s, S2s ,999, 9G9 coo, and,
what will surprise many people, the gold
and silver crop Mt million less.
A girl described gentleman to whom
she was in reduced as wearing :" star
tied look, giving one the impression that
any sudden noise would cause him to
Jump through hisnecktie and run away"
Why should the beehive be taken rs a
symbol Of industry7 Not bee is to be
seen all the winter long, while the cock
roach is up at five o'clock in the morn
ing. and never goes to bed until mid
night.
When man is too lazy to work and
too cowardly to steal, he sits in lager
beer saloon, frowns ominously at free
lunch counter, and remarks to his
brother exile: " The country's going to
the dogs"
The prudent young man does not now
visit female friends without q witness,
oiu WHICH, ouo Vi DIchtuSb u CSuQ6f
question he replies: "No, dearest, it
can never be, but will always be q
brother to you"
There is a woman in the poorhouse at
Pawlet, Vt, who can see further than
the majority of her sex. To all offers of
marriage she resolutely replies "I
would not swap the town of Pawlet for
the best man living"
One of the largest and finest stores in
New York stands idle to-day, as it has
for five ye ,rs. At that time the land
lord, a wealthy old man, fixed his rental,
and declared that it should stand idle
until the rent was paid, and il stands
aud will stand until the old man diesand
his heirs take the thing in hand.