Port Royal standard and commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1876-05-18

But she only Hsses dear little Jo,
And whispers: "soon, little sweet We shan
!" But Charlie, Willie, Grandpa and Jack,
am almost sure, child, are coming back"
Items OF Interest.
"Iet no single man escape Is the
leap year motto Of the ladies'.
Sunday boots squeak worse than every
dsy ones. So do Sunday Christians.
, Over $18, ,OOO, 900 are invested in var
ious enterprises Of the grangers In the
Uuited States.
Paris proposes to name one OF her
streets "Feb. 90" in honor OF the late
Republican victory ct the polls.
A tract Of 1000 acres Of land on
Maple river, Dakota, has been pur.
chased by Eastern capitalists for q great
wheat farm.
They tried to get rid Of the pastor OF
an Illinois church by reducing his salary
to $500 per year, but he took the motiop
kindly and replied: Why, lived
through last year on $75 in cash and a
bag of mealT
The mayor of Fordwich, England, is
dead, after an uninterrupted tenure OF
Office for twenty-eight years. 1t Is The
rule in the borough, If sny person no
fused to accept the Office OF mayor, to
pull down his house.
The price Of cattle in Texas is about
as follows: Yea:lings, 81 and $3.50;
two-year olds, mixed, $3.50 and. $8;
COWS, 81 and SO; beeves, $14 and Bio.
But large herds are often gathered upat
figures much lower than these.
In Anoka, Mimi, recently, q six-year-
old girl was overheard telling her play
mate that she had attended church 80
ciable the evening before, and that lit
tie boy had kissed her while they were
engaged in play, but she said: "That,s
no harm, cause it was our preachers
boy, you know" ~ 'e
2 An old Scotch laird, at an election
ball, had attired himself in splendor for
the occasion. The candidate, who was
going round, of coursA, scayllli
ties, said: 81 dinna ken yes &Eet
SO Draw" "Na," said the old
"and I daresay yell no ken me for anss'
other seven years
"To1ophobia" is that peculiar state
Of mania which makes person believe
that he is being poisoned. The number
of persons affected with this curious de-.
mentia is much larger than would be
supposed. In about sixty cases record
ed in an English medical journal, only
two were obviously insane in other re-
spects. +
Thus talks an old farmer about his
boys: "From sixteen to twenty they
knew more than did; at twenty. five
they knew as much; at thirty they were
willing to hear what had to say; at
thirty-fve they asked my advice; andi
think when they get to be forty they
will acknowledge that the old man does
know something"
The editor of the st. Thomas (Can. }
Times says that he found two Young fox
cubs that he placed under the care OF q
cat, and that not only did the. cat adopt
them, but the old fox comes to the door
every night to leave food for them. One
night the fond parent left seventeen
chickens that he had contracted for at
the residences OF neighbors.
cit does not speak well for the intel
lioenee of the public" says the London
Lancet, "that the stamp duty on patent
medicines during last year yielded an
increase Of El3, $40 over the produce Of
the previous year. 1t is scarcely credi-
BILE Ihat the passion for consuming un'
known quantities of unknown drugs
should be 80 strong as the thriving trade
in nostrums indicates.
"You see, some people has good luck,
and some people bad luck. Now, !
remember once i was walking along the
street with Tom Jellicks, and he went
down one side of it and I went down the
other. We hadn't got more'n half way
down when he found pocketbook with
$216 II it, and I stepped on wonnan's
dress and got acquainted with my present
wife. It was always SO" he said, with
sigh, "that Tom Jellicks was the lucki-
est man in the world, and I never had
no luck"
During q recent performance at
Paris theater, a man and his wife had
quarrel on the stage-the woman IN
rage of jealousy, the man trying TO pur.
suade her that she was too suspicious
and too passionate. Both were acting
with great spirit, when the wife moved
her arm too near acandle, and her mus
lin dress was in flames in an instant.
Both actors kept their presence OF mind,
however. The husband e1tinguished
the fire, and, proceeding with his part,
interpolated: "You see, my dear, Twas
right; You al ready to fare up for the
least thing.
CAUr1oN.-"H How had you the au-