The tribune. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1876-05-10
Items Of Interest.

! trousers ObtMned on credit are
breeches of trust.
Not less than twelve thousand women
are employed in the glove trade in the
department Of the Loire, France, alone.
Russia contains Ia, Bis, ,55S children of
between seven and fourteen years Of
age, and only sixty-nine per cent. attend
school.
SIS your house O warm one, land
lord 2" asked a gentleman in search Of q
house. " It ought to be-" was the re-
Ply, "the painter gave it two coats re-
GENTLY"
The coroners' reports show that three
hundred children are suffocated in bed
each year in the central districts of Mid
dlesex, England; and that most of these
suffocations occur on Sunday morning.
A young lady who had an offer of
marriage from q Mr.. Moore, wrote to
him and asked for time to consider the
matter. The letter was courteous and
brief, closing with "No more ut pres
ent"
The papers are making q great stir
over an apple, still plump and solid,
said to have been picked by Washington
| in 1772, at Portsmouth, N. H., and care
fully stuck in with cloves and guarded
as an heirloom by two generations.
As young shaver of five or six years
was reading in school the other day, he
came upon the passage "Keep thy
tongue from evil and thy lips from
guile" Master Hopeful drawied ont
Keep-thy-tong e-from-evil--and
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS."
Atrocious usage of children has been
the practice in the Ohio soldiers or
phans' home. An official Investigation
shows that pounding with barrel slaves,
blows in the face that left disfguring
marks, and other equally severe punish-
ments, were daily inflicted.
Two hundred trains pass daily over
the Pennsylvania railroad between New
York and Philadelphia. A train Leaves
Jersey City every seven minutes, night
and day. After the Centennial has
fairly opened it is reported that the
number of trains will be nearly doubled.
The most trying moment in the life of
a youth is when he slips, for the first
time, into a barber shop to be shaved,
and meets his father there on the same
errand. Somehow it takes some time
for the parental mind to become recon
ciled to the fact of his hopeful's pin
feathers.
MAY they always live in peace and
harmony" was the way marriage mo-
tice should have wound up; but the
compositor, who couldn't read manu-
script very we'll, put In type, and hor-
rified the happy couple by making it
read: May they always live on peas
and hcminy."
| A partridge few through window In
house in North Greenbush, N. Y, md
striking q sewing machine near the win
dow, broke it, and fell to the floor dead.
Upon examination it was fonnd that the
head of the bird was crushed into q
shapeless mass, probably by it's contact
with the glass in the window.
borrowing John Phenix's jokes SO
when she asked him how he felt, he
averaged himself according to the
Phenix plan of being very definite, and
he said he felt "about eighty-eigiit per
cent" Indeed" she said, with de-
mure look, "are you never going to
par2"
From Punch. Scene on an English
railway train: No. /. "Rather remark
able, amt it, sir2 But ave you hever
noticed as mostly all the .,laces on this
line begins with .H9' I" No. q. saw
beg your pardon" No. 1. "L,ook at
'em. 'Ampstead, 'Ighgate. 'Ackney,
'Omerton, 'Endon, jArrow, 'Olloway and
'Ornsey."
A blacksmith in Humboldt county,
California, offered himself as bail for
prisoner whose trial was put of till the
next term. care you surely worth $500
above all your debtsa" inquired the re-
corder. "Why, sir, mold my wife to
be worth $500, without counting prop
erty." The court is satisfied take the
bail, replied the recorder.
A pauper in an English poorhouse re-
Gently wrote to the guardians that,
Being shut out from public life, he
wished them to insert an advertisement
! for him as horse trainer IN the leading
| English sporting journals. They re-
spectfully declined. Another, at the
same meeting, asked to be supplied
"with eggs and wine, as abe could not
eat meat" This was also declined.
A harmless, inoffensive beggar ap.
peared in Oconto, Wis, dressed in rags.
begging from door to door by day,
sleeping in the barns at night, and serv-
ing as q target for snowballs whenever
the boys felt sportively inclined. Every
body p;tied him. Finally he .und one
special man, and then it turned out that
the beggar was Nevada detective.
The man he found was murderer.
whose trail he had followed for three
years, and for whose arresta heavy re-
ward was offered.
A certain pompous Judge fined several
lawyers $40 each for contempt of court.
After they had paid their fines, steady
going old attorney walked gravely up TO
the hanch and laid daun a 91fl Hsl1