Port Royal standard and commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1876-05-11
Items Of Interest.

ItOulduGlC OCoVA "a yS6 J
drowned in tears.
The monotony of life is wearing. Any
change is better than an empty pocket.
San Francisco has population OF
nearly 27O,OO0, according to its latest
directory.
Five thousand butchers in uniform
will parade in Philadelphia on the open
ing Of the Centennial.
A man may be said to have been
drinking like fish when he finds that
he has taken enough to make his head
swim.
No man knows how attractive his
home is until he offers it for sale, and
reads what the real estate agents say
about it.
"Too many men been hanged on that
side of it." was the explanation given
why Sacramento lamppost leaned to
the north.
Bread purchased with unearned
money is never 80 sweet as that which
has been earned by the sweat OF ones
own brow.
Every daily paper in Montreal but
one has libel suit on hand; one
has three, another two, and the other
five have one each.
A Mexican girl living at Tuescola has
three well developed arms. Sha can do
up her hair without cramming her
mouth full of hairpins.
Five thousand workmen in the coal
mines of North Derbyshire, England,
have struck work in consequence OF
proposed reduction of wages.
A.physician boasted at dinner that he
cured his own hams, when one OF his
guests remarked: "Doctor, I'd sooner
be your ham than your patient.
Representative Williams, of Indiana,
cured his consumption by driving
blind yoke of oxsn around the farm.
His voice is now two miles loud.
In the English House of Commons
the increase OF penny on pound In
the income tax was agreed to by vote
of one hundred and thirteen yeas to
to fifty-two nays.
We ought to live, says DR.. Hall, five
times as long as requires to get our
growth. We ought to weigh twenty
times as much at thirty-iye as on the
day We were born.
II q generous but ugly boy gives his
Younger brother "60" for stealing one
of his apples, and that night the apples
give him "si1ty"2 2, how many apples
did the younger brother receive
Mother" said Ike Darlington, "did
yon know that the 'irOn horse has but
one ear Z" "One ear mercifui
gracious, child, what do you mean"
/" Why, the engineer, of course"
"No man was better inoculated to
PREJUDICE pork than my husband was"
says Mrs. Partington "he knew what
good hogs were, be did, for he had been
brought up with 'em from his child
hood"
An American started bank in Alaska
a while ago. but the natives couldn't get
checks, drafts, exchange, and discount
through their heads, and so they took
all the money the banker had and called
it square.
Large orders have been received in
England for steel rails for foreign rail-
roads, and worlls which have been
closed during several months are about
to be put in operation again in conse-
quenoe.
T. J. Megibben, Of Paris, Ky., has
lost the short-horn bull Second Duke OF
Oneida. for which he paid 81, 600 at
the New York Mills sale. The COW, the
Duchess of Oneida, for which he paid
$25, 900, had died previously.
They have brought things to pretty
fine point in the Boston custom house,
where q coin check for one cent was
issued. It is directed to the assistant
treasurer of the United States, and bears
the signatures of the collector and
deputy collector.
A little neglect may breed a great mis-
chief for want If Q nail the shoe was
lost for want of shoe the horse was
lost and for want horse the rider was
lost, being overtaken and slain by the
enemy; all for want of o little care
about 8 horseshoe nail.
A schoolmaster at Exeter, England,
punished q boy by beating him with
green willow rod, and IN some manner
happened to destroy one OF the little
fellows eyes. He was tried on q crimi-
nal Indictment, and sentenced to i've
vears' penal seryitude.
The children of school age in England
and Wales, thai is from three to thlr-
teen, number 8, ,374, ,301, or twenty-three
Der cent. of the whole population. The
amount expended upon primary educa'
lion during the last ten years IN Eng
land, Wales and Scotland is e9, ,918,277.
Some people seem to be extremely
sensitive. At one of the churches III
Norwich, according to the Bulletin, one
Sunday the minister read the prayer for
q person in deep afaiction, and man
who had Just been married got up and
went out. He said he didn't want pub
lio sympathy obtruded on him in that
way.
In Burmah If two married persons are
tired of each others society, they dis
solve partnership in the following touch,
ing but conclugive manner. They light
two candles, and, shutting up tier hut,
sit down and wait quietly until they are
burned out. The one whose candle
burns out first gets up atonce and leaves
the house (and forever, taking nothing
but the clothes he or she may have on
at the time all else becomes the prop
erty of the other party.