The tribune. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1876-05-24
Items OF Interest.

There are Us many rich men as good
men.
The value of q mans education can
not be estimated by the price he paid
for it.
The estimated income of the parochial
clergy of England and Wales is
s23, ,OOo, 900.
The latest thing from the Black Hills
the man who had money enough to
get back again.
A shipment of twenty-five boxes of
Chinamen's bones was recently made at
San Francisco for China.
The sheriff of Perquimans county, N,
O., weighs 40 pounds. When pris-
oner is refractory he sits down on him.
How many thousand parents ought to
be whipped every day for doing exactly
what they would whip their children for9
This is the season of the year when
man wonders whether he will have his
hair cut or wait till he won't catch cold.
The man who feels the meanest is he
who with the new hat on his head tries
to keep the old one out of sight under
his coat.
John Murray sat in a window in Balti-
more, to cut his toe nails, fell out, stuck
the knife blade into his side, and bled to
death.
A man who never has more than dol
lar about his person at one time COM
plains that silver coin substituted for
currency will be too bulky.
A fashion journal says "waists are to
be longer this year :" but as long
as they are not broader, young men with
short arms will manage to get around
them.
Marshal MacMahon has consented to
pardon those Communists condemned
for their political course who have ex-
hibited good behavior in the penal
colonies.
San Francisco millionaire has car
peted the stalls in his stable. and would
like it if his horses would sleep on $50
bedsteads. There's only q step between
the horse and the mule.
A cat at Detroit fire rescued her kit
tens by "bravely entering the burning
building and dragging them out; and
her reward is adoption by wealthy old
woman, who will feed her on dainties
during the rest of her life.
Habey, candidate for senator in
Paris, was nominated rs representative
OF poor workingmen; but, much to the
annoyance of his supporters, the dis
covery has been made that he owns prom
erty worth $50, 900 francs.
A woman near Bolton, England, sold
some impure milk from her farm, and
the result was violent outbreak of
typhoid and milk poisoning, from which
twenty people died, the woman who
owned the farm among the number.
at Yen-ping, China, placards melting
the populace against foreigners are post
ed on the walls of the city, and flags
bearing this inscription, "expel and de-
stroy the foreign barbarians," are flying
in prominent localities.
Because man in Portland, Oregon.
deemed 1t necessary for the preservation
of his authority at home to fog his wife,
all the women in the vicinity met in
council, passed resolutions, and then
going to his house, whaled him until he
became insensible.
In China, where labor is cheap, a
Chinaman will sit all day long blinking
gold pieces in leather bag. By con-
stant process of attrition the leather be-
comes filled with gold dust, which,
when collected, affords him fair remu-
neration for his days work.
A young lady at Newark, Ia, has re-
covered damages from the estate of q
suitor who committed suicide upon
being called upon to fulfill his promise
to marry her. The court held that the
suicidal act under the circumstances was
a deliberate breach Of promise for
which his estate might be held liable.
There was no plea of insanity.
A traveller overtal-inp NJ old Prcsby.
terian minis:r g. mar =
fatirued, un.z ~
upon bis "tur.
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