Port Royal standard and commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1876-03-16
Items Of Interest.

Items Of Interest. - ,''"'i
There are nearly $4,000 Europeans in
Egypt.
Practiced coastersin Nevada are using
a sled with but one runner.
Two hundred and fifty Thousand gal
Ions OF beer are sold in London daily
There gre now more French workmen
in Berlin than there were before the war.
A Pittsburgh man has sued q dentist
for $500 for pulling out the wrong
tooth. .'.- % E5&h ifi3aC
A wife at Xenia, Ohio, offered her
husband divorce if he would BUY her E
sealskin cloak.
The Swiss federal council hes decided
that the civil marriage law does noe ior-
bid marriage with a deceased wlie Is
sister.
A Boston journal, in announcing that
an actress would play "NelP" In the
drama of "NeD Gwynne, put an d In
the wrong place. .,..u.,,IT.
II YOU have any friends or relatives IN
Philadelphia, now is the time 70 drop
them line, saying you'll be on 70 see
'em next summer. ... "iH'a; iG;iInT
A great revival has been in progres
in Fairfax, vt. 1t suddenly collapsed,
however. when the minister forbade the
boys going home with the girls. ''|
"Hard Times-Forty- Hearts
that Beat as Twenty-four r. That's me
way the Lancaster (Pa.) Gazette heads
a List of two dozen marriage licenses.
report of an Illinois hanging says:
The sheriff did not wish to conduct the
execution, as he was Grains COUSIN, put
Grain insisted that no one else should
hang him.
Some unknown parties placed a piece
of poisoned meat In the yard OF nearly
every dog owner in Fort Valley, da.,
and thirty y-seven dogs were afterward
found dead. #'l- 5afyG h.
It is related that two young ladies' in
Marysville, California, presented their
CLERGYMAN with turkey stuffed with
dollars. His wife will take the stunning
out OF tnab turkey h1it'ftf
According to the ninth semi ANIMAL
report of the Massachusetts, Catholic
Total Abstinence Union, just issued,
there are now seventy-four societies,
with $3.50 members, in the State. n
A New Bedford woman cheated q junk
dealer recently by putting about thirty
pounds of lead pipe in O. bag OF rags,
not knowing that the lead was worth
three times the value OF the rags. ~
"Young man." said the judge, ndid
you steal that piece OF hardware e.
"No sir" replied the prisoner, 81 Idont
steal hardware. That isn't in my line OF
business; chickens and coal is my llne.
The Erie car shops at Elmira, n. Y.
are crowded to their utmost capacity, in
turning out passenger cars to meet the
extra demand during the centennial
year. The men are working nine hours
day. ,..s.
Don't wax your walnut staircase when
you give party. Too many people
forget the waxing process and come down
via the back of their neck and spinal
column, and they don't like such whacks
as that. '''. ., .. "a
Turkey has fifteen immense shlpe OF
war. which cost nearly J, 81, ,0O0,OOO
apiece. They lie idle in the Bosphorus
ali summer, their only use, being 20 fre
saIutes every Friday when the suisan
goes to mosque. : i'e'
Prof. Edward A; Freeman was Gold
when at Ragusa that "every pretty 8lri
| is carried off as matter OF course, and
asserts that it was q specially fonl out
rage of this kind which led to the Hefze-
govinian insurrection. II ~ -, =,
A Frenchnan, who has lived In Araeri-
ca for some years, says: !" When they
build a railroad, the first thing they do
is to break ground. This is done with
GREAT ceremony. Then they break the
Stockholders. This is done without
ceremony" .1 %, "SH
The bill introduced into the Pennsyl.
yania Legislature, making it tpenal
offense to point gunat person IN Jun
is all right; but We would prefer TO see
law enacted making the crime OF whis-
Ting in an editors sanctum punishable
with death-some pleasant, easy death.
A Young printer having occasion the
other day to set up the well known line !:
"slsve, have set my life upon castip
astoniahed the proof reader with the fol-
lowing version f. ,er.ga edt
"slsve, have Get my wife upon cssk'
An old detective says that if he de.
sired to train his son for detective he
would first make hIm newspaper re-
porter. That beyond any any other
business, says this detective, ie the
business that makes stupid men smart,
ordinary men able, and capably men
brilliant: and, he adds, that what an
experienced reporter cannot detecf Is
not worth detecting.
The Chinese watch the pearl mussel
closely, and when it opens it's shell in
sert pieces of wood, hard earth. or little
images of their gods. These irritate the
| fish and cause it to cover the substance
with q pearly deposit, which Ihardens
and forms an artificial pearl This sort
of pearl making is carried on TO great
extent at Ning-po, and the articles thus
obtained are considered very little In
ferior in value to the real. -Ho.p39;
A school of whales recently entered
the Dowry Voc of Shetland in pursuit OF
herring they were numerous and
large, and caused great commotion
| -. kho Aoborrnen q number OF whom