The tribune. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1876-03-22
Facts and Fancies.

Facts and Fancies.
" Marriage" said an unfortunate bus.
band, "is the churchyard of love.
But you men," said his wife, are the
gravediggers.
Builders are putting up V-shaped
contrivances, intended to divide and
turn aside the descending snow on Vir-
gil ia City houses.
An advertisement in rural newspa
per in England announces that s'a grand
pianoforte will be exchanged for three
or four small pigs"
The uncle Of young Hathaway, who
was recently lynched at Plainville,
Mimi, is about to sue Wabasha county
for $4,000 damages.
The National Guard of the State of
New Jersey propose a few weeks en-
campment, during the summer, on the
Centennial grounds in Philadelphia.
The State authorities of Kansas, in an
effort to exterminate tho grasshopper.
offer bounty of $5 bushel for their
eggs and 81 bushel for young insects.
Some Jersey City schoolgirls attacked
loafer who insulted them, and beat him
with their sachels until he was Obliged
to call upon a policeman for protection.
The son of an earl is in Jail at Buffalo
for attempting to defraud hotel keeper.
1t doesn't seem that the son of an earl is
smarter at the business than any one
else.
Every foot of space allotted to the
Dominion at the Philadelphia exhibition
is occupied, the number of Canadian
exhibitors having exceeded all .expecta-
tions.
Patrick, where's the whisky I gave
you to clean the window with q" "Och.
master, just drank it and thought if
l breathed on the glass it would be all
the same''
A tramp was recently sentenced to two
years in the house of correction for re-
fusing to saw wood at the North Andoyer
Mass almshouse, in payment for lodp-
ing and breakfast.
Boston is fifty-four years old. The
city was incorporated in 1922, one hun
dred and seventy years after the incor
poratlon was first mooted, and one hun
dred and thirteen after the first failure
to incorporate it.
The brig P. M. Tinker, of Norfolk,
Va, was recently attacked by q sword
fish, which drove its sword through the
copper sheathing and four-inch plank
and some six inches into the timbers.
causing q serious leak.
Official reports show substantial de-
crease in the number of deaths from in
temperance in England of late wears.
In 1850 the number was 1853, and in 1873,
the latest YER for which reports have
been issued, the total was TIT.
Judge Chester d. Krum, one of the
Babcock counsel, was mayor of Alton
during the Lovejoy riots. He was ia
nous at the time for having begun a
speech to the howling fantics with the
address ;" Gentlemen of the mob"
Utah last year produced agriculture
and horticultural products valued ut
So, 563, ,461 ; the animals and their pro.
ducts were worth $7,S61, ,89l, and the
product of her mechanical and manu-
featuring industries aggregated $5, ,509,-
TAI, in all $18, $50, lob.
The habit of opium spooking in the
Chinese dens at Virginia City, New, is
becoming 80 common among the white
people that many Of the older pupils in
the public schools are beginning to fre-
quent these places, and loud call is
made to have them closed by law.
An old farmer said to his sons /:
Boys, don't you ever spekerlate, or
wait for somethin' to turn up. You
might just as well go and sit down on
stone in the middle of q medder with
pail twixt your legs, and wait for COW
to back up to you to be MIXED"
A lady died recently at Exeter, Eng
land, of an over dose of chloral, which
constituted the active part of patent
medicine. The solution contained TWEEN.
ty-five grains to the teaspoonful, most
unusual strength, and yet was sold with
out intimation of the danger attending
its use.
A young minister, somewhat distin-
guished for self-conceit, having failed
disastrously before crowded audience,
was thus addressed by an aged brother
If you had gone into that pulpit, feel
ing as you now do on coming out of that
pulpit, you would have felt, on coming
out of that pulpit, as you did when You
went up into that pulpit.
When elected President of the United
States, Washington was fifty-seven years
of age John Adams was sixty-two JEFF
ferson, fifty -four Madison, sixty Mon
roe, fifty-nine John Quincy Adams,
fifty eight Jackson, sixty-one Van
Buren, tifty-four Harrison, sixty
seven Taylor, sixty-four Polk, forty
nine Pierce, forty-eight; Buchanan,
sixty-fve Lincoln, fifty-one Grant,