The tribune. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1876-11-01

The farmers best vest-harvest.
What is the worst kind of an omen3
To owe men.
Character is the diamond that
scratches every other stone.
What is that which is heightened by
being cut at both endsa A ditch.
Remember the poor, and while you
are about it remember that they need
something.
A good watch, in your wakeful mo.
ments, will always be on its guard
against you.
The chief glory of American liberty is
the impsrtiaGty with which it guaran-
tees to every public man at least one
chance to deny that he is a burglar or q
horse thief.
The committee of the Will county Qn.)
baby show limited the entries to thirty
babies, the chairman declaring that he
could not stand the abuse of more than
twenty-nine women.
A remarkable fight of swans, q flock
fully mile and half long, and mum.
bering not less than 10, 600, was seen to
pass over La Sale, along the Illinois
river valley, recently.
A spectator with an affectionate dis
position undertook to caress q Nubian
lion at q railway station in France, lately.
A crowd rallied to his assistance. and he
got away with the loss of an arm.
Conrad Dearing Dragged, while drunk
in Columbus, Ohio, that twelve years
ago he killed colored man. When he
got sober he found himself in Jail, with
the chances in favor Of his being hanged.
The school board of Davenport, Iowa,
has adopted q rule prohibiting formal
religious exercises in the public schools.
This is the first successful attempt in
Iowa to take the Bible from the public
schools.
A traveller in the East once saw q man
who had lost hislegs by leprosy, mounted
on the shoulders Of one who had lost his
arms by the same disease-the first
mentioned sowing grain, while the lat
ter did the locomotion.
Judge Lindeman, of Cincinnati, sem
fenced a little boy to two years. impris-
onment for stealing q newspaper from q
doorstep. The lads mother was thereby
made insane, and the magistrate Is the
object of public indignation.
Man," says Victor Hugo, "was the
conundrum of the eighteenth century
woman is the conundrum of the nine
teenth century" An American editor
adds: "We can't guess her, but will
meyer give her up. No, never"
Cincinnati has become q great shoe
manufacturer, the industry having been
augmented to such an extent Of late
years that it is now the center Of shoe
manufacture by machinery in the West.
The business was first begun in 1868.
Col. B who was very fat, being ac-
costed by q man to whom he owed
money, with "How dye do?" an
swered Pretty we'll, I thank you;
you find hold my own" eyes, sir,h
rejcined the man, "and mine too, to my
sorrow"
The ancient kingdom of Poland is now
for all purposes an integral part of the
Russian empire, the last remaining YES
tige of its semi-autonomical character
having been swept away through the
recent abolition of the Office of secretary
of state for Poland.
Why is it that man always defers
knocking the ashes off his cigar until they
have fallen inside his vest. and woman
always tearfully declares, the morning
after the first white frost, tnat she had
intended to bring those house plants in
the next morning.
The mother-in-la problem has been
reduced to its lowest terms in Maine.
One man had four daughters and one
son; his neighbor four sons and one
daughter /; these were enamored of
those; net result-five weddings, aggre-
eating only two mother-in-lsws.
Estimate the sum of mental endeavor
and anxiety, of physical effort, of time
occupied and money spent throughout
the country in Presidential campaign,
and then name the undertaking in which
the percentage OF wasted energy asic COM
great.
At Monaco, frequenter of the gam
bling saloon was refused admission.
He asked why, but received no answer.
He then, being French, sought the aid
of his consul, but with no better result.
He has consequently fled petition in
the superior court, praying that his ad-
mission be compelled under aheavy fine.
A fight between the cannibals and the
British is reported from Fiji. The ma
tives fortified themselves in caverns after
the attack, in which number of whites
were killed and wounded. The strong
hold was blockaded and the cannibals
starved ont; seventy prisoners were
captu' ed and confined, awaiting an order
for their execution.
The total number of Christians in the
world, as given in Chambers Encyclo.
pedia," is 1853, 900, ,OOO-an immense
number. The non Christian population
amounts to 918, ,000, 900, which includes
12O, 600, 900 Mohammedans, 100, 900, 900
Brahminical Hindoos, 1,OOO, 900 Parsees
or fire worshipers. 488, 200. 600 Budd-