Port Royal standard and commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1876-03-23
Items Of In.erest.

Spelliny for the drinks is the popular
pastime in Virginia City saloons.
OF the It'll newspapers issued in
Great Britain, S0s are penny papers.
The Mormons propose to have oen-
tennial of their own in Salt Lake City.
The sting of bee carries conviction
with it. It makes q man bee-leaver at
once.
"Should old acquaintance be forgot"
Certainly not, if they behave. them
selves.
If there is no good bankrupt law, how
can merchant expect to fail and make
money?
Centennial excursions to the United
States are advertised throughout Europe
at cheap rates.
What is that which every one wishes
for aud yet tries to get rid of A splen-
did appetite.
A man thoroughly wrapped up m
himself is liable to feel warm unless ne
is very thin.
There are 5000 Chinese boys in Cali
fornia who will be voters when they
become of age.
A ship loaded with gifts received by
the Prince of Wales in India is on its
way to England.
A woman dictates before marriage, in
order that she may have an appetite for
auhnoission afterWerd.
Some people cannot drive to happi-
ness with four horses, and others can
reach the goal on foot.
A man in Belmont, N. Y, shouted
"are" 80 vigorously the other night
that he dislocated his jaw.
We suppose men have the right to
play the coquette during leap year.
Let no jilty woman escape.
What is that which Adam never saw,
and never possessed, and YET gave to
each of his children Parents.
A young lady being advised to takeex-
ercise for her health, said she would run
the risk and jump at an offer.
A pair of japanese coolies will travel
from forty to sixty miles day and draw
a full-grown man, in those two-wheeled
gigs they call "iynrickisha.
A Greenland IN. H. man has recover.
ed 81, 400 from the town because his
horse SHE'D at an old log in the road and
threw him out of the wagon, breaking
his ankle.
Piper, the convicted murderer OF Ma
BILE Young, in Boston, has no appetite,
and part of the time his hands are kept
fastened behind his back to prevent self
destruction.
At q social hop in Anderson county
KY, recently, two gentlemen and two
ladies' were shot and killed. There is
such thing, it will be observed, as
being too sociable.
"Make the vagabond earn his meals,
says the Philadelphia american OF the
tramp. Bless your heart, friend, you
don't know the character of the animal.
He'd rather 60 hungry any time.
There are 1872 driving parks in the
United States. The value OF the prop
erty held by these associations is estl-
mated at $4,000, 900 and that OF the
horses entered in single year, $l5, 5,0o0,-
600.
When Clergyman recently inquired
of a certain lady if she was ready to
give up worldly pleasures, she answer
ed by asking if ne was " ready to give
up chewing tobscce in the presence OF
ladies |"
A tramp entered schoolroom, near
Alton, H., the other night, and made
himself comfortable by replenishing the
fire with school books. 1t is supposed
that he burned up between $l5 and $40
worth of light literature.
A Justice of the peace in Sheboygan,
Mich, married couple, and for pay
took an order on the bridegroom neigh
Dor for "l load of straw" and as he
took too large a load the groom has sued
him to make him refund.
When q man detects missing button
after getting on q clean shirt, no one IN
the house is aware of the fact. he ta .es
off the shirt and puts on another, quiet
ly smiling all the while. He never,
never speaks Of it to soul.
Ezra Baker, of Boston, made no will
for relatives and lawyers to fight over
but, Just before death, he gave his mil
lion dollars worth of property to his
only son, the legal heir, and instructed
him how to distribute it.
British officers pride themselves upon
never wearing their uniforms except
when on duty. The Duke of Cambridge
has just directed young officer, VINO
got drunk and was noisy, to wear his
Uniform constantly for one year.
When q man empties the pockets OF
his coat preparatory to laying it out tor
repairs, there's nothing that makes bis
conscience ge: upon his hind legs quick
er than the sight of the letter his wife
gave him to msil two months ago.
Bad luck is simply man with his
hands in his pockets and his pipe In his
mouth, looking on to see how it Will
come out. Good luck is man OF
pluck, with his sleeves rolled up and
working to make it come out all right.
A young American lady who has en-.
loved the rare privilege of taking stroll
with the poet Tennyson, inciden ntaliy
mentioned in letter to friend that ut
seriously affected the romance OF the sit-
uation when he paused during the walk
to scratch his back against gatepost. "
The unusual torture of freezing and
burning to death was the lot OF a color