Port Royal standard and commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1876-10-05
Items of Interest.

Items of Interest.
"Flooting and pleteing done" is an
Eighth ave. (New York; sign.
The champion whittier lives in Michl-
gan. He has whitfield for three months,
and now has a chain six feet long made
from single pine stick.
A traveller stepped into the cottage OF
an English farm hand at supper time
and saw on the table sweetbread, with
ham and peas and new potatoes.
A lawyerat the bar was held to be in
contempt for simply making motion In
court. It was ascertained, however,
that he made motion to throw an ink
stand at the head of the court.
Listz recently played one OF his own
compositions for an American musician
named Boise, and Boise's criticism is:
" He played it in way calculated to
make ones hair defy lair oil.
There is a growing conviction in the
minds of smokers that vest pocket
should be made deep enough to entirely
hide a cigar from the scrutinizing gaze
of the man that never has any.
A Kentucky farmer says that his old
SOW is in the habit of chewing Oh grape
vines that grow upon convenient trees,
and, with the tree end in her mouth,
swinging over the fence into cornfeld.
A granite block weighing thirty tons
was recently taken from the quarries
near Hallowell, Ne. Another block
weighing forty tons issoon to be brought
out. twill require forty oxen to moveit.
An eminent New York physician at.
tributes much of tho prevalence OF
diphtheria to the common practice OF
turning down the wicks of kerosene oil
lamps until they emit a strong smell OF
oil.
One person of every 259 in Cincinnati
dies by suicide. Sixty-two per cent. OF
the self-murderers are German. The
proportion of the sexes is five men to
one woman, and the most popular method
is hanging. .
A man in Buffalo pulled off his coat
and jumped in the canal to save woman
from drowning, when pickpocket stole
his pocketbook from the coat, and the
woman swore at him for pulling her hair
| in his efforts to save her life. ..e..
The Oldtown Indians, who live near
Bangor, Me-, have law requiring every
body to be at home by nine o'clock In
the evening. One of the Indians was
caught out at ten o'clock the other night
and sent to Jail for thirty days.
The English press is greatly interested
in the shipment of beef packed in ice
chests from New York to Liverpool. II
the experiment succeeds, American beef
can be placed in the English market at
a price twenty-five per cent. below the
current rate.
When q common school teacher in the
West found uron his examination pa
pers the question "How does ship
at sea find it latitude and longitude =
he arose to the occasion and promptly
wrote cit finds its longitude hot and
its latitude kold."
Up in Rutland, Vt., man has just
had q piece of window glass more than
two inches long taken from his leg,
where it had been for eighteen years.
It may truly be said that during that
entire period he has never been abso'
lutely free from pane.
A little boy, six years old, and little
girl, eight, were looking at the clouds
One beautiful summer evening, watch
ing their fantastic shapes, when the BOY
exclaimed "Oh, Minnie. see dog
in the sky!" "Well, Willie" replied
the sister, sit must be sky terrier"
A Burlington schoolboy views the
advent of school days without tremor,
because, he says, he is panied to an
oz. Chat his father lbs. him without or.
nearly every day, worse than ever his
teacher did, nor is he the only unhappy
bow in town he says he knows a cwt.
the return Of school days with eager
impatience.
Carrier pigeons have been put to an
ingenious use by physician on the Isle
of Wight. After visiting his patients
in each village, the doctor writes out his
prescriptions, afixes one to the leg OF
piqeou, and sends the bird ONE. Thus
the prescriptions are made up at once,
and the medicines are dispatched speedl-
ly to those living at distance.
A tailor and his son were in the olden
days doing days work at a farmhouse.
The prudent housewife, to secure
good days work, lighted candles wnen
daylight begun to fade. The tailor
looked to his son and said "Jock, con-
found them that invented workin' by
cannlelicht." cay" replied the young
snip, cor DAYLIGHT either, father"
A LAWYER was out sailing at Yarmouth
a few days since, and as the boat went
bowling along he enthusiastically ex-
claimed "This is worth dollar
minuter' About fifteen dollars worth
later this same gentleman was bending
over the taffrail, faint and limp, casting
his bread upon the waters, and declaring
that he would never 60 out sailing
again.
John Anderson, the first man who as
csnded the great South Dome in the
Yosemite valley, California, lives alone
in q small house near the saddle OF the
dome. He is hard at work constructing
n staircase of thousand steps up the
dome. He hopes to have an elevator
running in time, and is also working on
a model of a steam car that shall carry
passengers up the almost perpendicular
walls.
Patient to his Doctor" And it is
rea' ly true that shall recover ?" !" In
fallibly," answers the man OF medicine:
taking from his pocket paper full OF
figures. "Here, look at the statistics OF