The tribune. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1876-03-08
Facts and Fancies.

Facts and Fancies.
Fox hunting is all the rage in In
diana.
Cslifornia's wool clip will reach fifsv
million pounds next season.
You can never do too much to make
home happy men never try to, adds
an old maid.
Lydia Sherman, the convicted whole
sale poisoner, Is said to be dying in the
Connecticut State prison.
London has 5000 miles of gas mains.
54 600 street lamps, which burn 8,OOO,-
GOO cubic feet of gas each night.
Gold mounted coffins are considered
the thing now in New York. Wealthy
people are quite carried away with them
after death. sr
Tweed must enjoy immensely, in his
suburban retreat the reading of the re.
ports OF the one million, and the six
million and all the other suits.
1t may not appear of any.particular
personal interest to any of us, but it is a
fact that there will be a total eclipse of
the sun on the eleventh Of August, 1899.
The newest thing in female apparel is
the patent vibrating hustle. Viewed
from behind, it's effect is something
| wonderful when the wearer walks actiye-
ly along.
The chief of the Abys-
slnian army is an ex-sergeant of the
English army named Hirkam, who has
introduced mitrailleuses, Remineton
rifles, and Colts revolYers.
A Canada journal has discovered n
hermit in the town of Perth who is sew
enty years old, and for forty years has
not worn any clothing summer or win
ter, i'll spite of which he has never been
frozen.
A Lincolnshire (England) boy thir.
teen years old, who put On iron nut on a
rail of the Great Northern road, doubt
less In play, and threw an engine of the
track, has been sentenced to six mouths
hard labor. -
Sacramento beet-sugar factory
turned out 3,000,0 900 pounds of white
sugar in 1875. The beets yield thirteen
and one half per cent. of sugar-five and
one half per cent. more than the average
yield of Europe.
It's Davenport Qowa) inventor this
time, who has perfected water motor.
It's only thirteen inches in length and
ten inches in diameter, but &c sends
elevator loads Of 1900 pounds to the
top of four-story building.
Benjamin Franklin introduced broom
corn into the United States. While ex-
amlning an imported corn whisk he
found single seed, which he planted
in his garden. From that seed the corn
was propagated.
In Kentucky they have "ground
hog day the second of February-
when Mr.. Woodchuck comes from his
hole, looks at the sky, snuffs theair, and
concludes whether to stay out and call
it spring, Or sc IN again and call it win
ter.
They were out riding and his mustache
had got entangled in the hood of his
ulster. Said he: "Confound this
ulster and this cold wind I've got three
hairs frozen on to my nose, and two at
the corner of my mouth" Where's
the other hair, dear2" she inquired,
tenderly.
An old physician asserts that an
orange eaten every morning half an
hour before breakfast will eventually de-
stroy the desire for alcoholic drinks. He
says that he has never known it to fail in
effecting a cure of the most confirmed
cases of inebriety. Now, who would
ask for more agreeable medicine.
A woman who was gathering weeds ON
the seashore in Japan for burning, laid
her young child down on the beach. A
frightful cry told the mother that all was
not right, and on examination she found
that a cutie fish had put one feeler
around the baby. She cut the feeler
loose with her sickle and the youngster
was unhRrmed.
"This loaded cigar business" says O
Sacramento paper, (" is being carried too
far, and as a practical joke is becoming
too serious to be amusing. A citizen
lately had his left cheek burst open by
the explosion of one Of them, and will,
in addition to the pain and discomfort,
have bad scar to show as the result of
some friends fun."
A huge tower is being build upon the
top of new brick building in Virginia
City, New, upon which large dial is to
be placed with the names Of the lead
ing mining stocks upon 1t, to which
hand points as the stock goes up or
down, all being done by electricity over
o wire running from the San Francisco
stock board room to the tower.
When young Hopeful entered Har-
ward he wrote to his parents that he
must have q study table. It was given.
When his father visited the room year
afterward he inspected the table. There
were marks of tumblers on it. He said:
"I Judge, my boy, that your rank In
your class will not bevery high. "Why,
father, how can you tellf' "The carpet
under the table is not worn at all, but
the covering is good deal defaced." /"