The tribune. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1876-04-05
Items OF Interest.


A Norwegian expedition to the Arctic
seas starts early this spring. ,.s
There is man in New Hampshire
who sends fourteen of bis children TO
the same school. The rest are too small
to go.
A fashionable young lady of Chicago
was heard to remark that she hadn't got
anything new this winter, and didn't ex-
pect to get much "until after father
fails"
J. W. Hiff has q cattle ranch in
northern Colorado 156 miles long, upon
which 26, 900 head are maintained. he
will this year stock to the amount Of
The physician who learned next day
that the medicines he prescribed had not
been taken and that the patient was i'm
proved, upbraided the latter as Sun
| worthy of being an invalid"
The abbey and palace Of Holyrood,
with its precincts, affords sanctuary to
is secure from the bailiff and beyond the
reach OF any process of law.
An Indiana farmer don't pay any tolls.
He shoots the gatekeeper, and jogs right
along. They have tried him twice, but
cousins used to act "flightylike.
Speaking of the debt of the United
States gentleman remarks that few
but persons realize the vastness Of
billion of dollars. There have not been
billion OF minutes since Christ's time.
A Philadelphia firm estimates it's
sales of flags on the twenty-first of
February at $500 an hour and it was
also estimated that $500, 600 worth of
stars and stripes hoated in the city on
Washington's birthday.
once asked that scholarly Indian,
DR.. Peter Wilson, what the Indians, un-
educated and without knowledge of
reading, did with themselves in the eve
ming. "Oh," said he, "they stay
around the fire and tell stories
Chief Justice Ryan, OF. Wisconsin, de.
| cldes that women cannot become law
yers in that State, and he says that he is
glad of it, because Z" the bar is not the
place for the exercise of a woman's pc
| onliar qualities or for the Preservation
of her purity" F,,
The other day q noted belle rushed ex-
citedly into the house of friend to
exhibit s175 silk dress she had lust
purchased; and incidentally mentioned,
just before her departure, that her
father had failed the day previous and
shut up his store.
Behind every troe, box, barrel and
post in village is located either boy
or q man, and when O wheel comes off q
wagon, or q horse breaks strap, or O
pane Of glass is broken, or O man takes
O crowbar to fix broken Tagging, this
vast army is precipitated upon the scene
at once.
The father of all newspapers is the
venerable Pekin Gazette, which is over
1000 years old. It is ten-page paper,
with a yellow cover has no stories, no
"ads.," no marriage or death notices,
no editorials, no subscribers. It simply
contains the official notices of the gov
ernment.
The Independence was the first steam
boat to make voyage from Cincinnati
to New Orleans, consuming eight
months in her downward and upward
trips. She was furnished with q rudely
constructed engine, and was pressed
into service by Gen. jackson, COM
mander of the American forces, to assist
in the battle of New Orleans.
Frank and Willie were discussing
which were the most economical, men
or women, and Frank seemed to be get
ting the best of the argument, when
Willie suddenly brought the debate to
close by saying: "One thing I know,
my father can make piece of butter 20
over moron twice as large piece of
bread for me as my mother can."