Port Royal standard and commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1876-12-28
Items of Interest.

Items Of Interest.
A glove dealer is doing good busi-
ness when large part Of his stock is on
hand.
Steve Kirksey, of Mayield, KY, put
package of gunpowder on hot anvil.
He is bald headed now.
II is asserted that snake with fin
mas been captured in Maine. Even the
snake stories are becoming fshy.
Potato bugs, chinch bugs, curculios,
weevils, Hessian flies, grasshoppers,
cutworms, etc., are the insect depreda-
tors which af1ict and discourage West
ern farmers.
A boy who keeps his honor bright,
however poor he may be in worldly
things, is an heir to an inheritance
which no riches can buy-the choice
promises of God.
In Russia, during the cold winter, If q
window in a crowded ballroom be sud
denly opened, sudden condensation OF
the atmosphere takes place, and fau
of snow follows, covering the dancers
with fakes.
A gentleman, on walking out one
Sunday evening, met a young Scotch
peasant girl, whose parents lived near
his house. "Where are you going,
Jennys" said he. "Looking for SON
in. law for my mother, SIR"
A Canadian farmer missed valuable
heifer. and, after several days. unavail
ing search, found that she bad eaten her
way thirty feet into straw stack. She
had taken a winding course inside the
stack, which accounts for her not having
eaten her way through.
John Kelly, chief of the Tammany So
ciety of New York, was married TO Miss
Teresa Mullen, a niece OF Cardinal
McCIoskey. Mr.. Kelly is fifty years OF
AGE and his bride twenby-six. The par
ties were married by the cardinal at his
residence, with the simplest forms OF the
Roman church.
The mail from Cowra to Forbes, in
Australia, is carried by q mounted car
rier, The distance between the two
places is sixty miles, and this ones In
dividual has ridden the route ak times
a week during seven consecutive years.
The distance he has ridden in that
period is 131, AGO miles.
As to DR.. Doughty's personal appear.
ance, much depends on I1lden's being
inaueurated. d. Doughty lives in
Covington, KY, and sixteen years ago
he vowed that he would wear the hat
that he was then usirg until Demo
cratic President was sworn in. The old
hat is exceedingly dilapidated.
The Engineer gives instances OF the
highest railway speed on record. On
several of the English railways speed
has been reached equal to seventy
eight, seventy. five, seventy-two and
siSty-nine miles an hours. If somebody
would give statistics OF the safest sall-
ways, il would be interesting.
The lowest temperature in the Arctic
seas recorded by Capt. Ross, in 1871,
was fifty deg. below zero by DR.. Kane
in 1853, seventy deg. BY DR.. Hayes IN
1851, sixty. eight and one-half deg. by
Capt. Mares in 1875, seventy-swo deg.
A Russian traveller named Nlveroh once
registered seventy-two deg. at Yakoutsk,
Siberia.
By statistics it is shown that within
the limits of the island OF Java every
wear about three hundred people are
eaten by carnivora, two hundred by the
crocodiles, one hundred killed by the
rhinoceros, five hundred killed by hight
ming, while one hundred die by snake
bites, and a varying number by earth
quakes and volcanic action.
A man rushed into restaurant and,
Hopping into chair, called for "caif,s
head soup" "Cslf said what, SIR e
injured the waiter. "Calf's head
soupl" roared the impatient guest.
Admonished by the wrathful tone, the
waiter moved away, but paused TO m
auire, as a kind of appendix You
didn't hear him say what kind OF soup,
sir2"
A hotel proprietor at Morecambe,
England, was arrested lately for allow
inc billiards to be played "for moneys
worth /" on his premises. 1t turned out
that handicap game had been played
by twelve persons for copper kettle as
a prize. The court decided that as it
was a novel case the landlord should
merely be fined Is. besides los. sd.
costs.
A method of defense against wild
beasts has been discovered. One MIR.
Jesse Smith, of Texas, was walking
with his wife one evening, when sud-
denly q bear crossed their path. Being
unarmed, Smith was for a moment
puzzled. Then seizing o handful OF the
sandy soil, he threw it bruins face. The9,
bear recoiled, and, on a repetition OF the
experiment, was compelled to retreat.
The dairy farmers of England are an
important class of the community. The
returns of last year show that in Eng
land alone there were 1000. 600 mich
cows, of which number it was calculated
/ 200 600 were in the Lands OF 81, GOO
persons. The value OF the milk pro-
duced by these COWS, putting the price
at sixpence per imperial gallon, and esti-
mating that each cow yields four hun
dred gallons a year, would amount TO
twelve millions sterling.