Port Royal standard and commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1876-09-07
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ported to be excellent this year.
Blind men are employed as attendants
in Japanese bathing establishments Tor
women.
1t is estimated that there is about Sl0,-
900, 900 in gold coin in circulation IN
California now, against half tha' amount
at the time of the panic. - sf'' .e.'
A man is supposed to be wandering
somewhere in Pennsylvania with two
live alligators in his possession. he
took them from Philadelphia. r
The coeficient of friction OF leathe
belts over wooden drums is 0.47 OF the
pressure, and overturned cast iron pull
leys OBS of the pressure.
The Western dairymen met In con:
vention the other day, and the toasts
were all darnk in milk, What a dis
gusting sight it must have been for a
brewer. 80 "a
A person who was sent to prison for
marrying two wives excuses himself 6y
saving that when he had one she fought
him, but when he got two they fought
with each other. 1870,
A Massachusetts, clergyman received
thirty cents for marriage fee the other
day, The groom offered him twenty
cents at first, but finally added ten,
"thoush times is hard.
Wasn' it rough on Ella, just IS she
was telling Fredricl at lunch howetherea!
her appetite was, to have the cook bawl
out "Say, will ye have yer pork and
greens now, or wait till yer teller s
gonea" s-A-@ CAV as
The high winds in San Francisco blow
dust into latent grease spots on cloth
ing, and make them visible. Bootblacks
carry little bottles of ammonia with
which to obliterate the spots, and IN that
way increase their income.
Children reduced to almost the last
stages of cholera infantum, when they
are unable to hold any other food on
their stomachs, will greedily take strong
beef tea, salted and made palatable-
and will often recover on that treat
ment. EI isis -
A traveller staying over night with a
Texan farmer, whose estate was miles Id
extent, said to bin: "You must have
begun life very esrly to accumulate such
ao estate as this" eyes," replied the
farmer, "I began life when l was
mere baby" ~ SOS .
A ragged boy was, years ago, cared
for by a benevolent young man IN Baltl-
more, who has just married. The boy
grew up intelligent, educated, and enter
prising. Mark the power OF gratitude.
a few days ago be eloped with his bene-
factors wife. s.e-,s
A natural curiosity called Indian
Well" in the s,wn of Huntingdon,
Conn, is much visited by picnic parties:
This well is about twenty feet deep ana
almost perfectly round, and it has been
followed out from solid granite by water
from q brook.
An artificial chicken hatcher is e1hib-
tied in Cincinnati. It consists OF large
glass box, holding four hundred eggs,
on wire trays. The temperature Is regu-
lated so accurately that it never vaEes
half degree from one hundred. The
machine works well.
"King John was announced Tor
production in Western theater, and
the manager posted the cast in the green
room. He noticed one Of his actresses
examining it closely, after which she
turned to him and asked who wrote the
piece. He said Shakespeare. GOOD
ness I" she exclaimed z" has that man
written another play .sg
The Chinese woodchoppers who went
ND in the waterspout at Eurka, New,
escaped unhar,ned. They were en-
camped in the bed of the canyon seven
of the thirteen got Of the range OF the
flood: five tumbled down into the valley
below, and one was washed two miles.
The miners aver that nothing short OF an
earthquake will kill Chinaman.
"This, dear girl" said wise little
lady, tapping with her parasol one Of
the big torpedoes in the Centennml
Government building, "this is won
derful invention for rescuing people.
They put them in I'd close it up, drag.
eine them ashore through the, SURF
where ordinary boats could not go.
Uninouisitive ignorance is the proper
frame of mind for the full enjoyment OF
the Centennial Exhibition.
A wealthy resident Of Holland died
in 1891 leaving large estates but no heirs
of his own body. The property was ap'
propriated by William OF Orange.
These estates are said to amount tc
BIG, 900, 900, and have been withheld
from the proper heirs, whose descendants
have now taken steps to recover the
same. Several of these heirs are IN TINS
country, one of them being Christian
Metzeer, stone mason, OF Buffalo.
A gentleman passing by the gaoi OF
a country town heard one OF the PRISON
ers through the grating in his cell sing
ing. in the softest and most -melodiors
Etone, that favorite song: " Home,
sweet home" His sympathies being
yery much excited in favor of the un'
fortunate tenant of the dungeon, he in'
ouired the cause of his Incarceration.
when, to his disgust, he was informed
that the fellow was put in gaol for wife
beating.
East Kingston, R. l., has modified
Enoch Arden case. Charles a. Osgooo
went to Canada eleven years aG, leaV
ing wife and two children, and, mol
returning, the wife married again, bore
two children and died. Osgood ap
peared Sunday and ciaimed his daugh
ter, now fifteen, but paid no attention
to the son. The girl refused to leave
her stenfather. and, after giving her GeV