The tribune. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1876-08-16
Facts and Fsncies.

Facts and Fancies.
| Sixty-two thousand buffalo robes will
be sent East from Benton, Montana,
this fall.
A horse committed suicide in Lake
Village, N. H., the other day, by drown
ing himself. He was sick, and became
despondent.
A correspondence the Chicago Times
says that the strut of a corporal in the
OF general Of volunteers.
A man was knocked down by q robber
while walking with woman on the edge
of a precipice near Cincinnati, and the
woman pushed the robber over the bank,
nearly killing him.
A Georgia man offers to pay reward
OF $500 for information which will lead
to the conviction of an individual who
broke up the engagement between him
self and his sweetheart.
Clergyman to Tommy" What shall
L give you for . presentp Tommy,
who respects the cloth, also truth, nm
hesitatingly: ell think I should like
testament, and I know I should like
q popgunl I"
Professor of mathematics illustrating
to freshman that the sides OF prism are
its surface, not its contents)-" When q
tailor makes for me suit Of clothes,
does he make the man9" Freshly, with
avidity-"Yes, sir l''
The national debt of England is about
$3, $50, OO0, 900; of France, about "a, 70O,-
0OO, 900; of the United States (Which,
however. is gradually being paid Off,
ol,
heaviest national debts.
A minister asked q boy what o'clock
it was. "About twelve, sir" was the
reply. "Well," quoth the minister, "I
thought it had been more" "Its
never any more here, said the boy;
it just begins at one again"
The Pine Bluff (Ark.) Press says:
ga lady just returned from Louisville
tells US that it is all the fashion now for
the ladies' in that metropolis to paint
each morning, while arranging their
toilet, black streak under each eye.
Should q man frequently calculate his
income and expenditure he would es-
cape many o bitter reflection, for he
must be lost to every generous feeling
OF pride and honest principle who wan
tonly incurs debts he cannot discharge.
In 1875 the United Stateshad in opera
ton "a ,65S miles of railroad, costing
81, 658, 329, $50, and earning $403, ,S29, 708
year. They transported that year over
200, 600, 600 tons. and passengers num-
bering more than five times the popula-
ton of the country.
Mr.. Martell, of Cognac, France, is
travelling in this country. We do not
wish him i'll, but we would be pleased
to have him sample some of the brandy
that is sold as his. He would then OBJ
tain an idea of how vast in resources,
how infinite in ingenuity the human
mind is.
An apparatus for reviving persons
nearly drowned is exhibited in Paris.
The body of the drowned patient is put
in an alright vessel, with his head pro-
truding. A pump then draws the air in
and out of the vessel. which tends to
make his breast heave and his lungs
move, as in breathing.
Mr.. Forsyth said in Parliament In
recent debate that the present law Of
marriage in Scotland was q crying scam
dal. At present, if man and woman In
Scotland, perhaps half tpsy, said before
O witness, This Is my wife," This is
my husband" it is lawful marriage.
There wasa we'll known story Of the eldest
son Of aScoth peer, having quarreled with
his father, went into o house of bad re.
pute in Edinburgh and acknowledged q
woman there as his wife. This was held
to be n good marriage, and he was tied
to this woman all his life.