The tribune. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1876-01-26
Items OF Interest.

Items OF Interest.
Nevada has q population of 50,540.
Utah has one GENTLE to five Nor
mons.
Fifty thousand Hebrews carry on
business in the United States.
If Alaska is annexed to Washingto
Territory, the latter will have an area
$40, 900 square miles.
The piano voted to q popular In.
dianapolis man ut a ladies' relief bazaar
was immediately seized by the sheriff to
satisfy debt.
The yield OF salt in Michigan this
year was / ,026, 977 barrels, being 300
600 barrels greater than that of the most
successful previous years.
A Tennessee court has decided that q
teacher has the same right as parent
to enforce obedience from q child, and
can, therefore, infiict corporal punish
mept when necessary.
A live dog was recently put under the
influence Of chloroform and dissected
before the physiology class off the Attica
(Ind. high school, in order to show the
circulation Of the blood.
Two ex-members of the United States
House have lately sought work in the
document folding room, at Washington
work which includes the wheeling of
mail matter III barrow to the post
Office.
Wendell Phillips said in q recent tenn
perance speech: "Ycu can't make O
license law loose enough, but what I'll
strangle every grogshop iu Boston. if
you will make me super ntendent Of
police"
Now pick almanacs. They are dead
ripe, and are worth about two and a-half
cents a pound, rag measure. None
genuine unless branded "1S76." Ask
your druggist for that kind and take
no other.
A man died recently in the hospital At
San Antonio, Texas, whose body was
covered with large spots, and whose
flesh became one mass Of putrid matter.
He had all the symptoms Of the old
time plague.
In Canada, as well as in the United
States, the year has been marked by o
material decrease in immigration. In
1873 266, 354 immigrants were entered,
and in 1874 lac, 1897. This year not more
than st, 900 have been registered.
A doctor and military officer becIme
enamored of the same lady. a friend
asked her which of the two suitors che
intended to favor. She replied that sit
was difficult for her to determine, as
they were both such killing creatures"
A party of Chinese miners, engaged
on placer claim near Wagontown,
Montana, where recently put to sleep by
dose of morphine administered by their
cook, who absconded with the treasure
of the camp. One of the victims did not
awaken thereafter.
The latest fraud Is q man who makes
regular business of deserving his wife
and children among strangers. The lat
ter usually gave them money and needed
articles, after receiving which the family
joins the husband and they repeat the
game In some other place.
A courageous goldfish saved the Ben
nington Hotel, at Bennington, Vt, from
burning. a lamp exploded and set fire
to the table, the heat cracked the globe
occupied by the goldfish and the water
put out the fire. The hero fish, alas
fell victim to his own devotion.
A French chemist asserts that salt
alone answers all purposes for packing
PUN, pTONlucu ttil hlllUihl ntdb uho l6kb LII
before salting. No saltpeter should be
used, as it induces scurvy. The brine
should be as strong as possible, and cold
water is capable of dissolving more salt
than hot water.
A workman of Columbus, Ohio, tried
to pass over the Scioto river "hand over
hand" on a wire of an unfinished bridge,
but shortly the wire began TO cut his
hands, and though he made desperate
attempts to return, the pain compelled
him to let go, and he was dashed to
pieces on the rocks, fifty feet below.
The calculating criminals are the
Messrs. Hattenbock, of Sioux City,
convicted of engaging in the lottery
business. The Judge offered them their
choice between paying fine of $500 0and
$500 costs, or going to Jail for thirty
days, and with the remark that $400
month each and board was as much as
they could earn outside OF prison, they
accepted captivity.