The tribune. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1876-10-04
Items Of Interest.

Items Of Interest.
Misfortune comes on horseback and
goes away on foot. -..
The Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians
will not allow colordd children to attend
their schools.
If young lady yawns half dozen
times in succession, young man, You
may get your hat. sI.a.
A Kentuckian whipped his wife be-
cause she attended her sisters funeral
without his permission.
"Wake up here and pay your lodging"
said a deacon, as he nudged sleepy
stranger with contribution box.
The principal countries of Europe owe
about 81, 500, 600, 900, exclusive of the
unsecured paper currencies and home
debts.
Liverpool is compelled to erect an ad-
ditional lunatic asylum, because the
number of insane has doubled in the
county within ten years.
1t is estimated that within the last
twenty-five years no less than 400, 900
panes of glass have been DESTROYED in
London by thunder storms. iaout,a
1t is fact that savages who live on
plain, simple fare, do not attain SO great
an average age as the civilized people
who indulge in rich cookery.
Three Arabs, bearing the Cayenne
officials criminal brand in their fore
heads, arrived at Boston the other day,
and we're Immediately reshipped to
Africa by the Boston authorities.
|
A mathematical genius estimates that
the Methodists give forty-three cents q
member for foreign missions, the Pres
byt"rians little more, the Baptists
little less, and the Episcopalians thirty
eight cents. t.J. y .,.,. ,lr,
Nothing will surprise married man
so much as to go home and see his wife
Iimpipg round the house with her little
toe bandaged, saying that she doesn't
see why he has to keep such an Internal
edge on his razor. ...;-,-r.,. j. ,.,
81 suppose" said q quack, while
feeling patients pulse, that you con-
slider me humbug." GLOW odd it is"
responded the patient, "that you can
SO accurately tell mans thoughts by
feeling his pulse" -. -.
$50" said lady, recently, to an
Aberdeen merchant, "your pretty
daughter has married rich husband"
"Well," slowly replied the father, 81
believe she has married rich man, but
1 understand he is q very poor husband"
Color is used as remedy in an insane
asylum in Alexandria, Italy. DR.. Ponza,
the physician in charge, says that he
puts melancholy lunatics into red rooms,
and violent maniacs into blue rooms, the
resul being astonishingly satisfactory.
John Chiddy lost his life in rolling q
stone out of the>way of an English rail-
road train, thus averting great disas-
ter. Praise of the deed was general;
yet an appeal for money to save his fam
about "a, The railroad company giving
nothing.
The recuperative forces of childhood
arc ut times extraordinary. The boy
who left school sick at ten o'clock in the
morning will 60 to the circus at twoP. M.
the same day, fall off a seat sixteen to
eighteen feet high, and. never hurt him
self more than to miss four or five
seconds of the performance.
A little miss, writing to her father on
the first day of her entrance at boarding
school, says "The first evening we
had prayers, and then singing, and o
passing round of bread, which I did not
take, be cause, not being confirmed, I
thought had no right to take commun-
ion Afterward learned that had Lost
my supper" ...orro,c e,..,
The cannibal tribes in the Fiji islands
have Jared badly in their revolt against
the new government. By the aid of
friendly natives, the British authorities
have inflicted heavy punishment on the
savages and re-established order. Relig-
ious freedom, it appears, was involved
in the conflict, the cannibals being re-
solved to punish the Christianized ma
tives. ...'s ..rfe rlr.rt
Sotheln says that he never plays
Dundreary twice alike, explaining:
"When an audience sees the point OF .
Joke toward which I am working,
always stop. I never pursue point
after there has been laugh. Audiences
differ very much in quickness of appre-
citation. Some are 30 sharp that il is
positively painful to play to them they
cut me out of 50 much" #t
Sweet is childhood -childhood's over, -
Kiss and part. go 'f'''
Sweet is youth; but youths rover
Sos my heart. H.H
Sweet is rest but all my showing
Tell Is nigh. .,.l..,..,,
We must 60. Alas the going
Say: Goodbye"
A woman got into Baltimore street
csr, took q seat and carefully examined
loaded revolver which she took from
her pocket. Then she told the con-
ductor to let her out at John Nevins'
house. A friend of Neyins heard the