The tribune. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1876-09-06
Facts and Fancles.

Losses are profitable which cause men
to be saving.
The course of bark at sea is shaped
by the dog star.
The signature on promissory note is
a sign Of promise.
When the heat increases the thermo-
meter rises to explain.
The man who can deceive himself
ought to be perfectly happy.
Lightning struck Pennsylvania oil
we'll and increased the flow of oil from
ten to eighty barrels day.
Steel ropes are being introduced on
English men.of-war as substitutes for
the clumsy hemp hawsers now in use.
| A COW was found standing stark and
stiff in q pasture in Maine. She had
been struck by lightning, killed, but
not thrown to the ground.
Mrs. Carr, of Quebec, hanged herself
with her false hair. The coroner's YER
dict was said to have been that the Carr
was demolished by misplaced switch.
Said Denver prisoner to his honor
"You've sent mo up every summer for
four years, and I've missed the fourth
Of July every time. Now 1 want you to
make it short this time. Make it so
get out before the fourth. This is tho
last Centennial expect to spend on
earth, and I don't want to spend it in
jail"
care the eggs poachedf" inquired
customer of restaurant keeper. "Ycs,
sir" replied the keeper. "They are
that is, the chickens that laid them
were."
A young scapegrace, notorious for his
pranks and practical Jokes, who came of
age the other day, swoke the family at
midnight by loud CRIES of "Man in the
housel''
wherever I CO." said an elderly
traveller, the other day, ct find men
wearing out their old clothes and hats /;
but the ladies, almost without exception,
havo brand new and expensive dresses"
Those three Cinnamon who took a
watermelon home and cooked it say
that they feel able to worry along on
rice short time longer without fooling
with any more new tangled arrangements
in the vegetable line.
The Catholics in Boston have wisely
decided to discontinue the hiring of car
| RIGGS for funeral professions, except for
the chief mourners, and to give the
money which a costly funeral requires
to the widow and children.
Nevada's population is not more than
60, 600, and yet the Legislature numbers
seventy five, or one to every eight hun
dred inhabitants. Fot Long since it was
estimated that one out of every fourteen
voters was candidate for Office.
At one of the great hotels of Chicago
the walters politely hand each guest q
morning paper after he has given his
sixty papers moving around for three
hours or so, and pays in npopularity more
than it costs.
A French physician says that one-half
of the so-called drowned persons are
buried alive, and that they might be
resuscitated by proper treatment after
being several hours under water. His
suggestion is the injection OF alcoholic
stimulents, whipping energetically, and o
hot iron in bad cases.
The czar of Russia has abolished pub.
lie executions, which have hitherto been :.
preceded by an exhibition of the con-
demed criminal on black cart with q
placard round his neck throughout the
principal streets of the city, besides q
parade for ten minutes under the gallows.
In future executions will be within
prison walls.
A fire in Hamburg, Germany, destroy
ed the large theater called the Central
Halle. Itbeing Sunday, and the weather
favorable, the theater and gardens were
crowded, and when the fire broke out q
panic was created, women fainting, and
children crying piteously and about y
dozen people were crushed and burned
to death. Several OF the ballet girls and
some of the actors were severely burned.
It is the boast of Lydia Tetreau, of
Washington, Mass. that in thirty
years of married life she has given birth
to twenty-five children-ten boys and
fifteen girls-with but one pair of twins.
Sixteen are living, two having died in
infancy and seven after getting their
growth. The grandchildren already
number thirty three. Mrs. Tetreau was
one of family of sixteen, and married
at that age.
Preventive of hydrophobia in dogs
Boil three tablespoonfuls of salt and an
ounce Of carbolic powder in pint of
water, squeeze a lcmon, and then let O
piece of meat simmer in the mixture to
give it attractive taste. Take out the
meat and put the liquor in cool place.
Then while the remedy is cooling, lead
the dog out behind the barn and shoot
him between the eyes with a Remington
rifle. One pint Of the liquor will be
found enough for one bundled dogs.
The Paris Figaro recites story in
praise of the politeuess of O leading
actor in Paris. He is q capital swimmer,
and was displaying his skin in the Seine,
near Paris. A lady walking on the bank