Port Royal standard and commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1876-02-24
Items Of Interest.

Items Of Interest.
Lord Derby says that people must not
seek learning and expect that it will
bring money.
The population of Ireland is set down
at {, 5,412, 1897. During the last ten years
849, ,e36 immigrants haveleft the country.
The saving that "there is more pleas
ure in giving than receiving" " is sup
posed to refer chiefly to kicks, medicine
and advice.
The warm weather in Kentucky, it is
said, brought out elder, blackberry and
peach leaves, which the grasshoppers
greedily devoured.
In case in bankruptcy just concluded
in the southern district of Georgia, all
claims were paid in full, and balance
returned to the bankrupt.
The New York Musical Monitor says
that the next President will be the man
whose party hires the most brass bands
during the coming eight months.
"Don't be in such hurry" said a
reckless California murderer on his way
to the gallows, to the fastening crowd;
stake things easy, as 1 do, if you want
to enjoy it."
The Sandwich Islanders ere going to
adopt new flag. but they can't decide
whether to take gray horse blanket
with hole in it, or an old vest with the
back ripped out. s....
"A stump speaker, in dealing with the
"modern physical degeneracy OF
women" exclaimed: "We must take
good care of our grandmothers, for we
shall never get any more !"
J.G. Chapman, New Haven's phiIan.
thropist, has during the past year placed
2,120 postage stamps on letters dropped
in the post-office stampless, at cost of
$40. .46, and finds himself just $l2.66 out
of pocket. %
AS an evidence of the hard times, it
may he mentioned that young man
wrote to every bank in Detroit, offering
to "be your kasheer for $40 per month.
and board" and no bank could give
him place. q;
A waggish speculator recently said ::
I" Five years ago ! was not worth a PEN
ny in the world now see where l am
through my own e0ertions. !" Swell.
where are youi" ".Why thousand
dollars in debt" r...-
Recent statistics show that on the en-
tie globe there are 3, 704, 900 Methodists
in full membership, and %, TOT Metho-
dist ministers. The number of Metho-
dists in Great Britain is 350, 900, and OF
preachers $4,000.
A Scottish student, supposed to be de-
ficient in Judgment, was asked by pro-
fessor, in the course of his examination,
how he would discover fool. "By the
Questions he would asks = was the prompt
and suggestive reply.
In st. Lawrence county, N. Y, where
dairying is carried on extensively, there
are some $4,000 COWS, and estimating
the amount sold from each COW to be
$50 above home consumption, which is
a low estimate, an income of $3.50, 600
is realized.
A singular death took place the other
day at Lincoln, in England. A grocer
named Picker, who keeps fowls, was
| feeding them, when bantam cock
spurred him in the left thumb. Morti'
cation set it, and all efforts to save the
unfortunate mans life proved unaVail-
ing.
Marshal Soult, once showing the pic
lures he stole in Spain, stopped before
one and remarked value that PIC
ture very much; it saved the lives OF
two estimable persons. An aid de, camp
whispered in the listeners ear "He
threatened to have them both shot lmme-
diately unless they gave it up"
Reyivalist Hammond illustrates an
argument with horseshoe magnet and
nails of various sizes, from tack to a
railroad spike. He likens the magnet to
Jesus. The tack typifes little children;
he shows how readily they cling to the
magnet. A simple touch, too, attaches
the shingle nail, which he ikens to
youth. The larger nails are less and
less affected, until the big spike-a tough
old sinner Of the most intractable kind
will not stir under the influence.
G.H. Hazleton, of Greensboro, Vt,
has a little girl four years old, who,
when about three months old. fell off the
bed, striking on the back of her head,
hurting her severely. Very soon after
this her head began to grow rapidly, and
in three months had increased nine in
ches in circumference. All efforts to ar
rest the growth prove futile. The head
now measures twenty six and one-half
inches one way. and twenty four and
three quarter inches the other. The ex.
pansion of the head seems to be all
above the eyes.
General George W. Cole, who in 1857
shot d. L. Hiscock, in Stanwiy Hall,
Albany, died at Mora, N. M, on the
eleventh of September last, OF pneu.
monia. He was acquitted on the trial
on the plea of insanity. At the time ne
shot Mr. Hiscock he was resident OF
Syracuse. On his acquittal he came to
New York city and held a position in
the post-ofice, and subsequently re-
moved to New Mexico, where his death
took place. Neither his wife nor her
grown up daughters have lived with
him since the tragedy at Albany.