The Beaufort tribune and Port Royal commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1877-1879, 1877-02-08
Items Of Interest.

Be thankful for the least and hope for
the best.
Vanderbilt's golden secret-Mind your
own business.
Swallowing the bristle of a tooth
brush has been known to cause death.
The latest slang is {: "He's good fel-
low, but he's bit off more than he can
chew"
During the last eighteen years Eng
land has spent nearly one. thousand mil
lions of dollars on her navy.
A child sat down on a hot stove hearth
in Pittsburgh, and was permanently
branded with the words "Base Burner. ;"
An English journal says there are no
fewer than 1,756 patents for railway car
couplers, and yet directors are not salts
fed with anything that has been laid be-
fore them.
The Scientific american gives this
good advice: To never go into your
barn with an uncovered light, and never
set YOUR lantern Oh the barn floor, but
hang it up.
1t was year ago that pretty young
bride begun to follow the occasional re-
cipes for cooking that have appeared in
this journal, and with such success that
she has just married her second hus-
band.
Says the Waco (Texas) Examiner ::
Government lands cost 81 per acre, and
good whisky 81 per bottle. How many
men die landless who during their lives
have swallowed whole townships-trees
and all.
The new census in Paris shows that the
city has population Of 1900, 900. This
was the population in 1870, just pre-
yious to the Franco German war, SO
that the city has simply regained lost
ground.
There is an unusual interest manifest
ell in kitchen maids by the young men
of Memphis, No., caused by q statement
in local paper that young lady, heir
to $40, 900, is working as domestic in
family there.
The combined capital of the Roths-
childs is stated by Emile Burnout, the
well known publicist, to have attained in
the past year to the almost incalculable
sum of seventeen billions of francs, or
s., 400, 100000.
There have been an unusual number
of poaching prosecutions in England
this season. 1t is likely that before long
the game laws will undergo a revision.
There is great discomfort among farm
ers, more especially in Scotland.
The report of the United States COM
missioner of education shows that In the
States and Territories the annual income
of the public schools is $8S, 64S, $50, and
the estimated value of the sites, build
ings and all other school property, Sl73,-
833, ,545.
A Washington lady got angry at a
Young naval officer because he reminded
her that he had once participated with
her in a dance in which there was kiss
ing forfeit. A woman does not get half
so angry when she is kissed as when she
is told of it.
The japanese government have fol-
lowed the suppression of the last insur-
rection by sentencing twelve leaders to
capital punishment, 234 to hard labor
for life. and fourteen to forfeiture Of rank
and estate. A large number were par
doned. and 1859 committed hari kari.
God purifies the soul very much as
we air our rooms. He throws open all
the windows-the windows of feeling, OF
impulse, of Imagination, of purpose
and sends strong current of vitalizlng
grace sweeping through them, until
every element of our nature is reoxy-
genized and made healthy and bracing.
A five-year-old tot, who had always
closed her prayers at night with "And
God help Katy to be good girl" " open
ed her eyes on that point one night In
green apple time, and said, very de-
cidedly: 81 amt a-going to say the
rest. for.I don't want to be dood girl,
I want to eat green apples and swallow
'en."
Afterythe..battle of Chattanooga the
surgeons made several incisions in the
leg of soldier who had been wounded
in the knee by musket ball. Ont Of
paClenCe Ut ltSG, tllo ooiohoi oA'i''iAii',t
"Why are you carving me up SOP
"We're trying to find the ball" answer
ed a surgeon. "Why didn't you ask
for the ball in the first place ?" indignant
ly cried the soldier; here1it is in my
pocket !"
The points in Saratoga county On.
W love story are that Frank was dis
carded by Liza in obedience to the dying
Injunction of her mother; that they part
ed at the gate of the cemetery; that he
gradually pined until at the point OF
death; that she sent for Frank, but he
was on his death bed with fever; and
that they died on the same day, and
their bodies were simultaneously carried
through the cemetery gate where they
had parted.