The Beaufort tribune and Port Royal commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1877-1879, 1877-06-14
Items Of Interest.

Yet few more days, and the earliest green
apples will be doubling up the first rash boy.
As the young lady remarked about the in
FAINT "How sweet, but how bald for one 30
young"
An Iowa man put $4,000 in the rag bag for
safe keeping. A peddler came along ana his
wife sold the rags.
The czar has already had delinquent COM
missary skot. he proposes to stand no tridtng
with the flour Of his army.
A San Francisco child has been born without
eyes, and without any place for them. The
father is Sc well known and prominent citi-
zen."
A Rhode Island man, when arrested the
other day, was armed with . pistol, . sand
club, a sharpened knife, coil Of rope and
paper Of poison.
Thirty-three States have made laws for the
prevention of cruelty to animals. The States
that have not are Florida, Mississippi, Arkan-
sas, Nebraska and Colorado.
"I wish I were dead" is common e1clams-
ton with the dyspeptic, and yet no man can
get over fence or crawl under barn faster
when there's danger ahead.
The question now In the male juvenile mind
is whether to wait around for his hair to dry or
to walk boldly into the house and risk his
mothers finding out that he has been in SWIM
ming.
The young lady who forwarded to newsps-
per poetic complaint entitled: II Cannos
haps he had already smiled as frequently %
his prudence would permit.
Over two hundred pages of delinquent tax
notices were published in a Chicago newspaper.
The property affected would. Seem to comprise
q most every lot in the city The publication
will cost the taxpayers S5O,000.
The shrinkage in the size OF the bakers.
loaves will soon make, possibly, scene hkethe
following: Customer Give me pound OF
those crackers, please" Baker" Crackers,
thunder! them's loaves, ten cents apiece"
An American citizen was garroted and robbed
recently while travelling from Turkey TO St.
Petersburg. No diplomatic correspondence
will be necessary, as Turkey and st. Petersburg
are two small towns in the oil regions OF PENN
sylyania.
The sea holds 60 0oo, 600, oOO, 900 tons Of salt
Should the sea be dried up, there would DC
deposit of salt over the entire bottom OF the
ocean 450 feet deep, and II the salt were taken
and spread on the land 1t would cover IL 10
depth Of 800 feet.
Great place, that Black Hill country. Besides
gold and silver, ga mountain Of isinglass" has
lust been discovered. The accounts do not
mention the matter, but We understand that
there are indications Of type metal and how-
ing well of hair dye
A Frenchman, having heard the word press
made use Of to signify persuasion, as .fress
that gentleman to take something to eat, took
occasion at party to use term which ne
thought synonomous, and begged friend 10
squeeze young lady to sing.
A Russian engineer has invented bomb
proof tower, which is moved about by steam,
and in which artilerists sit and pelt the enemy
with destruction. By the time the next war
breaks out, the warrior will sit in rocking
chair in the front parlor Of hotel and talk his
enemies to death with revolving telephone.
"But pass" said minister, one Sunday
in dismissing one theme of his subject TO take
up another. "Then make it spades yelled
a man from the gallery who was dreaming the
happy hours away in. en- imaginary game OF
euchre. 1t is needless to say that he went out
on the next deal, being assisted by one OF the
deacons with full hand Of clubs.
A claim ninety-seven years old was recently
paid by the Treasury department 1t was baseo
on supplies furnished the Revolutionary army
IN 1T79, and has been in the various courts
sinee that time. The claim was originally Tor
"a 0II but the ninety-seven years interest,"
which bai-to be added increased It to between
s51 200 and\S52, 900, which was PAID to the
grandsons Of the original claimant