The Beaufort tribune and Port Royal commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1877-1879, 1877-02-22
Items of Interest.

According to the report OF United
States Secretary Chandler s6,6A, ,326
acres were disposed of during the last
fiscal year, for which the cash receipts
we're 81. 747, ,215.85. During the year
q. .SO3. .517.25 acres were surveyed,
leaving yet to be surveyed 1,l32,665,-
2f4.5 acres. -a b3E s''.'
Chlorste of potassium and iodide OF
potassium are separately harmless medl-5
cal doses, but the Journal Of Pharmacy
warns physicians not to administer them
together. because in the stomach they
combine to make iodate of potassium, o
poison. Mixed in any other way they DO
not thus act. l..,t.5ss, is,1rs.
A Canadian woman has just taken re-
venpe in a novel way on q female board
err She didn't abuse her, denotmce
her, scratch her, or anything OF that
kind-oh no; she quietly took q sc,s-i
sors. went to the closet and cut up the
hated ones best silk dress into strips OF
size for making rag carpet. $50
While he was sitting on the woodbox
and chewing the bitter cud of reflection,
q man with brass watch chain and
three dollar set of glass diamonds en-.
tered the car, and six of the women Lifted
their sachels down and moved close up
To the side of the car. Such things are
not right but they always will be done
A gardener near Santa Cruz, Cal, has
strawberry patch of half an acre, from
which he says he can on any DAY or
month of the year gather at least twenty
quarts of ripe berries. He has picked
8. 900 during the past year, and blossoms,
green and flaming red ripe berries are TO
be seen on the vines the whole year
through.
"Men are like hymns, remarks an
exchange newspaper. !" There are short
metre men, sharp, blunt and hasty;
there are long metre men, slow, welghty
and dignifed; there are hallelulah
metre men, mercurial, fervent and IN
spirinp and there are eights-and- d-sevens
men. gentle, genial and delightful. There
are also some peculiar metres. " e't :
The killing of German sailor by
some Frenchmen at Smyrna seems about
to exercise upon the relations between
France and Germany the same influence
"a was exercised by the row In an mn OF
Calais. in the fourteenth century. Some
British and French sailors fought there,
and soon after begun the hundred years
war between France and England.
The annual report of the inebr1ate
asylum at Binghampton, N. T., states
that from May l, 1867, to December 81,
1876. @ 2O65 patients were treated. More
than one-half of these were permanently
cured. The receipts during the yea. IN
clnsive of cash on hand, amounting, to
ahont $1,000. were $43, 71455; thesex-
penditures. $3S,319.0a; cash on nana'
$5, 1892.
nortly magistrate of Glasgow having,
one fine Sunday in summer, found hls
way to church, was overcome by the
heat of the weather, and fell fast asleep
during the sermon. In the middle OF
the discourse a dog which had got into
church set up howl. Put out that
doc" said the minister "put out that
dog instantly-hed wauken q Glasgow
magistrate"
| correspondent of the English Ne
chanic. in answer to question as to the
best means of keeping the feet dry In
winter, says: A simple plan would be,
on having pair of shoes made, to order
the maker to put between the soles q
piece of guttapercha as thick as SIX.
hence. No wet or damp will ever get
through. I have adopted this plan for
some years. Formerly / had both wet
and cold feet continually, which even
worsted stockings failed to keep warm
now T wear cotton all the winter and
never have cold feet.