The Beaufort tribune and Port Royal commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1877-1879, 1877-04-05
Items of Interest.

Items Of Interest. ~,
The Bank of England keeps, a medical
man to attend its employees gratis. =
Peaceful sleep is the sheet anchor OF
health. You can enjoy this sleep IT you
have paid the printer. "'fs ai ifN
Some one has estimated that each per-
son on the globe would receive 81 it all
the gold was parceled out. - IL aos
In oil the works of God there is q con-
spicuous absence Of haste and hurry.
All that he does ripens slowly. ,,s,,r;
The gold used by jewelers. is always
alloyed with certain proportions of pure
silver and the finest copper, according
to the quality desired. 81 Gs'd
The Detroit Free Press says: No one
can tell who is president Of Mexico and
none of the Mexicans seem to care.
What they want is fun.
Louis Katenstein put on hideous
mask and went to Chinaman's shanty
in Marysville, Cal, to scare the inmate.
The Chinaman was successfully scared,
and Katenstein got a bullet in one Of his
legs. l,.rT
That was fearful joke of Lord Nor
bury's, on sentencing TO death q thief
who had stolen watch: You made
grasp ,at time, my lad, but you ciutched
eternity" ~ g N
AS proof of hard times, the marshal
of the District of Columbia shows nearly
three hundred letters from persons beg
ging to be put on juries that they may
give their families bread. "A bzso7
However old the earth may be, ac-
cording to Professor Proctor, it has not
reached its growth. He estimates that
40, 900, 900 extraterrene bodies become
Incorporated with it every year, and
some of them weigh q ton. = sr'n
The medical men of Ghent have pre-
pared "black book /" containing the
names of patients who have refused to
pay their bills, and pledge has been
given by the profession not to attend the
defaulters except in cases OF immediate
urgency. 2et
The Waynesburg Messenger says:
Keep your children in the honse and
feed them plentifully on onions, as
preventive for diphtheria. We have
medical authority for urging this course
as one that adds greatly in keeping OH
the dread disease. -. ,, ~:
A prominent st. Louis gentleman,
who has just returned from China, states
that there is railroad running out from
Pekin that cost 81, 900, 900 per mile. An
ordinary American railroad can be built
for from $4,000 to $50, 600 per mile.
This Chinese road was built by Amerl-
cans for the Chinese government.
Campanelli's idea was Ii there were
an instrument for the ear, by which we
could enlarge the faculty of hearing, as
the faculty of sight is increased by the
microscope and telescope, we should be-
come acquainted with an entire poly
phonic tone world, inasmuch as all mo-
ton produces waves Of sound" ei'l
The wealthy who keep their balances
at Coutts', says the London World, are
somewhat nervous. The senior partner,
aged eighty-fve, died the other day, and
the management of the bank is intrust.
ed to the junior partner, raw boy OF
eighty-two, with not more than sixty
years experience in the house. mss
A writer in st. Nicholas .dredged the
backs of his bees with -four as they were
leaving the hives in the morning during
a very dry time, doing this by precon-
certed arrangement with friend who
had a fine clover field in bloom forty
miles away. The friend wrote back d.
rectly: "There are plenty of your white
Jacket bees here in the clover"
A clergyman was preparing his dis
course for Sunday, stopping occasionally
to review what he had written, and erase
that which he was disposed to disapproTe,
when he was accosted by his little son,
who numbered but five summers
"Father, does God tell you what to
preach?" Certainly, my child" ;" "TheD
what makes you scratch it out?'
There is a healthy moralist living in
Chicago who made his money in the milk
business. He retired some years ago,
and has since occupied his time giving
struggling young men good advice,
They seem to pick right up under it.
"Don't be discouraged, boys" it is his
fashion to remark. "You can't expect
to get rich all to wonst. When things
doesn't look cheerful like, think of me:
Industry and honesty was all the capital
I had, except milk can and water
pail"