The Beaufort tribune and Port Royal commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1877-1879, 1877-03-08
Items Of Interest

In our infancy We cut our teeth; in
our old age our teeth cut Us, yb;s,7q s,FF
,Argid attempted to walk the ridges
pole of house in Warren, Texas, having
made bet that she could do So. She
fell off and broke both her legs!ill loi 81
A company Of mounted robbers dashed
into Eagle Pass, Texas, and shot all thes
horses, cows, and dogs in the place, ID
revenge for the hanging OF their com.
panions. ,E, ~ -
a Young woman stepped out on a'bal-S
cony in Paducah, but the account saysn
that sfthe balcony wasn't there, and q
never had BEEN A broken leg gas n siIh ithhef h
consequence. -
Saws the Detroit Free Pres; IL Rrs.
sia won't fight and Turkey won't fght ,,
and England has crawled into q cave, !
grocers might as we'll come downs IN thsl
price of dried apples. .woTlem
The Chicago stoneeutters union sent
man to urge the Illinois Legislature to
prohibit the employment OF convict labor,
and it was discovered thatsh adlearned
his trade in the penitentiary. s7if xniIcol
!"What," asked an Arkansas Isper.s
ss shall we do with the school money e.
We should say that in Arkansas, the best
thing YOU can do is TO spend it before
the treasurer steals it, says an exchange,
"Smoky Jones, p known throughout
the Black Hills as o yagabond, has Pc
come suddenly wealthy, by discovering
and selling gold veins. He gained his.
nickname by long disuse of soap, and
wealth makes no change in his. habits. ~
| The Russian budget for 1877 shows,
the public revenue for the past year Y,
haye amounted to $40. 77s, ,0OO roubies,
and the expenditure to. 5b8, 770,OOe
roribles. The estimated expenditure for
1S77 shows IAN increase OF 3,5O0,0OO.
roubles. Z rga4iror psr1,:z5, e1; irG
Two women and man are under er;
rest in Philadelphia. They comprise
the Charity Relief Association. They
hired a house, put out q sign, collected
money from benevolent spersons, ana
pocketed the, proceeds. They are sad
to have operated in the same manner nal IN
other cities, -, -, "a :, -
A beautiful country girl grew indig-
nant at a Madison (Wis! hotel clerk be-
cause he presumed to run into her sleep
ing room and throw open the windows ttl
and turn off the gas, which was escap-
ing, and would soon have made her an
angel. She had blown the thing out, as
she would candle. yipr4gfh sl3sos1yr
.."You would make q most beautiful
ootress in the drama of ife," whispered
a poetical Chicago youth to his inamorata
tbe other evening, Indeed, tbs se-A
Won would be a very star u Sand yony
murmured the fair one, as she leaned on
his shoulder" w-wouldnt y-you IKE ilke 70
support me?" Now he supports her
regularly.
Ayalanches Of formidable size are COM
mon in this winter of deep snow on the
Western mountains. In Wyoming "a
blast in q mine loosened the snow on the
surface above. and four men were carried
with frightful velocity down q steep des-
cent, one of them being kineh In Ne
vada cabin was swept away, and three
men who were in it were killed. ,,s
Mabel Hall, ballet girl, was murder
ed in the green room Of a st. Louis
theater by jealous lover, and he is now
ON trial. In the court room table and
chairs we're arranged Like the furniture
in the room where the murder was com
mitted, and an actor, as q witness, de-
scribed the crime by initiating the Ian
guage and movements of the murderer.
- A youngster being required TO write
a composition upon some portion of the
human body selected that which unites
the head to the body, and exPounded' as
follows: ga throat is convenient to
have, especially to roosters nand minis.
tsrs. Is The former eats the corn and
crows with it; the latter breaches
through his'n, and then ties it up. This
ia pretty much all I can think OF about
necks."' ,ta,r g. a7E;Ej7H'ai ns1t
Richard A.. Proctor, writing abont the
probability of there really being such
things as "sea serpents, says it is not
likely that naturalists know all the forms
of animals that exist IN the oceans. 30 He
reminds us that athe first account, Of a
giraffe was laughed at, that the gorilla
was for long time disbefeyed ID, and
that those who originally described q
pipsntic cutae6sh were regarded 90 liars.
M. Proctor's conclusion is that the stor-
les of "sea serpents," therefore, are not
unreasonable. af.