The Beaufort tribune and Port Royal commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1877-1879, 1877-04-12
Items of Interest.

There are men VINO WANDER apOut Will
hopes at half-mast.
Office holders do not turn out well
when others are to take their places.
"Hunted Down you will see it on
any young man who is just beginning to
raise few hairs.
Every other lady you meet on Broad
way wears bunch of violets at the cross
ing Of her bonnet scarf.
"When die" said married man,
" I want to 90 where there is no snow to
shovel" His wife said she presumed he
would.
The Legislature of Indiana has passed
a bill forbidding the changing OF text
books in public schools oftener than once
in six years.
At Florence, Arizona, there is res
taurant kept by Chinaman, with a
Mexican wife, o negro cook, and white
woman for waiter.
Pretty nearly all men are benevolent
when it don't cost much. Tom, Jones
never sees poor John Smith suffer but
he thinks Sam Rogers ought to help
him.
A grabbed farmer crustily answered
his poor neighbor: "No, yon shan't
have any of my apples, if 1 have TO
throw them to the pigs" "Thats
rather hoggish," was the answer"
And now the careful grocer brings
down his cakes of last years maple
sugar, and, after thorough dusting, the
stock is put into the front window, bear
ing the label: "New maple sugar,
twenty five cents per pound. ="
The Cincinnati Commercial says:
"Why is it that editors never commit
suicide ?" The Burlington Hawkeye
has investigated this subject little, and
thinks it is because the druggists won't
sell strychnine on long time.
During the course of the past year
1O2, COL immigrants Of British origin left
ports of the United Kingdom at which
immigration offices are established.
More than fifty per cent. OF the whole
number sailed for the United States.
A married man had blue glass put II,
his wife's sitting- room to match her eyes,
he said. She returned the compliment
by having red glass put In her husbands
| library-to match mis- nose, she said.
He didn't seem to appreciate the COM
pliment.
The money lost by depositors in saw
ings banks in this country, according to
Appleton's Journal, equals only one
| fiftieth of the amount paid TO depositors
in interest by the banks, and ls only
one-hundredth of one per cent. OF the
deposits.
All the chairs in the United States
Senate being too small for Senator DaX1d
Davis, the one which was made express
| " for Mr.. Dixon II. Lewis, senator
many years ago from Alabama, was
placed at his desk. It measures IN the
seat thirty-three by twenty-five inches.
Southwest Texas is filed with
fiourishing German population. The
inhabitants of the State have doubled
their numbers since 1870; they now
amount to 1900, 900, and if the census
were taken, they would be entitled to an
increase of ten votes in the electoral
college.
It seems that the Chinese guard
against carrier pigeons being attacked,
when fatigued, by birds of prey, by at
taching to them resonant balls OF feather
lightness, which alarm the enemy.
When several pigeons fly together, the
balls make a noise Like telegraph wires
on windy day.
Awriter in the Uniuersalist says Hol-
| nf
length, and carry three thousand yards
of canvas. American windmills have
arms of only ordinary size, but when
they are sent to Congress they can stand
ND and tire out any windmill that ever
spread its sails to the rising gale IN
Holland.
The poplar forests in the region of
country north of Lewiston, Me-, have
been cut down for timber for. the manu-
facture of paper. These forests have
| been considered by the farme5e almost
worthless, a great deal of TIE wood or
{ lumber hardly paying for the cutting
and hauling, but Gow it bringsa high
price.
At a dinner given by some Chinese
merchants in San Francisco to some
Americans the other day, the latter were
astonished in q drinking ebb to hear
Celestial remind the board that " You
know what the governor of North Caro-
lima said to the governor of South Caro-
lima It's long time between drinks.
Under an act passed about ten years
ago. the relations of man who is muir
dered can, in Ireland, claim damages
from the barony. and farmer, Mr..
Owen Clarke, has lately served the pre-
scribed notice that he intends to apply
for 950o, in compensation for the ser
vices of his son, who was waylaid wheE
returning from market, last July, and
beaten so badly that he died In August.
A French humorist writes A doctor
q. sick mans bedside says to the wife
of the invalid cit is my painful duty
| to inform you that your husband has
but short time to live" What !!
exclaims the surprised wife. Do you
not see," says the doctor, that already,
his hands are purple % 81 know it."
responded the wife, "but he is dyer"
when that's So" coolly continues the
doctor, sI must confess that you are
very fortunate, for il he had not bean
! dyer he would b desd ,nsa."