The Beaufort tribune and Port Royal commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1877-1879, 1877-05-10
Items Of Interest.

A Texas stockman recently sold to par
ties in southwestern Kansas 40, 900 head
of cattle and 1000 horses for $4,000 IN
silver.
Even if boy is always whistling 81
want to be an angel" it is just as we'll to
keep the preservedpears on the top shelf
of the pantry.
Georgia paid last year So, 500, 900 for
material to fertilize her lands, and the
average product of her cotton per acre is
reported as little less than 250per cent.
The japanese are advancing in civiliza-
ton. They usually favor condemned
felons with the choice of the mode OF
death. An interesting murderer having
been recently asked how he would like to
be executed, promptly replied: "By
proxy"
Lord Beaconsfeld said neat thing to
theeChinese ambassador when he received
that frlnctionary lately. "May you,"
said the English statesman, find it
agreeable to remain in our country until
YOU have taught me Chinese" The
envoy of the sun and moon was much
pleased.
It now comes to light that the refusal
of the German government to take part
in the Paris Exhibition of 1878 is intend
ed, not as sign of hostility to France,
but as O snub and chastisement for the
German artists and manufacturers who
made such discreditable show at Phila-
delphia.
PuncHs idea of treaty is can inter.
national agreement between two or more
powers, which each and all OF the contract
ing parties will punctually fulfill when
the time comes for doing so, unless they
find that the safest and most advantageous
course is to back out of it, in which case
they are free to back accordingly.
Beaver hunters in California live In
arks or floating houses, in which they
move from place to place on the streams
and ponds. The one small room on such
craft contains benches for several men,
cooking utensils, hunting articles and
stock of provisions. The hunters are
lazy, card playing and careless lot, but
live comfortably and make the business
pay.
On March II the hamlet of Carol, in
the Canton of Massat, Switzerland, was
covered by an avalanche of snow, which
broke loose from the heights OF the Pares
mountains. 1t was five in the morning,
and the twenty inhabitants were still III
bed. Of these six escaped, and the
corpses of nine were subsequently OBJ
tanned. Those of the rest had not been
dug up at last accounts.
Two policemen in San Francisco saw
two men pushing and pulling each other
at distance in the street. and comment
ed on it between themselves as
rough skylarkine Then one OF
the men ran away, and the
other, approaching the officers, said:
"You blamed fools, couldn't you see
was getting robbed? That fellow has
gone off with my watch.
The selectmen of Boston, one hundred
wears ago, leased the public lands and
buildings at auction. The ordinance
provided: "The premises to be SO leased
shall be set up at public auction or
sale, by inch of candle, and that at the
instant in which the candle shall expire,
the person last bidding the highest or
the greatest annual rent for the same
shall be declared the lessee of the same.
They had been married five months,
| and she was turning the leaves of book;
she espied pressed flower, part OF a
bouquet he had given her previous to
wedlock, and said: "'Tis but a little
flower, but, oh, how fondly dear ?" 81
should think so, he gow,ed; "thats a
representative of a half-ginnea bouquet,
and to buy it I walked into town and
deprived myself of luncheon for week. .
The vessels which passed through the
isthmus of Suez in 1876 numbered ,395,
and measured 1,9S6,69S tons. In 1919
there were 1,411, measuring l,9Oo,970
tons. Of the vessels of 1876, England
was represented by tonnage of ], 5l0, l9o,
against 476, 500 supplied by other nations.
France followed at a long distance, with
1876. .345 tons; Holland had 1Ol, OBJ tons;
Italy, 60, 99S; Austria, 27,2S1; and Russia
but 16, ,627 tons.
The residents in an old-fashioned two
story house at Hampton, N. H., on
arising one morning this winter, found the
snow up to the caves of the house, and
had to take up the boards from chamber
floor and Law them down on the snow to
the barn, and then they had totake some
boards from the roof of the barn and
climb down to feed the cattle. The
sheep were buried under the snow Tor
| twenty-one days, and were then got out
alive.