The Beaufort tribune and Port Royal commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1877-1879, 1877-08-16
Items of Interest.


Seven thousand immigrants have ar
rived in Oregon this year.
A sparrow and chicken fought in
Pottsville, and the chicken was killed
The ninety-two papers in Mississippi
have combined circulation OF 5O,223.
The woman who neglects her hus-
bands shirt front is not the wife OF his
bosom.
The United States raises twenty-eight
millions of swine, and Europe about
thirty-three millions.
The boys at Reno, Cal, amuse them
selves lassoing Indians. Indians used to
lasso them, but they know the ropes
now.
One of the first pennies issued by our
government bore the inscription, =" Mind
your own business" Very cent-slble
advice.
The French mint has struck 10000
francs worth of centime pieces in bronze,
each representing about the twelfth OF
an American cent.
The new Jail at Fort Worth, Texas, Is
described by a local paper as "miser-
able failure, and not safe place to con-
fine prisoners in"
Fifteen masked men went to ball
near McDade, Lee county, Texas, took
out four men from among the dancers
and hanged them to tree.
When the czar's soldiers got into Paris
in 1916, they drank all the alcohol IN
the jars in which the scientific French
preserved the museum serpents.
Under the head of Marriages in
an exchange we find one commencing
Paris-Green." The happy couple
should never be troubled with potato
bugs.
The Turkish soldiers are taller than
the Russians, and will average at least
five feet and ten inches. They wear full
boards, but have their heads shaved, or
the hair cut very short
The cereal product of Europe is about
five thousand millions. Of this, Russia
grows 1,OO6, 100000 Germany, 74,-
GOO, 600; France, 6S7, ,OOO, 600; and the
Austrian empire, $50. 600, ,O00.
Stereotype printing was used IN Hol-
land early in the last century. The
rollers for mixing the type were invented
by Nicholson. Stereotype printing was
introduced into London by Wilson In
1904.
The United States, with population
of about 40, 600, 900, produces about o4t
bushels of cereals to each inhabltant,
while Europe, with population OF
297, 600, 600, produces only about LOT
bushels to each person.
A BROOKLYN man went to the peniten,
tiary for his health. He was unweli, ana
his physician told him to go right nome
and take something. He went rlg9t
home and took his employers watch. ne
calls that going to the penltentlary ior
his health.
At a recent party in Iowa young man
sat on q pyramid of ladies hats. hlslng
quickly, he gided from the room, and
bolted for the depot, where he poked
his head into the ticket office and yehed,
"When does the next train leave lof
Batoum?"
A locomotive on the Lake Shore rail-
road struck two-year-o'd bullock. The
animal bonded over the smOkestack and
fell across the boiler, the fore legs on
one side and the hind legs on the other;
The fireman went out on the engine and
held the animal until u train could be
stopped. The lively little bullock was
scratched, nothing more.
A famous old horse, owned by gen.
tleman in the northwestern section OF
Baltimore, kills from three to a half
dozen rats every night. When the rodents
come into his trough to eat the feed, and
old equine just seizes them by the back,
gives grip with his teeth, opens bus
mouth. and they fall dead at his hoofs.
He is worth half dozen cats.
A lady in the suite Of the Princess OF
Wales, when that lady and her husband
visited Constantinople, speaks:of dlnner
with the sultan as being very good, and
in the European style, but as very duH
affair. 1t was the first time that the
sultan had ever sat at dinner with ladies,
or that any of his ministers, except the
grand.vizier, had sat in his presence.
There were twenty-four at the table,
twelve of whom were Turks, who looked
frightened and astonished, and dared not
speak.