The Beaufort tribune and Port Royal commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1877-1879, 1877-08-30
Items Of Interest.

Give the tramps no quarter.
When is chair like a lady's dress7
When it is satin.
It is said that the pen is mightier than
thesword. Neither is of much use without
the holder.
The strikers resemble the Russians be-
cause they have been endeayorlng to
wreck Kars.
Several newspaper men have been
swindled by the new counterfeit five thou
sand dollar bill.
Six thousand children have been taught
to swim in two years by the London
Health Society.
It takes the Russian proyost-marshals
four minutes to convict and shoot spy,s
and the car loudly complains OF lost
time.
An intelligent paper in Switzerland
saws that "Miss Molie Mcguire, OF
Pennsylvania, has been hung for misbe-
having"
The empress of Brazil has but $780,
600 worth of diamonds, and some one
ought to feel like heading subscription
for her benefit.
A landlady said that she did not know
how to make both ends meet. Well,
said boarder, "why don't you make one
end. vegetables"
A German dairy maid in Jefferson
county fell head first into tank OF soft
switzer cheese last week. Here it Is
again. A woman in the kase, as usual.
Much he's been said about feats OF
strength; but it is an actual fact that a
man of but ordinary stature recently
knocked down an elephant. The per-
former of the great feat was an auction
eer..
"This summer, ladies are going to-
dress their hair as they did three hun
dred wears ago, ;" says an exchange news
paper. This makes some OF the ladies
pretty old.
In Grass Valley, Cal, there is snake
living around loose which is forty feet
long The editor of the local paper
there was informed that this snake, with
one stroke of its ponderous tai, smashed
large Newfoundland dog to jelly.
"My articles do not receive q very
warm reception of late, " wrote a lady to
the conductor of a monthly magazine:
"Our fair correspondent is mistaken"
replied the editor; "they meet with the
warmest reception possible. We burn
them all"
It wasn't such bad notion on the part
of glove dealer who advertised as fol,
lows in large type: "Ten Thousand
hands wanted immediately And un,
derneath it was printed In very small
characters: "To buy my gloves, the best
quality"
A novelist tells of two lovers, who
agreed to wave their hands toward each
other. at certain hour. across the At
lantic ocean. One might suppose there
might be waves enough between them
without their trying to make any more
with their hands.
More than 5000, 200, 900 cans Of corn
are now packed in Maine, annually, ana
sold in every part of the world, yielding
a business to that State Of about 81 ,26O,-
600, and giving profitable employment to
from 5000 to 10000 people during tne
packing season.
Constantinople has circumference OF
about thirteen miles. Its harbor, the
"Golden Horn, (" is a long capacious inlet
of the Bosphorus running along the
northeast side of the city, with sufficient
depth for the largest vessels and capable
of receiving 1,2O0 sails of the line.
There is question of veracity between
Chicago Times reporter and a rlotef.
The reporter says he shot the rioter dead,
and the latter stoutly denies the story,
and saws he can prove the negative. 1t
is manifest that the rioter lies, and other
papers congratulate the reporter on his
prowess and pluck.