The Beaufort tribune and Port Royal commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1877-1879, 1877-02-01
Items Of Interest.

The average age of sheep is ten years
cows. fifteen hogs, fifteen, and HORSES
not used as beasts Of burden, twenty.
Said man to another: "Don't forget
the baby give my love to him" sad
the other man: "E amt i'm, 'e's
'er."
ALondon newsboy found 81, 900 dia-
mond which he carried about III ms
pocket for month without knowing iss
worth.
Citizens of Fort Griffin, Texas, car
tured eleven men who were trying to run
off twenty-seven head of stolen horses,
and hanged them all in the WOODS.
Some physicians now claim that the
general prevalence of diphtheria IS due
in a great degree to the gas winch ls
thrown off from coal stoves in i'll ventlla-
ted rooms.
If. as was the case in Ga lottery htlga-
tion," in New York, a stockhoider In
lottery fails to get his own share OF the
money, what are the chances OF the
ticketholder
In nearly every city throughout the
country the exits of theaters have been
officially examined since the Brooklyn
disaster. and in most of them attentions
have been ordered.
Don't put the point of your lead pencil
in your mouth. The frequent practice
has resulted in the ruin of health, and
in many cases in paralysis and death
Resides il is.a vulgar habit.
So far this year, not less than 36, ,OOO
head of beef cattle have been driven
from eastern Oregon and eastern WASH
inpton down toward the Pacific railroad,
the greater part destined for San Fran
cisco.
A Philadelphia policeman, convicted OF
murder. is to have new trial because aI
the time of the deed, in the language OF
the Judge. .'his reason had been torn up
by the roots and judgment jostled from
her throne"
Many farmers boy goes into some
CITY and struggles along until middle
life. with nothing to show for his labor
except that he has thoroughly learned
that o half starved lawyer is less TO Do
enyied than a well fed farmer.
The people often make blunders in
their choice they are apt to mlstake
presence of speech for presence OF mlnd ;
they love so to help man r1se from the
ranks that they will spoil good dema-
gogue to make bad general.
She wouldn't stand to have toota
pulled for one million two hundred
| thousand dollars, she said, and yet she
walked the streets all day In tiny galteIs,
two sizes too sn all for her, and thought
nothing of it.; but then nobody saw the
tooth, and several saw 5he CATERS.
While DIR. James Adams, of the LQr<.
don hospital, was removing the lower
limb at the hip joint from q boy, IN
alarming collapse occurred, and the pa
tient sunk fast. The operator instantly
had eight ounces Of blood injected 1ron1
his arm to the boys, and then completed
the operation. The boy is doing well.
About 1000 Icelanders have imml-
grated into Manitoba and settled on
Lake Winnipeg at a place which they
call Gimli. The colonial governments
has given them land and helped them to
get over. They are very unlucky, now
ever: this winter, numbers OF them, es-
pecially children, having died OF small
! pox.
-Four wars within the last fifteen years
have cost Great Britain upward OF 4io,-
600, 900 sterling. The Persian EXPEDITION
cost s9OO, 900. The outlay on the CHI
nese war amounted to s3, ia, 600. The
New Zealand war, which did not extend
beyond the year 1866, was covered by
e765. 600; and the Abyssinian war entail
ed the expenditure of 9S,OOoooo or
s9, ,OOO, 900.
It is fact worth thinking about that
Africa is three times as densely popuia-
ted as America. The estimated number
of inhabitants in Africa on about eleven
and half square miles OF territory Is
more than twice that in America on about
fifteen and half square miles. In
America the average is five and hall
people to the square mile, in Africa,
seventeen and half.
The numberof pilgrims who assembled
last wear at Mecca is stated to have been
14O 600. Of these 10000 were conveyed
by sea. and the remainder by caravans
across the continent. The whole number
is below the average of former years, the
falling off being accounted for by the
French government having forbidden the
pilgrimage from Algiers in consequence
of the prevalence of cholera in Syria.