The Beaufort tribune and Port Royal commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1877-1879, 1877-03-01
Items Of Interest.

Items Of Interest.
Bear and forbear-The bear and his
hunter. .la9-
Be polite, and associates will not notice
that you are not handsome. .,
The question is, did the horseman
that secured the plain put soap In the
sand?
Many Of the white men in California
will not sit at hotel table with China
man, but will follow him two miles after
dark to borrow money of him! a.
It has been officially decided that the
reason why a law book is Like trohc-
some ram jumping over fence, ls be-
cause they are both boundin sheep. =
A gentleman observed to another that
an officer in the army had left his house
without paying his rent. "Oh T. ex-i
claimed the other, "you mean the left
tenant"
Moody has found girl in Chicago.
sixteen wears old, and ordinarily intehi- 2
gent. who had never heard the name OF =
Christ except in profanity, and who had
no idea who he was. ,,.,..: :; ,l4o;,-
Some of the scientific papers are again
agitsting the question: How far on is
the sun 2" AS long as it is 80 far away
that it calls for five hods of coal q day to,
run fire, the question has no particular
charm for most men. . ,.,.s -. ~,
A Partisan has been arrested for ?
novel offense. He stuffed old clothes
with straw, ETC., filed the pockets with
clay. and threw the manikin into the
Seine. where it foated and deceived phil
anthropists and ancient mariners 60 4.
! A San Francisco lawyer received
wooden jackass as Christmas gift from
his fellow practitioners in the police
court. and he says: 81 know how hard
tits to pick out suitable presents, but l
almost believe an insult was intended"
An editor out West became martial and
was made captain. On parade, instead
of aTwo PAGES in front-adyance, he
unconsciously exclaimed: "Cash-$2
wear in advance" He was court mar
| tailed and sentenced to read his own
papers. %. c,7.e,... llys
In the village of Harbottle, Northurn.
berland, England, no child has died dur
ING the last twenty years farmer and
his three shepherds have between them
| forty-seven children, and during the past
thirty years not death has occurred IN
their families. -
The improvements in long range fire
arms have made the bayonet and sabre
comparatively innocent playthings. Dur.
ING the Franco Prussian war only twenty
one men were killed on the German side
by the bayonet and lance, and but SIX N z,
cavalry charges. p. . @-'o1''a'.
"I had nine children to support, and
it kept me busy" said Smith to Jones,
! as they met 9 but one of the girls got
married. Now I have Eight 2
interrupted Jones. "No; ten-count-
ing the son-in-law," said Smith, with q
sigh which might have been heard afar
! off. -. e,-gs1 i'll
When Dr.. James w. Alexander was ON
his dying bed, some one said: nope
you are able to say: / know IN whom 4 !
have believed" You do not quote II
right" was the reply; sit is: Il know
whom I have believed In an hour like
this would not have even a preposltloA
between me and my Saviour,
There are three superior officers In the
German army who have served for more
than seventy years-the emperor, VINO
received a grade during .chlidhoed,
Marshal Wrangel, who reckons eighty
wears Of service, and Lieut. Gen. Mails
zewski, commanding the invalides, who
has served seventy-two years. 'isi
A new amusement is in vogue among
Mexicans in San Francisco. They wind
handkerchefs tightly around the blades
of their knives, leaving quarter OF an
inch of the points bare. Then they
fight with these weapons, and, although
the wounds cannot be deep, they are
often numerous and painful. {
The number of sheep in Australia at
the close of 1875 was 63,845, ,7l9, or
more than double the number in Great
Britain. The cattle were 6,SS4, SET, also
much larger n-mber than the motaer
country possesses. The horses had IN,
creased to a million, and three millions
and a half of acres were under cuit1ya-
ton. .'' Z. t'l'
A French court has compelled the
! family of peasant to pay S.60 for the
absolutely necessary expenses OF bus
funeral. The items were: Three
! priests, So; tolling bell, I.20; draping
,, the altar, So; litter, IS; cloth for sigma
, ture table, 81; female mourners, slo;
, burial fee, eighty cents; coffin, 81; four
: bearers, $40; tapers, $500; hearse,
s24; "a days work" 81; total, $oSoo'
Directions have been issued by the
r British admiralty for the use OF slaked
r lime for the preservation OF those por'
3 tions of the framework OF iron vessels
/ which are constantly exposed to the &c
: tion of sea water. It is to be placed on
0 the iron frames, and in the water con:
e tanned in such compartments, bilges and
: wings as cannot be dried out sufficiently
t to allow the application of preseryatlve
paints. s,..g,,.,.
A child's bed should slope q little
from the head to the foot, SO that t9e
y head NAV be a little higher than the
0 foot ); but never bend the neck to get tht
head on the pillow. This makes the
4 child round shouldered, cramps the
!. veins and arteries, and interferes Will
the free circulation of the blood. Ever
v when child is several years old tn
i pillow should be thin, and made o.
hair. not feathers.