The Beaufort tribune and Port Royal commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1877-1879, 1877-06-07
ned mass of flowers even in the dryest
summers. In arranging the plants there
is much room for taste, and very striking
combinations may be secured.
Items of Interest.

Temper is good thing. Keep it.
An Oil City man recently died of love,
but it was love for whisky.
General Sevenyearitch would be the
man to bring the Russians up to the
scratch.
Among the late important State events
in Europe are the deaths of Bismarck's
dog and the sultan's cat.
Why should doctors be less liable to
be. sick on the ocean? Because they are
more used to see sickness.
Certain ladies in Rhode Island are
taking steps to establish home for prls-
oners whose terms have expired.
The supply train of the Russian invad-
ing army consists of IA, 600 wagons and
large number of locomotives and railroad
cars.
A prominent citizen in Alameda, Cal,
while leading fractious cow by rope
recently, had his thumb pulled off at the
first joint.
The Chinese women don't chew gum In
public, but it is fashionable for them to
eat pieces of dry Goldfish. Women must
keep her jaws at work.
As neutrals, we can't, it is true, ex-
tend to either Russia or Turkey our
hand. But either one Of them can have
all they want of our arms.
The Boston Commercial Bulletin sug..
gests that Crazy Horse, when inveigled
into the garments of civilization, have
his name changed to Clothes Horse.
At a late marriage the bride walked
over a mat. stretched from the door to
the altar railing, fashioned of eyergreens,
and filed in by lilies, roses and vlolets.
There are several ways Of killing
grasshoppers, but none more reliable
than that Of tying their tails together
and permitting them to jump them
selves in two.
The sour oranges of Florida, fruit
which grows indigenously and most
abundantly in that strange peninsula,
have at last been utilized in the manu-
facture of marmalade.
"Biddy," inquired country gentle
man of his servant girl, sis there much
water in the cistern9" cit is full on
the bottom, sir, but there's none at all
on the top" was the reply.
The Great Eastern, the enormous
vessel that has thus far proved an un-
profitable curiosity, is to be trans
formed into huge floating refrigerator,
and used in the conveyance OF American
meat to England.
Anthony Allison, a Confederate soldier,
who lost track of his family during the
war while he was confined in Northern
prison. and has been looking for them
ever since, found them the other day at
Rising Fawn, Tenn.
Two San Francisco doctors recently
called in to attend conference over
man supposed TO be in the last extremity,
violently quarreled and finally caned
each other. The patient laughed, pers-
piration was induced, and he recovered.
She and he had been married two
months, and she was sewing, while ne
was hanging his legs over the side OF the
chair. Then said she /: elm sewing;
you 90 out and take in nip and LII take
in another tuck" For a while it was
nip and tuck.
Some COWS have singular antipathy
to woman. A Connecticut dairy maid
recently attempted to milk an Alderney;
there was q sudden movement, then q
violent tumult, then q disheveled and
fugitive female, and the COW has been
coughing up bits of ribbon and whale
bone ever since.
During a performance Of "Othello"
at the Prince of Wales Theater, Blr-
mingham, England, recently, in the last
act, when Othello, in wild despair, is In
the act of taking his wife's life, an old
lady in the pit, carried away by her emo
tions, broke the stiffness and force OF the
tragic scene by making dash toward
the stage, exclaiming: "Oh, you
wretch p