The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1880-07-07
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Patience is the art of hoping.


Patience is the art of hoping.
Tea culture in Florida is receiving at
ention.
Samuel johnson defined nonsense to
be g boiling a door with a boiled car
rot"
The Territory of Montana has already
produced upward of Sl47, 100000 in
gold, and S6,G0O,OO0 in silver.
An English firm sold 5000 freproof
safes in Turkey before it was ascertained
that the filing was only sawdust.
A leading hotel in Dundee, Scotland,
is furnished throughout with furniture
made in Grand Rapids, Mich.
The average yield of potatoes in 1879
in the United States is stated to have
been only sixty-nine bushels per acre.
Talk of fame and romance-al the
glory and adventure in the world are
not worth one hour Of domestic bliss.
The law should be to the sword
what the handle is to the hatchet; it
should direct the stroke and temper the
force.
In Paris the fashionable shade is sui
phur." There is one other place where,
also. it is fashionable.-Nea0 York. Her.
uzd.
The deficit in the postofice depart
ment for the fiscal year OF 1879 was
S3,407,9l6, which is less than any year
since 1866.
An oatmeal factory in Dubuque, a.,
is shipping over $4,000 pounds of meal
per week to Scotland at a cost of
seventy five cents hundred.
It is wonderful how silent a man can
be when he knows his cause is just, and
how boiste1ou he becomes when he
knows he is in the wrong.
Two hundred and seventy-two trains
arrive - and depart from Chicago every
twenty-iour hours. Forty-four railroads
have Offices il that city.
Grace am going to see Clara to-
day. Have you any message?" Char
lotte-"l wonder how you can visit
that dreadful girl9 Give her my love-
Missionaries report that q town near
Pekin, China, seems about to come
over en- masse to Christianity. They
have been reading Christian books, and
many families have destroyed their
family gods.
Ph;ladelphia has A72 public SCHOOLS,
instrUcting 1885 pupils by means Of
2,070 teachers, only seVenty-seVen Of
whom are men. The value Of the school
property owned and iD use by the city
is nearly S6,0O0,O0O.
Goods at half price," said the sign.
"Fow much is that teapot" asked the
old lady who had been attracted by the
announcement. Fifty cents, num-"
II guess I'll take it then,'' she said,
throwing down q quarter. The dealer
let her have the teapot, out took in his
sign before another customer could
some in.-Boston Transcript.
An exchange says that the king Of
Siam is coming to this country, and will
bring his suit With him. We'll he'd Bet
ter, unless he has friend here who will
lend him one. The weather is entirely
too changeable for a man to come so tar
away from home without his suit, and,
besides, people might make remarks
shout him.-MiddletoaOn TRANSCRIPT.
Did you ever notice the little rag
muffin in the street with a supremely
dirty face ? Tafy, bread and butter
and molasses form the groundwork for
the accumulation of dust and CRIME,
and his cheeks look like twin maps Of
the oceanic archipelago; bis hands and
wrists look ike animated tree roots,
they are so dirty, and his feet and
ankles partake of the mud they contact
with. Of course you've noticed him.
And he is the ightest-hearted bunch Of
human nature you ever saw. Dirt
doesn't strike any deeper than beauty,
and within his heart is as clean littlea
soul, and a great dealfreer one, as ever
grew inside the neatest and slickest
young devotee Of soap and Waetr that
ever lived, washed and sufered.-NeU
EGven Register