The Abbeville banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1847-1869, 1847-05-12

at all the matter" 60, there must be; it
is bad tooth thcn-open your mouth and
let me see." Very reluctantly the boy
opened his mouth and discovered large
roll of tobacco leaf. 81 see, | see," said
the Lieutenant, "your moth wants over
hauling, and your teeth cleaning, I wish we
had dentist on board, but as we have not,
will operate as we'll as | can. Send the
armorer up here with his tongs." When
the armorer made his appearance, the boy
was made to open his mouth while the chew
of tobacco was extracted with this rough
instrument. "Thcre now,' said the Lieu-
tenant, "I'm sure that you must feel better
already y, you never could have any appetite.
Now, captain Of the aftcr-guard, bring a
and clean his teeth nicely" The captain of
the aftcr-guard came forward and putting
the boys head between his knees, scrubbed
his teeth we'll with the sand and canvass, for
two or three minutes. "Therc, that will
do," said the Lieutenant. CHOW, my little
fellow, your mouth is nice and clean, and you
will enjoy your breakfast. 1t was impossi-
bic for you to have eaten any thing with
your mouth in such Il nasty state. Whom
it's dirty again, come to me, and I'll be your
ucIltlSts-4 eCef CIHtWe.
SrUrFING ---Mo,hers, don't stuff your
children. We have seen children actually
stuffed to death aud sometimes those that
live are worse than dead cross Grabbed, yes,
really snoppish How can it be otherwise?
their little ,slomach's are distended, strech-
ed, pu0ed out enormously. The truth is,
the poor things are miserable, suffering the
keenest of pain SpeeIl we at random
study the best of authors; we could quote
volumes on this point. Reason herself,
speaks. Be elastic, cheerful, happy, while
stuffed and puf1ed with digestables and un-
dlgesta bles Are your organs India-rubber?
Why is our world a world of gormandizers,
consuming at every meal twice or thrice the
amount offood called for by nature2 Why
does disease or death, premature, stare us
full in the face, at every step, from childhood
TO three score and ten2 Stuffing is the prime
cause. excess'-H alimentaton. And this
over-eating nmences in early infancy.
at the mothc. breast and is carried on with
mighty force.
Mothers. one word more. Feed your
little cues; give them what nature de-
mands, but never stuff them let their
meals be regular keep your eye on this
point health, happiness, peace and long
life depend much ON governing the appetite.
Seek not for fierce or fiery stmulants,
That mix galvanic tightening with the
Nor base narcotics, only fit to lul [blood,
The lazy Turk upon his ottoman.
Golden Rule
STARTLING OccURRENcE.--The Dubuque
Iowa) Republican publishes an account of
eroIites In that neighbourhood. In one in
stance, a large stone, some six feet in dia-
meter, and resembling mass Of sulpher, in
its descent went through large tree, crush
ed it to atoms, and entered the earth to
the depth of about twelve feet, whence it
was afterwards recovered by those who saw
it fall. The traces of several smaller bo-
dies Of the nature have been discovered in
that vicinity within a short time, and are
creating considerable alarm and no won
DER these nreoIties are now thought by
the scientific to be fragments of some old
shatter ID shivcrcd planet, whose srlrters
have got entangled in our atmosphere;
and if Dubuque happens to be the ma,h-
ematical point upon which the majority Of
them are to strike the earth in their last gy-
ra,ions. the may there be we'll alarmed at
the risk Of being thus peppered with stones
from dismembered planet, until the whole
of it is used up.
YANKEE BoARDING.---"Wha do you
charge for board?" asked a tall Green
Mountain boy, as he walked up to the bar
of a asecopd rate hotel, in New York
"What do you ask week for board and
logings 2" "Five dollars" "Five dollars!
that's too much; but 1 s'pose you'll allow
for the times am absent from dinner and
supper2" ''Certainly--thirty-seven and a
half cents each" Here the conversation
ended, and the Yankee took up his quarters
for two weeks During this time, he lod-
ged and breakfasted at the hotel; but did not
take either dinner or supper, saying his
business detained him in another part of the
town. At the expiration of the two weeks,
he again walked up to the bar, and said,
'spose we s"ttle that account--now am
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