The Abbeville banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1847-1869, 1856-10-02

clare! The dam roaring, Capital! come
III, como in that is really too rici,.'
1t is nocdess to add that the youncster
went in, and in the excellent society Of the
young lady, soon forgot tho "dam roar
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Great on .Statistics.-The Times would
mako its readers believe that it is great on
statistics, and for this end publishes this
morning over column of figures, to show
tho inferiority of tho socalled slave States,
to the free States" Wo have often
shown the fallacy of comparing States,
whose climate demand negro labor, with
those adapted to white labor, and it would
seem that any man who possessed the
smallest modicum of brains would know
better. However, the fools are not all dead
yet. The point in tho Times statistics,
however, to which we wish to draw attcn-
ton, is this I: We have heard recently,
much about the "poor whites" of the
South, but it appears from the Times ia
bles that they arc not so bad off after all.
Tho value of tho real and personal estate
of each white citizen in New York, is s316,
in Virginia, $41l, in Ohio. s255, and in
Kentucky, right across the river, "curscd
with slavery" it is $3ol. In Michigan it
is $50 to each citizen, in Arkansas 1915.
The difference between the much laude.l
State Of Massachusetts and the greatly
abused State of South Carolina, is still
greater. In the former State it is s577, in
the latter, $l,Ol7. From this it would
seem that the "poor whites" of Massachu-
setts were only half rs ricl, rs the "poor
whites" Of South Carolina.-Nev York
Duy Book.
Expense Of Shaving.-Lynn Bard fur,
nislcs the Boston Transcript with the fol.
lowing statistics of shaving:
Suppose man begins to shave at seven
teen, and continues tho practice until he is
sixty; it will be found ting. he has shaved
fifteen thousand seven hundred times. Co.
ing to the BARRIERS, stopping and returning
cannot be estimated at less than half an
hour, which, at ten working hours day,
will consume two whole years At six
cents for each time, the amount will be
$o42, enough to build m ornamented cot.
tage, or pay his board for six years! And
all for a custom, the utility of which is by
no means positive. Some eminent physiol
ogists tell us it is decidedly injurious
Wearing the beard is not with us as q
"question we are satisfied Of its propriety
it will take something more to the pur-
pose than ridicule to convince us to the
contrary. Were we to commence life again,
we would not shave.
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| Mouse Story.-An Albany editor says
that mouse, which had several times been
been caught in the act Of milling the nice
things in his pantry, was the other day
traced to its nest, which was found to con-
tain seven or eight little f" responsibilities
The parent rogue was arrested, and execu.
ted for larceny. On one side Of the nest, q
piece Of ap old Bible was found, on '...ch
the following words were dissisS9 visible !:
Thou shalt not ste~i MAat hypo-
crite! ~ .e.s-s
An o~f And 0at 7-sss-(rob be played
l. An Onnibp.)- asked 70 60 outside
i s,o o,age q lsdy, "ptesa q. ap sxcuse that
y sIpa would bpe yoa dsre moi, isr 4 you, On.
HE recovered from ths tsphas ysalsrday,''
apd ipsseusly shsrs ~! s. soem sssr the &.