Abbeville press. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1860-1869, 1869-09-10
DIAMONDS,

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Living Painters, in Paris, is over
$500, against 5000 last year.
At the Hippodromc in Paris NJ!
Euphrosino Brartz has driven a velcc-
lrcdc over a ropo suspended hun
drcd feet above the ground.
Partisan hippophagists ate COS hor-
scs i'll Juno.
Fashionable preachers in Paris hiro
their audiences at thrco cents a head.
The split among tho Cincinnati
Quakcrs has given their mcctinp-
houso to be mado beer saloon, and
their graveyard bcer-garden.
a Minnesota editor has in his Office
a cucumber vine, upon one branch of
which are growing q cucumber and o.
tomato.
The remnant Of tho Seminole In
dians i'll Florida complain of outra-
gcous treatment from their whito
ncighbors-
If you want your ncighbors to
"know all about you," give a party
and don't invite the folks "who 1.-Two
next door,"
The talk is revived of bringing
to France, with great pomp, the re-
mains of the Duke of Rcichstadt' tho
son of the first Napoleon.
Railroads arc projected in switzcr-
land across the st. Gothard Mountain
and across the Splugcn.
Tho Russian Minister of War late.
ly tried to commit suicide because his
only daughter had eloped with o.
Frcn:h actor.
Mills. Euphrosino Braatz rides tho
velocipcdo on tight ropo nearly
eighty fcct from the floor in tho
Paris Hippodromc.
Baron Leibig states that the land
of Hesso has risen 800 per cent. in
value during fifteen years, SIMPLY in
Of scientific agriculture.
Bishop Ksmper, of Wisconsin, re-
Gently hello confirmation among tho
Oneida Indians ut Green Bay. The
service was in tho Mohawk language,
and several persons were confirmed.
A Newark heckman hung his can
vas tcod-bag on q lamp-post, and on
his return from dinner found it full
Of letters.
A Pittsburg barber almost killed a.
customer by wiping arsenic in his
cye. 1t he don't die, 1t will bo O close
shave.
A musician Of Hamilton, Canada,
has suddenly lost his beard and hair
and become a smooth-faced boy, much
to his disgust and natural astonish.
mcnt.
a call has boon published for O.
State Womans Suffrage Convention
of Ohio to meet at Cincinnati Scptcm-
bcr Is.
Grasshoppers arc at last utilized.
"lowa is teaming" with grashoppers,
says paper Of that State.
A Utica minister thinks that tho
principle use Of Good Tcmplar moot
ings is to afford Oh opportunity for
Irritation.
The virtues of soft soap recently
received new exemplifcation at the
Chicago Jail, whero a young scamp
covered himself with the article and
slipped through tho window bars.
Only one American paper was rep
resented at tho great convention Of
German journalists at Vienna, by a
German correspondent Of the Cincfn-
natl Volks6laI.
A sensitive young lady remarked
tho other day that she did not like
French, because whenever she wished
to say "lady" she had to say dame
(damn).
1t has beeu solcmnly decided in q
court in Morgan. County, ILL.,, that, a
citizen of Chicago is competent wit
ness, notwithstanding tho people of
that city arc of such notoriously
bad ropute all oyer the country.
A Mrs. Levi, who died in Patterson
NJ, last Saturday, before breathing
her last, called her family .(among
whom are grown-up children) to her
bedside, and said that in oil her mar
riod life of twenty-five years, neither
cross word nor look had ever passed
between herself and husband.
A "lady" in New Bedford, Mass,
recently bought o pair Of white gloves
to be returned in case they did not
suit. They were returned as hot
suiting, when it was discovered that
they had boen used to decorste the
hands Of corpse, and remoued before
the lid Of tho coffin was screwed
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