The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1872-09-04
SCRAPS.

an orean.gpinder Of that city as
ian Old veteran suicide inducer."
The Freeport Journal says, ''Pairs
are abundant in this place, and
front gates are loaded down with
them on fine evenings"
T. Waste of wealth is sometimes
retrieved; waste Of health, seldom;
but waste Of time, never.
An orator recently remarked in
his fine peroration, "Innocence is
like an umbrella, when once we
have lost it, we can never hope TO
see it back again."
Life, according to the Arabic
proverb, is composed Of two parts
that which is past, a dream; and
that whiah is to come, wish.
An Elmira paper says: "Romeo
was seH.made elephant. He came
to this country without a dollar in
his trunk, took Greeley's advice,
went West, and died worth S4o,-
OO0."
While you are living, be very
kind, generous, and do as much
good as you can to your relations
but leave them nothing when you
die, and you will be sure to be
missed'by them. =
The respondent looking man
who suddenly started on ''seeing
new apples for sale, and cried,
aNow my children shall have bread, >
was'a a doctor.
An experienced boy says he re-
CARDS hunger and the chastening
rod as about tie same thing. They
both make boy holler. -
So Some n, one says that the lion and
the lamb may lie down together in
this world, but when the lion gets
up it will be hard work to find the
lamb.
Let us take care how we speak of
those who have fallen on life's
field. Help them up-not heap
Bcorn upon them. We did not see
the conflict. We do not know the
scars. =.
An idler boasted to a farmer Of
his ancient family, laying much
Stress upon his having descended
from an illustrious man who lived
So much
the worse for you," replied the
farmer, "for we invariably find the
older the seed, the poorer the
crop" -
The roses Of pleasure seldom last
long enough to adorn the brow o1
him who plucks them, and they
are the only roses which do not re.
tain their sweetness after they have
lost their beauty. -
It is so pleasant to know that
.Agassiz has found a few species Of
gasteropods, fourteen kinds Of shi-
nederus, including an euryeal, fifty
specimens Of ophiuraus, and, to
crown the whole, q large helIaster::
The progress Of an operator in
the recent wheat corner is summed
up thus y.
"First stage, plenty money, no wheat.
Second stage, plenty wheat, no money.
Third stage, no wheat, no money!
a lady recently asked distin-
guished member Of the French
Academy of Sciences, "What is
the use of being an academician,
if you can't tell what comets are
made off" To which the learned
man replied, wMadame, that I may
be able to say / don't know
Hats with thermometers in the
roof are the latest invention. II
the mercury gets too high, you
stand on your head until your
equilibrium is restored.
Hart, the Kentucky sculptor, is
now in Florence, engaged upon q
beautiful female figure. On being
asked how long it would take him
to complete the work, he replied
.'Several years" Some surprise
being expressed at the length ot
time necessary, the sculptor re-
marked, "You know it takes ever
the Almighty nineteen years te
make a perfect woman"
Theodore Tilton says in his pa
per, ssSave me from the God who
damns." "A cotemporary replies
aWs should like to do it, my boy
but the thing is impossible
A San Francisco letter writer, in
relation to earthquakes, says: "He'
terogenous paralaxes prismatically
converging are not due to the sicil'
cious introduction ofphotospherical
asteroids, but rather to parabolic
stratifcation Of igneous zyglna''-
of which there can be no doubt.
BATHING IN THE DEAD SEA.-About
six O'clock in tho morning I reached
the shore. I was desirous of ascer.
tanning the truth of the assertion that
"nothing sinks in the Dead Sea-" - ]
swan a considerable distance from
the shore, and about four yards from
tho beach I was beyond my depth;
the water was the coldest [ ever felt,
aad the taste of it most detestable; it
was that OF solution of nitre mixed