The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1872-09-25
VOLUME Xxx IN 2
SCRAPS.

SCRAPS.
a fellow who sees girl home nnder
an umbrella is certainly q rain beau.
The Chicago Times describes tie
aurora borealis as the aangels in the /
panorama business"
An extravagant bride at Swamp.
scott according to a Boston paper
bathes in q suit of white satin, trim
med with lace.
Dom Piatt, who isibanqueting on
|fricascd "caw-caw, says the best way
to enjoy "crow" is to contemplate
buzzard.
A Western paper says that cern is
growing SO fast in its locality that it
frightens timid horsesthat pass BY the
cornfelds.
The City Council Of Chicago is ask
ed to change the namesof some fifty
streets. The main troubles are
|"Wrong street." aRum street"
"W Whiskey Point and aQueer Place.
Change is certainly wanted. &
asee Naples and die" says theproud !
old italian proverb. Il didn't quite
die commented q profane American;
shut I did very nearly. The smell
was awful"
A colored bod carrier, of Peru, Ind,
caught rafter Of 8 falling building
on his head. 1t was badly broken
the rafter. s5.sl 81. IS
A Japanese scholar in one OF the
New Haven schools, having been in
suited by schoolmate recently, sent
note to one of the instructors, re-
questing permission to kill the ofend-s
er. I.
DR.. Evans is the famous American
dentist in Paris. When he pulls "a
tooth for q coekney Englishman the
cockney salutes him aGFeat Evans.
The official retnrns Of the North
Carolina election give Gov. Caldwell
t9s,594 votes, and Merrimon 96,679
votes, thus electing Caldwell by a
majority Of ], 1,915. s.
/ Since mad dogs have made their !
advent in st. Joe, No., the young
l,nen have donned iron calves. The
girls are content with natural saw
Idust. ets q 3 s,.s, &, ss;..5 49,
Under the head aHow:swe assist
the Devil "a religious paper says
laWe consume millions Of gallons of
distilled spirits yearly. The editcri-
Eal eve" in this case makes it aWk-
ward. ss g ~ & ~
Ancient manuscripts were written
without accents, stops, or separation
between the words; nor was, it until
|aftersthesninth century that copyists
began to- leave spaces between the
words. 81 fsS y e. e ss 's.sss5s
One of the young men belonging to
q choirin DanburY had his hair cut
by a .generous barber Oh Saturday.
Sunday he sung for a solo Cover my
|defenceless head and, ,blushed like o
lobster while doing i.
I sRoasting ears are plenty says an
exchange, to which a dismal contem-
porary. responds, Yes, and noses and
heads and corporations. Down with
I the mercury, drown the magnesium.
This is too much /"
The Springfield Republican, when It
speaks Of Edmonia Lewis, is troubled
to aecides whether to allnde to her as
a anegro scnlptress" or s'negress
sculptor using both forms ofsexpres-
sion in separate paragraphs.
An old lady, on entering a store the
other day, said: "Why, it can't be
that you keep this store yeti I
thought you had gono out Of business.
l amt seen your name or anything
about your store in the paper for over
a year, and everybody in our neigh
borhood thinks you have gone out Of
business" Exchange.
Sir Walter Scott, in his days Of. law
practice, once defended a house
breaker at Jedburgh. Afterthe trial,
the prisoner sent for him, thanked
him for his exertions, and said he was
sorry he could not give him fee, but
he would give him two bits of infor-
nation: First, that yelping terrier
inside house was a better protection
than o big dog outside; and secondly,
that no lock SO bothered house
breaker as an old rusty one.
"When fellow is too lazy to work"
says Sam Slick, she paints his name /.
over the door, and calls it tavern,
and makes the whole neighborhood as
lazy as himself"
@Little boy, can 60 through this
gate to the river?" politely inquired a
acknowledgement lady. "Per'aps
so; load Of hay went through this
was the horrid reply.
The habit of indulging in ardent
spirits by men in Office has occasioned
more injury to tho public than all
other causes. And were to COM
mence my administration again with
the experience I now have, the first
question I would ask a candidate
would be, "Do you use ardent spirits?"
jefferson.
A story is told of a father in a
church, who, when the marriage ssr-
vice came to the point where the
clergyman asks, 'Who giveth this
woman to be married to this man ?"
replied, "Well, sir, / am called to do
4. although it do 90 again the grain.