The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1873-08-13
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Men Of color-Painters.
Theslast men-Cobblers.


"A poet began an apostrophe to
the ocean with ''Prodigious damp
ness
A Boston lady advertises for a
place as assistant in the duties OF
a family.
WHY'S newspapers like an ar
my? Because it has leaders, col
umns and reviews.
An Irish editor congratulates
himself that half the lies told
about him amt true.
A reporter, in depicting a wreck
at sea, says 'sno less than ten un.
fortunates bit the dust.
GA piscatorial party" they cal
itnow. When we were boy, ii
was'"going fishing"
Man judges the Inward disposi,
ton by the outward acts; God
Judges of the outward acts by the
inward disposition.
A man congratulates himself on
the death of Shakespeare, who
t'can't get up any more of those
dreadful tragedies
A newly landed Englishman
rode sixty miles on q Locomotive
to watch how the COW catcher ope.
rated, but it did not catch a COW
after all.
The Signal Service Officer in
Washington, D. c., has sent spe.
cial officer to investigate the phe
nomena attending the recent tor
nado in, Iowa. ~ -u.
An old woman down East cross.
ed over bridge that was marked
as dangerous" with out seeing the
sign. On being. informed Of the
factson the other slde,, she turned
about and recpossed it.
It is not the bees. touching on
the flowers that, gathers honey, but
her abiding for time, upon them
ard drawing out the sweet. It is
not he that reads most, but he that
raeditates most on divine truth,
that will prove the choicest, wisost,
strongest Christian.-Bishop.
A newspaper correspondent who
interviewed Don Carlos, at Bay
onne, recently, says:-"Don Car
los is a tall, slim man, nearly sis
feet high. He wears thick beard
and his first appearance makes {
very agreeable impression, which
is increased by his lively manner
and an almost feminine smile.
The editor of the Starks Herah
is in a bad fix. In view of the new
postal law, he revised his mailing
list and cut off all the exchanges
he didn't want. The next weel
the other papers having cut off al
the exchanges they didn't want, hi
was surprised to find his post ofic'
box empty,
Daniel Webster is not the onl,
bright boy born in New Hampshire
The Boston Globe has heard o
another youth gesiding in Do
yer, who refused to take, pill
His crafty mother thereupon Sc
cretly placed the pill in a preserved
pear, and gave it to him. Present
IL she she asked, "Tom, have yot
eaten the pear?:.' He said, eyes
mother, all but the seed"
he Nashville Banner tells III
that Mr.. G.. S. Newsom, of tina
city, "has invented a most ingen
ious washing machine" The bes
washing machine we ever saw wa!
invented thousands Of years ago
and sold before the late war fol
$500 or 5000; but one of Lincoln's
proclamations broke the mair
spring of it, and it has been rather
a worthless piece of machinery
every since.
A member Of the Detroit bar
who went out to Orchard Lake or
fishing excursion, the other day
went off by himself to take q bath
and when he had taken it couldn't
find his clothes, which had beer
appropriated by some thief who
didn't care a cocoanut for law 0,
lawyers. The attorney don't care
50 much about the loss of the
clothes and s1s, but he said it was
awful gloomy waiting behind &
haystack until he conld find some
one to go and borrow an overcoat
and a pair Of overalls of a farmer
& s-sSEt- Z5E -
/ In q little village in Virginia
there lived a family named Kan,
som. Theyswere not pious people
rather on the reprobate order in
fact, and they never went to church.
Once, however, during a revival,
the family were prevailed upon to
attend preaching. When they
made their reluctant and tardy ap-
pearance the services had begun
and they had scarcely their seats
when the preacher gave, out the
hymn, reading it somewhat thus -
IsPatnrn ve ransom Sinners homo -