The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1873-10-15
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SCRAPS. -
Town pumps-local editors.
The artists adieu to his picture
you be hanged.
Sawdust is worth cent a bushe]
in Maine.
A spoiled child-one that played
with can Of kerosene.
A text tor balloonists-"Go thou
and do like Wise"
A Cameron county man PAID 900
for box of gift enterprise klndllng
wood.
An Oregon toast over glass OF
ardent: "Here's what makes us
wear old clothes" :"
Lads burned or otherwise injured
on the Fourth are called "vlctlms
of patriotism in one Of the news
papers.
A wise man advertises extensive
". because he believes that many
columns furnish good support.
Iowa has twenty counties that
have never e: been mapped, and whose
precise: location is problematical.
1sHenpeck'' is tue name Of a post
ofice,in Alexandria county, Illinois:
It does a small business. The males
avoid. it, .E0-/ta.. .ular T.
A A citizen itiz n Of f Montreal is under
arrest for refusing to tell a census
enumerator the ages Of his two un'
married daughters.
The Comanche Indians are dis,
gusted with the employment OF
colored troops en- the frontier, they
are 50 hard to scalp.
Bore not with much speech the
business ess man struggling with hg-
ures,oor the poor editor worrying
over po:hooSs and scissors. -.I
People should never u interpret
maxims too literally. To "speed
the parting guest it is not neces-
sary to kick him down stairs. ~. 2.
When they see dead body float
ing in the Chicago River, with the
pantaloons pockets turned wrong
side out, they Let it float on.
A three-eyed cat is a Noank pro-
duction, and Noank would like to
know, if you please, how is that Tor
eve? se.gi.,n .s7Giu0lfeF Taa.TI! 1uf
ii =. .3.t''rY~.I Il. --. T.
Why is the earth like a black
board? Because the children of
men multiply upon the tace o. ! the
it. ..5.5.F l2.l4ll.IG 2EFgI9
A Connecticut editor unklndly
alludes to rival editors head as
the Polar regions, because it IS a
great White bare place. .n ....'','
A Connecticut schoolboy has
written a composition on the horse,
in which he says it is an animal
having four legs, tone at each cor
ner."
Word by word Webster's big
Dictionary was made. Dollar by
dollar, my young rooster, must be
made the money which purchases
your future "kerridge. %
Nasby intended to call his baby
Anna Dickinson. Nature inter-
vened to protect the helpless inno-
cent, however. 1t wasn't the right
sort of a baby for that purpose.
An exchange insists that ''pov-
erty is blessing" If it be so it is
''blessing in disguise" and so we'll
disguised that few are able to see
the point. ,,-..-.-.
A set of coroner's men in Miss
issippi, rendered verdict that "de-
ceased came to his death by the
willgof God or some other disease
unknown to thejury.' sS
IA iansticae.of ahe peace atsWhite-
hall, New York, discharged man
who had been arrested, because "t
was a lightning rod man he had
kicked" .,'.>i:i t~,... -'.
Ingenious and thrifty Chicago
gamins make money by initiating
the Marble Eof the ! catYuader the
window Of nervous people, and SCI
ling the boots and bootjacks that
are thrown at them. ......'..t
An Irish lass wrote to her lover,
begging him to send her some money.
and, added in the same, letter, by way
of postscript: II am so ashamed OF
the request that | have made in this
letter. that Isent after the postman
to get it back, but the servant could
not .overtake bim."y ~cIlI.ti1.}
One may insert tgathousand excel
lent tAingsin a. newspaper and
never hear a,word Of them from its