The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1874-04-22
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There areawenty female under
takers in the copntFy, :.
Lazy husbands ere known out
West.&s stove watchers.
.Keptreky has a paper devoted to
the interesgs,of the proprietor.
Itis sure sign Of an early spring
to see q, cat intensely watching a
small Hole in the wall.
HHawasn't for the Acheenese
andlfe Temperance war the entire
sWoN would noW be atpeace.t
Professor Proctor, the astroIoger,
does not like Chicago. 1t is, too
remote from heaven for his busi-
ness..- :
AEhicago paper chron;cled the,
i election Of officers OF the St. Louis
Board of Trade under the head Of
.''Mlscellaneous Grimes"
Auotber remedy has been dis
covered for -rheufnatism in London.
, It isia'hot sand bath. This makes
1881 .remedics-Sl infalIib!e.
:. +"Gracious mel" "excIaimcd a lads;
in the witness-box, Chow shouldI
know anything about anything I
don't know anything about?'' -.
An editor in Troy displays a lead
pencil that he has used for nine
years. His writings can't have
much point to them, says the New
Haven Journal.
Duringa revival at Green Bay, a
citizen is reported to have arisen
and asked to be forgiven for hav-
ing been a subscriber to the Chiea-
go Times for nineteen years.
An exchange says that a Michi-
!. gan man dreamed recently that his
aunt was dead. The dream proved
true. He tried the same dream on
his mother-in but it didn't
work.
ASt. Paul locomotive threw q
man Que hundred and eighty feet
through a trestle-work bride and
:didp't hurt him, which is another
Recommendation for Western eli
:. mate.
Passengers to the Pacific by rail
breakfast in Sierras with twenty
feet Of snow around them; four
hours later they find wheat four
inches high, ands3he neSE day see
pear and peach trees in bl9em, !es g.
= Experiments made upon ahealtbyl
soldier in london ,gssao shoy That
,salcohel is useless III 5.pReatas aEsfn:
tsty thar tWo, oNfcess daily. ghe
sane experiments however, nrdi-
Gated an advantage in'its. use ifsn-
ployel ii rousing a feeble appetite
or eS@sing a feeble oireulatieR of
t'bEood
] a paper in Nebraska, underahe
head Of Nan hour with our business
men," describes two saloons, sand
ends sthes item with the. remafk,
t'Tb&sompletes the ro1Ad# Of the I
'busirss houses on the public
square,. Il
I. A citizen of belts Iowa, writes
to the Postmaster, G eneraE!!wI If you
don't sends sape one to Tdn. this
'efe post-ofiMpurty soon it'll be
throwd in the river, for Tn going
off on a bear-hunt and can't fool
any more" - >
The Madisonvi'lo Times prints
this sensible paragraph "Correspon-
dents will .obligc us very materially
il, in their articles, they will con
fine themselves to the use Of either
we or q The indiscriminate use
of both is vexatious. Neither is it .
necessary to quote every other word j
and italicise the rest"
A Danbury man who recently
lost his wife was asked by a friend
whether she died suddenly. "Iu-
deed she did," he exclaimed, with
much feeling. "why, only week
afore there was man around here
that wanted to insure her, but |
never dreamed Of anything happen
ing, And,' he added, apologeti-
caIly, 'tI don't believe anybody
would have thought it to look at !
her"
Madame States, the singer, was
called upon at her hotel in San
Francisco by a man who wore a
railroad conductors cap. He told
Ter that King Charles spaniel in
box had been sent to her from I
he East, and was then at the depot.
rhe charges for freight and feeding
m the way were twenty dollars,
md he had come to see if she
would have the dog brought round.
She supposed that somebody had
sent the dog as present, and paid 7
the money without suspicion. The II
conductor was bogus, and the span
iel myth. /