The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1874-07-15
SCRAPS.

type-setter.
Acknowledgements favorite dish
-Cavendish. ,..'
s. Look out for the comet. There
I by hangs tail.
q "Crusade sirup," in soda, is
much called for in certain Western
towns.
It is said that those Iowa grass
hoppers wink at Paris green and
smile at hot water.
A Lebanon, Ry.) gent, in ar
IDENTITY greeting long2parted wife,
broke one Of her ribs.
Family physicians are carefully
noting the promising state Of the
green-apple crop.
When the Porte becomes so in
tolerant as to suppress the Bible,
it is anything else but Sublime.
A boot-black's father says he nev-
er enjoys himself more than when
he sees the "'son shine"
It lis said that in the Paris gar
tdens one may find every kind of
roses, even including rhinocc-roses.
It is said ssthat the prettiest girl
in Harrisburg is a newspaper car
rier. She carries them in her bus
ties.
Elijah Bugg, of Springfield, O.,
has been in bed for nine years.
Costar's Externinator is recon-
mended. ...
We hold that woodchuck is
lit for treason, stratagem and spoils;
because he has no music in his
hole,
Our advanced scholar comes in
with the suggestion that a title-page
is like charity because it begins
q tome.
81 come to steal" as the rat OBJ
served to the trap. 'And / spring
to embrace you,.' as the trap re-
piled to the rat.
That 'slittle birds do in their
nests agree, !" is no credit to the
little birds, because it would never
do for them to fall out.
A Philadelphia gentleman ad-
vertises soap that is destined TO
wipe out the national debt. There
sis probably some ''lye" about it.
Samuel Gettings, of Springfield
co., is the father of % children.
1t is to be hoped that with all his
Gettings he got understanding.
The editor of the Panama Star,
apologies for the non-appearance
of his paper by saying that he had
ito haul off and dig buckshot out of
his legs. -
A man named Howard, Of Della
ware, has been sent to state prison
for five years for stealing fat-boat
doaded with tar. A blacker crime
was never committed.
The mayor of a Portuguese city
once enumerated, amongthe marks
by which the body of a drowned
man might be identified, ga mark
'ed;impediment in his speech"
A Wisconsin clergyman has been
found guilty by church council Of
''not always handling the truth
with sufficient carefulness to meet
the demands Of veracity."
Two Milesians were standing at
the Paramount Water Works, when
one of them remarked: "Mike,
isn't this a quare country where
they have to grind their water be-
fore they can use it?'
A Dowery merchant who had
declined to advertise in the "Com-
merciol Advertiser" because emo
body would see it," came around a
few days after to offer SIS to have
his name kept out OF the police
reports. ~
A Cincinnati reporter says there
IS something grand in a pair OF
runaway horses, but we believe
that good deal depends on wheth-
er man is on a fence orTtrying to
climb over the end board of the
wagon. - a .
Turning the tables.-While some
colored people were being baptized
recently in the river Of Nashville,
one became uumanageable, and
seizing the minister, who was a
small man, threw him over her
head, almost drowning him.