The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1874-08-26
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About women-Men.
"A paper containing many fine
points-A paper Of needles.
Childs' play-starting a new daily
paper in Baltimore.
Gid abig knavo and little honest
men will worship him.
Pottsyille rats twirl their fore-lcgs
against their noses sarcastlcatly al
rat-traps.
A-long-windcd orator is said to
have q sleeping car attached to his
train of thought.
IT is a strange fact that wise men
learn more from fools than fools DO
from wise men.
Note.shavers succeed financially
because they take so much interest
in their business.
DAYTON, Ohio, has S0s grain eleva-
tors. The grain, however, is eleVa-
ted in its liquid form.
Somebody has noticed that n'ne-
teen out Of every twenty newspaper
men have straight noses.
mOss.car Fool-some" is the way
Buffalo spells the name OF the prcsi-
lent of it's consolidated street rail-
Says.
The fool seckcth to pick fly from
q mules hind leg. The wise man
!etteth out the job to the lowest bid
der.
Memphis husbands punish their
rives by making them sit on chunks
IF ice while they knit the heel OF a
ltocking.
aCan't they train Cinnamon to eat
,rassboppers?" is the conundrum
sropoundcd by interested parties in
,he West.
A Chicago paper thinks that a re-
cent published ballad, "Oh. speaE, no
more" should have been dedicated TO
Anna Dickinson. -. =
Where is George Francis Train
He ought to BE- in the Bcecher. hilton
scandal. Getin, George, there is room
for one more. -. ''''
81 wouldn't have left, but tho peo'
ple kinder egged me on" said a man
who. wasaskcd why he quit his Kan
sas home in hurry.
The Milwaukee man who tied his
dog to d wagon-wheel to learn him to
be coach.dog, is disgusted with the
whole business. 80
A stout old woman in Detroit got
mad lately, because photographs
wouldn't let her fan herself while she
had Her pictnre taken. s'
A Buffalo paper announces that by
the recent burning Of an iee-house
there, twenty thousand tons of ice
were "reduced to ashes ="
An old phrase has been altered to
suit the age. An account Of Petrath
in q morning journal says "he was
born of q 'rieh.'but honest father
." a chap who spent $1,000 to gradu
ate from Harvard, is Postmaster IN
Iowa at s24 per year. Where woulc
he have been but for his Latin ane
Greek ''.' -
" Reetor's daughter to SundaJ-sehoo
sob, you have an elder brother
well. how old is he?" Schoolboy-
"dunno, miss, but he has just startee
o'Swcaring."
The LOG cabin which Mr.. Lincolr
made when sixteen years old, stands
In seven different counties in illinois
and they haven't got through count
: ing yet: y j.
Tho frst mosquito Of the season
was captured near Newark, N. J.
recently. after killing two dogs ane
biting off nine inches of his captor''
ear.-N. Y. Mail.
"Sam, why don't you talk to you
master and tell him to lay up treas
ures in Heaven7" whats do use o
Him laying up treasures up darf>,He
never sec EN- again.
It Is said that Barnum has offered
weston $500 TO walk against time
itWbs caI't som ebody offer him So,
GOO TO walk against q stone wall or
big saw9" asks the Boston GLOBE.
aIt is q beautiful sight to attend an
{. Arizona wedding. The BRIDE IN
.Mhite-the happy groom-the SOL
emn minister-the smiling parents,
and from twenty-five to forty shot
guns standing against the wall ready
for use, make up panorama not
soon forso ten."-ArizoRa Miner.