The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1874-02-25
SCRAPS.

ruin to stare you in the face.
A little girl in Des Moines want
. to know why there are no he dolls
Love is an egotism of two. Th'
first sigh of love is the last of wis
. dom.
There are over $4,000 idiots il
this country, who are acknowledged
as such.
IF a saloon-keeper gets rich it is
!. because he makes many good bar
gains.
A German divine is spending ter
days in this country to write a book
on it.
Observation-Disclosures a man mar
ries a poetess, does he take her for
better or for verse?
Cardinal Antonelli is laid up with
the gout, brought Oh by life OF
abstinence and self-denial.
Why is a person who never lays
a wager as bad as a regular gam
bier? Because he is no better.
A New Hampshire town betrayed
the expense of providing NUM-
cipal hearse by giving a fancy dress
ball. " .....
::The new Chief Justice is an
Episcopalian. But, says the Boston
Globe, it is too late to bring for
ward objections now.
What is the difference between
a farmer and a bottle of whiskey
One husbands the corn, and the
other corns the husbands.
The Burlington Daily speaks Of
a couple "resolving themselves into
. committee Of two, with power to
increase the number"
"Hints to Blackguards-A few
suggestions to the Chicago Times
is a modest sample Of the ST.
Louis Democrats brotherly love.
., a Western paper announces the
coming of star actor who will
show "our benighted citizens how
Shakespeare ought to be slung."
Il go sthrorgh my work." repro,
vingly ssid the needle to the boy.
"But not till you are pushed
through" triumphantly replied the
boy to the needle.
In order to keep up with the prog
ress of the age, Time is said to have
abandoned the scythe and hour.glass,
and purchased mowing-macEine and
a watch.
The editor of the Panama Star
:apeiogizes for the non-appearance
Of his paper by saying that he had
to haul off to dig buckshot out of
his legs.
Dr- David Livingstone was born
in a suburban town of Glasgow in
the year of 1915, his father being a
weaver in one of the cotton mills
in xhst city.
4 man was boasting that he had
been married twenty years and had
never given his wife cross word.
Those who know him say he didn't
dare to.
Are blacksmiths, who make a
Lying by forging, or carpenters,
who do a little counter fitting, any
worse than men who sell iron and
steel for a living%"
An old edition of Morse's geog-
raphy says "Albany has 400 dwell
ing houses, and 2,40O inhabitants,
all standing with their gahle-epds
to the street."
The Green Briar Herald, in sus-
pending, says: "Hang this town
Mang all men in it-throw the rest
in the river, and plant the town site
:, in cucumbers! J"
An ,envious. newspaper writer de-
sires the School Committee to in
vestigate the school marin in that
town, who allows a young man to
sit with his arms around her in
school hours. e -
A well-dressed, able-bodied man
astonished the people in State street
Boston, on New Years day, by
walking up and down with a large
piay-card on his hat bearing the in
scription, 81 want work"
A prisoner in a petty court was
asked by. the Judge whether he had
any counsel. eyes," he said, ~
had engaged an old, bald-headed
fellow to defend me, but I don't see
him round, and I guess he's out for
a drink"
Two Irishmen were in prison
onesfor stealing a cow, the other for
stealing a watch. "Hullo, Mike,
and sure what O'Clock is it?'' said
the cow-stealer. can sure" said
tide watch-stea!er, GIVE no time-
piece handy, but suppose it's just
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