The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1876-06-28
Items of Interest.

facilitate labor, but few to facilitate rest.
OF the $4,000 persons employed in
Matchmaking in Switzerland, one-third
are women. .. -.-..... "a
The manner in which William Penn
obtained land from the Indian bureau is
about to be investigated.
The Norristown Herald thinks they
call it insurance because the company Is
in, sure, if fanything happens.
A Salt Lake City paper asserts that
the recent gunpowder explosion caused
one hundred premature births.
It is fact of much significance that
japan has adopted the first day of the
week-the Christian Sundays day
of rest. ...-..
It has been figured out that the aver
age American is worth $3.50. It is there
fore something to be an average man in
this country.
A medical journal states that,a pebble
carried in the mouth excites the saivary
glands to act with such energy that
thirst is not felt.
There is q time when man gladly
gets pail of water or an armful OF wood
for q woman. It is when he is q boy,
and she is teacher.
Mistrust the man who finds every
thing good, the man who finds everything
evil, and still more, the man who is In
different to everything. e
"Madam," said a gentleman to his
wife. "let me tell you, facts are very
stubborn things" "What q fact you
must be-" quoth the lady. -.
A girl was asked by "a very thin gentle-
man If she didn't think she could learn
to love him, ct might if you was
stuffed "was the laughing reply.
A number of American girls in Cali
fornia have married Cinnamon. They
get husbands who are economical house
Keepers and willing to do their own
washing. -..
Patient Ito doctors after consultation(
-"Ten me the worst, am I going to
die 2" eve are divided on that ques-
ton, sir but there is majority OF one
that you will ive." ~
Annie Starck, aged thirteen, OF SOM
erville, N. j., found rusty revolver in
barn and raped it on stone to knock
off dirt that had accumulated on it. The
charge went off and killed her.
Child" Papa, Mr.. Winkle that died
went to heaven, didn't he-he taught
in the Sunday school ?" Papa" We
will drop that subject, my child, Mr.:
Winkle was president of agas company"
We read about Louisville gentleman
who took his wife to the rink, and be-
cause of her want of skill became enraged
and at the top of his voice called'h
can old bow-legged kangaroo on
skeets." ..-' ..s-.
It appears that Britain has already
had an empress named Victoria. She
lived A. D. 270, was the wife of Beno-
sus, and contemporary with Zenobia,
being called the Empress of the West
in contradistinction to Zenobia's 8 title OF
Empress of the East. ,
The Albany Journal says, anent the
Philadelphia Exposition: Massachu-
setts shines conspicuous among the
States represented in Machinery hall; no
other State has anything Like her variety
of manufacturing machines Especial ma
chimes for special work. ...-
An English officer who recently tried
to get divorce from his frivolous wife
only succeeded in drawing from the
Judge q lecture on feminine Irritation.
His honor remarked that there had OF
late years been an alarming increase OF
this stiffness among wives.
The people of Akron, Ohio, are hurry
ing up as much as possible to get
their new lunatic asylum completed. A
grand "musical festival will be inau-
gurated there, in which twenty-five
brass bands are expected to take part,
all coptending for prizes amounting to
$3.50. ..- l.,...
We Witnessed touching scene the
other day. A full grown, healthy look
ing married man was going towards the
suburbs with q base ball club over his
shoulder, and, in few minutes there
utter, while passing his house, we no.
ticed his wife saving wood in the back
yard.
An Intelligent foreigner, passing
through the streets of Philadelehia, took
out his note book at the end of long
walk, and made little memorandum to
the effect that &c eighty nine per centum
of the population Of Philadelphia are
members Of the powerful. family OF
Roomstolet." 81.
Some one writing for an English pa
per description OF the Centennlal
grounds at Philadelphia says that Bel
mont avenue divides them into two
zones, the "temperate and the Gin
temperate" On one side are all the
fountains and the Lake; on the other are
the restaurants.
ASt. Joseph man, one year married.
says there is q great deal in the EXPIRES
sion of q back comb to denote the state
of the domestic atmosphere. When his
wife's comb nesGas quietly in its proper
place, all is well with him, but when it Is
lifted and leans forward, he says:
"Look out for squalls"
pheasant for George, who is enter
tanning "the governor" " with t1e lates'
college gossip.) Pater.-"Now, George'
this is all very we'll about the ioot-pail,
the prospects of the or r,w, and the resi-
of it; now suppose youlet us knoWaoous
the Greek and Latin, and this afternoon
we will go over oil your bills"
Years ago, before dams and mills oD-
strrcted the shad on their passage up
the Merrimac, spring found the heaa
waters full of these fish. They were
caught by the cartloadsand used oy tne
farmers for manure. The old rule was:
"A shad to a hill of corn. They con-
stituted the phosphate OF the early DAYS
A centennial incident An how Tar
might a square be?" said patrlott pOt
stranger to a patriot driver on 11 stfeg'
car. "Sure. and if ye was Phllayoel,
phian like meself, ye would know 1--WE" ~ m"s
to the next corner" AN Is IL ILL.,, slnh,t
exclaimed the patriot stranger, "tWnas
we New Yaarkers call blocks AL
it is."
From Burlington comes news o.
little girl only nine years OF age, WIZ tor
has developed wonderful talehs toIa iJa
sculpture. She chiseled a carbunei,e
on the side of her brothers head Will
screwdriver so neatly that her frlenos s
think of sending her to Rome 70 haSe nave
her learn to mangle marble in the l'ailan