The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1876-02-09
A Lock Of Golden Hair.


"Only look Of golden hair"
The maiden, smiling, sweetly said,
As she laid It over the back Of the chair
And went to bed,
Items or Interest.
A lac of rupees in India does not in
dicate poverty. .. ..-..
There is dog Oh the frontier Of Da.
kota Territory which singly and alone
carries the mail over g route of sixty
miles, through all weathers, as straight
as die, and none dare molest him.
The wife of Houston, the chief engi-
neer of the steamship Pacific, who lost
his life while trying to save the women
passengers of the M-fated vessel, has
become insane from grief al the death Of
her husband. ...... ,... ........
Conflict of ideas. A New Orleans
paper, which prints long editorial
headed "The treasure of wickedness
profits nothing" has its first page en-.
tirely occupied with the advertisement
Of huge lottery swindle. -.
It took Sir Isaac Newton less than
three years to thoroughly digest tho
principles of gravitation, while an
Indiana farmer has spent eleven years
trying to find out why q COW never kicks
until the pail is two-thirds full. ..s
A piece Of wood cut from tree is
good conductor. Let it be heated and
dried, it becomes an insulator. Let 1t
be baked to charcoal, it becomes good
conductor again. Burn it to ashes, and
it becomes an insulator once more,
In France the average salary of work
men without board or lodging) is sixty
eight cents; in Germany, Italy and
Switzerland, thirty-eight cents; in Eng
land eighty-three cents, living being
thirty per cent. dearer than in France.
"Coal Oil Johnny" instead Of work
ing as laboring man on railroad, is
at present building fence around Gtwp
hundred acre farm which he lately pur-
chased in California. He saved Sl5, 600
out Of the general wreck, and is doing
well . .-.U.
A "winter cane" has been invented in
Paris for gentlemen only. It is long,
hollow tube, and, before the swell owner
goes out on his promenade, it is filed
with chemical preparation which gene
rates heat and keeps the hands warm for
hours. '.''.''..' - 90. .+..'
Warts may be removed, says cele-
brated physician, by rubbing them nigh
and morning with q moistened piece Of
muriate of ammonia. They soften and
dwindIe away, leaving no such mark as
follows their dispersion with lunar
caustic.
The annual report Of the American
Sunday School Union shows that it has
organized more than 61,0O0 Sunday
schools, gathered into them 2,651, 900
children, and provided more than D0,-
900 teachers during the fifty years Of its
At Hawkinsville, Ga, one Of the two
convicts in the Pulaski county jail tore
out part Of the wall and escaped, and the
other complained bitterly next day to
the sheriff that unless the jail were
mended so that he would be kept warm
he'd go too,. 81 ... l.. ..;,. ri.
Iwant wife, said o Chicago man.
She must be q good-looking blonde Of
an affectionate disposition, must have
superior education, including o good
knowledge of music. No " Maiden's
Prayer Tor "Silver Threads kind of
a girl will do. :
DR.. Henry T. Helmbold has again
been put in Kirkbride's insane asylum
on the certificate of two physicians. His
brother, Albert Helmbold, signifies his
intention of applying for commission
in lunacy, as provided for under the laws
Of Pennsylvania. ...-
A bald-headed friend, of heavy,
phlegmatic temperan ent, was accosted
on the street by waggish acquaintance
with the inquiry: "Tom, why is your
head like AIaska9" "Too much for me,
Zach. give it up" because it is
white bear place." ..,:'.
John Frederick Gunter went from
Chicago penniless to Australia, twenty
three years ago. he now advertises in
the Chicago newspapers that he is able
and willing to help his relatives, and in
vites them to write to him. And won't
he hear from them?
"The excuse of the third man." said
Mr.. Moody, illustrating the parable of
the guests who were backward in coming
forward, "was more absurd than any
Il have married q wife, and therefore
cannot come Now, why didn't he take
his wife along with him2"
A young Lady lately received the follow
ing note, accompanied by " bucket of
aonrs .: Il send you bf the boy buc-
ket of fours. They is like mi luv for u,
the mite shade means keep dark, the dog
fenil means am your slave, rosis red
and posts pail, mi luv for shal never
fale."
During the late fire at Virginia City,
New, all the rats in the Ophir and Con-
soidated Virginia mines were killed by
gas. The rats are the scavengers OF the
mines, eating up the refuse food left by
the miners, and their disappearance
from the mines is therefore misfor-
tune.
A Chinese philosopher rejoicing IN
the expressive, and, if truthful appel.
lation, the valuable name of "rin,"
says "1,here was place set apart in
heaven for good wives who could Judge
q wicked thing as harshly when a man
did it as when a woman did it. But it
has never been occupit d, I believe"
A young clergyman, whose reputation
for veracity was none of the best, ven
tured to differ with an old doctor OF di-
vinity as to the propriety of whipping
children. Why" said he "the only
time my father whipped me was for tell
ing the truth" "Well," retorted tho
doctor, " it cured you of it, didn't it Z"
The eruptions of Mount vesuvius.
Which is again active, amounted. accord
ing to the historians, to nineteen from
the first to the seventeenth century,
when twenty-three were recorded. In
the eighteenth century twenty-three took
place, and in the present century there
have been twenty-five, or one every
three years.
Lord Give asked chaplain to one Of