The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1876-06-14
Items Of Interest.

! At tho sad mystery OF LIE @f ~
| w D. Rooens.
Items Of Interest.
A woman seats herself in church
pew in seven motions q man with one.
Over S1s, ,00O, 900 are invested in var
ious enterprises of the grangers in the
Uuited States. ~
A Pennsylvania man owns farm in
which he can fell tree SO that it will
Lie in three counties. - 49,
| Think all You can Of the good quail.
ties of others forget and keep silent
concerning their bad qualities. 4
What place is so rugged and SO
homely that there is no beauty 4 you
only have sensibility to beauty ?
Never trust him who flies into pas
sion on being dunned, but make him
pay quickly if there is any virtue nthe
law. :..,sl< 'Ti fsl2g -
Of the So, 900 dead. head tickets issued
to The Centennial, 81, 600 will go to- com
mon people and the other Thousand to
editors. .:s: .s.4. 5ss.sl;s.; / =. -, 3
/ A Mexican girl living at Tuescola has
three well developed arms. She can do
up her hair without cramming her
mouth full Of hairpins. T,.s3 -. q
Lots Of able-bodied young ladies whose
parents haven't got q spoonful OF horse
Fradish in the house are out al day hunt
ing for trailing srbutus. .,.e,& IL 4sss i.
The weariest and most loathed worldly
Life that age, ache, penury and iimprison-
ment can lay Oh nature is paradise to
what we fear Of death. 9s
The dress coat has been called the
swallow tail, the steel pen, the claw
hammer, the spike tail and the nib, and
now it is called the tackraiser. ~
True courage is cool and calm. The
bravest men have the least OF "a bullying,
brutal insolence, and in the very time
of danger are found the most serene md
FREE. .... ,...,.' 49,, (. ,,.s.s
San Francisco has adjourned her
schools for want Of money. The chill
dren now 90 around throwing stones at
heathen Chinese to- their hearts, con-
tent. - .'ts'.' '..'' ['',R ! iss'i2 =;
A teacher asked one Of the little boys
! in her school: "Where does the sun
4 rise 2" Great was her astonishment as
| the little fellow, with. o wise look,
answered !" In Boston, ma'am. .aga. (
With a sigh of relief We announce the
| fact that during the past week no candi-
date for the Presidency has been accus-
ed of, murder, forgery, burglary, OF ar
son. There is life in the old land yet.
:sterne says in his Kofaw:I iever
drink-I cannot do it nyequal terms
with Others, 1t costs them only one
day, but me three the first in shining.
the second in suffering and the third IN
penting
They tried to get rid Of the pastor of
an Illinois church by reducing his salary
to 5000 per year, but he took the motion
kindly and replied: "Why, / lived
through last year on $75 IN cash and a
bag of meal I" 8. - "a & :''Ss@ p
A man from Michigan has been, q
clerk in government service in Washing
ton for the last sixteen years, and he
brags that he has had to change bis po-
litical and religious views but two hun
dred and eight times. @
God has fixed upon the earth two
gates which lead to heaven. He has
placed them at the two extremitles OF
life one at its beginning, the other at
it's end. The first is that of innocence,
the second that of repentance. y 4s.sa..
Discarded listers make excellent wraps
for parlor stoves during the summer
of retirement to the woodshed. The
litter, poker, shovel and other small at
tachments can be put in the pockets,
and the hood may be drawn over the
urn. H-."si1.ss-ss5 ~ .E't
| A little neglect may breed great mis-
chief for want # nail the shoe was
lost for want of shoe the horse was
lost and for want horse the rider was
lost, being overtaken and slain by the
enemy; all for want Of q little care
about q horseshoe nail. ,-
A poor Frenchman, whose wife
aroused him from sleep with cry
"Get no, Baptiste, there isa rebber IN
the house /" answered sensibly !" Don't
molest him /; let him explore the house
awhile, and if he should frd anything
of value We will take it away from him. "
At q recent Western baby show the
ladies arranged oil the wee norsels side
by side, covered their faces, and re-
ouested the fathers to pick out their
own. One proud parent came forward
and grabbed a pair Of kicking little
feet. One foot belonged to q girl, the
other to boy. a.t ,ssuT' !. a.
The clarionet is not a solo instrument.
By an advertisement in Belgian paper
it is shown what it must accompany:
Wanted, in a mirror factory, little
clarionet player, who would be able to-
act is second leader, conduct at the
; piano, drive the car of the firm, and take
a hand in the outdoor affairs.
Dealers in trees assert that expert
enced men buy small, thrifty trees,
while those who are just starting are
anxious for the largest ones to be had.
Those who are to set trees the. coming
season will do well to learn from the ex-
perience of those who, at considerable
loss to themselves, have demonstrated
that small trees are the ones to buy.
The iron prov of the old steamer New
Jersey is lying at the Pennsylvania rail-
road company's yard at Perth Amboy.
NJ j., and is to be sent to the Centennial
exhibition in a few days. - When she
first came from England she was known
as the R: 81. Stevens, but was recharter.
ed as the New Jersey. She was the first
steam vessel that crossed the Atlantic,
and no smaller steam vessel: has crossed
it up to this day: ,r. ...:-.-i-
Says the Ogdensburg Journal: Some
men have great propensity to trade.
An honest farmer of neighbering town
paid us for four years subscription
and stopped his paper, because we would
not trade the amount, while he could
get cash for his butter and eggs any
where on the street. In less than aweek
after he commenced to trade with pat
ent right man and is out $3.50. Moral :
Don't stop your paper.
The following statement OF the COST
Of the "big guns" J" of Europe IS from
the London Engineer: The eighty one
ton gun has cost S75, 5000, and the price
named for the "Newcastle infants, Oh
one hundred tons, for tho Italian navy
;o e10O OGI) each. The cost of the krupp