The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1876-09-13
Items OF Interest.

If every man wonld only take the ad-
vice he gives to other people he would
be happy. ... .sl...-.-
Arecent fancy makes earrings of black
velvet and watered ribbon, held In place
by small buckles.
What love is, II thou wouldst be taught,
Thy heart must teach alone
Two souls With but single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
A Chicago Iveryman secures the pat
ronage Of lovers by having the seats OF
his vehicles made rather small for two
persons. ...'.' - -
Iowa iuriss hold that in case mar
riage engagement is broken the parties
must return all presents, or their worth
in money. ~. Ill.
Two Cinnamon, convicted Of robbery
in Sacramento, offered to provide sub
stitutes to endure the punishment, as is
the custom in their own country.
At brewery in Cumberland, Nd,
there is deer which eats with gusto any
quantity of cigars and smoking tobacco
given him, and delights in lager beer.
When tho war of the Revolution began
there was but one man in Massachusetts,
who was worth more than 10000;
there are now forty-ave worth more than
million. rlrG- 1,,IH.l *
Sealing wax is no wa1;at all nor does
it contains single particle OF wax. 1t is
made Of shellac, Venice turpentine and
cinnabar. Cinnabar gives it the deep
red color, and turpentine renders the
shellac soft and less brittle.
When q Delaware indian woman's
house near Cana river, Indian Territory,
was surrounded by theo late food, she
tied two children to hef Dafsapd from,
her housetop mountedD tEeAd Whenf
out of reach of the waHek 1he 8ed her
babies to the limbs and .saxeft hem.
A circus wagon containin8 sea lions
was backed into Lake Wfnuebagb, Wis,
to give the animals iwater, Whqn sudden
" the doors few open md the Hons es-
capped. As one Of then hsx by this
time litter of young one Z y BEe-y'
that colony of the animisis wii! grow
up in the Lake. fiE ..
A man in Boone counk Iasa, gEesa
weary of his wife's absence a. rsa8 ~,
her mother-i -in-law, and liz a'ss y.
return by having 8 photogreI3 q -
house taken with himself sad 9 aF;,
boris wife standing on me poTe4 a
he sent to his better haH, ent Fas ss.
turned by the first trai1, @
A lady who had bes4 teaotf
little our-year-old the elem eats
metic was astonished ~ ME
and propounding the fdAcs 5s;ssl
Z" Mamma, if you had threa
and each butterfly had p b,
how many butterflies WOOL g; =
The mother is stiii ~ 80 g;
problem. ~. a"g s
"A correspondent wants so a1oYs
best way to preserve cl1rsies AESs
Norwich, the Bulletin sb3s on fay
climb the trees with s11os sgaa, ct dsas s5
and stay there till moxnills Anntf 80
way is to carry the tres igse ibe j.opsS III
every night at sunset. ne o0tY aE'7
way, however, is to eat tho cherries bs'
fore they are ripe.
This is how Elder Pix I1et to de
fine chronic rheumatism: swallow two
quarts Of carpet tacks5 take TalJnng
jump bare legged into abb rrei q broker
beer bottles, let swarrtof e2tsgad 10t-
nets roost on your head and sthens roll
ont into a bed OF fishhooHs md you'll
get faint idea of the 1aature end sense
ton OF first class rhenmafaGn3when 1t
gets hold of you and means basiness.
The New ENGLAND and Middle States
yearly pay a profit of oyer 9 million and
n half of dollars to the UnitI States
Post-Ofice department. fn1g75 they
paid in as an excess of receipts over e1-
penditures $1,665, 1882. The single ;
State of New York showed o surplus OF
earnings Of 1882, ,022. 36, and Pennsyl-
vania cleared $378, 527. 80 for the govern.
meut. Alaska cleared $64.4, and. that
was the only instance outside OF the
New England and Middle States where
the running expenses of the postal ser
vice we're not in excess OF its receipts.
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