The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1876-10-25
Items of Interest.

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nent feature in trimmings for evening
dresses.
A new element has been introduced
in Massachusetts politics. "A number of
naturaGzed Cinnamon willvote this year.
After all, says an old doctor, there
are only two kinds of disease-the one
OF which you die, aud the other of which
you don't. ~
"What is the worst side of naval war
fare9" asked a school teacher. "The
broadside," replied the boy in the back
seat. he went up head. ~.
A traveller stepped into the cottage OF
an English farm hand at supper time
and saw on the table sweetbread, with
ham and peas and new potatoes. b.
Nebraska has more than doubled her
population since 1870. The State now
contains 257, TAT inhabitants, as compared
with 122, 1893 in 1870, and 4, ,494 in 1856.
Listz recently played one of his own
COMPOSITIONS for an American musician
named Boise, and Boise's criticism is:
"He played it in a way calculated to
make ones hair defy hair oil. ;"
There is growing conviction in the
minds of smokers that q vest pocket
should be made deep enough to entirely
hide cigar from the scrutinizing gaze
of the man that never has any.
One person OF every 259 in Cincinnati
dies by suicide. Si1ty-two per cent. of
the self-murderers are German, The
proportion Of the sexes is five men to
one woman, and the mostpopular method
is hanging. .,.
A late number of German comic
newspaper representa- young Lady wear
ing q hat trimmed with a bird, upon
which cat has jumped from q neigh
boring window, mistaking the stuffed
bird for live one. ..,.. ..... ...-....
Fevers have been engendered at Mon
treal by burning coffins which were ex-
humed from the old burying ground at
the new canal basin. The bodies in
tered in the cofins were those who
died in 1S47 of the ship fever.
A chap was arrested in Philadelphia
the other day for stealing clock. The
Judge told him that as he had taken
another mans time to begin with, he
would now take his own time to reflect
uponit, and senthim up for three months.
The first appearance of the potato
bug in Europe has been made in Sweden,
where q number of potato crops have
been devastated this season. The bugsare
supposed to have had American parent
age, and have immigrated with grain
cargoes. ... .-.- ,s
A ia French lady despairingly says:
"I am so fat that I pray for disap-
pointment to make me thin. No sooner
does the disappointment come than the
mere expectation Of growing thinner
gives me such joy that I become fatter
than ever"
It is said that the Servian officers are
80 deeply impressed with the reports
thew have heard OF the Turkish atrocities
that they always endeavor to reserve one
ball.in their revolvers, so as to blow their
own brains out as soon as they fall into
the hands Of the enemy.
81 made nine hundred dollars during
my three-day's VISIT" said a young
hopeful to his father on his return from
New York. - How go, ny boy {" re-
piled the delighted parent. "Why, l
had thousand dollars worth of fun,
and it only cost me hundred" :s
8. F. Gilmore, of Escanaba, Mich,
adyertises reward of $500 for his runa-
way wife, who took with her their little
boy. The advertisement concludes:
"The reward above named will be paid
for the recovery OF the boy-and the
woman can go to thunder" ... .a
John Chiddy lost his life in rolling a
stone out of the way of an English rail-
road train, thus averting q great disas-
ter. Praise of the deed was general;
yet an appeal for money to save his fam
iIy from want resulted in raising only
about s4, the railroad company giving
nothing.
A tramp in New Jersey refused to
help get in some hay in return for
board, and then revenged himself upon
the farmer by destroying several valu-
able fruit trees. To trunk OF one was
q note containing these words: "When
q man asks you for something to eat,
look at these stumps before you refuse
him." IT,
Something novel in the way of suicide
is reported from Alsace. A man put
DYNAMITE cartridge in his mouth and
applied lighted match to it. The next
second his head and the upper part OF
his body were blown into q thousand
pieces. The mans brain had bean
affected by the heat of the weather.
A great number of the articles in the
Philadelphia Exhibition are sold, and
will be removed by the owners on
November 10, the time set for the close
of the show and most Of the exhibitors
will exercise their privilege OF then tax
ing away their property. Consequently
the display, if prolonged, would be very
meager.
A tailor and his son were in the olden
DAYS doing days work at farmhouse.
The prudent housewife, to secure
good days work, lighted candles when
daylight begun to fade. The tailor
looked to his son and said "Jock, con-
found them that invented workln' by
caunlelicht. cay" replied the young
snip, cor DAYLIGHT either, father"
A citizen of Chicago, who has led
royina life, has named his children after
the places where they were born, and
the list is now as follows First daugh-
ter. Albany Benson first boy, Omaha
Renson second son, St. Joseph Ben
son second daughter, st. Josephine
Benson third daughter, Cincinnati
Benson :; third boy, Chicago Benson.
At st. Ave, France, two farmers and
a workman of Vannes found an une3.
ploded shell. In order to prevent 1t
from doing any damage, they themselves
get to work to take out the powder by
the oriice, and partially succeeded.
Finding the difficulty to increase as they
proceeded, one of them struck it against
q stone, when it burst, blowing two OF
the men to pieces.
The bridge of the Boston water works
over the Charles river is supported by
the largect arch, except one, in the
world. It measures 134 feet in length,
and sixty-Ave feet from the keystone to
the water. The weight at the center OF
the structure is 4S0 pounds to the square
inch. It was constructed solely to carry
Sudbury river to the other side, and Will
cost, when completed, 5000. 600.
Roger Bell, surgeon prominent IN
the Bravo trial, has distinguished him,
self in another case. A man went to pea
and his wife soon after followed hlm;
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