The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1876-11-22
Items OF Interest.

A mustard plaster is warm personal
friend. ''.' " ".,'.
Pounded ice for dinner, If allowed 10
stand too long, is not what it is cracked
up to be. Is,r:t :. ~
Nothing is 80 great an instance of ILL
manners as Hattery. If you Aatter all
the company; you please none If you.
aatter only one or two, you offend the
rest. -'-.:' 80.
A late Charleston circular puts the
present rice crop of Georgia and South
Carolina at 75,6 800 Eerces, or about five
per cent. more than any crop since the
war. - ...,.
It was q New Jersey wife who said:
"My dear, If you can't really drink bad
coffee without abusing me, how is it
that YOU can always drink bad whisky
without abusing the barkeeperE"a
The girl whose lover, named Locke,
was exceedingly bashful, lost her
patience and declared TO- him that
Shakespeare had not said half as many
things as he ought to about Shy Locke.
A woman's hand How beautifully
nodded, how faultless in symmetry, how
soft and white and yielding, and, oh,
how much Of gentle memory it's pressure
conveys Yet we, don't like it in our
hair. ......t .ffa; J'i r.. s1}r.
A student after passing three years in
the Latin quarter, wrote to his father
| as follows: "I have made up my mind
to set to work, dear father therefore, I
should like to know whether it was Law
or medicine that I came to Paris to
study" .. .l...f.l,s
We've suspected for some time past
that measures would have to be taken to
check thealarmingIy rapid growth of the
Smith family. And here, now: sure
enough, q Pennsylvania man exhibits at
the Centennial "Smith roller and
crusher." '';.' s.sE
The Hon. John W. Foster reports to
the department Of agriculture that in
Mexico there exists the agricultural ca
pacity to produce all the coffee that can
be consumed in the United States, and
of a quality equal to the best grown In
any country" T., ~: - g..
People may be absent minded in every
thing else, even forget the dinner hour,
but you can't find man or a'woman
who overlooks the necessity OF getting
that ten cent bill changed on the way to
church to get nickel out Of 1t for the
contribution plate. ..' -"
A queer will, written on the back Of q
receipted bill for groceries, was admit
ted to probate in Albany. recently. It
reads as follows: 81. Bridget Reilly,
in nv solid senses, wills this house to
nv husband. House and lot, all be-
longing to, and furniture" .~.,'
In Algeria there is river formed by
the union OF two streams, one coming
from region of ferruginous soil and
the other draining peat swamp. The
acid in the latter acting upon the iron
in the former makes true ink, and the
river is actually a stream OF good writing
fluid. .,.
Two Englishtown IN. J.) boys, fred
with the spirit of many sensational tales,
stole an oyster boat at Keyport and put
out to sea in search of an island whereon
! to play Crusoe and Friday. Two orthree
DAYS later an inward bound vessel picked
them up, nearly dead from exposure
and hunger. .'.'.'- ID. ''.''
A well dressed man ate, with apparent
relish, an elaborate dinner in Paris
restaurant, and then cut his throat. BE
was taken to hospital, where the wound
was dressed. Upon reviving to con-
sciousness he exclaimed: What. alive
yet I" and completed the suicide by
tearing off the bandages. %..n"
Scene in New York police oonrt.-
Judge: L" Prisoner, I find you are guilty
of intoxication in the public streets.
The punishment is ten dollars or ten
days. Which will you takei" Prisoner:
81 will take the ten dollars, your honor.
Judge: "You are too brightto be locked
up !; try and remain 80 you may CO."
Prisoner: "Thank your honor.
A new industry, that Of drying eggs,
has been set on foot at Passau, on the
Danube, and the Rrussian military
authorities are about to give the product
trial for soldiers rstions. The Lon
don Ne,Ds says several German chemists
are very sanguine as to the success OF
the exp experiment., and they pronounce
dried eggs to have lost none OF their
valuable properties by the gradual evap-
Grafton Of the water contained by them
in their original state.
Emperor William has addressed the
following words to the citizens OF Wis
sembourg, in Alsace, where the French
first felt the shock of the advancing
German host: "I know you come to mo
with bleeding hearts. It is only natural,
nv friends but I myself have known
vicissitudes, but bore up against them:
Believe me as an old man, time sets all
things right. Time reconciles us to the
greatest changes, and time. I am sure,
will make you satisfied"