The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1876-10-18
Items of Interest.


"Excuse me, SIR" was the remark Of
a burglar caught opening a SAFE ~
Figaro says: Distrust fair complex
ioned women with wide mouths. q. ~
A San Francisco man died of heart
disease at the wedding Of his daughter.
There is law in Wisconsin that when
man dies without heirs his property
goes to the State school fund. -.
Speaking of politician, an exchange
says that his mouth was put on warm
and all ran oyer the lower part OF his face
before it set.
Fifteen million nine hundred thousand
hectoGtres of barley (420, 046,200 gal
lons) are consumed annually in Germany
for beer brewing.
An epitaph in the old churchyard at
Bedlington, reads: s.,...... F.
Poems and epitaphs are but stuff;
Here lies Robert Barass, that's enough.
The farmer should SOW his P's, keep
his Us warm, hive his BIS, kill off the
Us, remember what he C's, take care Of
the VS., pay all he O's, teach his wife not
to T's and take his Els. 5s IL
Paris, it seems, has steam street cars
that don't frighten the horses, seat forty
persons, run ten miles an hour, can be
stopped within five feet by brake,
turn sharp corners, and cost but 81
day day for fuel and attendance.
Three men belonging to Terrington,
in Norfolk, England, seized little boy,
took off his boots, tied his hands and
feet together, and flung him into wasp's
nest. The little fellow was frightfully
stung, and hisassailants were only fined.
Lille White, who had been reported
as attempting to commit suicide, has a
card in the Virginia City Chronicle, say
ing: "While fully realizing the yani-
ties of this world, I am in no hurry for
another, as it might be case Of getting
out Of the fryingpan into the fire.
An Arkansas man thoughtlessly set
some spring guns in his poultry yard,
and the next morning In the rising sun
he rubbed his spectacles and stared in.
speechless amazement at eighteen candi-
dates sitting on the front fence picking
bird shot out of their thirty-si legs. >
Coachman," said an outside passen-
ger to one who was driving at furious
rate over one of the most mountainous
roads in the north of Scotland, !" have
you no consideration for our lives and
limbs 2" "What are your lives and
limbs to me ?" was the reply. Sim be-
hind time !" . >.
A crazy man was tied fast in wagon
for Transportation to Blountville, Ky.
He yelled 80 loudly that the frightened
horses ran away, throwing out the two
keepers and breaking an arm OF each.
Then the Iunatic seized the reins, con.
trolled the horses, drove alone to the
asylum, and delivered himself up.
A London. woman with a babe in her
arms provoked her husband so much
that he SHE'D a knife at her. 1t killed
the baby, entering two inches deep into
the head. The Jury acquitted the
father by rendering verdict Of " Acct
dental DEATH" and severely repremand-
ed the mother for having aggravated her
husband. ~- VIZ '....
A boy said to his mother the other
morning: I" Ms, I had the beautifulest
dream last nioht you ever saw. I dreamt
that wouldn't 60 to school, and that
you went out into the yard and cut q
good long switch but just as you were
going to give me an awful dreesin' the
world came to an end! Didn'tI get off
easy, though"
A northern Iowa farmer offered
tramp his daughter and half his farm
for three days. work in the harvest field.
The tramp wavered little at first, but
then the color of the girls eyes didn't
suit, and he thought the farm laid a
little too low, so he declined the propo-
sition, stole q hame strap and went on
his workless way. ,... .. a... ....
The number Of entries in the dog show
at the Centennial is as follows: Aneri-
can, 5s1; Canadian, IS; English and
Irish exhibitors, 26 /; making q total OF
722. The large majority of these are
imported, or domestic English and Irish
settlers bred out of celebrated kennels,
Gordon settlers, and pointers over and
under fifty pounds weight.
It was evening. Three of them were
killing cat. One of them held Ian
tern, another held the Cat, and the third
iammed the pistol into the cats ear and
fred, shooting the man in tie hand who
held the cat, and the one with the Ian
tern was wounded in the arm. The cat
left when it saw how matters stood, and
that il-feeling was engendered.
Carrier pigeons have been put to an
use by physician on the Isle
of Wight. After visiting his patients
in each village, the doctor writes out his
prescriptions, afi1es one to the leg OF q
pigeon, and sends the bird home. Thus
the prescriptions are made up at once,
and the medicines are dispatched speed1-
ly to those living at distance. .., .
"And further agree that I will re-
sign my position and withdraw from said
schools whenever requested by said
board of education or the superinten-
dent of said schools, and will ask for no
reason why such request was made"
Such an agreement is signed by every
teacher in the public schools of Cairo,
Ill, the idea being to help discipline.
During recent Improvements of jail
at New Haven, Conn.,, there was found
between the rear walls of two tiers OF
cells wire, firmly secured, one hundred
and fifty feet long. Attached to it was
pan, which was evidently used for car
rying articles from cell to cell, or else as
kind of gong to convey warnings OF
the approach Of the iailer or his assist
ants.
John Anderson, the first man who as
cended the great South Dome In the
Yosemite valley, California, lives alone
in small house near the saddle OF the
dome. he is hard at work constructing
staircase of thousand steps up the
dome. He hopes to have an elevator
running in time, and is also working on
q model of steam COR that shall carry
passengers up the almost perpendicular
walls.
"I always did love to gaze on the
children in their sports" said Potter,
as he pensively contemplated crowd OF
urchins 81 am carried back to -
Just then the baseball came over his
way and tried to get into his vest POCKET
and doubled him up. When his breath
came back he shouted :" You young
ragamuf6n, you, if catch you playing
ball on the street again I'll get the ponce
after you
Patient to his doctor" And it Is
really true that shall recover?' IN
falGbly," answers the pnan OF medicine: