The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1876-03-22
Items Of Interest.

bills. ..
Fame-a flower upon dead mans
heart.
We rise to fortune by many successive
steps we descend by only one.
All the employees of the Concord On.
H. railroad have been compelled to
sign the temperance pledge. ..
Thirty-two sales Of shorthorns took
place in Kentucky last year, in which
1853 animals were sold for $685., ,946.
There are 81, ,255 Baptist churches in
the United States, with 13, III ministers,
and total membership of 1,s15,OOO.
"John, if you're going to be out till
two o'clock tonight you'll have to stay
at home and let yourself in, for I won't" "
There is no special style of engraving
engagement rings. A Aspider's web, with
a fly in it, is very pretty device. ~
Many man saves his life by not fear
ing to lose it, and many man loses his
Life by being over anxious , save it. -
Reading, Pa, is q bad place for
tramps. An old maid Of that place re-
Gently married one who applied for aid.
A Paterson Justice of the peace, who
tampered with the scales Of Justice and
those Of his own coal yard, had been
sentenced to pay fine of $3.50. ~,
There were 7,74O failures in the. Unit
ed States in 1875, Of which the gross La
bilities were $201, ,06O, ,453. This is near
ly treble the number of failures in 1871,
and 1900 more than in 1874.
A Buffalo man dreamed that he was
going over the falls and he had his wife
by the throat when he woke up. Next
night she had O. dream, and broke his
nose as she struck at an Indian,
The longest night in Norway lasts
three months, and, when young man
goes to sec his girl, her mother, before
retiring, tells her not to ruin her health
by sitting up more than two months.
Chow are you pleased with the
beauty Of French ladiesa" asked num-
ber of highly polished Partisan
coquettes of an English gentleman.
"1'm no Judge Of paintings" was the
reply. ... ST..
The way they weigh hogs in Kansas
is as follows They first tie the hog to
one end of rail, balance the rail on a
fence with rocks tied to the other end,
and then guess how much the rocks
weigh. --.. '.: '. b. 7:.'
A Williamsburgh IN. ~ minister who
had his hat stolen, grayely observed
from the pulpit: "Bashfulness, dearly
beloved, doesn't break out in this COM
munity as much as the smallpox and
measles"
A daughter Of Lucius W. Pond, the
Worcester forger, has been serving as q
waiter il restaurant in that city for
several months, voluntarily workingsout
a debt of 800 which her father owed the
proprietor.
A boy of fourteen years has been i'm
prisoned at st. Eleanor's, Prince Edward
island, for debt. Notwithstanding that
his father sent an affidavit to one OF the
judges of his sor's age, the boy still re-
mains prisoner. &c.. ...
It isnow generally believed that, When
Boss Tweed went up stairs to see II
there was a robbor in the house, he in
advertently sat down upon box OF
dvnamite-because he is now being
found all over tho country.
Moliere was asked the reason why, In
certain countries, the king may assume
the crown at four urteen years Of ago, and
can not marry before eighteen. It is,
answered Moliere, "more difficult to
rule wife than o kingdom"
Another little boy who was innocently
playing with an unloaded pistol has shot
a airl in the face. There is cne thing
peculiarly remarkably about unloaded
pistols. They go off oftener and kill
more people than any other kind.
Four children, aged thirteen, seven,
five and two years, respectively, came
to the station house in Williamsburgh,
N. Y, and said that their father had
driven them from home and threatened
to cut their throats if they returned.
There is class of people who ask you
why you "don't" come to their house,
but never say edo" They are nearly
related to the gentleman who has always
got "bill to take up" whenever you
wish to effect small loan from him.
Paul Haupt, of Denver, went through
the war without sca;he, and when his
regiment was sent to Arizona encountered
on one occasion five Apaches single
handed, killing three of their number.
Lately he was crushed to death between
two blocks of ice in an ice house.
We were told many years ago by Cat
lin, the man who painted our Indians,
that prime necessity for avoiding dis
eases Of the lungs was to shut your
mouth" It was to their habit of keep.
ing their talking machines closely shut
that he attributed the freedom OF the
redmen from consumption.
An old inhabitant of Sunbury on
Thames, England, eighty-four years old,
recently gave a dinner to twenty-four
poor people, whose combined ages
amounted to 1900 years-an average OF
seyenty-fve years. The population OF
the town is about 5000, so there is pref
ty good evidence that it is a healthy
locality.
A Vermont editor says that a man IN
Procterville caught pickerel the other
day weighing two and half pounds,
inside Of which was another pickerel
which measured nine inches in length,
and inside of this was still another i've
inches in length. We don't question
the> truth of this story. The only re-
rlarkable thing about it IS that the man
didn't go on finding inside pickerels
as long as the inches held out.
The lads of Harrison county, KY, 40
not accept correction in the schools :: c1aa' WIN
becoming spirit. A teacher in Gay
vile, in that county, O few days ago
while attempting to chastise one OF them,
was attacked by his brother wlth q
pistol and was dangerously shot IN the
breast. The boy himself then attaekec
the teacher with knife and lnticteo q
wound which, but for an upward tnfn oi'
the weapon, would have proved ia'si'
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