The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1876-09-20
Items of Interest.

In Tennessee villages spring chickens
are eight cents apiece: '''t
Don't attempt to punish all your
enemies at once. You can't do q large
business with q small capital.
A law has been passed in Germany
forbidding the construction OF school
rooms with windows !on opposite sides
of the room. 1t lis said TO be proven
that rooms so lighted are injurious to
the eyes. &.t&!Et =, @i.GItH
The Council Bluffs (Iowa) Nonparei
has won the prize for cat stories. It
tells of ons that entered an apothecary's
store. selected the box containing cat
nip, tore the paper oft open and COM
menced eating. II r.
In the presence Of Col. Benton, q. 8.
A.. Gen. FRI lin, Dr.. Gatling g,and others,
one of the IMPROVED rapid firing Gatling
gums was recently fred. at the rate OF
! forty shots second, or 2, 400 per minute.
The gun is ten barrel, forty-fve caliber.
The Southern economical problem is
concerning tho reduction lof acreage In
planting cotton. BY general assent
this year fewer acres were planted than
usual, but the use of Iguano has, in many
places, made the crop as heagy as it was
before.
II is difficult to explain the workings 81
the;youthful mind, . A. boy who will liz
ten indiferently to the subhmest truths
of theology will be ,ro1sed to the acutest
interest by the progress OF q caterpillar
over the collar Of the bald headed man az
in the pew in front of b hin, 20, ,tg:g,ds iIts
3" May I leave few traetsigi asked q
travelling. auackz doctor of "a lady who
responded to his knock: 7"Leaye some
tracks, Certainly You may said she;
looking at him benignly over her spec
tacles; aleave them with the heel to-
ward the door, il you please! ! az
The spectacle OF q, man with his fifth
bride listening to the funeral sermon
of his fourth wife was witnessed at
Bangor recently. Number four died OF
malignant disease, and there were no
funeral services. He. Immediately got
another wife, and invited hpl to attend
the funeral sermon. Of the dear departed.
Arural female beauty alighted from
the stage coach in front of q :hotelthe
other day, when a. piece OF ribhn1 de%
tached itseh from her bonnet and fell
into the bottom of the carriage. ~" You
have left your bow behind, said q lady
passenger. !" No. Z amt; he's gone O.
ashing, innocently replied the rustic.
William B. Hunt, 81, IoYa, is the
champion, rascal, He has 10 wife and
child in nearly every conside town
in the United States eastot Kansas. His
latest are at Portland, Ne. He marrles
q girl. remains With. her for two days,
and leaves. i His principal occupation is
that of O hotel 'clerk, and he .is9 very
handsome -aH iet5j :H9ufsYn.Ttc -
E'dA hint for summer hotel keepers. A
oentle1na,, comes down! stairs in the
mornine after a;bbsattttle with The bugs, in
which lie comes off second best, ,MThis
is terrible-that bed was fnh Of bugs.
Certainly, F" replies the elerE, suayeiy.
I"What do you mean ',,iGH., viii pe
fifty cents dsy extra e S tyr ,sha chambers 'ef
without bugs" ."y2.sinigu ilo7oi6o 81. -
The Swedes havelaningeniops way o.
teaching geography in. atheir schools.
II Consists Of an outline mapiof Sweden,
drawn upon a)large blackboard. ,.At the
location Of each city and town IS Q hole
in the board, and little blocks with pms
attached, each containing the name OF 9
CITY. are stuck in rows on the side OF
the board. The pupil reconstructs the
map by putting each ba51 block n is its ss appro-
priste place. @it.e,,k Eo,.Y l.. 80,
At a railway station two gentlemen be-
| longing to the district were warming
themselves in the waiting room, whfsG q
son of the Emerald Isle, "rsther out at
the elbows" +" entered the room; One oi
ous. Said to him ::"IU be after giving
you my chair to warm yourself for = SIX
stI'll be after letting you keep 1t Tor q
shilling and It's mssef that has much
need Of one Just now" r. ...'''1"
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