The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1876-07-12
Items of Interest.


Where the gong sounds loudest the
supper is smallest.
A good lawyer is not necessity, for
necessity knows no law.
Good manners are the blossoms of
good sense.
People who are always open to con
Observation-Disclosures.
The man who gets into prison will be
more guarded in future.
Keep your temper. It is more valua.
BILE to yon than to anybody else.
Mean souls, like mean pictures, are
often found in good looking frames. -
Mrs. Sartoris' little daughter, grand
child of the President, died in London.
A child is laughed at when it tries to
catch shadow, and yet grown per,
sons grasp and capture but little else in
the world. .... ...,
half the sorrow of women would be
syerted if they could repress the speech
they know to be useless-nay, the speech
they have resolved not to utter.
We know small bov whose way of
putting it was: "Pop, there's fellow
in our class that economies the truth
in the most barefaced way I ever saw" ="
The Italians say that he who ohends
never forgives. Tacitus gives the reason
for it. It is, he says, because the causes
of hatred are the more violent the more
unjust they are. .l", .
The pigeon shooting match in Lon
don between Ira Paine of New York and
Captain Patten, the English crack shot,
resulted in tie-each killing twenty
one out of thirty birds. -
A Rutland (Vt.) deacon in a Congre-
gational church is accused OF incedlar.
ism. Six of his houses have been burn
ed within eleven years, and each time
the insurance was excessive.
A professional steeple builder states
that all properly built stone steeples will
rock slightly and wooden ones much
more 80. II shey did not, he would
know they wer out of plumb. ~
The Quebec ireconsumed All houses,
no account of louble dwellings and out
buildings being made. The total loss
was as nearly as can be ascertained
81, 900, 900; insurance, $3.50. 900.
Within the last two years the French
officers and cavalrymen have been
trained to ride with much shorter STIR
rup, and the result is already apparent
in their improved seat and general horse
manship.
A 1obber who was recently arrested
for breaking into and entering a city
store, told the Office that it amused him
to see folks put two or three locks on
their front door, and then fasten the
back door with small button. r 5"
cit is BETTER" says placard in a
store in Seabrook, N. e., "to wear a
calico dress without trimmings, if it is
paid for, than to owe the shopkeeper for
the most elegant silk, cut and trimmed
in the most bewitching manner"
A kiss for each falling star is the
overs rule, and whenever meteor
shoots across the armament the listen
ing pedestrian may hear from the
shadows of the front steps such excia.
nations as "Ohl George, don't! !
There, now, you naughty man, I hope
you are satisfied.
DR.. Volkelt says: "Dreams, while
originating in bodily sensations, are not
the results of association. 1t is not the
idea caused by o physical impression
which calls up another idea to form the
dream; the dream-imagination at once
in one act symbolizes the physical atfec-
ton to the vision of the sleeper"
Western papers tells US of an intelh-
gent Nevada COW, whose owner was
about to move to q far distant hon e.
He loved that COW and wept at the
thought Of parting with her. TO his
great JOY and astonishment, on arriving
at his new home, he found that the faith
full brute had got there three days IN ad-
vance of him.
A cobbler attracts attention with the
following address outside his shop:
Surgery performed upon old boots and
shoes, by adding of feet, making good
the legs, binding the broken, healing
the wounded, altering the constitution
and supporting the body with new soles.
No cure, no pay. Advice gratis on the
most desperate cases.
Official reports state that there are
"a, 200 buildings in New York city.
There are 1913 houses arranged as
" French fats" 172 hotels, sixty-six
hospitals and asylums, twenty-eight the
aters. and eleven markets. The number
of dwelling houses is 67,156. The on
nual average number Of new buildings
for the last twelve years is 1855.
A female Josh Billings has suddenly
and unconsciously developed herself IN
Cincinnati. She removed from Pitts
burgh to that city, and after becoming
domesticated wrote to her friends at
home as follows: "Sinsinnaty is Mise
plais anuf, but tina keep a good many
geese here. doant see them in the da
time, but T herr them at mite IN aul
drekshuns.
Brigham Young spoke few words OF
wisdom the other day to youthful en-
thusiast who called upon him. He said.
{" Young man, be sure you are through
with your search for the kind of partner
Won want-be sure you have got tho
pattern of woman that suits you. before
| leading her to the altar. Don't wait
till after marriage, as did, and then be
obliged to keep on sampling."
The ellen law" of Indiana works
sometimes very queerly, and is causing
q good deal of dissatisfaction III that
State. A short time ago woman bar.
Gained with q man for the painting Of
her house, and after the work was done
paid him in full. Since then the dealer
who sold the man his paints has brought
suit against the woman for his debt and
will probably have the claim allowed.
A case of rather sharp practice is
said to have been practiced on a farmer
at Niagara Falls who raises tobacco.
Two men, who afterward proved to be
revenue officers, called and talked as If
thew wanted to buy his stock. Select
ing several samples they offered to pay
for them; but on his steadfastly refus-
ING to accept it, on the grounds that, he
always gave away samples, they left
forty cents on box and went away.
The farmer now finds himself prose-
cuted for selling tobacco at retail with
out paying the revenue tax thereon.
A hero among workingmen is slater
of Anthione, Belgium. He had to as
cend the summit of a church steeple to
fix the lightning conductor. His COM
rade mounted on his shoulders to pour
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