The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1876-06-07
Items Of Interest. {,

'Beggars are focking to Philadelphia
in crowds. mid 81 sape s@ssscf
Candidates fesrt9the unknown man
most, whoever he may be- .la.isr Z
Before arithmetic was invented people
multiplied on the face Of the EARTH
AS soon as the novelty wears off q man
negerwakesa baby up for the purpose
of hearing it laugh, -! - lseo5
TIE arinking gm !aannd "spelling bee {"
epidemic IL England IS there called
"tha foot and moush disease.
-Whoop Dong and Chi Sing are drum
ming up members for q secret society in
California tss0 Object aMelican man
NGs' 10 stoahIa0w IS, b ft2j.sig 3;
e solder twenty one and half feet
high and weighing thirty tons has gone
to the Centennial. He was cut from
RAsde n nd granite quarry BY a
sculptor.l ps gY9d baa sIsrR Ga4 ssa
7Apetition is circulatingin NICK Kinney,
Texas and numerously signed, asking
the Legislaturet to pass a. law to punish
horse thieves dis follows: First ofense,
whipping post second, whipping and
branding third, hanging. ~ s4,
;Dr. Benedict, Of Vienna, who. has just
concluded the examination Of O number
Of brains taken from, rabid dogs, is of
the opinion that the poison remains
LATENT for some time in the brain, and
eventually breaks out in certain parts of
itsd - .s- As21 s'>;'r. ~ ES9 GaSsr.'s: ...
: The grave as il, in which Samuel Hause was
buried recently, in Eldred, Pa, is still
left opsn..ss,. His body at, the funeral
looked to some as though, alive, and 80,
as, the localnewspaper expresses it, they
resolved to'"giye the old mana chance
should he revive. SRI
sAjsyracuss exchange says: 1t is said
that men are going about the country
taking pictures, Of children in public
schools at twenty Ave cents apiece,
ostensibly for exhibition at the Centen-
NAL. Pay no, attention to these travel
ing ssartists,' they are, ,humbugs.T
"A swindler advertised In the Boston
newspapers that he had inaoney-to loan
on bond and mortgage and informed
applicants that they must deposit q sum
to, pay for, searching the title sDf their
property He secured q large amount
Of money. in sums ranging from five to
twenty dollars, and then fled.
A blast Of one thousand Kegs of pow
der was recently fired in amino in Ne
vada county, Calf ~ ioosened up
ready for washing .about a;Q00 cubic
Yards of earth. The bahk Was over two
hundred feet in height, and the mass
was raised bodily four feet. y The e1-
plosion was complete fspccesa ;
There are in NeRx0k State. 1,022
cheese factories. These factories stand
for 459, 900 cowsyor 160, 965, 900 pounds
of cheese, or quoting cheese at twelve
cents per poundS " $19, ,S15, ,S00.'
Cheese manufactured in private diaries
amounts to $,219,3e0. Total cheese
interest OF the State, $22, ,85, 100.
Tits figured up by q, newspaper man
that there will be-, eighty thousand
articles on exhibition ut the Centennial.
Wherefore, if q person who visits the
Centennial wishes to see. every article,
he must devote five hours day for five
months to the Job, giving one-haif min
ute to the examination of each object.
Two young gentlemen were discussing
whether or not etiquette demands that q
young lady, upon parting at the gate or
door, shall ask the young man to call
again. Certainly it is," urged one.
eCertainly it isn't, said the other. ~
90 to see a young lady who knows what
politeness requires, and she never asks
me to call again"
Two drunken hunters in Nevada saw q
Chinaman washing gold dust in creek,
and made target Of him with their
rifles. One fred and missed. "You
always ought to aim above the mark
wheh it's so far off," said the other.
"See how do it." he was correct in
his theory, and succeeded in his illustra-
ton. The Chinaman was struck and
wounded. --. T. aa;an.
A traveller overtaking an old Presby-
terian minister, whose nag was much
fatigued, quizzed the old gentleman
upon his "turn out" ga nice horse
yours, doctor, very valuable beast that
but what makes him wag his tail so,
doctor2" Why, as you have asked
me will tell you. It is for the same
reason that your tongue wags so-a sort
of natural weakness" "
When Chief Justice Holt, of England,
who had been somewhat of o graceless
scamp in his youth, recognized an old
acquaintance in a prisoner brought be-
fore him, he cautiously questioned him
as to what had become Of his old COM
rades. He supposed that he was not
recognized by the prisoner, bat the re-
ply convinced him to the contrary:
"They are all hanged, my lord, except
you and l."
An applicant for the position of teach
er in the Aylmer (Canada) public schools
pens his application thusly: "Dear
Sir having seen your notice in paper and
as my schools, Gives up on the 18th and
weaching to take another on yous will
please oblige by Letting me Know by
Return mail AS to my certificate hold
a Grammar school pas for ontaoto which
is Equal to first plus plus certificate
and Good Reference is needed.
In the practice of turning card cor
ners, the upper left hand corner denotes
"visite," and is used for an ordinary
call the upper right hand corner turned
down means "felicitation, " and is for
visit of congratulations the lower lett
hand corner, "conge, represents fare
we'll call, and the lower right hand cor
ner, "condolence, expressing desire to
sy,npathize with bereavement! The rule 2
most generally understood is the turning
of one end of the card, which denotes o
wish to sec the ladies OF the family.