The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1876-08-23
Items OF Interest.

It is a bad night when mosquitoes can.
not sleep. y
Next to razor that takes hold we'll
in shaving, one that let's go easy Is most
de ,irable.
Why are kisses like the Creation
Because they are made of nothing, and
are very good. .s.,>s.
Man may learn wisdom from a postage
stamp. 1t sticks to its legitimate bust
ness. Letters profit by it.
Salt Lake papers say that 10, 900 miners
have left Utah this season to assist in the
San Juan excitement.
How cool and nice it would be to fall
down q wellt Provided you are careful
not to kick the bucket.
George Eliot says that "what we see
exclusively we are apt to see with some
mistake Of proportions.
A modern essayist defines "gossip"
to be the "putting OF two and two to.
gether and making five Of them.
Two San Francisco butchers own 700
600 acres of land and employ ], 900 men.
Both these capitalists are Germans.
a horse committed suicide in Lake
Village, N. B., the other dsy, by drown
ing himself. BE was sick, aad became
respondent. Es
A girl of thirteen, in Guildford, Eng
land, was recently caught by gypsies,
stripped of all her clothing, and sent
home unhurt.
In 17ee, George Washington, in send
ing to London for some goods, put upon
the memorandum: "Nine pounds OF
sugar candy" s.52 ..yag5:
The Missouri Pacific railroad has sud-
denly discovered that train conductors
have robbed it of $50, 900 during the
last twelve months.
An Indiana lady sent q letter to her
brother in California, telling him that
the family had smallpox, and in few
days he had it, too. ,.,.1. j s.y,.
In 1907, while Lewis and Clark were
crossing the Rocky mountains, anumber
of Indians followed them for several
days in order to restore some articles
that they had lost. H'fa.:',l fsil 3
"a wife in San Jose, Cal, became Wild
" Jealous of her husband, and killed her
self, which left the husband free, to mar
~ the woman who caused the jealousy,
and he did it within three months.
Troy papers say that the firing OF
cannon on the night of July 3d deafened
the horses of Trojan hook and ladder
company, and when the alarm sounds
the horses have to be led to their places.
In this matter of preserving health BY
eating at regular hours, it is interesting
to note that vigorous old Iowa tramp
of ninety years has lived for the past
thirty-aye years Of his time entirely on
catch meals. .,,g.: ar.
The number of visitors to the Centen-
NAL Exhibition since the opening to July
18th, aggregates 2,254, 074. and the cash
receipts $743, ,576.50. The number OF
"deadhead or non-paying visitors Is,
therefore, 766,91. ".r a".
A gentleman of Jersey City, N. j.,
has taken the fourth of July decorations
from his house and sealed them In
packet, which is to be opened BY his de-
scendants in order that the same decora-
tions may be used by them in 1915.
One of the fruits of the Centennial
Exhibition will be that you can buy
dozen different makes of sewing ma
chimes next year, and each one Will have
received the first premium for excel
lence, light running, and such.
Edward Timmons, father Of Louise
Hawthorne, the actress who was killed
by falling from hotel window in Chi
eapo. has committed suicide in Middle
town, Conn. He was greatly depressed
by his daughters death, aud at length
became demented. 81
The Centennial sash of red, white, and
blue ribbon six or seven inches wide is.
one of the patriotic fancies OF the year.
It costs ST. 70 yard, and is worn tied
low down around the hips. with two
deep loops and ends hanging behind IN
stead OF q stiff bow. . -. -,
A horseman passed through Lafayette,
Mo-, the other day, on his way from
Texas to Michigan. He was mounted
on a mustang, which had carried him all
the way, 1,500 miles, with nothing to
est except what it picked mp along the
roadside. The mans entire baggage
consisted of blanket and lariat.
Kansas is complaining that her crop
of cereals this year is too enormously
heavy for utilization. Millions OF bush
els of wheat will have to be lost, the
farmers say, because it ripens too fast,
and cannot be got to market; and as to
corn, the yield is 80 great that vast
quantities will have to be used as fuel
during the winter. .E
He was an applicant for the position
Of writing teacher in public school.
They gave him copy book and asked
him for a specimen Of what ne could DO.
he took up the pen, and in handwrlt-
ing that looked like fash Of Lightning
that had mistaken the direct road, wrote
az follows: "Sorrer doesn't kill folkes
as fast as green gooseburys."
At the closing of a concert, while a
young man was struggling with his cane,
overcoat, opera glass, and his young
lady's fan, all of which he was trying to
retain on his lap, suspicious looking
black bottle fell on the floor with thud.
"There," he exclaimed to his conpan-
ion, I shall lose my cough medicine"
That was presence Of mind for you.
A colored man began business as a
physician at Oxford, N. O., some years
ago, but was not very successful, except
pecuniarily. The mortality among bis
patients seemed greater than the cir
cumstances justified, and recently his
neiehbors, convinced that he knew
nothing about doctoring, took him into
the woods and whipped him soundly.
A foreign innkeeper posts at bis door
this notice: English, German, Italian
and Spanish epoken here" Arrives an
Enplishman and in fantastic French asks
for the interpreter. "Monsieur," re.
piled the waiter, "there is none.
"What, no interpreter1 And Jet you
say on your sign that all the languages
are spoken here" eyes, sir, by the
travellers.
The we'll known French earthenware
manufacturer, Emile Collinot, has JUST
discovered new mode Of decoratlon 1or
private dwellings and public buildings.
Instead of applying the decorated ialence nee
to the wall he proposes enamellng tne
stone itself by putting up hght scanUlo
and using the blowpipe instead OF tne
oven. The advantages Of the ecneme
are principally cheapness and duraoih'y'
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