The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1876-10-04
Items Of Interest.

Items Of Interest.
A patent has been granted to Balti-
more man for can Improvement in oys-
ters."
A New London lady has taught her
large Newfoundland dog to hold up her
train when she is crossing muddy or
dusty streets.
England has wsged forty-nine wars
since 1900; France, thirty-eight; Rus
sia. twenty-two; Austria, twelve: and
Prussia eight. =
A Western man moves that the
hickory tree be made an emblem of the
United States, as the oak is of England
and the laurel of Greece.
Beef and mutton cost. about three
cents pound in Servia, turkey fotches
a shilling, a pair Of fowls may be had
for six cents, and draught OK only costs
from ton to twelve dollars.
Two young women in st. Louis got
into the parlor Of woman whom they
hated, and cut the upholstery to a
damaging EXTENT of $500. They were
convicted of the ohense, and fined 500
each. o.. II
"Did you see wolf and dog 60 by
here p asked hunter Of woodchop-
per. "Yaas, I did" "Well, how was
they-about nip and tucka" "Not
quite, mister the dog was about six
lengths ahead. r"n,s"
A farmer the other day wrote to q
New York merchant, asking how the
formers son was getting along, and
where he slept nights. The merchant
replied "He sleeps in the store in the
daytime. I don't know where he sleeps
nights" a.. ~. .... :. ....
There is a cavern near Decorah, Iowa,
called the ice cave. It is two hundred
feet deep, and in the summer the water
which drips from the rocks freezes a. it
falls. The strange thing is that in WIN
ter no ice forms in the cave, even that
of summer disappearing. -
In Arkansas man was sentenced to
be hanged, but all the carpenters in the
neiphborhood refused to build the scat
fold, AS the condemned man was him
self a carpenter by trade, the sheriff
tried to induce him to put up galiows,
but he steadfastly declared that he'd be
hanged if he would. 3.
The biggest corn story Of the season
comes from Mount Carmel, ILL.,, where,
it is asserted, on the farm OF VIM. john
son is a stock Of corn the top of which
is forty feet from the ground. There
are two ears of corn growing upon it at
the distance Of thirty odd feet from the
level OF the surrounding country.
A Burlington schoolboy views the
advent of school days without a tremor,
because, he says, he is panied to an
OF. that his father. Lbs. him without Or.
nearly every day, worse than ever his
teacher did, nor is he the only unhappy
bow in town he says he knows cwt.
the return Of school days with eager
impatience.
A Maine minister, advertising tor
lost pecketbook containing 50, said :
"The person who has it knows whose It It
is, because my name Is IN 1t, ana II
honest will return it. II not, he Will, OF
course, keep it, and accept my advice to
use the money for the purchase OF q
q stool OF repentance that is charged
with ignitible hSimstone.
A twelve-year-old boy jumped into
river at Roseburg, Oregon, to rescue
Younger brother. He was swimming to-
ward the shore with the little one when
his mother, who had in her excitement
gone too near the edge Of the bank,
slipped into the stream. He Instantly
let 90 his hold, and went to save the
mother. and all three were drowned.
When Mrs. Patience Remington, OF
North Smithfeld, Conn, celebrated her
ninety fifth birthday recently, her three
sons-triplets- ty.nine years old, were
present. When they were born their
father was offered 800 to name them
Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, but his pa
triotism was greater than his avarlce,
and he named them, Washington, Jefer.
son end Monroe.
Wood pavementa have better name
for durability in London than In TINS
country. The city engineer reports tnat
after being treated with asphalt. which
keeps out the surface water, wood Is one
of the most durable pavements. Ii ls
cheaply laid, noiseless, smooth and elas-
tic. Before horse falls he may be e1-
pected to travel on granite 1872 miles, on
asphalt 191 miles, on wood A6 miles.
A convict who escaped from a North
Carolina jail stopped at farmhouse and
told the inmates that he was an ot1cer ID
pursuit of a fugitive. and had put on
the prison dress in order to deceive MN:
he asked for revolver and got 1t: AT
another place, by telling the same lie, ne
borrowed a horse. Several bloodhounds
overlook him, but he shot them. Yet,
after all his good luck, he was captured
A Chattanooga farmers house was
robbed. Next morning stranger called
and said that he was one of the robbers,
and he showed locket. The farmer
said that he valued the locket because IL
had been worn by dear child. "Here
it is," said the robber, seemingly s1ect-
ed. "Let me make restitution. Here
are 800 for your little son." He handed
the farmer counterfeit $50 bill and re-
ceived $50 change.
The English court Of chancery budget
for 1S74-75 is an exceedingly Interesting
document. The enormous sums admln-
istered by the court are annually lncreas-
ing. The assets in cash and securities
were $4,000, 600, mostly in three per
cent. securities and bank stocks. Inc
American securities amounted to S5oo'-
600. Among the curious accounts Is a
long array Of boxes with jewelry, ETC.,
lodged for greater security IN the Vaui'7
of the Bank of England.
During his recent stay at lschl tne
emperor of Austria saved the child OF .
poor woman from a violent DEATH As
he was passing through the Rettenpaen
gorges, boy Of four years old leu over yer
precipice, and his clothes na'nne my
caught on projecting branch, was sust t
pended over torrent some fifty 1ee1
below, The emperor, whose proficiency
in ali athletic sports is well known,
Jumped across the precipice, freed tne
boy from his perilous position, anu
took him back to his mother.
The Virginia way to cook chicken Is:
The fowl to be killed, plucked and evils
cerated in the shortest possible time; on
no account is it to be washed, but II
must he wiped dry with q clean napKin
and cut into six parts-the breast, the
two wings, The back and the two iegs, .
The whole is then to be thrown INTO
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