The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1877-01-31
Items Of Interest.
Never postpone happiness.

Never postpone happiness.
No conflict is so severe as his who ID
aors to subdue himself.
To confde too much is to put your
lemons in another mans squeezer.
There are IA, ,0O7, ,522 school going chil-
dren in the United States and Terri
tories.
"Man proposes but there are still
13. ONO more women than men IN Massa-
chusetts.
A man at O church fair the other night
cried out: "I've got the oyster. Gimme
the prize"
The art of living easily as to money is
to pitch your scale of living one degree
below your means.
"Tite boots," says Josh Billings, "is
luxury, in that they make man forget
all his other miseries.
II was scurvy that prevented the Eng
lish expedition from reaching the north
pole A scurvy excuse is better than
none.
Scoop the core out Of atbaked apple,
fill the hole with milk and sugar, and set
out doors to freeze. Then go out after
coal, step on the apple, and take a slide
down the step and over three old knots
and two ashpans.
After the sham battle at Princeton, n.
j., the troops partook Of an elegant col
lation and had good time. Ii the shade
of any old Continental viewed the pro-
ceedings after the battle he must have
1o,>o~oI 10 ,o,,oo 1,ock and ra-pnl1Sf.
ga woman" remarked q Norwich Off
cial, 6 first loves fast man, then good
! man, and finally any man." Then bus
wife appeared in the doorway, and ne
went back into the cellar and began to
! split up kindlings in an abject manner.
It seems there never was so dull
| time among the theaters. Whether the
Brooklyn fire has anything to do with it
or not, the attendance at theaters is
pretty good test of how flush the
community feels, and the general feellIng
of hard times is doubtless the main ele-
ment in the situation.
If any good resolutions respecting the
conduct of life during the new year have
been floating through any young mans
head. this is the time to enter upon the
determination to keep them and to begin
to carry them out. Put them down on
paper, if that will strengthen the minds
purpose in regard to them.
! The census takers of the Young Mems
Christian Association of Jersey City re-
port that there are thirty-ive saloons
! to each church in that city" Whereupon
the Norristown Herald says: Why
church should have SO many saloons we
can't understand. We should think ten
would suffice for the largest church IN
the CITY,"
, r. is now ascertained beyond doubt
that two young ladies Of Rondout, n.
! Y. sisters. named Charlotte and Martha
Smith, who left intending to visit their
uncle at Bloomington, ILL.,, were among
tbe victims of the Ashtabula railroad
disaster. They were the daughters OF a
widow recently reduced from attiuence 10
poverty, and the blows falls upon her
with crushing weight.
A sad example of the fatal nature OF
| diphtheria has just occurred III Far1s. a
whole family, consisting of father and
mother and two children, were attacked
with it. and carried off in short time.
DR.. Regnault, who attended them,
caught the malady, and in spite OF the
care of one of his colleagues, DIR. Biset,
died also in twenty-four hours. DR.;
Biset was then attacked in his turn, and
he expired.
A man and his wife were found in
their dwelling in San Francisco, both
with bullet wounds, from which they
have probably since died. Tile husband
said, as his dying testimony, that ms
wife shot him, and then accidentally shot
herself The wife said, as her dying
testimony, that her husband shot her.
and then accidentally shot himself. Each
gave jealousy as the melting cause ,ef
the others crime. Nobody else saw the
shooting, and the police had no means
of reaching the truth.