The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1877-07-11
Items of Interest.

Tramps who are willing to rent themselves
for scare-crows can make standing engage
ments with farmers.
We didn't know that the gentle, musical
MOSQUITO was at all inclined to drink, YET We
see people putting up bars for them.
The police of Kansas towns have orders to
shoot all potato bugs found running at large
without muzzle on. This is important, II
true.
A printers baby took the first prize, s75 in
gold, ut the Chicago baby show. That was O.
"fat take" and the committee was "Justlhed
III awarding it.
The average Mexican now rises betmes'
pokes his head out of the window, and eau
tiously inquiries of the first passer-by: ""ho's
President this morning|
4 naturalist claims to have discovered that
crows, when in focks, nave regularly organ
lied courts, in which they sit around and Try
offenders-a sort Of crow-bar, so to speak.
By the laws of Florida no man who has lest
all arm or leg, no matter how or where, or
from what cause, can be taxed for any busl-
hess he may enter into, always excepting inc
liquor business.
A man never 80 forcibly feels the incon-
yenience of being under-siZed until his Wlfe
informs him that if he had been two inches
taller his old pants would have made TWO new
pairs for his son.
A great philosopher says in the economy OF
nature nothing is lost. The inside OF an orange
may refresh one man, while tho outside OF inc
another mans leg.
There was weird, Wailing sound hearo ~
Wisconsin recently like the sough of lhe north
wind through pine forest, but it was only
the Eolian music of few billion grasshoppers
burning their dead after the late frost.
Poor woman need not feel badly she cannot
throw @ brick at hen or sharpen penc!i;;
There are few tricks more consumate IN Skill
and dexterity than the way in which she rescues
her trail from the mud with one hand.
A fashion item says: A bonnet much
worn consists of brim and cape OF faconne
straw, with o soft crown made OF coarse mus
lin. And boys straw hat " much worn con-
ssts of q ragged crown, half the prlm gone'
and no band around 1t.
"My son." said mother to little boy four
YEARS old. "whom above all others will you
wish to see when you pass into the spirit
world" "GolahI' shouted the child, with o
ioyous anticipation "unless," he quickly
added, "there's bigger fellow there"
A safety envelope to prevent tampering has
been devised, On the flap the words attempt
to open" are printed with double set OF
chemicals the first impression containing nut
gals and the second green vitriol. Ii the
flaps be steamed or mostened in any way the
magic printing will appear.
One who claims to know says that old United
States coins, dated from 1898 to 1914, If they
are in good condition, are worth from five cents
to forty cents; if they are sharp, or just as
they came from the mint, then they are worth
81 each. United States silver dollars dated
1894, 1904, 1885, 1888, 1889, 1851, 1852, 1854,
1858, if in good condition, are worth 50; II they
are sharp they are worth more.
A man could stand the flies and never iose
his temper, if they would only be contented to
be buried where they fall, but when fly as big
as a grain Of coffee falls on its back on slab
of butter turns over and crawls out, and goes
limping across the plate, struggling and Tadlng
through everything it can find, and finally ere
mates itself in bath of hot coffee, good gra-
! cious, but it does make person mad.
The Jonannisbrod, black bread used 80
largely by the Russian army for food, is made
with quantity of some kind OF grease, which
forms q substitute for butter. It can be eaten
dry but the Russian soldier prefers, when he
can get it, to break the bread into small pieces
These he puts into bowl and pours hot water
over them. The grease then develops into
gravy, and the whole forms simple kind OF
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