The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1877-09-05
Items of Interest.

Spotted Tail thinks he is about sixty.
he fights like it. a.~ ..'
The stoppage of mail trains had no
effect on female trains. :..
There are forty lawyers and only three
printers in Auburn IN. Y. prison.
A young French soldier was persuaded
lately by his lady love to cut off three of
his fingers that she might keep him at
home. .. ...... ~. ... ,-.5...
Germany raises about $4,000, 900
bushels of wheat each year, while the
product of France is upward of 275,-
100000. r<.. ..,n. -. -. ,.,.
The Roman law fixes majority at
twenty-five; in Russia it is twenty-four;
in England and most other countries it
is twenty-one. 81:
When dog barks at night in Japan
the owner is arrested and sentenced to
work a year for the neighbors that were
disturbed, and the dog is killed.
Owing to the failure of the bridegroom
to provide o wedding RUG for recent
nuptial ceremony in England, they had
to use the handle of door key to per-
feet the ceremony. .,.,
It's the use of tobacco in large guam
titles that is injurious. Take, for, in
stance, Mr.. James Tucker. of Greyson
county, KY, who had whole hogs
head of it fall on him and kill him the
other day. z ...'.. --..-'
Mrs. Hayes, Of Allen county, KY, re-
Gently gave birth to four children, two
boys and two girls, which weighed
twenty-four pounds in the aggregate,
and were oil at last accounts as well as
could be expected.
A man recently had q needle taken
from his body, where it had been for
seventeen years. "Did you ever feel
any Inconvenience from it?" asked a
neighbor. "Only stitch in my side,
now and then," was the answer. =.
In Norway eagles destroy oxen by the
following contriyance: They dive into
the sea, and then roll themselves in the
sand, and afterward, by Tapping their
wings and shaking their feathers into the
eyes of an OK, they blind the animal and
overcome it. 49,. .,... .
The ancients teach us that the Romans
had no titles. Scipio and Caesar were
simply so called. Titles began IN the
court of Constantine. The emperor OF
Germany first took the title of majesty.
Kings, till the fifteenth and sixteenth
centuries, were called highnesses.
A weight of $4,000 pounds attached to
bar of iron one inch square and l, 600
inches in length will draw it out one
inch 45, 900 pounds will stretch it two
inches $4,000 pounds, four inches
SO, 900 pounds, eight inches, and Y, 600
pounds, sixteen inches, when it will
finally break. ............ .,.-
While sergeant of United States
company wss exhibiting q Gatling gun
at the foot of Jackson street, Chicago,
recently, some one inserted cartridge
and turned the crank. An explosion
followed and man was shotthrough
the heart. The crowd was so great that
the person responsible for the deed was
not discovered. The victim was one of
the special policemen lately on duty.
A Chicago young woman alarmed the
house by standing on chair, with her
skirts drawn tight around her feet, and
screaming: " Mother! Mother!! Here's!!!
a great!!ll big!!!!! awful!!!!!l nasty!!l!!!!
mouse!!!ll!!!" She was rescued, and in
half an hour had pounded her little sister
black and blue, eaten large pan OF
cold beans, and gotten all ready to look
sweet when Charley came to take her
out driving. ..-...4,. ........,l
One of r. G. Dun & Co. 3 mercantile
agency men had got as far in his vacation
as o comfortable snooze at one of the
mo,1ntain-houses, when he was rudely
aroused by the clang of bell in the
hands of muscular African. Jumping
to the floor, "drunk with Sleep" he
shouted: "What's the matter ?" "Day
is breaking, sab, said the wielder of the
sleep.disturber. "The deuce he is?"
growled the haf-aroused man, with the
instincts of his profession still strong
upon him. "What are his assets and
Liabilities 9''-Bostors Commercial Bul-
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