The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1877-01-24
Items Of Interest.


Bull. Cow and Calf are the names Of
three Kentucky streams that empty into
the Sandy river.
81 never did like mutton with capers, !"
Brown said, as he brushed his clothes
after all attack from ram.
A Colorado woman has collected fifty
bushels of erasshoppers, and scalded and
dried them for winter chicken feed.
The business of theaters throug ghout
the country, says the Dramatic Nesos,
is unfavorably affected by the Brooklyn
fire.
The newest article made of iron Is a
"cast iron grandmother" not term OF
reproach. but q machine for darnine
hose. .....
Hing Lee. the richest Chinaman in
Montana, was recently murdered at Ser,
man Gulch. His murderers got about
$4,000.
A New Jersey woman is so cleanly
that she uses two rolling pins, one Tor
the pie crust and the other for her hus-
bands head.
The modern cook stove is approaching
q degree of perfection which will re-
quire competent engineer with stated
salary to run it. .-.
A harassed husband thinks if the
dressmaker would trim his wlfe's dresses
less and the butcher would trim his
meat more, he could meet his obligations
better. .....1
Walt Whitman dislikes the idea of
cremation because when life has gone
out of the body he "rather respects the
old shell for all it has been, as well as for
all it has contained" -.
Temperance has been marked tea,
ture of the Moody and Sankey revival
in Chicago. Many drunkards protessed,
on being converted, to lose all trace OF
appetite for stimulants. 80:
After fooling around for whole week
to open big safe, Dubuque merchant
discovered that it hadn't been locked any
Of the time. and he called his head clerk
a fool and discharged him. T.,
A placard in the window of a patent
medicine vender in Paris reads as fol-
lows: "The public are requested not ~:
mistake this shop for that OF anotheH
quack just opposite"
! A farmer of Mount Bethel township
cut open an old hornets nest just to ex-
anime its interior arrangement. he says
he thinks he will be able to see his barn
again in about two weeks.
The winter of 1872, in Missouri, was
nerhans the coolest ever known in that
eection: in fact it was so cold that o pa
per out there says "Horses, cattle and
turkeys roosting in trees were frozen to
DEATH" ...: s...., ,-se
A traveller. on entering an inn in the
! north of Scotland, asked for soup. On
being served with it, he remarked to the
hostess that it wasn't very good. "Deed
SIR" quoth she, it's no very strong, but
it's het." ......,....s. sE
: A lady who had married Ean invetsrate
smoker was asked if she had no prejudice
against tobacco, to which she replied that
she had undergone the smoking process
so long that her prejudice had been pei:
fectly " cured" .-.s ~,
. A member of Congress in a debate
shouted: "LAnaic,ts Plato, An1icus Socra-
tes. scd major reritas." The reporter
next morning made his speech read
may cnss Pluto, I may cuss Socrates, SAID
Major Veritas. t..
George Eliot says that the peculiar
waving of the feelers of the common
cockroach are not indicative OF der1son
or contempt, but are the expressions OF
an earnest soul yainly striving to grasp
q vanishing ideal. -..-.4
Young man, don't attempt to carve a
turkey when your girl is watching you at
the table, for you can't do it. We tried
it once, and whisked drumstick on her
silk waist, and have been paying damages
for the last fifteen years.
A lunatic, whose mental disorder is not
suspected by strangers, recently travelled
through Kentucky, and bargained to buy
hundreds of farms at ridiculously high
prices. The elation Of the farmers was
speedily followed by disappointment.
There are S12 paper mills, running
9S9 machines. in the United States,
manufacturing $50, 900, 900 pounds OF pa
per annually. In the United Kingdom
274 mills are running 420 machines, turn,
ing out the same quantity as America. :.
The editor of q Philadelphia paper
went to q convention and left q new silk
hat. worth seven dollars, hanging on the
rack in the cloak-room, and when he came
ont to 90 home he found it had gone,
anu an old, greasy. ragged, sunburned
old rag of a hat, with chalk scrawi on
the brim: "Please Ex left in Its
place" -s..
ALondon paper publishes the folloy--
ing advertisement wanted, py
widow lady, person who is experienced
in the art of whipping, and we'll quail
fed to administer a severe fogging with
q new birch rod to two young children
of the ages of nine and ten; wages, t3o
per annuna. The children are very will
full and troublesome.
A new device to prevent coal miners
strikes and lockouts has been adopted by
the miners association and the coal own
ers in Durham, England. They have
Jointly appointed a'barrister with a salary
of three hundred pounds to sit as an lnde-
pendent person to hear evidence upon
any dispute that may occur between en-
ployers and employed.
A convict in the Philadelphia house OF
correction was kept nineteen days in a
dark cell and fed on bread and water. At
the end of that time he was discovered
nv common council committee that
made an unexpected visit to the prison.
The prisoner, when taken out, was un,
able to speak aloud, and the bad air had
seriously affected him.
The Arrival of Immigrants.