The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1877-03-28
Items of Interest.


Inouirins Rcader-Wc know of no
patron saint of the dance, without it is
Saint Vitus.
Why is blind-man's 's-buff like sympa-
thy? Because it's fellow feeling for
fellow creature.
A politician in Washington has be-
come cross-eyed trying to keep his eye
on the main chance.
Is not prayer study of truth, a sally
of the soul into the unfound infinite =?
No man ever prayed heartily without
learning something.
A Kentucky editor remarks that ninety
nine out of hundred people make q
great mistake when they cut off dogs
tail, in throwing away the wrong end.
Governor Newbold, Of Iowa, delivered
the best inau gural address ever listened
to from governor. After taking the
oath of Office he said: "1'n do the best
I can.".
Grandma, why don't you keep a SER
want any longer "Well, you see, my
child, I am getting old now, and can't
take care OF one as used to, you
know"
In the economy of nature nothing ls
lost The inside of On orange may re-
fresh one man, while the outside OF the
same fruit may serve to break another
mans leg.
It is an old practice in Cambridge
shire. ENGLAND, villages to sprinkle with
chaff the doorstep of house belonging
to man suspected of beating his wife,
chaff being the result of thrashing.
"What do you get from iodine? q ask
ed the medical professor. "We get-a-
ah-usually get idiotic acid, yawned the
student. "Have you been taking
e?" quietly asked the professor.
There are in Connecticut, New Jersey
and New York, hat manufactures which,
if run at their full capacity, could easily
make in two months all the soft hats the
country would demand in the next six
months. 49,.
"Why, my dear fellow" whispered
friend, "I did not know you were so
badly maltreated in the affair" "Nor
neither" sobbed the victim, "till [
heard my lawyer a tellin' the jury all
about It'll"
The latest use to which paper is put
is that of protector of ships bottoms.
Experiments show that when cement
of waterproof paper is employed, it is
the best and cheapest material for pro-
tecting iron.
The Japanese toilet mirror allows a
woman to see all sides of her head at
once; but what is needed in this country
is mirror which will deceive her into
thinking that last years bonnet is one
of the latest style.
DR.. Brown-Sequard says that coughing
may be prevented by pressing on the
nerves of the lips in the neighborhood
of the nose, by pressing in the nelghbor-
hood of the. ear, and by pressing very
hard Oh the top Of the mouth.
Brown, meeting Jones, his friend, and
seeing him look very miserable, said:
"Hullo, old man! Why, you've face
have" replied Jones, considering Ivo
Just had an execution in my house."
A New Bedford justice of the peace
recently married couple in what is sup
posed to be the quickest time on record.
"Did you come to be married ?" he ask
ed. eyes" "Go out, you ore mar
ried," and they went out wonderingly.
When you try to carry home q heavy
article, you should take every advantage.
of it. Some men who can carry Jug of
whisky home when it is kept in the Jug,
require the aid of two policemen when
they attempt to carry it homo inside
em.
The Oldest duke in Great Britain is
the Duke Of Portland, aged seventy
seven; the youngest, the Duke of Mont
rose, aged twenty-five. The oldest mar
quis is the Marquis of Donegal, aged
eighty; the youngest, the Marquis OF
Camden, aged five.
David Dudley Field doesn't like to-
bacco. Entering a committee room the
other day he found a reporter smoking.
Young man," said he, "throw away
that cigar; smoke is offensive to me. Ia
Just rs soon man would spit Ill my
face as to smoke where 7 am
"What a horrid young one" said a
lady in low tone to her companion, at
the baby show. Then approaching the
child the same young ]a:ly exclaimed in
the presence of the mother: "Oh, the
sweet darling !-prettiest one we've seen
yet the little precious darling!'
Out West no mans ambition has been
fully satisfied until he has been mistaken
on the train for commercial traveller.
Then the radiance that streams from a
contented soul illumines his grateful,
happy face, and as he looks around it
seems to him that ell the bright world
takes it's sunlight through blue glass.
About six months ago young man in
Rock Island voluntarily escorted an old
lady home from church sociable. Last
week she kindly died and left him
$4,000. And now the old women OF
Rock Island are fairly besieged with
beaux, and the prettiest girl in town has
to walk home alone every time il there is
an old woman in the congregation.
In order to check the patronage of
opium dens by whites of both sexes, the
board of supervisors of San Francisco
have passed a law imposing fine of not
less than $50, nor more than $500, upon
any keeper who permits white person
to smoke in his place, declaring it a
criminal act for white person to be
found in den, and imposing fine of
not less than $50 therefore.
A pleasant instance of true generosity
and its reward, occurred at n suburban
town recently. A woman who supported
two children by hard work was asked by
fellow worker in the mill to aid III maxi
ing up purse for a poor woman.
Though having only sixty cents lett to
carry herself and children through the
week, she gave twenty-five cents, and Il
little later the person returned and told
her that she was the ono for whom the
purse was intended, aud handed her $25.