The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1877-10-10
Items Of Interest.

The heart is a crystal palace-i once
broken, it can never be mended.
A tumor weighing one hun red and
two pounds was recently successfully re-
moved from Mrs. Tenbash, of High
land, Mich.
The forests of North Carolina produce
twenty-one species Of oak, eight of pine,
nine Of spruce, seven Of magnolia, eight
of hickory and five of each of elm and
birch.
An agricultural society offered a pre-
MUM for the best mode of irrigation,
which was printed irritation by mistake.
An honest farmer sent his wife to Claim
the prize.
The thirsty skeeter folds his languid wings.
Draws in his auger, and no longer sings;
No more artesian wells he tries to sink,
Or comes up to the bar to get g drink;
In sleep he waits another seasons sup;
He's comatose; his pump is frizzed up.
A citizen of Somerset county, Ky.,
has an apple tree that bears different
kinds of apples on the same branches,
and now and then an apple one-haf OF
which is sweet and the other half sour.
Mr.. Daniel Ward, of Stickleyville,
Va, has just died at the age Of ITO. He
was wealthy farmer, and he himself
superintended his business during q part
of every day up to the time Of his death.
The number of pieces required to
finish a camel's hair shawl is from five
hundred to four thousand. Often twenty
men have worked daily for twenty years
in order to finish a frst-class camers
hair shawl, the highest average OF wages
being four cents per day to the most
skillful worker.
A wedding occurred recently in Arr
zona. the surroundings of which are thus
pleasantly described bya correspondent:
1.-THE bride in white, the happy groom,
the solemn minister, the smiling parents,
and from twenty-five to thirty shotguns
standing against the wall ready for use,
made up panorama not soon to be Tor
cotton. No Indians admitted. No
cards."
A countryman passing over the Pon4
Neuf at Paris, and seeing, among heap
of shops full of merchandise, that OF a
banker in which there was nothing but
a man sitting at table with pen and
ink, had the curiosity to go in and inquire
what it was he sold. "Asses' heads"
replied the banker. .They must be in
great request" said the country, since
you have only your own left"
A very sensible man is fond OF good
horse, the following quotation from an
old English publication on "Whlte-
stockineed Horses" will be read with IN
terest:
If YOU have horse with four white legs,
Keep him not day., ,..,
II you have q horse with three white legs,
If YOU have horse with two white legs,
And I If - YOU have horse with ore white leg,
Keep him to his end.
The Pittsburgh (Pa.) Post says that
under the adjusting plan OF ascertalning
losses by the riots, similar to that OF IN"
surance companies, it is believed the
final awards will not vary much from
these figures: Railroad company,
81. 500. 900; freight destroyed, 81, ,OOO, ,OOO;
elevator, $150,OOO; Keystone Hotel
Company, 100000; Pullman Car Com
pany, $4,000; private individuals,
$1OO, 900; total, 2,s3O,OOO.
The Auburn IN. W NeDs prints the
story of the marriage of an Auburn girl
some years ago to circus man while the
company was wintering there. When
summer came the fellow went OF with
the show, and his wife heard nothing
from him until he recently sent for her
to come to him in Western town, where
he was dying. She went, attended to
him in his last moments, and received
his ank-book, in which he was credited
with 335. 600.