The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1877-01-10
Items OF Interest.

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Professor Swing says that hat won
on bet "comes down over the eyes OF
the winners soul" |a'sf
A difident man is in a tight place
when he does not know what to say and
is afraid to sayit. ..s
Shakespeare in horticulture" That
(which we cauliaower by any other name
would smell as sweet"
A Paris fashion writer says that ladies
have boanets of seventy. five different
shapes to choose from this fall.
On December 81, 1875, Italy had a
population OF ~, ,472, 184 souls, against
q population of 26,6O1, 154 or December
81, 1871. '...
The wine crop OF France this year is
unusually large, being 9 third larger
than the vines promised at the outset OF
the season.
There are estimated to be over 900
Young Mems Christian Associations in
North America. The average number
of members is ITO. ..E ..s>h. N
A Russian regiment, experimenting,
swan, with one hand on their horses
names, across river 250 feet broad in
quarter of an hour. .- ~ -
The annual death rate in Lonion now
averages eighteen per 1000 in Edin-
burgh, twelve; in Glasgow, twenty
one in Dublin, nineteen. 4, ,g4g
DIR. Carpenter believes in confning an
habitual drunkard long enough to have
new food, without alcohol produce new,
healthy tissues of the body. ~i'.
Russia has 10000 wolves within it's
boundaries, and they destroyed last
year not only an enormous quantity OF
cattle and poultry, but also two hundred
people. ..,a.ais.l
Persons who have never tried it don't
know how refreshing and invigoratlng 1t
is to lie abed cool, bracing mornings
and let their wives go down and build
the fire. ..','.d
An Austin (Nev.) wife says she knows
OF five husbands in that town who have
teen made drunkards by the excitement
of the late political campaign, her OWL
husband being one of the number.
For writing something bad on the
back of postal card in Philadelphia 9
young man had to scrape together $l00
or 20 to jail, notwithstanding ne told
the Judge that he was sorry for what ne
had DONE. .a. ; ", a.t&-sA
Williams College has graduated thirty
members of Congress, five United
States senators, eight governors, six-
teen judges Of the supreme court, thlr.
ty-two presidents Of colleges, and S94
clergymen. .. .r
European paper makers are importing
the inner bark OF the great baobab tree,
from the fiber OF which good paper ls
made. The bark may be taken from tue
tree once in eight years without injury
to the tree.
A physician wrote prescription, and,
as the patient went out OF the room, said
to him: ct wish you would let me
know if that does you any good, Tor
have myself been very much troubled
with rheumatism lately"
DR.. Oasin having heard the famous
Thomas Fuller repeat some verses on
scolding wife, was SO delighted with
them as TO request copy. "There Is
no necessity for that" said Fuller, Gas
you have got the original"
"See here, Gripps; I understand you
have a superior way of curing hams. I
should like to learn it." "Well, yes; l
know very we'll how to cure them; but
the trouble with me, just now, Is to Ind
out way to procure them" ,..&s-3
When you see young man and
woman leaning over the garden gate IN
the twilight and hear sound Like She
"squash" of o potato bug beneath
farmers heels you instinctively feel that
there has been climax OF two souls.
Tell us, angelic host, ye messengers
of love, shall swindled printers here be-
low have no redress above? The shin
ing angels band replied: .To us Is
knowledge givens delinquents. on the
printers books caRneyer enter heaven"
Jeremy Bentham once said !: 81
should wish that the years which I have
vet to live could be passed each at the
end of one of the centuries following
NV death; should then be witness OF
the influence which my works will e1-
ercise on posterity."
When a blear eyed, bald headed
weather prophet is asked whether it Is
going to be O hard winter, he shuts
one o. eve, looks at the sun with the other,
digs up clump of grass, examines the
roots, and says: Il don't know" be
is generally correct.
Mrs. Scott, a nurse, OF Selkirk, Scot
land, has just been tried for culpable
homicide, inasmuch as she gave baby
twenty-four hours old three drops OF
laudanum, causing death. She got off
with six months imprisonment because
cher Intentions were good"
Two gallons of whisky were con-
sumed by man in Arkansas before he
fully recovered from the bite OF
tarrantula. 1t was then discovered that
he had been stung by q wasp. The men
who contributed the whisky were too
mad to speak above whisper.
Cinnamon with white wives are COM
mon III NEW lOThs Uue A1 onat 4oAo@oSS,
owing to violent hatred of the Chinese.
the first marriage of that, kind greatly
excited the public. The husband is the
wealthy agent Of o Chinese company,
and the wife is teacher in city mis-
sion.
Guy Fawkes day was celebrated
throughout England with unabated
vigor this year. To forestall dangerous
outbreaks in towns where military gar
risons were quartered, the soldiers were
confined to barracks during the after
noon and evening, and the police force
was augmented.
There will be Eve eclipsesin 1877, viz:
a total eclipse of the moon on February
81, visible in the United States par
tial eclipse of the sun on March IA, yis-
ible in Western Asia q partial eclipse
OF the sun on August s,visible in Alaska,
Kamschatka and the North Pacific
ocean a total eclipse of the moon on
August %, partly visible in the Eastern
and Southern States. and partial eclipse
of the sun on SnNtamber 7. visible III