The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1877-11-14
Items of Interest.

Items of Interest.
A woman in Ohio recently married he,
eighth husband.
Kansas is almost exactly in the center
Of the United States. ..
A householder advertises rooms to let
to gentlemen furnished with gas.
The Forty-ffth Congress contains one
hundred and seventy-five lawyers.
"That's only wedding trip" said the
groom, as he stumbled over the brides
trail.
About thirty.three millions of dollars
of fractional silver have gone into circu-
lation. t
About the most uncomfortable seat q
man can have, in the long run, is self
conceit.
At San Antonio, Texas, the citizens
have requested the mayor to allow bull
fighting. ~
Mr.. Delaine has retired from the edi-
torship of the London Times, after
holding the position thirty-seven years. !
A woman in Polo Pinto, Texas, gave
birth to child on Thursday, and on tue
following Saturday gave birth to two
more. ... .,-.a.- s
In many parts OF Australia the gradual
disappearance of the natives and their
dogs has led to an immense increase In
the herds of kangaroos.
When man and woman are made one,
the question is: (Which one" Some
times there is long struggle between
them before the matter is settled.
A grave old man told his son that # he
did not grow less dissipated he would
shorten his days. "Then, dad," said
the boy, "I shall lengthen my nights"
She saw the placard in front OF the
bookstore, "You can get 'That Hus-
band of Mine, for half q dollar" and as
she passed on she muttered, 81 have
one + will sell for half that much.
It is estimated that over 150, 900 per.
sons in this country are engaged In the
keeping Of bees. This includes farmers
and others who make the production OF
honey portion of their occupation.
Little Robbie wen to show for the
first time in his life. When he came
home his mother asked him what he had
seen. "An.elephant, mamma, that COB
bled hay with bis front tail"
"I will not learn trade !" exclaimed
the young Chicago blood to his father.
But this business of learning trade is
only matter of time, for within year
that young man was studying harness
making in State prison.
San Francisco has the. first and the
only endless wire-rope street railways.
The cars stop and start easily, and run
more rapidly than horse-cars. In east
ern cities the frost and snow OF winter
would render them useless, but in San
Francisco they promise to entirely su-
persede horse cars.
She sat upon, the parlor lounge,
And William, he sat by her,
And neither spoke single word,
But both gazed in the fire,
At last he clasped her dimpled hand,
And told her Of his love,
-, And swore he would be true to her,
By moon and stars above.
He said he could not live without
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Her dad came in, and with club
Enticed him out the door.
Thirty one miles from Colorado
Springs, starting out by the grand Uta
pass road, is to be found one Of the
Greatest curiosities of the continent-a
grove of mammoth trees in stone, the re-
mains of some extinct forest Of primeyal
times. These trees lie just on the edge
of the South park, and are accessible by
good roads. The group first discovered
and best known is natural grove OF i'm.
mense trees, from fifteen to seventeen
feet in diameter and forty to fifty fJet IN
circumference. . .A "
A California paper describes the
latest thing out" as new horseshoe
made out of three thicknesses OF raw
hide, compressed together by heavy
pressure. It is said to. last longer,
weighs only one.fourth as much as the
common shoes, never splits the hoof,
and bib no bad influence on the foot.
It is 30 elastic that the horses step is
never uncertain. This will remind the
farmers who drove cattle and horses .
across the plains in early days of the
fact, now almost forgotten, that this is
no new invention, for the cattle, and
horses, too, were often shod with shoes
made out Of buffalo hide, cut from the
neck, where the skin is almost an inch
thick.