The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1877-09-12
Items Of Interest,

Best thing out-a conaagration.
What city does kiss resemble? Nice.
An old fashioned watering place: A
pump. .... ..a ....-. ~..s.
Why is kiss like sewing machine
Because it seams 80 good. .l,
Minnesota will produce a. ,000, 900
bushels of wheat for expectation this
year. -..-.
When can you be said to swallow
glassware When you buy tumbler
and goblet. ..>'.....
A fiddler in Virginia City, New, plays
one of Lola Montez's tunes with bow
made out of her own hair.
Little things should not be despised.
The little toe is the smallest on the foot,
but it always has the largest corn.
W ,ile the Windsor (V.) Savings Bank
officers were gazing at the Presidential
party, some sly thief climbed in through
q back window and stole $4,000. l....
Since June 1, 1876, $4,000, 900 pounds
OF dried apples have been exported from
this country-nearly twenty times as
many pounds as the year before.
James Gam, prisoner in the Ten
nessee penitentiary, received twenty-five
lashes, in the presence Of the assembled
convicts, for coming counterfeit money
in his cell. -. -''. -t
A certain young gentleman went on
recent steamboat excursion. On his re-
turn he was asked if there was any
swell on the ocean. he replied, with
becoming dignity eyes, when 1 got
there there was. .... ....g..s...
The Kings of Holland, Belgium,
Sweden, Spain and Portugal have each
engaged residences in Paris for the
Exposition in 1873. The Comte d'Eu,
who married the daughter of the
Emperor of Brazil, and many others
connected with royal families have done
the same. .-..
There are seventy establishmentsin
the United States devoted to the pro-
duction of window glass. Of the several
States New Jersey has the largest NUM-
bel, twenty-seven. The capital investe u
there is about Sc, ,000, 900, and the annua 1
production between 2, 600, 900 and 8, ,00O,-
900 boxes of the various sizes and quail
ties of glass. At the present time it is
believed that fully three-fourths OF the
factories are closed. -. ..... -,
What picnic would be without hor-
nets is matter of conjecture, as there
never has been way to find out. A
hornet is not denominational. 1t goes
to all picnics. And it is a desirable
adjunct. It tends to modify greediness,
beside adding largely to the general en-
thusiasm. Five hornets at o small table
will do more to level social distinctions
and to promote social intercourse than
an awful disaster in village.
She was q maiden lady, and sweetly
told the bachelor editor that she had
been regular subscriber to his paper
for over o score of years. "Indeed,
how old might you be at present ?" asked
he. with tender solicitation. And it was
not without considerableness OF coy
shyness that she acknowledged she was
"not more than twenty-two." "One OF
my earliest patrons" murmured the
editor, as he moved on, "but so young
when she began to subscribe" > .
From time immemorial, it has been
the custom in the southwest of England
for farmers to throw back a shilling
twenty-five cents) on every ten sacks OF
wheat and every ten quarters of barley
they sell. The custom is supposed to
have its origin in the fact that formerly
the dealers met the farmers OF their inns,
when the market was over, and paid
them, when the farmer threw back the
shilling for drink. If the custom were
abolished, it is said thai it would cost
the largest brewing firm i'll England
s75, 900 year.
A Detroiter hung mp his watch the
other day until he should find time to
take it to a jewelers. to be cleaned. His
son, boy of ten, took it down and wore
it to school, but didn't bring it home
with him. he met boy at school who
had stout goat which he desired to
trade for tim.piece, and an e1-
change was effected. When the father
came home he missed his watch, and
asked: Who's seen my watch 2.
Father, was it not an oldwatch p asked
the boy. cit was." "And would it
goP" "It would not" "Then, father,
did I not do the correct thing to trade
mn old watch that wouldn't 60 for q fat
goat which will go d? Come out and see
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