The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1877-05-16
Items Of Interest.


looks hard up.
Flogging is still permitted in the
British navy, but in 1876 there were
only fourteen instances.
A New Haven base ball club has
member named Coffee. He furnishes
the grounds for the club to play on.
At the Southern ice factories beautiful
wreaths of flowers are artistically frozen
into the center of blocks of ice of any
desired size.
When lovers find themselves too con-
spicuous, how naturally they drift into a
bav window; it is such a nice lace to
put in smacks.
Credulous people are digging in Ten
nessee for gold L fortune teller has told
them lies there. It will probably be
found the fortune teller lies there.
A remarkable phenomenon is reported
from Naples, Italy. It is that for three
whole days in one week there were no
births out of population OF 100000
souls.
General Sherman proposes, in case OF
foreign war, to allow some of our ablest
Young officers 70 60 abroad and serve as
volunteers on the stats Of the command
ing generals.
A Wisconsin man has parted from his
wife because she wouldn't hold still and
let him shoot an apple off her head.
Wives should do everything to make it
pleasant for the family.
The salary OF TIE German ambassador
in England has been raised by his govern
ment from 120, 600 marks per annum to
10000 marks, or, in round numbers,
S42, 900, gold, of our money.
The Young Mems Christian Union of
Boston has consented to assume all the
duties and expense of sending poor
children into the country for weeks
vacation during the heated term.
"Take notice that when this post is
out of sight, it is not safe to pass this
road" was the intelligent warning placed
on q spot in a road in Cambridgeshire,
England, very liable to be flooded.
So infectious was the marriage cere-
mony of a couple in Keokuk, that the
bridesmaid and groomsman promptly
made the preliminary agreement and
were united in wedlock the same
evening.
DR.. Inglis, missionary in Polynesia,
says of the natives: It is far easier
to get them TO pray, sing hymns,
hear sermons, and read the Scriptures
than to be truthful, honest and un-
selfish"
A man at Stuttgart, Germany, named
Gottleib Greiner, who had hitherto
borne good character, after strangling
his wife and four children, attempted to
hang himself, but failed through the
breaking of the rope.
A bucket Of white paint will work
marvellous improvements about a mans
premises; but perhaps the most pic
turesque effect possible to produce with
it, is obtained when man leans his
back against fresh painted fence.
A Halifax fisherman asserts that, hav-
ing caught a young halibut six months
ago, he cut his initials upon it and let
it 60. and that recently he caught the
same fish, now much larger grown, and
with the letters plainly visible.
. 1t is almost impossible to view the rear
elevation of the stylish young mans
shirt collar without thinking of the busi-
ness revival that would take place if our
merchants could utilize this white ex-
panse for advertising purposes.
"Some confounded idiot has put that
pen where:I can't find it p growled a
man thebther day, as he searched about
the desk. "Ah, Inn, yes I thought
sop he exclaimed, in q. lower key, rs he
took the article from behind his ear.
An Omaha man is doubly in trouble.
He deserted his wife to elope with girl,
and the wife is chasing him. Then he
! deserted the girl, and she is chasing him.
The chasers have joined in the pursuit,
and he fears the worst if they catch him.
A burglar escaping from a store in
Ottawa, ILL.,, with his pluuder, was met
by G twelve-year-old boy armed with a
pitchfork. The burglar recoiled. and
the boy stood guard until policeman
came along, when he delivered up his
prisoner.
Willie Sampson, the son of all Albany
lawyer, ran away from home four years
ago, when ten years old, and came to
New York, where he has since been q
bootblack and newsboy. Recently the
boy w&s discovered in the newsboys'
, lodging house, and consented to return
home with one OF his uncles.
! The editor of the Scientific Monthly
expressed himself in the following forci-
BILE manner in answer to somebody who
asked him what he thought of Pleasonton
and the blue glass cure "We think the
man is pestilent ignornmus, and his
book the ghastliest rubbish that has been
printed in hundred years.
The Rochester Democrat INDUCES in
the following Renaissance 81 wish |
were you about two hours" with great
. tenderness. "And why, MY dear?" he
asked, with considerable interest. "Be-
cause, " she said, toying a1fectionately
with his watch chain, "because, then [
would buy my wife new set of furs."
81 will give anybody ten dollars to
get that man out of DOORS" bawled an
auctioneer to his hungry crowd after he
had been bothered for half an hour by
o drunken wretch who was constantly
giving in empty bids. "Hand over your
money" came back from listener as he
slapped the false bidder on the back
and said "Come along with me and
Ill give you half"
A ST. Louis newspaper man rescued
eight servant girls out of a six-story
window at the burning of the Southern
Hotel III that city. And when his hero
ism is rewarded by the respective fathers
of those eight rescued maidens calling
upon him, accompanied by their daugh-
ters, and placing the girls hands in the
palm of their prescrver, with the words:
"Take her, my boy, and be happy YOU
saved her life and she's yours" he will
say it is too mucll-eight too much-and
wish he had perished i'll the flames
himself. e.
! A barber in Atchison, Mo-, loved a
carpenters daughter, and her smile was
as sweet as light from the West. But
her fathers frown was as dark as storm
! from the North. and he kicked his daugh-