The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1877-04-18
Items of Interest.

Alexander S1nth.
Items of Interest.
Near-sightedness increases up to the
age of thirty.
Postage stamps are manufactured at
On average cost Of one cent hundred.
In the year 1876 the seeds received in
Chicago, principally clover and timothy,
were valued at more than 81, 00a, 900.
The New York Medical Journal
claims that bruises do much better when
treated with hot than with cold water.
Corn in Georgia is said to be as high
as mans head. Corn is apt to rise to
mans head, especially in fluid state.
One BARRIERS shop in Springfield,
Mass, contains the notice: "No talk
ing with customer, unless he begins
the conversation.
There are said to be only twenty ex-
Confederates-including Jefferson Davis
and Robert Toombs-whose disabilities
have not been removed.
The pasting Of printed slips on the
back of postal card obiges the recipi-
ent to pay additional postage. This fact
is not generally known.
Abraham Lincoln, in his attack of
small -pox, said: "Now I am willing to
see the office seekers, for at last l have
something I can give 'em all.
It was stranger with red hair who
opened the spring season at Niagara Falls.
After seeing that he had red hair, no one
questioned his right to go over.
The. enormous quantity of 424, 900, 900
pounds of rosin was produced In the
United States for the year 1876; about
100000 casks of spirits of turpentine.
There is a $50, 900 tomb in Greenwood.
A stone mason made it. In the outskirts
of the city q pauper lies under rose
bush.-God made it.-Dan6ury Ne'0s.
The richest copper mine--the Calmut
and Hecla-near Portage Lake, Mich, it
is stated, was discovered by the roofing
of pig in an ancient pit some ten years
ago.
"Women," remarked the contemplative
man, care as deep as the blue waters OF
yon bay" "Aye, sir," rejoined the
contemplative man, "and as full OF
craft"
At the station house III Waterbury,
Ct, they have q Welcome" motto
over the entrance to the cells, thus MAX
ing it pleasant and homeike for the oc-
cupants.
"Can animals communicate ideas!"
askes an exchange. If they cannot there
is vast amount of wasted conversation
O. moonlight nights around fences and
back sheds.
In Chicago about $5,OOO,000 worth OF
leather is produced annually, furnishing
employment to about $500 workmen.
The sale of hides last year, it is thought,
amounted to SS,000,0 900.
A Marlborough young man promised
to take the affirmative side OF discus
sion before the lyceum if he could choose
the question. This was agreed to, and
he decided on: "Will gunpowder ex-
plodel"
Secretary Fish, on salary of So, 600
year, lived in house in Washington
the rent of which was $4,000. His total
expenses were about $4,000 a year,
which his large fortune made it easy Tor
him to sustain.
A New England antiquary found this
entry in a grocers book OF the last CEN
tury: "B. B. B. B. B." He traced up
the cipher with great zeal, until the ex-
planation was reached that Bill Beebe
Borrowed Bushel Basket.
A recent number of the Shanghai Ce-
estial Empire contains the following
interesting item of intelligence: " 1t Is
said that during the absence OF ling
Jih-chang in Formosa, the Fan-tal WILL
act as Fu-t'ai at Foochow.
Some one declares that twenty minutes
in the smoke OF wool or woolen cloth
will take the pain out of the worst case
of inflammation arising from any wound,
and that no one need die from locklaw
this simple remedy is resorted to.
A party who recently lectured Ill Den
yer Appeared to be somewhat dissatisfied
with his reception. "Did you have a
large audience2" asked sympathetic
friend. "No the authorities having
neglected to close the saloons, there was
not much of an attendance.
An imaginative Irishman has I'M.
proved upon Ossian. II returned
said he, TO the halls OF my father by
night, and I found them in rlns. L
cried aloud: MY fathers, where are
they? And echo responded Is that
you Patrick M'Clathery ?"
A village congregation in Vermont was
disturbed the other SUI day during the
momentary stiffness following the open
ing prayer, by voice frcm The adjoining
dwelling exclaiming: M ry, where's
the nails?' Soon the aver came:
"In the coffee pot, you fool"
The settled expression OF determine
ton that mantles the face of man who
is lust starting ont to have tooth pulled
is only equaled by the subdued look
that crecps over his features as he pauses
with his hand on the knob OF the dental
room door, turns quietly around, and tip
toes back through the hallway, out doors
again.
In China it is said to be no uncommon
occurrence for q man to kill himself at
his enemy's door, and to leave him thus
saddled with the moral and legal conse-
ouences of the death. This proceeding
is, it is asserted, the most terrible form
of revenge man Can take, and it is much
lreaded by these who are cons cious Of
raving done anything to provoke it.
Dean Ramsay relates that at q certain
dinner party the hostess observed that
one OF the guests, an Hon. Mrs. Murray,
had no spoon for her soup, and called
the attention OF the servant 10 the fact.
The nlan servant, who was an eccentric
oI,! character, replied to his mistress, i'll
voice which was heard all over the room:
Mum, the lust time Mrs. Murray was
here we lost a spoon!"