The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1877-04-25
Items OF Interest.

Some people can't endure a ringing
sensation in the ear, while most ladies
take ver7 naturally to ear rings.
TheABuenos Ayres Herald says: Young
men N.th small salaries can find comfort
able board and lodgings at 178 Corri-
entes street at $3.50 per month.
In the year 175S Lord Give, then gov
ernor-general of India, proposed to con-
auer China if Parliament would supply
him with force of $4,000 men. But it
wouldn't.
The Virginia Legislature is discussing
the proposition to tax liquor saloons at
the rate of one cent on every drink sold.
Perhaps the bartenders will be required
to use bell punches. r,s 81
The Senate of Connecticut has passed
bill giving married women the same
property rights which they held before
marriage, but prohibiting husband and
wife from conveying property to each
other. .... s..5..'
All the male members of the Swedish
colony at Houlton, Me-, were recently
naturalized. There are now about six
hundred Swedes in the colony, which is
reported to be in very prosperous con-
dition.
Rumor says that Miss Elizabeth Err
rety, of Minnesota, has fallen heir to o
million-dollar estate in Europe. Young
men, however, should await confrma-
ton of the news before they make ga
bold stroke for Lib-Errety."
"All the worlds STAGE" he rumi-
mated, "and all the men and women are
merely players, and most of the plays
are from Shakespeare, too Before. we
were married, Julia and I played
Romeo and Juliet and now its mostly
Tempest. .'. '.' "a
When q man in Nevada receives
notice, signed 1901. telling him that he
must quit that section, he understands
that if he disobeys he will be punished
by vigilance men. Seven thieying
gamblers have just needed such COM
mand in Reno.
Lady Ito servant, who has given notice
three days after her arrival D-But if you
didn't mean to stay why did you take
the place9 Servant-Well, m, when I
see you at the registry Office you looked
SO tired and tagged took your situation
out of charity like.
A Spaniard and an American were re-
Gently dining together In New Orleans.
The former in passing q dish of brains
to the latter said: "What you lack !"
The American offering the Spaniard q
plate of tongue answered: "What you
have surplus of.
By the new liquor law recently passed
by the Maine Legislature, hotels are not
allowed to publish wine lists on their
bills of fare. In consequence of this act,
the bills of fare of Portland hotels have
gone into mourning, being heavily bor-
dered with black.
Scene in an Iowa court - Judge:
"That point has been decided against
you by every court in Christendom, sir,
and there is no use of further argu-
ment." Lawyer : Very true, but your
honor frequently decides against every
court in Christendom."
The Norristown Herald says: The
men who have honesty enough to resist
the temptation of removing an uncan-
celed postage stamp from q secondhand
envelope, and using it the second time,
are the kind of statesmen we want at the
head of our government. -.
A milk dealer in Chicago has retired
with handsome fortune. When boy
asks him how to get on in the world, he
says: "Don't be discouraged; you
can't get rich all to wunst. Look at me !
All the capital I had to begin with was
milk can and a water pail"
A Rondout chap, having heard Of the
wonderful effects of blue glass, has had
inserted in his room two panes of violet
hue, beneath which he has placed q di-
lapidated wallet containing 81 note,
and now he is watching to learn whether
it will bloom forth as new Russia leath-
er one containing $1,000 greenback or
ten 500 notes.
An individual who sold CLAIMS on the
Lords day defended himself with the
plea that he cleared the CLANS would not
keep till Monday, and it would be better
to pay the costs of court and enjoy free
conscience than to palm off dead CLAIMS
on an unsuspecting people, and suffer
the pangs of remorse
George Macdonald, the novelist, has
family of eleven children. Girls and
boys have succeeded each other IN al
ternate order, and the usual regularity
in the Macdonald family has been util-
lied by giving to each girl the sole charge
of the brother next in age, and expecting
her to exercise over him maternal care.
Count q. de q. married an opera star
of remarkable beauty. His friends con-
graduated him, but a gr1lff old cousin,
who was the husband of an ugly old cat,
observed that he should scarcely care to
have wife whom a couple of thousand
men had right to lorgnette to every eve
ming. "Well, don't know" said the
count, "I think it's preferable to having
O. wife whom couple of thousand men
wouldn't look at if they could"
"The baby has got new tooth, but
the old lady is laid up with cold In the
head, remarked gentleman to de, I,,
was the reply. "Well," said the gentle
man, slowly, "before the election you
used to take me aside and ask me how
my family was coming on, and I've been
hunting you all over town to tell you,
and that's the way you talk to me. But
it don't make any difference. I voted
for the other candidate, anyhow.
An old pioneer, who believed that
"what was to be would be, lived IN
region infested with Indians. He always
took his gun with him, and once, finding
that some one of his family had borrowed
it. he would not 60 without 1t. HIS
friends rallied him, saying that there was
no danger of the Indians, as, anyhow, ne
would not die before his time came, =
"Yes," said old Misunderstanding, |n?S n;s
suppose 7 was to meet an 1ndian, NJ hava
time was come, it wouldn't do> ""''
my gun"