The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1877-07-04
Items OF Interest.

The British National Penny Bank announces
$4,000, 900 Of deposits.
What kind of robbery is not dangerous?
A safe robbery, of course.
A cross dog will make the top Of hemlock
board fence feel soft as downy pillows are.
The printingsof one and two dollar notes by
the United States government has ceased.
The English Quakers have become reduced
to about II 900 persons, from 60,000a century
ago.
The days on top Of Mount Washington are
about forty minutes longer than on the sea
level. =.
A California boy, fed exclusively upon
grapes, gained forty-three pounds in twenty
seven days.
So long as the mud remains a foot deep in
Roumania, there's no danger OF any Cossacks
biting the dust.
Between Kherson and Schwerin, there's
vast amount Of profanity going on all over
Europe just at present.
Three hundred and ninety-fve American loco
motives, representing IS, 400 ,64O, have been e1-
ported in seven years.
The cars action in kicking all the news
paper correspondents out of camp would seem
to indicate an unwonted activity in Russia
leather.
Muley Hassan, emperor of Morocco, is be.
hind hand in sending troops to Turkey. The
| Muley family in this country is more noted Tor
its behind foot.
with Turkey" And Hungry tramp sympa-
thizes with the same kind Of bird-but the
cable doesn't say so.
While Mr.. Adam Miller Was plowing his farm
in Kinderhook, he brought to the surface
large turtle which was alive, and had marked
on its shell: "May 80, 1871, d. A. D."
A Philadelphia Judge decides that q railroad
company is not responsible for baggage further
than to check it, pound it to pieces, and pre-
serve an ordinary watch over the trunk handles.
4 thieving man who was taken from his house
by his neighbors and tarred and feathered, re.
marked on again reaching home, that he didn't
like those target parties fere he got all the
| tar.
Thirty years ago sheboygan school teacher
struck boy on the head with ruler. One
day recently the boy, now man OF forty, mot
that teacher and pounded him. The wheel OF
time never stops.
They tell US of a Kentucky schoolmaster who
had his wife for pupil, and foundit necessary
to chastise her one day Next day notice ap-
peared on the door, saying "School closed 1or
| one week schoolmaster is ill.,
To-day Berlin is covered with the wrecks OF
! speculative credulity. SlGny OF the mllhonanes
! OF few years ago are in state yerging on ab-
solute poverty. Over production and over
! speculation have caused the crisis
Glass bottles were first made in England
about 1868. The art of making bottles and
drinking glasses was known to the Romans
eighteen hundred years ago, as they have beer
found among the ruins Of Pompeii.
Irascible old party" Conductor, why didn't
you wake me up as asked youT Conductor
= ri did try, but all I could get out OF you
was: AL right, Maria; get the children their
breakfast, and III be down in minute"
! Summer time here, and once more the poeti-
cal Young man wanders by the river side ana
tries to get into row-boat by reaching Tor
| it with his hands, and having it gently glide
off from the shore with all Of him but his
| feet.
The little town of Salem, N. G., with two
thousand inhabitants, has gathered and sent to
market during the past three years more tnan
three million pounds Of blackberries, for which
the gathercrs received nearly half million
| dollars.
A Russian printer charges $5 to print 100
visiting cards. This is about ten times asmuch
as the American printers charge for a similar
Job. But then it takes the. former ten times IS
| long to set up Russian name, and although
the card is two feet long he is sometimes obliged
to run few syllables Of the jaW-breaker on
| the other side.