The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1877-11-21
Items Of Interest.

Getting fat-Buying lard.
How many peas are there in a pint /?
One p. Ge,3 n. s>.sn.
A New York storekeeper sells only
cast-off shoes.
The sun, according to prevailing pro-
verbs, is very stupid, for when it goes
early to bed it gets up late, and when
it goes latest to bed it gets up earliest.
| Thirty-five years ago lady now re-
siding at Hollidaysburg, Pa, had a
gold chain stolen while attending school.
| It was returned by mail few days
since.
Edward Everett, Martin Van Buren,
Harrison Gray Otis, Josiah Quincy, and
Edwards Pierrepont, all descendants Of
the men whose names they bear, ara
students at Harvard.
F George Stephenson, the great engineer
is to have his memory honored at Ches-
terfeld, England, by the erection of a
great hall, which will cost $4,000. It
is to be used for purposes of higher edu-
cation. .-'g
The failing of vanity extends. through
out all classes !; the poor have but little
time to bestow on their persons, and YET,
in the selection of their clothes we End
they prefer such as are Of fari1g and
gaudy color.
The enduring odor of musk is mar7Hl-
ods. When Justinian, in 5S8, rebuilt
what is now the mosque OF st. Sophia,
the mortar was charged with musk, md
to this; day the atmosphere of the build
ing is filed with the odor.
A boy undertook to tortureaa BsEp
by touching q lighted match to it b0dy
The wasp applied its warm side to- the
boys hand, and as it few away it gave
the boy these words of wisdom, Neser
try to beat man at his own game.
One Harvard student is paying his
way through college by turning his
room into stationery and book store,
and another, graduate from Wesld9an
University, is meeting his expenses at
the law school by working in barOer's
shop.
Te be forgotten as soon as dead is the
melancholy lot of man everywhere, but
it is only in the more popuious places OF
the world that this forgetfulness antici-
pates the two-fold oblivion Of the grave,
and that men are considered dead be-
cause they cease to be remembered.
He who will do his work Alright will
find that his first lesson is to know him
self, and what is proper for him and he
who rightly understands himself will
never mistake another mans work for
his own, but will love and improve him.
self above all other things, will refuse
superhuous employments, and reject
all Improbable thoughts and PROPOSE
tions.
If we subtract from the twenty-four
hours the time spent in eating, sleeping
exercise, and the other indispensable
cares OF our existence, what fraction of
time is employed on our intellectual
faculties Again, there are few who
have the means to enable them to study;
fewer the talent requisite and still
fcwer the inclination, if they have tie
ability .
The maps show that in Bulgaria some.
thing like half the village names ter
inmate in koi. This is simply the Turk
ish word for "village, F" answering very
nearly to the English tom. Thus we
find several times the "new village"
Yenikoi, which corresponds to the Eng.
lish Newton while the " Priests village"
Papaskoi, corresponds to Preston, and
Sultankoi to Kingston. Next, perhaps,
in frequency, come the Turkish pref1es
.Ye7H meaning "new," and Esa
cold" Thus we find close together,
Yeni Zagra and Esh Zagra. Yeni Bazaar
is exactly equivalent to Newmarket and
Yeni Hissar to Newcastle. ~