The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1877-02-14

The best portrait Of happiness is
laughing child.
California shipped 100000 pounds
of wool last year.
Many man blows the bellows Of the
organ that sounds his praise.
A young lady may dine i'll an ivory
cashmere, trimmed with pink silk.
GA" is easy enough, but the last
letter of the alphabet lizard. Do you
2 it?
Over seventy members Of the Vermont
LEGISLATURE attend prayer meeting
every morning.
Remember that one square meal is
better than all the ID" Heaven pity the
poor" poems ever written.
The Lowell Courier says when man
is elected mayor he naturally thinks he
is getting Hon. in the world.
1t is estimated that not less than 10,-
100000 trees have been set out in
Minnesota during the past year.
The Los Angeles Herald says that
southern California needs farmers and
money, and not helpless clerks.
An exchange says that "money is 80
tight that we actually believe it must
wear corsets." Of corset does.
Sweet are the uses of adversely. A
cross eyed schoolmarm can keep twice the
usual number of children in order ct
once.
A fashion paper says that damasses
will be popular with the ladies this wln-
ter, and society men have taken fresh
hold of life.
"A mother remarked: eyes, I want
my daughter to study rhetoric, for she
can't fry pancakes now without smok-
ing all the house up.
A philosopher who went to church
where the people came in late said 1t
was "the fashion there for nobody to
go till everybody got there"
A Nashville man answered Chicago
advertisement, "How to win at poker"
and received for his two dollars the fol-
lowing: "Hold four aces or don't
poke.
The Bashi-Bazouks have been de-
scribed as /" irregular Tartar troops who
are quartered on the inhabitants in time
of peace, and quarter them In time OF
disturbance.
The State of Maine pays IS bounty
for every bear killed within its limits.
Last year was apparently good, or rather
bad year for bears, for 54a5$ere killed,
costing the State 50, 745.
A postal clerk in Dubuque opened
letter lust to see if certain girl was
very sweet on a certain fellow. She
was, and the government Is also very
sweet on the postal clerk.
They do business with dispatch In
Texas. A man in q certain neighbor-
hood who had lost a valuable mare, re-
ceived the following by telegraph: Mare
here. Come get her. Thief hung"
The time is at hand when fellow
buys for his chum's sister highly orna-
mental valentine, the great center OF at
traction of which is picture OF the
tabled boy who has decidedly more
wings than overcOat.
How st. Louis bankrupt got rid OF
$4,000 in three weeks was explained to
the satisfaction of the creditors by wit
ness. who explained that he was
"genial" fellow, that he played poker
and bought lottery tickets.
Norristown Herald Love makes
1913 pounds of girl feel no heavier than
q feather on O fellows knee. Fulton
Times And the same fellow would
have his leg cramped all out OF shape by
seventy-fve pounds OF wife.
"Is thata friend Of yours? ?" asked a
New York gentleman, pointing to "
party who was sailing rapidly down the
street. Cant tell you till next Satur-
day." returned the individual addressed.
give Just lent him five dollars"
The principal of Des MONIES (la.)
school raised false alarm OF ire
as an experiment, just to see how quick
" the pupils could get out of the build
ing. The panic was q striking success,
and several children were slightly hurt.
In the following there is good deal
of truth There are plenty of good but
weak women in every community who'll
work, and starve, and scrimp, in order to
furnish their parlors, and then won't sit
in 'em for fear of injuring the furniture.
The correspondent Of Western news
paper says that Claude Burroughs, on
being sent from the Union Square Thea
ter to act in the Brooklyn Theater wrote
a note to the young woman to whom ne
was engaged, saying that he wished the
BROOKLYN establishment would burn
down.
This is dreadful winter for the poor
icemen. Every time, says the Burning
ton Hawkeye, they have raised the
piteous wall that there will be an
other ice famine next season, the ther-
mometer goes down to bed rock, and the
Mississippi freezes from top to bott'm
and half way back.
Mr.. Holly, the engineer, will attempt
to heat the entire city OF Lockport, N.
Y, by steam. The city is divided into
districts, and each district is to have It's
separate boiler. Mains from each boiler
are run to the different houses, and all
the occupant has to do is to turn faucet
and obtain all the heat he wants.
The newsboys of Washington are uni
formed. This is departure from the
ancient and accepted uniform OF the
newsboys, which usually consists OF
mans coat, one suspender and a cigar
stump. Sometimes, under stress OF very
irving and destitute circumstances, the
suspender and coat may be omitted.
Three millions in twenty-dollar gold
pieces arrived in New York from San
Francisco. The weight of the gold was
six tons, it filled fourteen iron safes, and
it took seventeen men to guard it Oh the
way. Suppose vanderbilt's sixty mil
lions were in gold, weighing one hun
dred and twenty tons, what q trouble,
como thing Il wOnld be to have abont