The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1877-03-14
Items of Interest.


The great senses-taker-rum.
Don't get "short if you want to get
long
Jones always remains silent to ap-
peals of charity, and then fatters him
self that he is Observation-Disclosures gives
accent. .'. -. ....'
The New Orleans Republican re-
marks that " the soul of Sergeant Bates
is marching on, but his body is saving
wood in Illinois. =" "--e.--'----~-"--''|-'-'
A Detroit restaurateur hangs ont
sign of "free chops, and when the old
loafers come around he shows them an
AZ and q woodpile.
Work is progressing rapidly on the
building for the Paris Exposition Of
1873, and April of that . EAR is an
nounced as opening day. ..; =.
There we're 10, ,626 births in Boston
last year, 1891 marriages, and $500
deaths; decrease of 394 births, 597
marriages, and 75S deaths over 1875.
Rhode Island passed a law legalzing
the marriage of blacks and whites; then
they repealed the law, and finally they
reconsidered the repeal and re-enacted
the law. o.., ....-'- n- ...... :.
A Detroit tramp gets his beer for
nothing by touching the bartender's
heart with the remark: "Why, I thought
for an instant that Daniel Webster Mad
returned to life. '.'' ..''...' > .''.'.
Actor (in popular melodrama): I
must steal away !; should I be discovered
I am lost. A voice (from the gallery:
On the contrary, if you are discovered,
you are found. Curtain D.. ..,r..
Remember whom you are talking to,
sir" said an indignant parent to re-
fractory boy; al am your father"
"Well, who's tc blame for that ?" said
the young impertinence; tain't me-"
Little girls disturbed an old man in
San Francisco by playing on balcony
close to his room, which was IN fourth
story. He ran out, caught one OF them,
and threw her over the railing. She was
killed. "'.-.'.. ''
The golden fleece. As the gold yield
OF Australia decreases the wool crop
grows more valuable. Last year the wool
product of that country was SIC, ,00O, ,OOO,
more than four times as much as it's gold
product.
Jennie docking in miliner's window
-"Don't you think they are very
pretty?" Lizzie (whose thoughts are on
the other side of the street y" Very, es-
pecially the one with the long, black side
whiskers." ....
The mikado, or emperor, of Japan,
has Just celebrated his twenty-seventh
year. He is the one hundred and twenty
third representative of dynasty OF rulers
who can boast of an unbroken succession
for twenty-five centuries.
A New England man has invented
process for disinfecting onions, but the
regenerated fruit does not meet with any
favor. An onion without its flavor Is as
much like nm onion rs an oyster without
it's slipperishness would be like raw
oyster. - ....
John Stevens ran away from his wife
in Elnlira thirty-four years ago. Re
Gently she discovered him in California,
where he had accumulated 800, 900 and
another wife. She is willing he should
retain the second wife, but she demands
O third Of his fortune, and is Likely to
get it. .... .."...
A daring Brooklyn man who ventured
to kiss Boston girl thus tersely depicts
the resulting phenomena "She rose III
sections-rigid, awful, sublime--towered,
Medusa like-tixed her stony stare mo-
ment ON nothingness, then teleseoped,
collapsed, scooted, and saw her no
more.
Among the treasures recently unsarthed
ut Rome was little gold bell having on
its sides the inscription : 81 am made
as a preventive against the evil eye;
and it is supposed that the Roman
mothers hung these bells round their
children's necks to keep them from
harm. ..
An apple woman in New York, who
recently died, requested three hundred
and fifty dollar funeral, and left the
money to pay for it, besides distributing
three thousand dollars among her rela-
tives, and yet there are people who COM
plain that nobody is making money
nowaday. -.
The cattledisease has shown itself in
several sections in Silesia in Germany,
and also among the cattle driven to Ber-
lin for slaughter. The disease IS as
cribed to the influence Of foreign cattle.
imported in disregard of government
regulations. These are to be more strict
" enforced in future.
A glazier was putting pane OF glass
into a window, when groom VINO y, Was
standing by began joking him, telling
him to mind and put in plenty OF putty.
The man bore the banter for some time,
but at last silenced his tormentor with:
" Arrah, now, be off wild We, or I'll put
pain in yer head without any putty.
A tramp in the last stages OF looped
and windowed raggedness was heard to
mutter to companion in New YORK a
few days since, as poodle i'll sealskin
sack trotted proudly by them Oh Broad.
way: "Well, I'm blowcd if they won't
put point lace collar Oh that pup next,
aud hang stone cameo locket on Dis
gold neck chain"
The effect of a border drama on ths
boys in the gallery OF O theater is de-
scribed in the Philadelphia Times J.:
When at last the curtain drops on
scene brilliant with red fire and sitting
with saltpeter, the hero standing amid
the ruins of the Sioux nation with his
"gurrul" Oh his breast and the Amerl-
can flag waving over their heads, they
don't care il the whole world were to
black their own shoes and stop buying
the daily papers.
John Clerk, the Edinburgh lawyer,
and Raeburn, the painter, were great
cronies in their younger days, both be-
ing poor rs church mice. One
day Clerk asked Raeburn to dine. On
arriving the latter found the landladey
spreading the cloth and setting on the
table two dishes, one containing three
herrings, the other three potatoes:
"And is this all 2" said Clerk. "Al,'"'
said the dame. "All! Did [ not tell
We, woman" he cried, that a gentle