The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1878-08-21
Items Of Interest.

Items of Interest.
As a twigis bent the boy is inclined
Best thing to keep in hot weather.
keep shady.
A visible means of support-tLs hang-
mans moose. .
"pve just dropped in" as the fly said
to the coffee.
The monograph is an invention that
speaks for itself.
Recipe for whipping Indians: First
catch your Indians.
Misery does not always love company,
IF the company happens to be mos-
quitoes.
A Tennesseespaper has q poem en-
titled "Smile Whenever You Cam
Tennessee editors always do.
Little bits Of lemon,
Little chuncks Of ice,
Little water n sugar
Makes q mar feel nice.
"That would be q house." said q little
girl pointing to the unfinished walls Of
a new building, "if they would only put
o lid on it."
The boy who goes a-fshing on Sum
day, when he has been sent to Sunday
school, generally goes a-whaling when
he gets home.
Whom asked what fish is apt to come TO you
As in winter you send for some fruit Of the
sea,
And they hash it up with potato, DO you
Always express yourself Q. O. D.
The Bible has been printed in thirty
different languages for the benefit Of
the aborigines Of this country and OF
Greenland, British America and Mexico.
The thermometer has been invented,
it is true, but it can hardly claim moro
accuracy az a test of the heat OF the
weather than that time-tried Institution,
a limp collar.
It has been discovered that the noise
made BY beesis o lament.-DexoK Free
Press. Especially when they use
short -haired boy for q phonograph-
Cincinnati Commercial
Plants live directly on the lneless
products of EARTH; and we hive directly
on the products of plants, or on animals
which live on them. The vegetable
comes, as it were, between us andthe
earth.
There are many things which discon-
cert the average young lady, aad one OF
them is, while reading an intensely in-
teresting novel, to discover that in the
most exciting part there is q chaptar
torn out.
"And never more you'll sail the seas
Without your boncie bride !"
"Aye, never more" made Jack reply
All cozied at her side.
"For without you, across the waves
Since You must surely know, my love,
That you are now my yawi
According to Dr.. Fitch, there are not
less than sixty different insects that
prey upon the apple, twelve upon the
pear, sixteen on the peach, seventeen
on the plum, thirty.fve on the cherry
and thirty on the grape.
The first steam engine was set in mo-,
ton in Germany on August Is, l78sl1
Harkort established the first enginees
ing works in that country at FfeiheZ3
Wetter in 1919. he j.; need EngliaH
workmen to 60 to Wetter, and the
taught the German apprentices.
Fetal p~opulation of the earth, ], 396T
750, 0O0, under OhrisiianssGoyeEnment9
B8J, AL; under n3E Qh5ist5s9
eznments, ~. 1856. 6a9;: totat sxe1;
earth IN square miles, 648262sA
governnnents,s82 49,
of non.C Christian lands, 16,642, boz:
When a cloud of dust, on a hot sum-
mer's day, rises and flies along the dustt
road, making the traveller close his eyet
lids, and busting the leaves Of waysidS
vegetation, it is but q miniature OF the
terrible African simeon which blowd z;
from. the desert sands, scattering death
and devastation in its track.
CATCH.
Sweet is my girl when she is looking down,
And lovely, looking up
Now when I see a willful, pet grimace
Along her mobile eyebrows run a race,
But on her lips a smile belle the frown,
I think, while full of her rare grace I sup
Sweet is my girl when she is looking down,
And lovely, looking up!
Henry Eck1ord N Scvibner.
A mouse is able to shift for itself $
when about a fortnight old; and by the
time it is six weeks Old frequently be
comes a parent. Mice have generally
between six and ten young ones at
litter, sometimes as many as twelve and
even more, hence their f~ecundityi is such
that, not allowing for any mortality, a
celebrated naturalist declares that the
offspring of a single family of mice
might number several millions in twelve
months time.
Both the body and MUD are SO con-
stituted that they require constant but
varied action. Utter idlsness, Of either
body or mind, unless they be in a more
or less diseased state, is not only I'M
necessary, but harmful in the extreme.
It is a habit which, nee indulgedyl IN,
will grow upon the individual. Change
of occupation for the muscles, change OF
the current of thought for the brain, is
what will promote the fullest and most
healthful development of both-Herker.-
A pair Of very chubby legs,
fncased in scarlet hose;
A pair Of little stubby boots,
With rather doubtful toes
A little kilt, o little coat,
Cut as o mother can
And 10 before Us strides in state
The futures looming man. o.,