The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1878-10-02
VOLUME XXVI.
Items Of Interest.
A well-read officer-General news.
A home iournal-the grocer's book.

A well-read officer General news.
A home journal-the grocer's book.
There are 854 churches in Londol
and its suburbs.
Some editors own real estate, have
lots of fun, that is.
Buttermilk is very healthy. II you
find any that is unhealthy, don't drink it.
When you are seeking to get out Of
the way of a mad bull, to be slow is not
to be sure.
An echo in Woodstock Park, Eng
land, repeats seventeen syllables by
day and twenty by night.
The number of savings banks in Cali
fornia at this time is twenty nine, with
deposits amounting to $71 ,331, OPS.
A Massachusetts, chemist analysed the
pickles put up by twelve wholesale deal
ers, and found copper in ten Of them.
To my inward vision, things are achieved when.
they are we'll begun;
The perfect archer calls the deer his own while
yet the shaft Is whistling.
Some time since the Free Press inquir-
ed incidentally if fish could talk. One
paper answered "seal skin" Another,
more recently, says, certainly, out in
Colorado, Pixies Peak.
It is a fact demonstrated beyond dis !
pute that the person who is entirely
alone when slipping down on the side
walk is more hurt than if he were sur
rounded by scores of unfeeling people.
The women of Cyprus, like all the
Greek women, chew great quantities OF
mastic, imported by the island to Scio,
and deem it graceful to appear always
biting this gum, and it will soon be in
order for alater Byron to remark: "Maid
of Cyprus, now we've come. Leave, oh,
leave off chewing gum"
A grabbed old fellow, who has been
reading that "a general break OF parties
may be looked for quite early" remarks
that he wishes they would break up now
at the hotel where he is staying earlier
than two o'clock in the morning, and
that some one would give the young
puppy who puffs cigarettes in the entry
some tobacco to smoke.-Boston CONT
naercial Bulletin.
What grand faculty is that OF the
poet who can paint, in glowing and
graphic verses, the feelings OF sorrow
and Joy, Of terror and despair, that
harass men in various hours OF TINS
changeful life; but no pen OF the
divinest bard WAS ever able to depict
the mystic thoughts that sweep across
the soul of man when watermelon
slips from under his arm and smites the
pavement t.-Csncinndt BREAKFAST Ia
ble.
Of General Lafayette's personal ap-
pearance an old newspaper gives this
description: General Lafayette was
cne OF the finest looking men in the
army, notwithstanding his deep red hair.
His forehead was fine, though receding;
his eve clear and hazel; his mouth and
chin delicately formed, and exhibiting
beauty rather than strength. His mien
was noble, his manners frank, and anil
able, and his movements Light and
graceful. He wore his hair plain, and
never complied 80 far with the fashion
OF his times as to powder.
Speaking Of persistence in advertis-
ing, an exchange says: Advertising, as
'tke means of prosperity, is not as well
understood as it should be. Nothing
can take its place. 1t is a fact that no
one who has advertised literally and
Systematically has felt like disp-hng
that it was the best spent money he put
into his business. As horse was never
made fat by a single bushel of oats, SO q :
single advertisement is never perfect
test of the benefit of advertising. The
man with genuine wares to sell who adj
vertised them in the right way, without
success would be curiosity.
Three hundred apes, four feet high,
"great brutes and as savage as Wild
beasts" have taken possession OF Au-
gurpara. village eight miles from Gal
cutta, and having elected the inhabitants
have billeted themselves on the orchards
aud gardens of the hamlet, whence they /.
direct various offensive strategic move-
ments, night attacks and predatory raids
upon the neighborhood. They attack
children and even full-grown women
without fear, selecting always the female
and weaker sex as the special objects OF
their violence. The villagers dare not
shoot one, the police are not strong
enough to interfere, and the Calcutta
volunteers are to be called out.
The following curious case Of petrifac-
ton is recorded by a California paper =
More than twenty years ago Judge Almy
sunk we'll at Bolinas. Happening to
have three or four large oil casks at the :
time, he knocked in the heads, burned
out the oil, and set them in the well, :.
one above another, and, strange TO say,
they all turned to solid stone, and are
as perfect to-day as when they were pat
into the we'll. The top cask is about
two feet below the surface, and q curb OF
common boards is set over the well,
running down to meet the casks. Sey-
eral of these curbs have rotted away,
and been replaced, but the oak casks
appear likely to stand forever. ls there
here a hint for we'll builders, or are the
causes OF petrifaction local?
MARY's LITTLE CORN. =
Mary bad little corn
Upon her little toe, .
And everywhere that Mary went
The corn was sure to go. .
Camden Post.
And to the cooling oceans shore
1t followed her one day;
But the little ache corn was 60 core
She couldn't play croquet.
"What makes the corn hurt Mary soe :
The other players cried. I'LL.
"Because she wears her boots 80 uen'
A looker-on replied.
'.And you little lump upon
Your toe can grow to suit,
Bv putting on five sized foot
A number two sized boot Ill.,
Boston Traveller.
And so the doctor dug it out,
Which made poor Mary bob;
Aud now no corn she knows about -
Except what's Oh the cob.
-Neu York Graphic.
Queen VictOria's Narrow Escape. ?
Apropos OF her majesty's review OF
the ironclads at Spithead, it may be IN