The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1878-04-10
Items Of Interest.

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Mrs. Abraham Lincoln is living g
secluded Life in an interior town OF
France. l.s
The gaslights in front Of the church
doors in New York cost the taxpayers
$44, 900 q year. sx., Z
There is no n5tking the nstave
shrewdness of men VINO advertise when
the times are dull. ~
The Partisan press Of 1877 comprised
838 different newspapers and serials,
against 754 In 1875.
Charles Eeade believes the coming
man will be "either handed ); neither
right nor left handed. z,
Valley Forge bids fair to be the CEN
tral feature this year in the way. of CEN
tennial demonstration. ':;
What is the difference between the
summer sun and well-ordained goat?
One shines on the dew, and other mnes {
II showed once in Lisbon, Portugal,
during the past winter, for the first time g.
sinc8fS4O... Similar slight falls occurred
also in 1887 and 1889. ss, 4. 8.
There will always be more or less e1
citement in the household that possesses
a cat and back fence, or q poor piano
and good healthy girl.
The average length of life OF Quakers
is remarkably high IN England. The
greatest number of deaths occur between
seventy and eighty years OF age. s2sta
The simultaneous release OF many
bad characters consequent npon the
royal amnesty of minor offenders causes
Considerable uneasiness in Italian cities.
Better the ragged ploughboy
Who sings and cares for aaught,
Than the bank cashier, with ten thou-
And hundred thousand short
DR.. Hardwicke, the Coroner alta re-
cent inquest in Marylebone, London,
said that 800 children annually met their
deaths in London alone from sufocation
King Humbert, of Italy, thinks his
father ran things q little too last, and
has commenced cutting down expenses
by selling off 1000 horses kept IN the
royal stables.
Out in California, the land Of the
glorious climate, the first six months
Of the year they pray for the RAIN, the
remaining six months they run away
from floods.
John Bright said in recent speech at
Rochester, England, that one-third OF
the whole land Of the United Kingdom,
being no less than q, ,000, 600 acres, be-
longs to 935 men.
eft has been fun for you but death to
me, "wrote William Henry Fox, IN San
Francisco, before killing himself. He s
had been Tilted by the woman for whom
the message was intended. l5
The celebrated Eddystone lighthouse,
in the English Channel, which has blf-
feted the waves of a century, will prob
rbly soon disappear, owing to the under.
mining of the reef below it by the wa
ters. ..s -, =, y. ~,
A news item says that an English tray-
eler in the Holy Land has discovered
Jacobs Well. We are delighted to hear
it. There has been rumor aAoat for
some time thst Jacob was dead.-Ofh
City Derrick. ..,s's-.-E<, .,:s,''
Mr.. G. I. Romanes, of London, con-
cludes after sundry experiments, that
the Jelly fish has nerves. Alcohol
makes it drunk, strychnine producer
paroxysmal convulsions, and chloroform
causes anmsthesia.
The late Pope Plus TX. was once In
this country. BE was shipwrecked on
the North Carolina coast, near where
the Metropolis aud Huron disasters oc-
Cured, and just before the wreck his
vessel put in Norfolk for water. -
Pyramid Lake, in Nevada, 1000 feet
above the level of the sea has been
sounded to the depth of 600 fathoms
without finding bottom. 1t is forty
miles long, and from fifteen to twenty
wide, and contains many islands.
Prentice county, Miss, hires out her
criminals by the month to the highest
bidder. who takes them to his farm,
works them, feeds them and guards
them, paying to the county FIVE dollars
per month for each able bodied man.
"Daisy Darling Do not wake me $
Ere the murphies you do peel,
| EI6 you w CQOppcO LILO OIL 0Po ohe AeN'
| OF your yestereven's meal;
Wake me not to pangful waihngs,
! Do not servo me 80 again,
But when once the hash ls ready,
Gentle spirit, call me then"
"Do you know" and she looked at
him with two.ton scowl, "why you
are like rainy day?" He asked If it
was because she couldn't get along with
out him occasionally. "It's because
I'd like to see you clear" said she. He
never carried any stones in his pocket
for her dog after that.
An editor says he heard recently how
a man cured a neighbor newspaper-bor.
rover. It is told thus: "Mr. Jones,
father wants to borrow your paper; he
only wants to read it." "Well, go back
and ask your father to lend me his sup
per; only want to eat it" The next
evening the boy did not come.
An accident occurred at Arlesey, on
the Great Northern railway of England,
in December, 1876. One OF the pAssen-
gers injured was Mr.. Warchawski, a
professor of legerdemain, popularly
known as Bosco, being a relative and
former pupil Of the coniurer OF that
name. The muscles of his hand were
30 hurt that he can never again practice
his art, and in suit against the railway
company he has just recovered 1880
damages. :-.
Anew York Herald man had rheuma-
tism, and in just one-half an hour he
learned that the following will cure it:
Iodine of potassium, quinine, glauber
salts, onions, raw lemons, baked lemons,
raw silk, oiled silk, gin and tansy
Turkish baths, a potato carried in the
pocket, an eel skin tied around the leg,
q suit of of red flannel, chloroform lini-
ment, hot water, cold water, hot lemon.
ade, dry atmosphere, equable temper
ature, sulphur baths, mustard and hot
water, camphor liniment, electricity.
THE POET WHO DIED OF BEAUTIFUL SNOW.
"Is the editor in ?" asked q long g-haired youth,
| As into the sanctum he strobe
"If he is, T must see him at once, forsooth,
| For wish to sell him an ode."
Straight up to the editors desk he strode,
Took seat with child-like smile,
And said to the editor, ~ have an ode
On the beautiful" but the bile
OF the editor rose, and he smote the bard
On his cheek terrible blow,
And kicked him out into the Office back yard,
To die in tne beautiful snow.