The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1878-04-17

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According to recent returns France
has /, 1882 important bridges, erected at
cost of nearly $50, 900, 600. OF this
number 861 were in existence at the
beginning Of the century.
"Can that horse run fast Z" asked q
boy Of a milkman the other morning.
"No, sonny" replied the purveyor OF
aqueous lacteal fluid, she can't run
very fast, but he can stand the fastest OF
any horse you ever saw.
A young man, Just engaged on q
rancho in Truckee, CAL, was set to driy-
ing q yoke Of cattle, and at noon, when
:. he wanted to feed them, was observed
trying to unscrew their horns, in order
to get the yoke off the animals. 49,, I.
A little girl said: az like the countE
because there is no corners. When I'm
at home mother tells me not p go fur
ther than the corner of the street, but
don't you see?-there are no corners
here, and can go anywhere.
Here 1s another awful conundrum: What
is the difference between the man who
has q weakness between the shoulder
blades and the man who wants Congress
TO vote him $100, 900 for services render
ed during the war? Now listen to the
answers; One has q lame back and the
other:a back claim.
A sympathetic but inquisitive young
man, who was visiting county prison,
gently asked girl prisoner the cause Of
her being in such place. "Oh, said
she, with contemptuous toss OF her
head, "I stole water-mill, and got of
safe, but, like fool, T went back after
the stream that turned it, and was arrest
ed" The sympathetic young man LETT
immediately.
Mrs. William Crawslay lost her Life
recently at fox hunt in England. She
wasriding rapidly after the hounds, when
her horse leaped a hedge and landed.
under small apple tree. STOPPING
to avoid the branches, her head came IN
violent contact with the trunk, by which
her neck was broken. She was only
twenty-five years old.
Forest and Stream describes the
novel manner in which two-inch water
pipe that had become clogged was
cleansed. A hole WAS punched through
an cells tail and string was passed
through. -. The eel was then. started
throug oh the pipe. An occasional jerk
reminded the eel to advance, which he
did, going the entire length. A bunch
of rags was then tied to the string and
the pipe was cleansed.
A comparison of ancient records with
modern observation tends to show that
diphtheria is an old!disease with new
name. It made great havoc in New
England, especially in New Hampshire
and Maine, at three different epochs,
1858, 1786 and 1882. The disease
seems te have spread slowly rom its
first centers of outbreak in the attack Of
1858, taking four months to reach
Boston and two years to arrive on the
banks of the Hudson river.
The trunk of tree three hundred feet
high-or section of it-from Mlssls-
sippi, is to be among the wonders OF the
Paris Exhibition. Last years geologi-
cal survey in Southern Utah revealed
the fact that the areas occupied BY
standing timber are much smaller than
those which are capable of supporting
such growth. The destruction by fire
greatly exceeds that of the woodman's
axe, and it seems desirable that some
methods for preventing forest fires
should be devised, and as measure OF
public economy, adopted in Utah, and
perhaps in other Territories. -.
The proverb, "Those who live in
glass houses should not throw stones,"
dates back to the union of England end
Scotland, at which time London was in
undated with Scotchmen. This did not
please the Duke of Buckingham, who
organized q movement against them,
ana parties formed, who went about
! nightly to break their windows. In re-
taliation, party OF Scotchmen smashed
the windows of the dukes mansion,
which stood in st. Martins Fields, and
had 80 many windows that it went by
the name of the Glass House. The
duke appealed to the king, who replied:
"Steenie, Steenie, those wha live in
glass houses should be careful how they
fling stanes."
Mr.. Fritz A. L. Won Ehren, a printer,
has obtained. a patent on a flying ma
chine of his ewn invention. Perhaps
we are the only persons who knows why
he invented the contrivance. When
Fritz sets up "sperm oil in bottles for
the "turmoil of BATTLE" and the e''tor
comes into the composing room wiVh
thunder cloud on his brow, copy OF
his paper in one hand, and villainous
club in the other, and demands to be
shown the fend who committed the
atrocious blunder, Fritz will drop his
stick, jump into his flying machine and
soar aioft like bird, and thus escape
fractured skull. Every " Intelligent
compositor should have lying ma
chine.-Norristoa0 Herald.
An exceedingly simple method Of OBJ
tanning levels is described in the Manu-
facturer and Builder. At each of two
stations, perhaps hundred feet apart,
pole is driven into the ground. To
each pole, near the top, glass tube is
tied. The lower ends of the glass tubes
are then connected with each other by
means of sufficiently long piece OF
India rubber tubing. Water is to be
poured into one of the glass tubes till it
fills the tubing and part of the tubes ; it
will rise to the same level, OF course, IN
both tubes, and the record of this height
an be marked on the poles alongside.
The method is capable of surprising
accuracy, and will serve where obstacles
to visionintervene between the stations.
Right is right. No one seems to ques'
ton this somewhat startling argument.
Still there is little doubt that it may be
better, in some cases to submit to
slight wrong, than battle for justice, to
the bitter end. Take, for instance, that
Quebec apple case, which the two farm
ers began three years ago. There IS no
disputing the fact that both farmers
cannot own the brrrel. The first cost
was only three dollars, or, to avoid ar,
gument, let it be three dollars and
twenty-five cents if you wish. Now the
case has been decided by a Quebec
Judge and the total cost thus far amounts
to over 81, 700. Besides, the end is not
vet. as the defeated farmer says ne Will
appeal the case. It would have been
better if they had a-peeled the apples
together in the first place and given the
dried fruit to George Francis Traln.-
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