The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1878-05-29
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Deadwood, II the Black Hills, Is 4s2s
feet above the sea. -. 80. g.s.53.9s:is;
America digs up ss1, ,Oo0, coo worth of
gold and silver per year. 80" - ~: 4, -
i It is consoling to. read that dentists
tools are constantly improving. " i
The swans down, which ladies sigh
after, is plucked from wild geese.
India rubber tires for wheels are
becoming quite common in England
In an ounce Of mud there is the mate
rial for diamond, q sapphire and 40
opal. 1.-'' - 80 -. &.
A little Cairo nl. } girl nine years old
is the champion checker player OF tnat
town. sr-. .'--.. - ~ {
"Money," says an exchange, sis tho
missing link between our Subscribers
and the editor.
A Texas young lady raised three bales,
of cotton on five acres, doing the work
with her own hands. ~ II. s
A German woman at .Connersyilles.
Ind, recently gave birth TO five fine
boys. 3: The quintette are doing well.
A Rochester editors wife has killed
one burglar, wounded two tramps, put
out big fire and delivered q lecture.
"The birds are now upon the wing,
The teacher read; the pupil heard;
"Oh, no." said he, sit seems to me &si,s
The wings are on the bird. 90 a;s
A man of seventy married "a miss g 8
the same age at Brunswick, Me,s3
recently, and gained o qmother.ln-laW
aged ninety-two. .g.-. siy1a .e..'z !;tsa. =
It is pleasant thing to see roses and
lilies glowing upon 8 young lady,s
cheek, but bad sign to see q mans
face break out in blossoms. j, 3,ss,s 9
Question for debating society. sU
man has a tiger by the tail which
would be the best for his personal safe
ly-to hold on or to let go?"
The total number of domestic fowls
in Massachusetts, as taken from the last
census, is 1,o56, 900, valued at $62S, o64:
The egg product was valued at $903, ,SW
Why wouldn't Oleemafgarine do for 9
girls name p Cincinnati Enquirer. II
we had little girl and hadn't any but
her, we would call her that. .--,RSchsnona
Independent. l
Col. Forney says that there are overs
thousand millions OF dollars held in the
private banks Of England, drawing not
more than one per cent. interest, held
simply for safety.
At Taylorstown, Pa, COW owned by
Robert Hall, farmer, gave birth TO sf1fty
calves, ranging in size from rats To-
opossums. The COW died shortly alter
giving birth to the calves. ~ .s;E 8
A lady in Texas saw an advertisement
in New York paper OF an opium cure.
She sent for it, took it, and died in COM
yulsions in less than an hour. The
New York physician has been arrested.
The average daily wages earned By
9. C42. 200 workingmen, as shown by the
last census of 100 cities of America, was
only ninety-seven cents, and each had
On average OF only 18O days employ
ment year. s-...-.. b.. ..,.. ~ ~. -
Tennyson may seem to be o man OF
stern dignity; and to haven ideas below
idyls forty feet long, but you are res.
pectfully informed that he keeps an OIL
can and oils the hinges of every door m
the house, every Monday morning.
Mr.. Gesner Of San Francisco, claims
to have discovered chemical which,
with any existing machinery, freezes
water, with one-hfteenth the pressure
necessary when ether or ammonia is
used. He proposes to ice an acre OF
surface for skating rink. IS.
When the violet drinks the first sunbeam,
And fondly the orioles pipe, .,s.s
How bright doth the little boys gun beam
As he goes DER the meadows for snipe.
All! steathily wanders the truant
By the marge OF the reed-fringed Hood,
Then wends (to licking pnrsusnt)
Home, covered With mud. -5f' {
The 'duelling pistols used by Aaron
Burr in his duel with Alexander HamIl-
ton. are said to be in the possession OF
citizen of Louisville. They were LETT 70
him by his uncle, an army officer, VINO
himself purchased them from Burr Tor
$500. It is asserted that they have been
used in eleven duels. ... - .,..y
A brutal mother threw her five years
old boy from o bridge into the river ut
Milwaukee the other day, and leaned on
the ratings to watch the death struggles,
exclaiming: eff your father won't sup
mort you, drownl'' The child's clothing
buoyed him up until the horrided by
standers could rescue him. -
The famine in the north OF China
RACES with increasing severity, and the
most dreadful reports come from the
afflicted regions. In one town man
opened shop for the sale OF human
flesh, and did good business, until the
local mandarin interfered by causing the
shopkeeper to be beheaded.
A young and estimable lady OF Cres-
co, Iowa, when dying, requested that
her parents, who resided short dis
tance from her home, be summoned to
her home that she may bid them q last
farewell. They refused to go, and also
remained away from the funeral because
the lady had married against ther
wishes.
"I should like to live to draw two
breaths after am acquitted, and then
wonld die satisfied" said John Smart OF
Burnet county, Texas, who had lain IN
iail nearly year on a charge of murder,
and was brought into court on his couch,
sick. At eleven o'clock the verdict mot
guilty" was brought in, and at twelve
the old man died. (.
lis it becoming to me?" asked she, as
she paraded in tho costume OF one hun
dred years ago, before the man who is
not her lord and master, but is her hus-
band. "Yes, my dear" said he, meek
". "Don't you wish I could dress this
way all the timer" she asked. "No, my
dear" he replied; "but I wish you had
lived when that was the STYLE"
Man is intended to draw in fresh air
every time he breathes. Almost all peo'
pie, when in their houses, and the work'
ing people in their shops, breathe the
same air over and over again. 10 show
the necessity of allowing fresh air 70
enter rooms, and the bad air to escape,
it may be stated that every person,
during each minute of his life, destroys
quantity Of air twice as large as hm'
self.
This is the way one Of the ladies who
belongs to the Atlantic's Contributors,
Club remembers things: "Genera
Forrest was buried the day my new nas
came home. Hayes was inaugurated the
spring made over my old silk. DICK
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