The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1878-08-14
Items Of Interest.
Maid Of money! young heiresa.
BARRIERS always predict short crops.


Maid Of money! young heiresa.
BARRIERS always predict short crops.
There is no more implacable enemy
than he who feels he has wronged you,
and no more unhappy man than sucn an
enemy.
Fifty.one metals are now known 70
exist, thirty of which have been dlscov-
cred within the present century. -Four
hundred years ago but were
known.
Somebody prints a book to show hoy
TO Get twenty-five cent dinners tof
families" Now let somebody print .
book showing how to get the twenty.
Ave cents.
The old story about the little boy who
wished that he was built like ahen-coop,
so that the breeze could blow r1gnt
through him, is again travelling the
rounds Of the press.
Cheyenne is proud because yeH
known young lady OF that town DDS
made her debut as q carpenter and JOIN
er: but that is nothing. Many OF our
most beautiful young ladies here are
trained to sweep the streets.-NeU ~
leans Pscayune.
The green turtles of the West Indies
are the best known and most highly APP
preciated of the reptiles used as food.
These animals sometimes weigha 8 MUCH
as 700 pounds. They are imported alive
into this country, and their flesh Is the
basis Of turtle soup.
Tho man who takes the bitter pin,
Awry face clearly shows;
But no who fingers at the still,
Will soon chow q rye nose.
And II he reads while he imbibes,
And knowledge fills his head,
himself and nose, like learned scribea,
Will both SOON be well read.
IN. u. RepubHcan.
It is interesting to note the numberof
important inventions due to the nee
nuity Of persons whose occupation Lay Em-
tirely out Of the line Of mechanical pur-
suits. Whitney, who invented the cot
ton gin, was q school teacher, and Full
ton of steamboat fame wa ON artist
painter. as was also Samuel EBs
Morse, discoyerer OF the telegraph.
Brindley, the greatest civil engineer m
England before the present century
was totally deficient in scientific tram
ing. Alkwiigas, 'ns 70, : 1870, and
Cartwright, the inventor OF the power
loom, WIS Q clergyman, who had newer
sven seen q weaver at work Roebucks
the originator of the modern iron manu-
facture of England, was Q physician o.
Birmingham-and 30 the List might De
much extended.
In the mode of indulgingin the use OF
tobacco. there ia the greatest diversity, ]
~ ~o,La.a ;s tb;s mora af,ikinaiY
and nownere Is tnis H, ~. a::HE2s
mSflifas5ed than M tne-FBAPPme mexS
lands. It ia not till evening that the
;nhoh;tonta re tha HIGHER class begin to
Au.na LIT - 49, usav ~ occu,;ad IN
sst;,a s,se M and SMOKING tobacco.f
wh;oS IL na,ubara more GENERAL than n :
tha Island of Imaon: for children. before
thew can walk. beein 20 smoke ciaarss
women carry their fondness f0f H.
- . nraotor HEIGHT than the mer fox
not content with the usual small I 1eszs;
thav AVE others made for them, whieh
ara Z 1aot1 LONG and nroportionably1think
are here called Tia wofnen Sa4s,
anS 4. 4 4 nooaf Tndsc.nns sahkto ee6
sIsssn. taEino f3,sfr evening wax
with these burning brands an Jhedt
months.
mgu.nEn.
,r,u., .,o,t t,a ciro,a II the yasr
ml %Sasa a y = a;n eaS ressset dsy that Hes
SUPREMACY fsir, before our careless eyes,
After Che spathes of floral bloom appear,
Before is found the first dead Leaf ,a and st ssres
Il comes ,es pf re- sns;ne = s snaeaHorsa mi Il diss
We 40 not dream The fawless day Is here.
thus. as on the way Of life we speed,
Mindful but Of the Joys ye hope 70 zee a,o.a
We never tni nm ~ aan o. APT pres sSsIl svsr be:S
Vat Aa %ao yms hare on our Journey We shah STAY
Backward to gaze on our midsummer dsy.
~-Andre,o B. Saxon IN scrsoneys
AT Stekesley, Yorkshire, Eng
land. lives q man who nee as