The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1878-10-09
Items Of Interest.

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It is not fair to strike an average when
it is down. - 3
The forerunners Of aplague-A mos,
quito's legs.
Soldiers have to be mustered before
they are peppered.
The color, indigo-blue, is now pro-
duced from coal oil. s7S
It is said that no yellow fever epidemic
has ever prevailed in China.
Akind of timber for which there is no
further call-summer board.
Why is the letter 81" never too late !
Because it's always in time.
Why are baseball players like cooks !
Because they make good hatters.
There's big difference between dim
ner for nothing and nothing for dinner,
| Postmaster Key has thirteen children.
The biggest bunch Of keys we know Of.
! A mans character is like fence-
You cannot strengthen it by whitewash.
We may joke when we please, il we
are always careful to please when We
Joke.
| A steel is what makes blade sharp
but blade that makes sharper is a..
stealer.
One asked why B stood before O. Be
cause said another, man must B before
he can O.
| How is it possible for you to pick yous
teeth, when you have to take them a.
they conner 9
A man living next stable remarked
that he was disturbed by sounds In the
neigh.borhood.
A Paris. cafe strikes Americans with
awe by displaying among its ed1bies
Ponkeen piah. e g
A joker challenged q sick mans vote
at city election on the ground that ne (
was an i'll legal voter. ssss:Ss
Laphnders catch wild bucks by put-
ting ropes around the horns OF tame
ones and sending them out to fight.
| Patience sad gentleness are potent
and powerful, but they can not turn .
mill-wheel nor break up setting hen.
/ You may talk about the clean and
hungry Cassius," but did You ever take
q side view Of the man who has run . !
store. ten years without advertising !
When dealer tell you the stif, un-
comfortable looking boots he wants 70
sell you are calfskin, remember that
full-grown COW, or bull, is 9 Calls kim
The wettest region on the earth i
Cherra Payee, in the Cossia Hills, lying
northeast of Calcutta, where the total
annual rainfall is 600 inches, or htty
feet.
At great shoe mandatory in Lynn,
Mass. recently, pair of kid side-leced
woman's boots was made from the stock,
in Just eleven minutes, in sight OF
visitors.
Chow is it, Miss, You gave your age
to ths census taker as only Twenty-Five,
when you were born the same year i
was, and am thirty y-nine e " An You
have lived much faster than ], sir.
A man was recently fined in London
police court for drunkenness. he has
paid altogether $1,000 in fines in the
past thirty years. Another, woman, in
the same court, has cost her husband
1890 in fines.
Washington has q population Of 81,
600. of whom 43, 600 are colored. There
were found twenty. two colored persons
over 100 years old, one being reported
as old as 110. Seventy persons were
between ninety and 100.
Mrs. Mackay, wife OF the bonanza
king, has over $3.50, GOO worth OF Jew
elry, but when she gets che toothacne
she suffers just as much as the woman
whose bracelets and diamonds camefr
the ninety-nine-cent store.
The origin of electing by ballot may
be traced to the ancient Greeks. When
member was to be elected, every
voter threw little pellet OF bran or
crumb of bread into basket, carried
by q servant round the table, and whos-
ever dissented fattened their pellet az
one side.
A composition on an agricultural paper,
whose girls father had helped him
down the front steps on the evening.
previous. had some copy entitled "The
Perforating Power of Boots given him
to set up. he composed it in sympathy
with his own feelings, and the next day
the article came out headed, "The Per
forating Power of Boots"
African explorers will probably ride
on elephants in the future. Colonel
Gordon has proved by experiment. that
tame elephants soon learn. 70 live on
leaves and grass, as the wild elephants
do, and keep in good condition. African
travel will thus be more pleasant and
much safer, as the natives, it Ii SAID.
will not venture to attack party
mounted on elephants.
Avalanches rarely fall when the sky is
overcast. In winter the st. Bernard
monks urge travellers not to venture
when the sky is clear. In clear weather
the temperature falls, especially before
sunrise, and then the flaments OF ice
which retain the snow on the sides OF
the mountain contract and snap. the
mass begins to slide, and draws others
in it's train, t6r the slightest cause OF
movement. the faintest shock may cause
the fall of enormous avalanches. Iha
is why guides insist on silence o. cr'e0Ai
points.
A iayelin was q short and light spear,
used for darting against an enemy;
In the Roman legion, the first ana
second lines (the Hastati and the FIN
cipes) were both armed with two !aveilns
to each man. Each javelin was In su
about six and three-quarters in iengtn:.
the shaft four and half feet long, OF
tough wood, an inch in diameter; ana
the remainder given to the barbed pyra-
midal head. In action, the Legendary
hurled one iaveIn on the enemy ct the
first onset; the second he retained as q 8
defense against cavalry: The Gotns
and other barbariars used the lavenn.
J. J. Henderson, consul at Annoy,
China, asserts that there is not oniy
ample room for American trade IN Chlna,s
but there is large and rich field for tae
reception of many American lnVentlons.
The people of China clothe themseiUes aae Nes
with cotton. No less than 8, ,Ooo,ooo,OUo
wards of cotton cloths are required apmu my
slly to cover their nakedness. me Inc
annual imports of cotton goods are less
than 1000, 600, 900 of yards. .as Ine COL
sul enumerates the various advantages
the American manufacturers have los =
obtaining the Chinese trade, ana q! 'te te
same. time shows wherein they 1911 " :
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