The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1878-01-02
Items OF Interest.
The noble horse leads life of whoa.

The noble horse leads life OF whoa.
It is a wise COW that knows its own
fodder.
The language of the suspender is sup.
posed to be, "Brace upp g
In the case Of Sitting Bull, absence
makes the hair grow longer:
ANY kind Of weather suits Michigan,
80 the bureau needn't be backwards.
Let your expenses be such as to leave
q balance in your pocket. Ready money
is friend in need.
If Sitting Bull could have his way
about it, the American nation would
have no Indian summer.
The oldest ex. member Of Congress now
living is the Hon. Artemus Hale, OF
Bridgewater, Mass. He is ninety-Hve.
A person who had been listening to e
yery dull address remarked that every
thing went off well-especially the au-
dience.
lis it proper to say, I see the sun
rising or I see the sun rise?" ne
asked. "sir, the proper thing is to get
home before it rises, replied his friend.
A mob in Winnemucca, New, threat.
ened to destroy the railroad station and
train of cars if the company did not
remove passenger who had the small
pox.
The lady whom Stanley was to marry
has welded another. What shall it
profit man if he finds Is, ,000, 600 hea-
thens and losses his best girl PM.
Herald. .r, -. ...a
A confidential clerk Of the Roths-
childs, in Paris, lately absconded, after
robbing his employers Of over $3.50, GOO.
The money had been nearly all lost rs
stock speculations.
The police force of Liverpool, Eng
land, is composed Of twelve hundred
men, of an average height OF i've feet
nine and one-haf inches, and an average
service Of nine years and seven months.
The returns from the savings banks OF
Massachusetts, for the year show q large
decrease in deposits, roughly estimated
at ss, ,ooo, 600 or 81, 600, COOS This is the
first time in ten years that there has
been falling of. .. a.a
A Chicago inventor recently made
small fan-wheel, to be placed in the hat,
tn keep the head cool in warm weather.
He set it going in his own hat, and the
first thing he knew his hair was wound
no in the machinery. The spring Was
very stiff, and before he could release
himself part of his hair was pulled out
by the rcots.
A contemporary tells young ladies
how to arrange their hair In . fashion
able style. "Let it all down" it says,
"and comb it out with q crosscut-saw.
Then 20 up on the roof Of the house,
and there stand still while the wind
plays (whatever is appropriately with it,
Then catch up the black with a bow o.
ribbon, and allow the front to stay as it
is" .'
There are at present in the United
States forty.eight grand and about 6,67S
subordinate lodges OF Odd Fellows, an
increase in the latter of 2e3 during the
year grand encampments, thirty.nine
lodge limitations, 40,645 lodge. mem
bers, 1856, ,125; encampment members,
S7,785; total relief, 81 ,6S9, 485, 62 total
revenue, $4,489, 2.46; present mem
bership, -461, 1888. .-s.5,,.,-.....,.,
"simplicity" is the sweet title OF an
association Of ladies' just formed at
Lsipsic, Germany. The object OF this
association is to promote simplicity IN
dress, and to make war upon luxury.
Members must pledge themselves not to
have any trains or false hair, not to wear
tuniques, pol:naises or other frivohtles. .
The dresses must be plain, and only
simple embroidery or trimming at the
end of the costume is permitted.