The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1878-01-30
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Full Of interest-a long note over
due. "'"'"'H'
There is no law against opening
postal-card. -. 'f..' p. e.. .u".~
Something entirely uncalled for-An
advertised letter. 70 d (. ."a.->
They are raising toads in France to
kill off the cockroaches. H :.'r...,' o..
Eighteen Thousand men are engaged
in the express business. i tarf EAS -
All the girls are becoming vegetarians.
They wear turn-up hats. j.. ..''. %" :" p
Ground Hog City is the name Of a
town in the Black Hills. '''H 'di ~ 50,
The letter to which bachelors seem
most inclined: Let 'er be. *" "a hl
Black and silver gray are the colors
for elderly ladies' dress materials.
Never put off advertising to-day the
merits Of articles that you desire to sell
tomorrow. ... rf". ~ s~"nTHEEo
Josh Billings says, very truly, "you'd
better not know so much, than to, know
so many things that amt so. "-r,s Hiis. .
Thirteen is an unlucky. number OF
persons to sit down to dinner-if there
is only enough to go around comfortably
for twelve. .,r jim ;at:rr., Bri bu.
Sleeping car conductors. are generally
pleasant, gentlemanly fellows. And
yet, strange to say, one, always Likes
them to give him wide berth. ~ +,
Tn ancient times the candidates for
athletic honors in Greece were dieted on
new cheese, dry figs and boiled grain
with warm water no meat was allowed.
An effort is to be made to raise coffee
in California. Captain Hansen, Of Con-
ira Costa, has tree eight or ten years
old, which is now loaded with coffee
berries. ,f.r' ~! ir ,-T"GN'il" rIs1
Forty-seven members of the forty
seventh Congress are natives of PENN
sylvania. OF this, number. Messrs.
Blaine, Wallace, u Cameron, iMtchell,
Mcmillan and Patterson are senators.
New York has forty-nine representatives. epresse atly,7
in Congress. ,,,......,.,,,t.,, 81 ...,jts.,.i
Annually, for the last decade, there
has been paid to the British government
by the Bank of England q sum slightly
in excess of $17, 500, 900, representing
the unclaimed dividends on consos. In
other words, $3.50, 0OO, 900 Of the English
national debt will never have to be re-
deemed. r., p, .'li.,> ;" mmDr,,:.iar
There's plenty of ivory yet ON our
round ball. Africa is the land of ivory
temples" or idol Enclosures, wherethe
commonest utensils for domestic nse age
made of ivory. # The people 90 not
seem to comprehend why people should
take the trouble to pay f6r Il whenitis
SO plentiful in each village. '',,' - :.
Tie value of ground il and about
Berlin, which went up enormously dur
ing the period immediately suhsequent
to the war of 187O:71 and the payment OF
milliards'" by France, has fallen ss
enormously of late. "a property bought
five years ago for villa sites at the priee
of 1850, 900 marks was sold the other
day for 258, ITO marks. .... oan. ,coq
Nevada dogs seem to be, made Of
"sterner stuff, than other American sa
ours. Last week one fell down a ninety
five foot shaft-struck. with emphasis on
hard rock, lived sixteen days witheut
food or water, was taken cut after that
time and Immediately ran down and
totally destroyed ratthat presumed too
much on appearances, and approached
rather too near the siokly-l0okins
canine. - .r.u.. .IJAic "H.
The Toronto Globe says that the ne
gotiations for the consolidation OF New
brunswick and Nova Scotia into one
province are progressing favorabty, and
| it expresses. wish that Prince EDWARD
Island could be taken In at the same
time. The united province would then
have an area of about 49, 1888 square
miles, with a population OF from 7OO,ooo
to 100000. r- -. . l.. ......!
Almost all men are oyer-anxious.. No
sooner do they enter the world, than
thew lose that taste for natural and SIM
ple pleasures so remarkable in early life.
Every hour do they ask themselves what !,
progress they have made in the pursuit
Of wealth or honor; and on. they go as
their fathers went before. them, till,
weary and sick at hdart, they look back
with sigh of regret to the golden times
of their childhood. a.-.....
Henry Thruston, of White Oak Greek,
Titus county, Texas, is said to be the
tallest man in America. he stands
seven foot six inches, barefooted, and ls
of enormous strength. His hands and
feet are enormously large and nearlya
side of leather is required to make him
pair of boots. When, before the war,
he went overland to California, his
friends, all men of medium size, used to
Law waeers with unwary strangers that
they had the tallest man among them;
then producing Thruston from the wagon
where he had been concealed IN coll,
take the stakes.
POPPING CORN.
We were popping corn,
Sweet Kitty and I;
It danced about
And it danced up high.
The embers we're hot
In their fiery light,
And it went up brown
And it came down white
White and beautiful,
Crimped and curled,
The prettiest fairy dance in the world.
All! many time are the embers hot,
And he human spirit can brook IT not;
Yet radiant forth from the fiery light
Cometh transformed and robed Ill white.
Victory or Death!
The Groesbeck (TexaA Ne,O Era
saws The following singular courtshlp
OF q Prairie Grove gallant is an illustra-
ton that "faint heart never won falr