The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1878-10-30
Items OF Interest.

home" is the beehive.
In all well-regulated families the hired
girl has to get up and dust.
Chow is your stock in trade 2" as the
drummer said to the hose-dealer.s
Almost every man takes his day of,
but we never heard Of him bringing It
back again. !: ~ q 4:
Why should lady's home dress last
forever? Because she never wears it,
out. "
People who speak Of Ediaon,
And make his namerhyme with medicine
Should pause before the deed Is dcn6.
His relatives call him Edison.
The letter go" is called the most =
charitable of all the alphabet, because it
is found oftener than any in doing
good"
One style OF hats for ladies is called
the "Huzza." That is because it is 30 z.
cheerful for the husband who pays the g
bills. - 3: x
If q man is on his way to the woods to 4
commit suicide and bull suddenly gives
chase, the chances are that he will run
for his life. 81
Within the space of 200 years preyi-
GUS to the Norman conquest, thirty Sax-
on kings and queens left the throne for
the closter. Ss;
DR.. Oldham, the geologist, recently
dead, showed from marine deposits that
Ireland was once one thousand feet Y
under the sea. y.
Punch says that Yankee baby win y
crawl out of his cradle, take survey ol s
it, invent an improvement and apply for
patent before he is six months old.
When poet or reporter speaks OF #
the "deep blue sea-" does he mean that
the sea is deep blue or that the deep sea e
is blue? Z -
"What was the brightest idea thst y
ever suggested itself to you r. asked e
Claribel. And Smythekins said: !" Your
eye, MY DEAR" -. <.
Frank Buckland, the naturalist, de-5
clsres that babies swim naturally a y
friend put one into warm water, and It
took to it Like duck, swimming briskly.
Plans for railway up Yesuvius have s
been completed and the work is to be Z
begun at once. The cars will be drawn
by wire rope, moved by stationary
engine. The road is to be ready within
year.
The remains of Modelling, who tried TO q
kill the German emperor and died OF
self-inAicted wounds, were inferred,
after dissection, In cemetery-the 6
name of which is kept secret-in pre-
sence of few relatives and q great
many police, at 6 A. NJ.
As Kansas City (Mo.) lawyer was Z
going to his Office the other day he 4
noticed red suspender lying on the S
top of some freshly-caved earth. He i
stopped to pick the suspender up, butt
stretched and refused to come. Digging
down with his hand, he soon found the z
dead body OF boy. Much alarmed, he .
began to dig with q spade, and to his
horror unearthed the bodies OF two y
more, who had been buried alive by the &
caving in of an embankment on which
they had been playing the night before.
The way to tell tho age of dog app
proximately is to examine the upper
| front teeth. Until twelve months old g
these are rounded on the edge, at the y
end of two years they begin to square 6
off, and gradually wear down and short
On until, as the animal enters his slxth
year, they are nearly even with the
gums. Tho lower teeth usually wear
out earlier. The appearance OF the eye =
is also an indication of age, and all dark
colored dogs show their years by the 6
growth of white hairs about the muzze.
At dew.bathed morn or even halcyon dusk
You modestly gsmbol down the stony Slope.
You fsr.fetched travesty on the antelope;
Outlines you're meek and oft you're PAINFULLY I,
bruslue. =, y,
Or oyster can, or languid heliosrope
On sunny hills where idle hreezes grope, 3.
And all the air is heavy with balmy musk.
You are. Sir Goat, study vast and grand;
Your life superbly calm doth know no blight
And, when you pause beside tne seea' J;
your ;mmobilirv ststuesque and bland
Ia like dream in marble. ghostly white,
Until some juvenile halls you with brick. 2
r <. Munkitrick, in Graphic. =
By the way, did you know that for the g
past eight months your wife has oeenn I
using the diary you started in January s
| lOI aQ HCCUu1t.JOOh WhSh4 o 49,.
butcher? We saw it the other day, ana y
right under the last paragraph you q
wrote in it, where you said: ieei
lifting Of my being into a higher ME, y.
feel nv feet stepping on higher planes
the soul OF poesy is calling me lnto
sphere of grander action, and throw :
of tho trammels and the coarseness OF :
everyday material life and its animal
existence, as I rise to obey the call Of :
genius - right under that it Gays: I
1.-TWO pounds of mutton suet, bali 9
calf's liver, piece of bone to boil, and
pound of link sausage, forty'hVe s
cents. "-Burlington Hawkeye. .-, Il
| THE 1IoHrNSo-RoD MAN.
A melancholy farmer, hot. =,
With his old gun crammed with shot'
Was sitting by his melon lot. y
| Three weeks he had this vigil Kept =
Tasted no food nor even slept, ,''l 4
Yet all the while the bad 90! 8 crept