The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1878-07-03

COQVdleSCcub potlCA1os ~
whole upper story OF the old Thorn
mansion, and has q huge sky-light, and
on three sides windows without shades,
80 that the room is flooded with Light,
Tanks Of running water, filled with. fish,
shells and aquatic plants, tropical flowers
end shrubs, and cages Of singing birds,
20 to make up o delightful and perpet-
ual summer for patients who can crawl
from their beds. .
John Burdette has a new dog, and in
a spirit of malicious daring, has named
him Mister" And every time he
waves his hand at the canine and shouts
in savage tones. $50 home, Mister, or
I'll land q brick at vel" every man on
the street rolls up his sleeves and waltz
es up to the auditor and wants to know
"who he's o talkin' to, and what he
means by it?" And the result is the
boy is on fighting terms with half the
men in Burlington. a.<
Near Waterloo Station in Georgia o
eround-hog lately carried off a child
from the hut of John Keeshan, a laborer
on the railroad tracks, and, carrying it
to q hole in a tree, deposited it there
and covered it with leaves, and, return
ing to the hut, attempted to drag away
some of the child's clothing, when Mrs.
Keeshan entered the DON and chased 1t
out. and, on following it to the tree for
the purpose of getting the clothes back,
was reioiced to discover her lost child
snugly ~ensconsed in the hollow.
"Ingoldsby," fair, frail young man,
from the Flint river district, sends US
beautiful poem, of which we can only
afford space for one line. 81 would fly
to the woods like the whip-poor.wH"
he can't fly, there's no use talking or
thinking about it; he might go In q
balloon, but he never can fly like the
whip-poor-will, if he tried all summer
However, if he writes any more poetry
like that, we will see that he goes to the
woods if we have to carry him there:
The woods is the place for that kind OF
poetry.-Burlington Hawkeye.
SONG WITHOUT AN E.
rThe letter E is used more than any
other letter in the English alphabet.
Each of the following verses contains
every letter of the alphabet except f.
L. ioyial swain should not complain
OF any buxom fair ..
Who mocks his pain, and thinks it gain
To quiz his awkward air.
Ouixotic boys who look for joys
Qui1otic hazards run
lass annoys with trivial toys,
Opposing man for fun.
iovial swain may rack his brain,
And tax his fancy's might;
To quiz is vain, for tbs most plain
That what + say is right.
During the war between Augustus
Caesar and Marc Antony, when all the
world stood wondering and uncertain
which way fortune would incline her
self, q poor man at Rome, in order to be
prepared for making, in either event, q
bold hit for his own advancement, had
recourse to the following ingenious ex-
pedient: He applied himself to the train
ing of two crows with such diligence
that he brought them the length OF pro-
nouncing, with great distinctness, the
one q salutation to Cesar, and the other
a salutation to Antony. When Augustus
returned conqueror, the man went out
to meet him with the crow suited to the
occasion, perched on his fist, and every
now and then it kept exclsiming, "Sdtve,
Caesar, Victor Empertor" ("Hail,
Caesar, Conqueror and Emperor f") An,
gustus, greatly struck and delighted
with so novel q circumstance, purchased
the bird of the man for a Sun which m
mediately raised him into opulence.