The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1878-03-06
Items of Interest.

Items Of Interest. ....
True to the last well-made boot.
Milan, Italy, is preparing for an inter-.
national exhibition.
A man never uses his thumb nail for
a screw driver but once. ... ..
Eighty-three murderers, all men, were
hanged in the United States in 1877.
The Colorado mines produced 81, ,879,-
432 worth of gold and silver ore in 1877.
The males are more apt to be delayed
by pretty women than by severe north
east storms. r- ...,.' ...,
It is absurd to suppose that man can
speak above his breath, since his mouth
is below his nose. -r;g,-.
The delightful sensation felt in riding
on an iceboat can be obtained at small
cost by falling from six-story building.
Life, young man, is only
A slippery sheet Of ice;
No girl there-its lonely;
One girl there-it's nice.
Irritable schoolmasterL" Now then,
stupid, what's the next word? What
comes after cheese9" Dull boy-"A
mouse, sir" ...
A traveller met in Japan woman who
didn't know the use of pin. Her be-
wilderment when shown pin-cushion
was amusing. ,...
The United States utilizes in agricul-
ture ten per cent. of it's area Great
Britain, ffty-eight per cent, and Hol-
land, seventy. r q
OF sawdust nineteen per cent. and OF
sand fourteen per cent, was what was
found in sample of Russian army bread
recently analyzed. ;. y ....;.N
Are blacksmiths, who make living
by forging, or carpenters, who do little
counter-Atting, any worse than men who
sell iron and steel for living?
In ancient days the precept was,
"Know thyself." In modern times it
has been supplanted by the far more
fashionable maxim, "Know thy neigh
bor and everything about him."
What the Rochester Erpress calls
ga machine to save swearing" has been
invented by man in Lockport N. 7.
It consists of an arrangement by which
stovepipes are joined together like
telescope. 90 ,. .
The last story told about Chicago is
that twenty-five cents is extracted for
the privilege of viewing what is reckoned
the choicest curiosity which the great
Lake City can show, viz, the only un-
mortgaged piece of ground.
An Indiana man has died leaving a
collection of 100, 900 beetles. Yet there
are some men right here among us who
will not leave o collection of zen q
dozen beetles when they die. For
shame T. Worcester Press.
A woman will face frowning world
AMI cling to the man she loves through
the most bitter adversely, but she
wouldn't wear hat three weeks behind
the style to save the government.--Csn-
cinnaH Breakfast Table.
At bedtime little Willie was saying the
usual prayer at his mothers knee, ana,
having got as far as "if should die be.
fore T wake," hesitated. "Wel, what
next?" asked his mother. d" WE'LL.
s'pose the next thing would be fune-
ral." ..-' --i
The strength of the French army is
as follows: Active army Give classes)
719, 1896; reserve of active army (tou1
classes), 520,9S2; territorial army Give
classes). 594, 736; reserve Of territorial
army (six classes), 639, 1872; total, 2, 49,
S66-all trained men. -. ...a..
The total number of Methodists in
the United States is over 3,3l5, ,0OO; IN
Canada, 161, ,172; in Great Britain and
her colonies, COZ, ,404. In all the world
they number 4, ,383, 1888. The increase IN
Law members for 1877 throughout the
world is given as 211, ,3O9.
The following business in the United
States is seen in the following Dlsth-
leries, 1892 rectifers, 1,l3O brewers,
2,75S; wholesale dealers, 1904 !; Ii.
censed saloons, 164, ,598. On basis OF
As ,O00, 900 people there is one legalzed
saloon to 28O persons.
John Holden, a surveyor, OF Perry
county, Miss, has dug up treasure OF
$35, 900 in coin, to which he WAS guided
by an instrument Of his own invention.
The money was buried during the war
by guerillas, who quarrelled and killed
each other off, leaving only general in
structions as to the neighborhood where
it was concealed.
A lady resident of Boyertown, Pa,
the other night had desperate fight
with mad dog in her bedroom, and
finally, having hurled $120 set OF false
teeth at him, was pleased to see him DIS
appear. She awakened to find that it
was all horrid nightmare, but that the
room was wrecked and her teeth shat
tered beyond redemption.
Tho mesquite gum of Western Texas
is almost Identical with gum arabic.
During the past year it has become an
article of export, some $4,000 pounds
having been gathered in Bexar county,
and as much more between that and the
coast. The gum e1hudes from the stem
and branches of the mesquite, mlmosa,
several species of which grow In Texas
New Mexico and Arizona.
POOR FELLOWS DEFIANCE.
I'm driven to the wall. and the world is my foe.
Whatever do is . failure most fat
Yet my soul is my own,
And I'm not overt rown;
What signifies that? ay. what signhes thA1e
I've nothing to- day for to-morrow's great needs
I wait upon fortune that never comes past;
But if, though I'm poor,
lean laugh and endure,
What signifies that? ay, what signihes tnat'
Persons about to go to Hot Springs,
Ark, for health, may be interested IN
the following item from local news
paper: "On Thursday James Cooper,
the merchant, mortally wounded Mead
GiIlis. a well-known citizen. Gillls has
detied and bulldozed the civil authorl-
ties, and threatened the life OF Cooper,
who, seeing him come up the hill as
though to carry outhis purpose, stepped
ont and fred into Gillis' person the con.
tents of two double barreled shot guns. ."
Maxine du Camp, the historian of the
Commune, has been inquiring into the
stories of the wholesale massacre OF
Conmunards after entrance of the Yer
sailles troops into Paris, andinstead OF 25,
600 to 10000 corpses, including 10000
women and children" he finds that