The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1878-02-27
Items Of Interest.
A cultivated ear-An ear of corn.

If your dinner bell has lost its clapper,
you can still have your napkin-ring.
Mr.. Gage Fly is noted agricultural
list of Madison county, Tenn.
Keeping live chickens in cellars is
being suppressed in New York.
New York has tin toy factory that
makes ten million penny whistles year.
The three-cent silver piece, born in
1851, was designed to pay postage with.
Ropes used for hoisting in mines are
now made at Oakland, Cal, from sleeps
entrails.
The United States troops were sup
piled with BIT, ~ IA worth OF tobacco
Last year.
Intemperance numbers 100000 de-
votees in this country, Of whom 10000
die annually.
The Paris Figaro prints gas6tter's
bill as presented in that city : Looking
for q leak, two francs; finding it, threa
francs. ~Total, five francs. ~. ..- .,-.,..,..
"Alcohol will clean silver" eyes,
remarks the Cincinnati Saturday Night,
"alcohol well stuck to, will clean out
all the silver you have got"
A Lowville boy took hot brick to
bed with him to keep his feet warm.
They saved the boy and the house, but
the bed was reduced to ashes:
Mr.. Chester Tilden, of Willimantic,
Conn.,, has prepared a genealogy OF the
Tlden family, beginning with the year
1928, including biography OF Samuel
J. Tilden. .....
"The bright lexicon of youth, in
which "there is no such word as fail, "
does not seem to be very popular
dictionary in the mercantile community
Just now.
Philosophers say that closing the eyes
makes the sense Of hearing more acute.
A wag suggests that this accounts for
the many eyes that close in our churches
on Sundays.
"Truth lies at the bottom of well. !"
We have often verified this by looking
down into q well and seeing Truths
honest conntenance in the smooth wa
ters.- Worcester Press.
If you put two persons in the same
bedroom, one of whom has the tooth
ache, while the other is in love, you
will find that the person who has the
toothache will 60 to sleep first.
A single orange tree in the Azores in
one year produced twenty thousand
oranges in flt state for expectation. The
Azores send every year to London more
than two hundred thousand boxes OF
oranges.
! Newton did not labor half so hard,
with hand and brain, to discover the
principle of gravitation, as the ingeni-
ous compositor labors in over-spacing to
get fat paragraph. h.-CFncinnaa Break
fast Table.
! A lassie wrote to young man she had
taken fancy to: "Come and meet me
in the cleaning, John" and when the
time came John wasn't there. He sub
sequently explained that he couldn't
find such place.
All babies born in Oneida On. ~
community are taken from their moth
ers at their birth and handed to other
women to rear. No child, therefore,
will ever know>ts own mother, for they
are all owned in common.
"What is the best remeedy," aaskd
preacher of shrewd observer, " for
an inattentive audience "Give them
something to attend to-" was. the signi-
ficient reply; "hungry sheep will look
up to the rack if there is hay in it"
|. General Grant was splendidly enter
tanned at q party. in Cairo, given him
by General Batcheller, formerly of Sara
toga, N. Y, but now an American Judge
in Egypt. The entertainment was at
tended by many Egyptian dignitaries.
That the Suez canal is proving sue
cess is shown by the steadily increasing
business it is doing. In 1871 ], 494 yes
sells passed through, paying $5,777, ,26O
in tolls: in 1875 the figures were 1, ,457
and s., ,994, ,99s in 1877 1868 and &c.
$50, ,279.
Facility of communication is having
great effect on the people of British
India. Those who never went ten miles
from their native villages now 60 all
over the country and their minds be-
come liberalized and freed from caste
prejudice.
The country is getting 80 full of edi.
tors that even luck itself can't dodge all
of them. Jim Timmons, of the Perrys-
burg (O.) Journal recently drew
horse in q rattle that has made his mile
in three minutes-in a box.car. The
most remarkable feature of the affair to
the profession is, how did Jim happen
to have dollar to invest in the ticket.
That's where the luck comes in.-Break-
fast Table.
A person recently met lady who ls
distinguished as having been four times
a widow, and has now again entered the
bonds of matrimony. Said the friend
II think I once had the pleasure OF
dining with you in New York?
"When ?" asked the fair stranger. in
1856" he replied. eyes," she said
refectively, cit may have been so, but
T had forgotten it. You see," she added,
cit was two or three husbands ago."
A correspondent wants to know OF
smarter New England woman of her
years Lllhu Mlss my1o NAoaooAs
Greenwich, Conn.,, seventy-two years
old, who planted last summer, hoed.
cut up, bound and husked two acres OF
corn, which yielded LOG bushels OF ears;
also husked seventy-two bushels for q
neighbor, raised good crop OF potatoes,
planted and tended al acre Of beans, has
sawed her wood for the winter, and be-
sides all this, has been out washing.
There is gamin in Chicago, who is
full to the brim and running over with
the spirit of this commercial age. There
was an alarming runaway one Friday
afternoon recently. The horses attached
to an express wagon tore down Dear
born street, throwing out the driver,
scattering the packages and creating
CONSERVATION in the crowded thorough
fare. Close behind the team was
newsboy running as fast as he could go
shouting, "Daily Nesos, full account
of the runaway"