The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1878-02-06
SUNBEAMS.

SUNBEAMS.
It Is remarked as O curious fact That
MN with the longest ears wear q
longest listers.
No great difficulty young stu
"get bored in a private family"
There is no special style Of engray-
ing engagement rings. A spiders 9
web, with q fly in it, is a very pretty
device.
The young man with tho flower In
his coat is to marry the young lady
who is in the habit Of saying the
ide-yahl"
An Indianapolis man advertises;
"See our 81 shirt" 1t doesn't take
much to make an Indianapolis man
proud.
The idea Of the devil was originated
by the Persians, who made him to
typify hunger. That is what makes
men say, II am as hungry as the
devil; let's have half a dozen raw"
"Charlesl" she murmured as they
strolled along 1.-THE other evening, and
gazed upward at the bejewelled TRINA
ment; "Charles, dear, which is Venus
and which is Adonis?"
Says an Irish editor in his current
prospectus I'VE trust our progress.
cal article he vigorously eXclaimS:-
Our enemies are fighting windmills."
From researches made on hens eggs,
Oellacher came to the conclusion that
the oval Of vertebrates are capable OF
presenting the phenomena OF parthe-
%nogenesis. This tickles the hens,
nightly.
!. It has been discovered that the
average life of O flea is eight months,
and when you see g. man scratching
his back against the edge Of a wood
shed door Just tell him that he Il
wasting time.
A Duluth girl married a young man
because he lifted his hat so beautifully
as he passed her. She got a divorces
because he lifted the table so beauti-
fully when the dinner didn't suit him.
Detroit Free Press.
Mrs. Henry" said John to his wife,
one morning, IF you give me a Christ
mas present this year, please arrange
it so the bill won't come in till next
month. It's just as we'll to keep up
the illusion for a short time"
The author of 81 want to be an
angel" &C., is disputed. This is
carrying the hostility to General
Butler most too far. He wrote that
lovely little song in the fond hope that
posrerity would have something pleas
ant to remember himshy.
An apprentice sailor boy fell from
tho "round top" TO- the deck, stunned,
but little hurt. The captain exclaim'
ed, in surprise, "Why, where did yog
ireland, yer honor" was the prompt
reply, as the poorfellow gathered him
self up.
An Algerian idea is that the angel Of
death seiZes q dying man by the hal1
Of the head . and carries him up to
Paradise. To look at the front seats at
a can-can one would suppose that the
angel of death had been making a
good many desperate grabs, and TALL
ed to carry away Anything but hair.
Said a Nevada lawyer concerning a
man who had kicked his wife down
stairs; "Gentlemen of the jury, he
h'istedher! Great heavens, he h1sted
her! He-the brute, once, perhaps, q
man-raised his foot and applied 1t to
the form of her who, at the holy altar,
he had sworn to love and CHERISH"
We hear that keno Is to be introduce
ed into society this Winter as a. literary
means Of passing the long evenings.
We are told that it is q little arrange
ment where you sit and hear a man
get five buttons in o row all except
one, when some one at the other end
of the room takes all the money.
"See here, conductor, why don't you
have q fire in this carr" "Well, you
see, one OF our directvrs is a clothing
man, and another Is a doctor, and q
other is a drug store keeper, and IN:
other runs a tombstone factory, and
you know in this world people must
Tive and let live Soyou see" "All
right, sir; go ahead with your coffin"
At Rawling, Wyoming Territory, a
fellow standing on the depot platform
of the Union Pacific Railroad acct
dentally shot off his rifle. The ball
went through a wcather-board, through
a mans coal tail and between an in
valid lady and her daughter. Amid
the sensation the fellow looked at the
weather board and said, lisa smuthe
hole"
AS a colored resident Of Detroit was
breasting the storm, with q new UNI
brella over his head, he was halted by
a friend and brother, who asked, rs
dat your umbrella?" eyes, sah-cost
me S." was the prompt reply. ."Mr.
ly, "when q man will buy q 81 iii.
brella to keep the wet of'n a fifty cent
suit Of close, what's de use to talk
about economy"
A resident who reached Detroit by 3
noon train lately, after an absence
Of two weeks, was met at the depot by
his eight year old son, who loudly
welcomed him. "And is everybody
we'll, Willie?" asked the father. "The
wellest kind" replied the boy And
nothing has ~happened?" Nothing
at all. I've been good AID Jennie's
been good, and I never saw ma behave
herseIf 80 we'll as she has this time!"
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