The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1878-05-22
Items OF Interest.
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In what place are TWO neaQ5 Dettol uuhu
one? In barrel. '" ~
"Admittance free," as the goat said
to the circus poster. @ .. .S..,..' -
Hartford has Chinese base ball nine
who muchee muffee.
There are seventy-two postmistresses
in the United States. -
The Shah of Persia has son-that
makes him pa-shah.
A letter carrier is not necessarily .
fighting man because he wears coat OF
mail. 1@< M !.
A recent philosopher has discovered a
method to avoid being dunned. Never
run in debt.
Why is a scratch on the hand like the
first flight of dedgling? Because iii
only little soar.
Mrs. Jane Higgins, of Shelbyville,
Ind, has attained fame by cowhiding
her father-ln-hw. ha
Thirty-seven men have been hanged
in New York in four years. New York
is the Hempire State.-Boston Post.
] Governor Van Zandt, of Rhode Island,
is over six feet in height, weight, 200
pounds, and is the largest man in the
State. s
Lives Of great men all remind Us
We can make our lives sublime.
And, departing, leave behind Us
Creditors to grieve and pine.
-Oh city Derrick.
A woman caught the high French
heels of her shoes in railroad track In
Meriden, Mimi, and was held fast while
a train cut off her legs. ,s.!s
The English language is inadequate to
express the forlorn feelings Of the boy
who thinks he has stolen dime novel
and finds it to be cook book. 80 90
A West Hill boy wandered into g
Jefferson street drug store yesterday and
wanted to buy ten cents worth OF ny
paper I" to make kites of."-Bsrlsngtos
Hawkeye. -
Chronic-"You are looking well.
Mr.. Whiff." "Well? You know that
I'm never we'll Just as soon as / stop
being sick for a day. I feel worse for it
the next morning." ......
Justice is the great but simple prin-
ciple, and the whole secret OF success,
in ali eovernment-as absolutely esser-
tial to the training of an infant as to the
control of mighty nation.
One may study nature all his lifetime,
and then not be able to explain why the
man who misses one step in going down
stairs is certain to miss three or four
more before he brings up.
Somebody estimates that every man
who lives to be sixty years old has spent
seven months buttoning his shirt collar.
Thirty years moro should be added for
hunting up the collar button.
"Come, don't be timid, said couple
of foolish snobs to the two mechanics
"sit down and make yourselves. our
EQUALS" "We'd have to blow our
brains out to do that, was the reply.
The practice and principle Of insur-
ance is of great antiquity, and was
known in the time of Claudius Cesar,
A, D. 43. It is certain that assurance
Of ships at sea was practiced as early as
the year As, A. D.
The young man paced the parlor,.
While she was cleaning her teeth;
or the daddy who would bequeath.
The old man sat on the counter,
With his head between hia hands,
And reioced that his girl had q lover
Who would help him to meet his demands.
Both mistaken.
Washington Capital.
Detroit boy stood an umbrella with
q cord tied to it in a public doorway.
Eleven persons thought that the UNI
brella was theirs, and carried it with
them the length Of the string. They
then dropped it, and went off without
once looking back, or stopping to pick
it up ain.-Detroit Free Press.
Edward" said mother to her son,
a bow of eight, who was trundling hoop
in the front yard. Edward, you,
mustn't 90 out of that gate into the
street" "No, ma, I won't" was the
reply. A few minutes afterward his
mother saw him in the street manufac.
turing dirt pies. "Didn't I tell you,"
she said, angrily, not to go through the
gate9 ?" "Well, didn't mother" was
the reply. ct climbed over the fence"
Little Annie, like most little folks, says
queer things. A few nights ago her mother
had prepared her for bed, and kneeling
by her mothers side she repeated the
Lords Prayer, as usual. She had no
sooner concluded it than she repeated it
again rapidly. Annie, said her mother
"why do you say your prayers twice Z"
Then the little innocent looked up and
remarked: "Well, mamma, feel just
like praying tonight and tomorrow
night I may not"
HER LAST LETTER.
"New York, November seventeen.
NV dearest Charles, my souls delight,
could not see you yester cen. ......
You must not visit me tonight, -
Darling, dare not tell you why;
But fate 80 Wills it. All Is DER
keep my secret with sigh; 49,.
But in this world we'll meet no more,
And yet love you just the same;
But do not judge me as seem;
Forgive me, Charley Do not blame,
Think of me only as dream,
For am doomed to fate and die
Well meet, perhaps, some happier day;
Visit my tomb, but do not cry,
Alden Yon- poor distracted May:
S-Charles, come tomorrow, anyhow;
The doctor says it hardly shows;
I'm not ashamed to tell you now
I had pimple on my nose''
Erzeroum, in Asia Minor, in the
recent war seems to have been vast
charnal house. During three months
8, 500 Turkish soldiers died in the vari-.
GUS hospitals there, and probably at
least as many civilians, making a total
mortality OF nearly 20, 900 in Erzeroum
alone in about twelve weeks. In Janua-
ary, the weather being then very severe,
a detachment of 800 troops was sent oven
the mountains to Erzingham. Only
300 reached their destination. They
we're overtaken by fearful snowstorm
The colonel had his wife and three
children with him in covered ARABIA
he and they all persisted. The hospitals
at Erzeroum were full of cases Of FROST
bite, some of them as severe as any cases
on record. Twenty-seven soldiers with
out feet were under the charge OF one
surgeon alone +; they had been ali FROST
bitten, and their feet had to be ampu-
tated.
Ayoung Canadian eight-year.o old takes
the palm for cruelty. She is the child
of Mr.. Charles Frost, of Berlin, Ont.
and being left with the care OF o sister
of 6ya hacare anpered because it in