The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1878-07-31
Items Of Interest.
Headquarters-The hatter's store.

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Headuuarters-The hatter's store.
Every carpenter has a plane duty be-
fore him.
Carvers of their own fortunes -
Butchers.
A case of suspended animation-Ama q
with braces N.
The most becoming tie for young
ladies-Modesty.
Printers ink keeps the hinges Of
store doors loose"
Leipsic is one of the leading centers
Of the doll making trade.
There are two Thousand characters IN
the stories Of Charles Dickens.
To the average Athenian the deares
spot on earth is thu Greece spot.
Glass grindstones + being expert.
mented with in mills in Germany.
Bracelets have been in use in every
nation from its very earliest period.
Pearls differ from other gems in re-.
curing no art to bring out their beauty.
"I have q bone to pick with you"
came from Sicilian marriage o~bseryances.
Errors, like straws upon the surface f1ow.
He that would seek the pesrl must never
blow.
Primitive bread was grain soaked in
water, subjected to a pressure and then
dried.
Dumps, an Egyptian king, is 1espon-
chile for ooh. she is down IN the
Dumps"
The only medical college for colored
men is in Nashville. 1t has an ample
endowment.
A Russian lady is not considered well
dressed unless she wears from twelve to
twenty bracelets.
The beer gardens outside the Paris
Exposition grounds cover as much space
rs the Exposition buildings.
What is it that hes neither wings nora
legs, and yet flies fast, and is not stopped
BY rocks, rivers or WALSH The voice.
Mrs. D. A. Dodd, Of Humboldt, Iowa,
has Just given birth to her twenty-seccnd
child, a son. Among the number ara
seven sets of twins. &
Upwards Of 494, 391 persons we're en-
ployed in English coal mines IN 1877,
3O.i41 less than in 1876, and 1,208o or one
in 400, died by an accident.
Picture frames and glasses are pre-
served from flies by painting them with
q brush dipped in g mixture made BY
polling three or four onions in o pint1of
water.
Il is easy to and friend in Paris; i
he isn't in any of "a, 500 houses, he'll be
sure in the other one, unless he is ont OF
doors or has left the city OF has not jet
come.
The Landerave Of Hesse made 6 pretty
good thing by letting his troops On hizes
during our Revolutionary war; $1gSDos-
900 was paid, being at the rate OF 300 g
head for each man killed.
A correspondent writes from Parma
ssThere,s always something to charm
the eve. delight the ear and str the
soul in italy. The introduction of the
scrubbing brush would make il q para
disc"
An Illinois woman has written to 2
of the assistant postn1aster-generab to
pick her out 8 good young man ZOE
husband. She thought his experiences
with the mails wo1fd-Gye MIN an
advantage in the selection.
Alarm sixty miles long and ten wide
in one tract, mostly aBnced9 Is that OF
Miller & Lux, cattle monopolists OF
California. They have $4,000 head OF
stock. own zoo. 600 acres Of choice land,
and are rated Is worth $15, 000,0 GOO.
The capers Of team Of mules htched
to q harvesting machine, near st. Louie,
saved the lives Of five men who had
taken shelter from Q thunder storm
under a tree. The mules began to KICK,
and tina men, going to quiet them,
escaped q thunderbolt that shIvered
the tree.
A French woman was lately watching
a COW feeding by the roadside.
tied round her body the rope attached 70
the beast. A horse coming along the
road at a sharp trot terrified the COW,
which started at q gallop, dragging the
Door woman over fields and bitches, and
finally killing her.
A French scientific authority states
that the ordinary rate Of q mans walk.
ing is four feet per second; OF Q good
horse in harness, twelve; of q reindeer
to q sledge on the ice, twenty.six; OF an
English race-horse, f~orty-three, Of a
hare, eighty-eight; Of q good sailing
shin fourteen, and of the wind eighty
two. ~
A Florida rattlesnake six feet long
spent half an hour charming an alligator
twice his length, and then struck the
gator with all the strength he could
muster. The stroke had no effect, but,
circline backward, the alligator struck.
the snake q fatal blow with his tail, and
was then himself despatched by an OBJ
server.
A single dealer in butter in Nor
mandy. North France, sells $l,OOO,OO
worth q year. It nets him sixty cents Q
nonnd. and is nearly all sold III Brazil,
South America. This butter is packed
in stone lars, which in turn are placed
in LIGHT barrels filed with brine. It is
warranted to keep perfectly sweet and
fresh for three years.
An extremely simple method OF test:
ing the genuineness Of diamonds ls g1ven
in q letter to the London ISnaess II the
anecimen is immersed in water, should
Il be a diamond it will sparkle with al
most undiminished light aud brilliancy
Of color: but if it be spurious, whether
il be paste or rock crystal, the "fre"
OF the Jewel will be completely q%uenched.
At Rateltontein, Fraserberg, South
Africa, where water is precious, a wool
washing mill is 30 arranged that the
water, after passing through q fine wire
gauze screen and falling over the water
wheel of a corn mill, goes to the lands
lying in tie valley, and thus is used
for wool washing, corn grinding,
manuring by carrying down the grease
from the work, and irrigation.
How doth the busy fly
Improve each day that passes
Without, however, lettering
The butter and molasses! 49,.
How clinging are his feet
At morn when we're reposing;
How we'll his mission he fulflls
By keeping III from DOING!
Satan's emissary he,
And jealous past comparing:
While others merely tempt us, ne
Insists upon our swearing. WI,
-Breakfast Table.
A moderate amount of fat is generally
considered evidence of good health.