The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1878-09-04

Items OF Interest.
Elephants ale fond of music.
An odd affair.-A dull paper.
A strapping fellow: The barber.
A bat that flies without wings-A
brick-bat.
Cats are known to reach the age OF
twenty.one years.
Slave OF the still-Servant IN Q deat
and dumb asylum.
Among the latest curiogities is q Whet-
stone to sharpen the waters edge.
The wool clip of 1873 is about three
per cent. greater than that of 1877.
The annual potato crop Of the United
States is about 100000 600 bushels.
If a good face is q letter OF recommen-
dation, o good heart is a letter OF credit.
Spiders seem gifted with q nearer app
proach to reason than any other insects.
Early to bed and early to rise
viii save you some trouble from hungry dies.
Twenty-four million dollars will be
coined at the Philadelphia mint this
year.
Boepe says the times are 30 dull that
it is difficult for him to collect even hls
ideas.
A cistern ten feet in diameter and ten
feet deep will hold 1868 wine gallons, o.
| a little over 1875 barrels.
"A railroad train moving twenty miles
an hour day and night would reach the
planet Neptune in $4,000 years.
Palm leaves, straw. yucca hbres,
whalebcne shavings, and feathers, are
used in making artificial lowers.
A fashion item says :. marigold" is
now q popular shade Of yellow. The
ladies always were partial to marry: gold.
The Princess of Wales, the Grown
Prince of Denmark, her brother, ana
the heir to the Belgian throne, are all
partially deaf.
A court on the French side Of the Ex-
position has just been opened, which
illustrates the perfection to which Paris
artistes in hair have arrived.
Turkeys are natives of America, and
were consequently unknown to the an
clients. They were first brought TO
England about 1928, and to France
about 1910.
An American merchant in Japan says
an evening stroll through some OF tho
towns in that country req eals O petro-
leum lamp in nearly ever y store, burn
ing American oil.
A.doctor went out for q days hunting
and on coming home complained that he
hadn't killed anything. "Thats be
cause you didn't attend to your legii
mate business" said his wife.
The same backache which makes 0 boy
howl when he's digging potatoes
wreathes his face in smiles when he slips
off the back way to the picnic. Boys
are curious insects. Bridgeport &and-
ard.
The worst slave in the world is the
man who is eve and anon controlled by
q hot temper. he can undo the work OF
years in q minute when under his cruel
master, or do what years OF regret can
not erase.
II YOU take one of the new silver half
dollars, pour o little muriatic acid on
the figure of the eagle and set it in the
sun for twenty minutes, when you come
to look at it will be gone. And the
man who took it viii be gone also.
' Beside the grand old ocean
She stood in rapt devotion,
With q look that seemed to grasp some vision
airy land;
Then turned about her PAGES,
One Of the barefoot graces,
And her fairy feet retresting made post-holes
in the sand. Boston Post
So disguised was d farmer who had
taken a two-horse load of corn to Dallas, J
Tex, on leaning that the buyers would
pay no more than thirty-fve cents, that
he paid forty-cents to drive his wagonto
the middle of the toll. bridge, and there
solemnly emptied the grain into the
river.
Charles Reade is mistaken. There
ara men who could never Learn to use
both hands with equal facility. We
saw one last evening grinding q hand.
organ in market, and to save himself
he couldn't bulge the crank with
his let hand. He had neglected to
bring it home with him when he came
out of the army. And now let the old
mudslinger call us q bald-headed horse
thief, if ne dares.-Cfncinnah Breakfast
Table,.
The records of the ancient borough
of Wallingford, Berks, England, con-
tain the following ineuphonious sur.
names, which have been brought to light
by the Historical MSS. Commission:
Three halfpence, Brokenfoot, Timeof
day, Harlbat, Waps, Kykaw, Henteeake,
Scaldwater, Putt, Pelekoc-probably
Shakspeare's (King Lear Pilicook-
Pessewips, Peekepeni, Skikerit, Some
of the femenine Christian names found
are on the other hand very euphonious:
Estrilda, Claria, Marcilla, Claricia,
Basllle-relics of the Roman days In
Britain.
Sir hugh Flatt relates sthat Sir Fran
els Carew orce making q splendid enter.
tainment for Queen Elizabeth at Bed
dington, led her majesty after dinner 20
a cherry-tree in his garden. which had
on it fruit in their prime, then abovea
month after all cherries had taken their
leave of England. This r~etardation hefs
performed by straining a net or canvas
cover over the whole tree, and wettin8s
It as the weather required with q scoopsX
ia by obstructing the sunbeams they
I'D aboth great, and were very 'lonei
fc >sy gained their perfect c1E
coltC ladwhen he was assured
her Il testy would come, ne
the tent, andia few sunny days h3o1G4N
them to their full maturity"
The e1.deadhead of the Bur4egsSy
Hawdeye sounds this note OF
Last week the proprietor OF ting
ing soda water fountain on JeMef
street took up and Cancelled u
pass. We do not regret this act 4H 18
part. On the contrary, we are hs s
glad of it, because a consclentlc2s
eard for the public safety and
sense of our duty in such matter
inst impelling us to say that fo4at9(1ss:
soda il composed of sawdust, gray}ts1a3s5
cine. aqua FORTS, leather chipa
BARK; iron filings, marble dust, 421S&
river water, red ink. orange peel, yelow
SOAP, syrup of rhubarb, ammonia, fuse
oil, hoef parings, scrap iron, SCOT, lard
oil, lampblack, boiled tallow and India
turnip. Thousands OF people have
o-. r--L a,Jo Wo ora M alarm.