The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1879-10-29

With love life bcguiling,
Because tits the tail O the year.
Mrs. M F. Butts, In Boston Z 1ranscrip,-
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
The board of edueation-The school
masters shingle. aayls, ga oss 80
Man is often driven to desperation
with his own hobby horses. y,-
Can an editors hat be called the news
tile?-Syracuse Sunday Times. 4,...
"You don't seem to like me when I
mold" the ink replied to the angry
scribe.
ALWAYS in "order." The five letters
which compose that word.-NeD York
Netos.
A gauge that no man should measure
his property by is the mortgage:-Ro'''e
Sentinel.
"This is late fall,n said Heffelspin,
as he sustained a midnight tumble
Rome Sentinel. 5.,g4 "a lss-; IS 10
When a corner loafer dies in Tenncs-
see, the newspaper says: Another old
landmark gone"
It is estimated that American travel
ers expended last summer, in foreign
travel, 81, ,000, 900. So
A man-so to, speak k-who is not able
to bow to his own conscience every
morning, is hardly in q condition to re-
spectfully salute the world at any other
time Of the day.
The St. Petersburg Globe says tina,
1854 persons were incarcerated IN tne
Central prison at Moscow during the
summer, I0,4T Of whom were con-
demned to exile in Siberia.
A London clergyman has described
the orchestra and coffee palace in Re-
gents park as 'ttwin roads to hell,
along which the rising generation are
invited to walk on Sunday" .
You may put mean soul, like poor
picture, in costly frame, and ne is none
the better for it; and you may put q
great soul, like good picture, lnto,a q
common frame, and he is none the worse
for it. a.,.3.i.. = s,t ~
Four years ago there were only l57
Chinese in the city of New York. There
are now more than 5000 of them. or
thes., 500 have laundries, forty run gro
ceries, twenty tobacco shops, ten drug
stores and six manage restaurants.
Great Britain's standing army Of 1885,
600 men costs S65. .000, 600 per annum;
France has an army of 470, 600 men at an
annual cost of 800, 100000; Russia,
7S7, 900 men at $l44,0O0, 600; Austria,
2o6, 900 men at S5l, ,000, 600; Germany
400, 900 at S92, 500, 600.
An eve to the future: Mother to her
daughter just seven years old" What
makes YOU look so sad, Carrier" Car
rie, looking at her baby-brother three
weeks old-"l was just thinking. that
in about ten years from now, when /
shall be entering company, and having
beAux, that brother of mine will be
just old enough to bother the: Life out OF
me."-Rlck. 4''h
A hungry printer is not apt to criticise
the typographical appearance OF bill OF
fare. .ENe1 York Neaos. Especially If he
is satisfied with the quality of the inside
matter. Eamtord Adyocate. But heifre-
ouently forms an opinion Of the pi; an
assertion which needsno proof Gennert.
And he gobbles all the fat lie can get
NJ Y. Mouthly U,siou. And. sticks to
Il regardless of the rule to take as you
fird.-Naugatslck Conn., ENTERPRISE. IL
The new liquor law in Michigan is
quite stringent in its provisions, ana
imposes severe penalties for its viola
tion. Under this law no Intoxicating
drinks are to be sold on Sunday, nor on
week DAYS between the hours OF nine
o'clock at night and six in the morning,
excepting in certain cities where the
NIGHT hour is extended to ten O'Clock.
It also prohibits its sale in any BILL
liard.room or other place where games
of chance are played. ~" ". '-,
Now knock the nuts from off the tree 7' o.
And store them in the barn, m sra 80
And shear the chickens and the geese,
And spin your winters yarn.
Die up your outside windows soon,
And train them to the wall; "'s
Put on the rubber holdings, too, ... ..-...
And the storm door withal. ..
Your cellar floor with coal now dress,
And sharpen up your ak; '
Your name set on the voting list,
And promptly pay your tax. -
And when the winters storm shall rage,
And snow and hail shall come, o.
| Just spend your evenings with your wife
And family at home.
Boston Transcript.
A novel invention recently exhibited
in St. Lous consists of q fire-proot shut
ter that is opened by stream OF water.
The shutters are constructed OF IRON
with holes about foot square near the
center, which are protected by IRON
Stats. On the back part or inside OF the
shutters beneath the Stats there are
small water tanks. so that, when
stream of water strikes, the Stats por-
tion of it runs throug h and nils the
tanks, and as soon as they are full the
weight, together with the force OF the
stream, trips the shutter fastenings ana
the shutters fly open. The shutter
hin ees are fastened on an inclined plane,
so that it may be said the shutters open
by their own gravity Simply filling
the tanks with water will not cause the
shutters to open, as force or a shock are
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