The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1879-06-18
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Weather report-Thunder.

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A hen lays and ship lays to-.
Come to stay all summer-Warm
weather.
The auctionecr makes knock-down ar
guments.
More frogs legs are now eaten in
America than Franco.
Paris drinks in year more thar.
80, ,0Oc, 900 gallons of beer.
A young man talks only the more
when he gets down on his lip.
The swells of the ocean get dead broke
as soon as they strike the shore.
Last yeat 81, ,592 Ohioans were married
and 1887 divorces were granted.
Establishments for the refining of
petroleum are increasing fast in Japan.
One hundred and eighty-three cotton
mills have been built in the South since
the war
"A beautiful custom prevails "-at
the stores of merchants who advertise.
Neo York Nevs.
The Crown Princess of Germany, who
has been; made a grandmother, is less
than forty years of age.
A party sof twenty Americans will
make tour on bicycles through the
west of England next fall.
The human skeleton consists of more
than 200 distinct bones. Some 5000 less,
it is calculated, than shad a contains.
A little Philadelphia boy startled a
friend of the family by remarking that
he was " four years old with his clothes
on"
Bicycles are used to such an extent in
London that it has been found necessary
to adopt stringent rules to regulate the
pastime.
The boy who left a piece Of ice in the
than the man who opened a store and
expected people to hunt him out and
buy BIS goods. .. '..
In the race for the 1900 guineas at
Newmarket, in which the American
horse .Uncas was engaged, a hare was
started, and instead of making for the
heath got among the running horses and
raced with them for good squirt.
Last year 1,l52, 2,525 births were regis
tered in the United Kingdom, or thirty
four per 1000 of the estimated popula-
tion, which, in the middle of the year,
was $685., 1865. The deaths registered
were us, 165. or twenty-one per 1000 OF
population, showingAn excess of births
over deaths of ABE, ,460, or 49, ,242 less than
the excess in 1877.
SAYS Jones, "When I SEE Mrs. J. in
the clothes yard, both arms as red as a
boiled lobster, barred to the elbow and
stretched high above her in their strug-
giles with an unruly sheet, an apron over
her head, her hair in her eyes and a
clothespin protruding from her mouth,
it seems impossible that, she is one and
the same with the Mis- AStebbins I used
to feed on peppermints and about whom
I used to rave So" ..-.. ......
A curious case has just been decided
in Washington. Mrs. Senator Sprague,
daughter Of Chief Justice Chase, directed
Mr.. Alexander Gardner to make series
Of photographs of her fathers library,
President Lincoln's commission to him
and several other things. all Of which
was satisfactorily done, but not paid for.
Mr.. Gardner accordingly brought suit.
The plea entered by Mrs. Sprague's
counsel was that she, as married
woman, had no separate estate. The
will of the Chief Justice, which showed
a personality of $780, in favor of Mrs.
Sprague and her sister, Mrs. Hoyt, was
shown to be irregular, not being proper
ly witnessed. The court, therefore, held
that Mrs. Sprague was nonentity in
law, and, as a matter of course, Mr..
Gardner lost his suit. The case is of
special interest, as Congress recently ex-
empted Edgewood, her fathers estate,
on her account, from taxation, while
now on her testimony it does not belong
to her.