The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1879-07-23
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

MANY persons in England have beeu
poisoned by licking postage stamps
No kind of dust thrown in mems eyes
will make them so blind as gold dust,
More than 1, 500 of the English soldiers
now In Zulu.and are under twenty.one
years of age. ,s .grg'.y- !as,,g. 4. ss
Great Britain and Ireland, and their
shipping trade, consume ll3.0Oo,Ooo
tons of coal a year.
The annual crop of tobacco, of the
United States is about 7420. .GD0.O0
pounds. two-thirds ofwhiel!ris:exDorted.
"Yes, Agnes, I'm going to- have n
cream-colored summer silk, providedpa
doesn't veto the appropriation ma has
passed." .".tgf<s.., -, lY,s,cfl,c, .,..a-,s..
The consumption of coffee throughout
the world has increased during the past
forty years from 100, 100000 to $4,000,
600 pounds. '''''''' '''" H"'E''''t
"The dearest spot on eartli to nre,'
the young man muttered rs his girl
coaxed him into an ice-cream saloon
Nelo York Nears. g6 gnipJ ssI. tn ....f.
% One ma,l asked another why his beard
was 80 brown and his hair white. Be-
cause" he replied. lone is twenty years
younger than the other" - 3,2',
A man is said to be absent t-1ninded
when he thinks he has left his watch at
home and takes it out of his pocket to
See If he has time ITO returniheme to get
it. .s..,;..,i l7,, mil q. =. qss- ~
Circumstances alter cases. The man
who is on the train thinks it tarrles teo
long ut way stations; not SO the one VINO
is half block away and coming rapidly
toward it when the whistle toots. .-Puc6
"A warm, sunny day; a shirt "waxen
and white as a lily;" q corpulent; puff.
ing man. These three. things combined
are what throw into a Mecca of delight
and bcatitude the Mongolian. knight OF
the washtub.
Miss Florence Nightingale is now wsixty
wears old, and lives in London almost u
prisoner to her room. She wrote lately,
in letter to a friend - 'Overworked as ]
am, my health is necessarily bad. Thank
God for still giving me work to do"
Strong drink is the curse, of Africa,
according to Mr.. Mckay, missionary
of the American Board. Go where
YOU will,n he says, you will find
every night, when grain is plentiful,
every man, woman and child reeling
with the effects of alcohOl.'1. al
Newspapers are the merchants best
salesman. They enter, almost every
dwelling, and, while imparting the
latest intelligence. foreign and domestic,
local and State, they silently. yet forci
bly,. solicit patronage for each advertiser.
With thousands of these, our home
fsalesmen, travelling through the country
every week, who can estimate their
potent aid to business prosperity: = Salem
Sunbeam. ''' . - 5.-'5a'' = '.'y''.. -
| r," ", ~, FURIOUS FLIES. n7H' .E1f'T
| Can any one tell us why flies were made
| Or what their uses may be-! y >.agS
Or why the, ghosts Of them cannot be laid!
II you make on one an onslaught and raid
Nine hundred and ninety you'll see. "'
Act one, he meets her at the croquet ground;
| Act two, to SEQ her mt the house he calls;'
Act three, most regularly he comes around;
| Act iour, head over; ears, in love he falls;
Act five, his manly passion he declares,
And for an atterpiece pa kicks him down stairs.
p" r'A &nitf: iI'u-4Barlington Ha,ckeye
Yesterday noon, up at Mrs. McKer-
rels boarding house, one Of. the young
gentlemen coming in II little late, seized
| HIS soup pttLc stlil rAllJ tSesSAA1Ps~N "
balance. It Oh the end Of sifs finger and
twill il around above his head; like. the
gentleman in the circus, But. ,alas!f it
went off and came down on his head and
broke and nearly drowned him, and
when lie arose and went to his room he
shook cut of his curling locks chunks OF
boiled potato, and slices OF onion, and
slabs of cabbage, and suggestions of Ia
con, and storms of rice, and flakes OF
grease, and sprays Of sage and one thing
and another. He said, after the explo-
sion, that he "didn't know it was
loaded. ."-HaaDEeye. :"r "h: - aujo4 =
The following was New Haven col
ony law in 1863: Whosoeyer shall in
vcigle or. draw the affections, of any
maide or maide-servant, either to him
self or others, without first gaining the
consent ofherparents, shall pay to the
plantation for the irsy offence, 40s., the
second, "a, for the third shall be i'm.
prisoned or corporeously punished"
An old record hls just been found show
ing that under this law Jacobeth,Mur-
time and Sarah Tuttle got into trouble
by setting down,on chesule together.
his arme around her waiste, and her
arme upon his shoulder or. about his
neck, and continuing in that sinful pos
ture about half an hour, in which time
he kyssed her and she kyssed him, or
they kyssed one another. rs witnesses
testified" D.. p. 4,a III ~ ~. .,sE.s.