The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1879-02-26
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Ancient Greece-Old butter.
4 yard of pork-Three pigs feet. 81
The penny's mightier than the sword. !
A poor relation-A story badly tolds
An advanced pupil-A protruding
eye. d
Baking powder is used for blowing up
bread.
A notable wedding-A wedding where
there is no table. 4.
There were over 15, 600 deathsin Phil
adelphia last year.
Meerschaum pipes are manufactured
principally at Vienna.
Electric sparks-C Courting . distant
sweetheart by telegraph. ~
Ohio has sixteen militia regiments
with $500 equipped men.
cWho has got the stick with which the
fellow beat hasty retreat3
Why is the nose put in lthe middle Of
the face? Because it's the scenter.
When does man smoke cigar too
long? When he smokes it too short.
Roasted coffee is one OF the most
powerful disinfectants known to science.
Give to the winds your fears; !.
Hope and be undismayad;
Your goods well ADVERTISE e.
And you will thrive In trade.
Almost all of us are generous to'a /:
fault, if the fault happens to be onr Z
own. u
All the charms possessed by some
men are what hang in front OF theirq
vests.
"A lock of hair from young wonan,s
head is often key to young mans
heart. So
Four hundred miles Of streets have TO g
be lighted at the expense OF tie city OF
Boston. q.
Ram psgeous small boys stoning the
telegraph wires cost England $5O,000s,..
last year. ,,- 4
Money makes the marego, steam makes
the cargo, and the sight of the creditor
makes the mango. - ~
They occasionally catch 6O0.pound e
turtle off the coast of Florida, and don't q
brag about it either. 's,..sss -
An Arkansas paper says that the girls
in that State grow to be Blk feet hfgn.
They must be well cultivated.
The advance in the science OF micro 4
scopy during the last few years has
been greater in America than In any
other country. ~.
There is a superstition prevalen iil
Yorkshire, England, that mint will NOT 8
grow in the garden Of house in whicts 8
the husband is henpecked.
"Somebody's Coming when the Dew;
drops Fall " is said to be very beautl.
ful song. "Somebody's Coming when
the Note Falls Due" is not 80 enchant-
ing.
In Vermont fifty per cent. Of thapeo-
ple are set down as farmers, in Maine
forty, in New Hampshire thirty, and IN
Massachusetts only twenty-five per cent
are farmers. 49,.
It is fortunate for the Chinese tnat
thew have an epidemic of cholera 80 sell
dom. for with their habits Of filth and :
oyercrowding they have no chance but
to be deoimated.
In California they call hive OF bees
o "stand." When bee begins TO-
make your acquaintance under the ear
YOU stand, you know, instead OF break
inc for a thicket.-Detroit Free Pfeas.
LABOR. s.
Labor is life! IT'S the still water faileth,
Idleness ever despaireth, bewatleth;
Keep the watch wound, or the dafR Rrust ssaan sNA''
eth!-Ars. Osgood
We may further remark that 3 dead man neer !
Her 10 ,So won't advertise soon sheriff ssleth; IS
And the husband the letter his wife gave neer
maileth. --Ch,ca9o Tribune.
There are 142 daily newspapers in Z
England, eight having discontinued
publication during the past year. Sew
enty-eight OF them are morning papers
seventy are published at o penny, sixty
three at Id, and the remaining ten at s
nrices from that up to Sd. Sixty.four
Of the papers are Liberal in politics,
thirty-seven Conservative and forty-two
Independent:
During a dense fog Mississippi
steamboat took landing. A passenger
anxious to go ahead, came to the unper.
turbed manager Of the wheel and asked :
why they stopped. Too much log;
can't see the river" "But you can see
the stars overhead" eyes," replied !
the urbane pilot; "but until the biler 6
bursts we amt going that way. The &
passenger went to bed.
Said little Johnny Jones, ut would be anus.
II cats could speak our language loud and
For prob'biy when they gossip on moony roof
They say things IT would make us laugh to
And little Jennie answered, "Well, possibly
Talk palmer II they'd only purr-severe."
The largest single iron contract ever
awarded in the United States was given :
by the Metropolitan elevated railroad,
OF New York, to a firm in Ph@aixville, =
Pa. The contract calls for 80, 0G0, ,O00
pounds of iron, to be used in the con-
struction OF the Second avenue branch
OF the elevated railroad-about eight
miles long-and includes 2, 900 iron col
umns and 5000 girders.
A singular library existed in 1885 at
Warsenstein, near Cassel; the books
composing it, or rather the substitutes
for them, being made Of wood, and every
one of them is a specimen OF some dii-
ferent tree. The back is formed OF lts
bark, and the sides are constructed pf
polished pieces of the same STOCK.
When put together, the whole forms
box: and inside it are stored the frpH,
seed and leaves, together with the moss
which grows on the trunk and the inseots
which feed upon the tree: Every volume
corresponds in size, and the coiiection
altogether, has an excellent eneos.
A Curious List.
II was curious feature OF the Eng
lish language that different terms 1a are /
applied to different groups OF animals.
The following list, the Free fTess says
20 nortoir1u rOrrpat. -.-7T