The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1879-03-05
ODDS AND ENDS.
The OK has a neat foot.
Who ever saw q house fly?

Who ever saw house fy2
A leading article-A halter-strap.
A highly.colored tale-Thepeacock
Women in short hair are dock -tresses.
Trees to plant in the schoolyazd 8
Birch.
When a man hasn't red he gets
blue. 5
Thirty.five years ago all carpets were
made by hand.
The tines on which many persons are
impaled-Valentines. 3,
Why is lazy man like magician &
Because he works by spells.
$50 dark and yet so light, as the
man said about his short ton OF Goa.
One attack of scarlet fever usually
prevents receiving second.
There are ninety.one horses who have
trotted mile in 2.22 or less. "
st. Louis has twenty.six brewerias
and only one temperance society.
VIII at this country has never seen, and
never will, is hen that can lay swager.
Man believes that to be a lie that con
tradicts the testimony Of his own igncr
ance. ss
There were 157, 600, 900 pounds Of tea
exported from Hong Kong, China, last
year.
"What one man can do, another can !
if he has the will and determination '
and knows how. q
Best temperature for house plants,
forty-hve degrees at night, seventy des
grees in the day.
Squirrels bother the California farmers
almost as badly as potato bugs do the
people Of Kansas. 4
A society hos been formed In FraucA9
for the purpose Of finding situations Tor
returned Communists. q
A Frenchman's compliment: g Alb,
madam, you grow every day 70 lcok 4
more like your daughter.
Cinnamon seem to be making their
way all over the world. Lots Of them ares
said to be found In South America.
Statistcians estimate the working
population of Great Britain at "a, ,000, e.
600 out Of total population OF "a ,000, $
600. ~ 4 6
An exchange speaks Of 9 I" ",wite msurs
ance company" But we don't know q
whether it insures mans wife OF insures
man wife. S;
"Why are you looking at me 20 In
tently, Alice ?" said Theodore. was
gazing at vacancy" replied Alice
dreamily; and yet there is twinkle
about her mouth that shows her aps
praisement OF the young man.. -
WHAT WE Don't KNow.
We never knew the bitter throes
Forced smiles conceal,
Nor all the pangs bsld-headed men
In fy-time feel.
Texas ranks third among the wool
producing States, having 3,674, 600
sheep, and so treading closely on the
heels of Ohio. California leads. Nuecea
county, Texas, has more sheep in it's:
limits than any other county in the
Union-656, 900.
hav seen plenty ov smart men who
could phrovesy to ded certainty what
would happen for the next l8 months
who couldn't set down with . slate and
pencil and phrovesy within 26 per cent. S
what it would kost to reshingle q pig
pen.-Josh Billings. - ~
Sympathetic old lady (giving money
to solemn.looking tramp: "Isit yor9
inability to get work, my good mani
that causes your detected air 2" 3. LtS
preparing to light out): emo, muna;
it is my liability to git suthin' to do
that keeps me all the time pensiye and
cast down."
"First class in astronomy, stand up.
Where does the sun rise ?" Please, 6
sir, down in our meadow; I seed II yes
terday." "Hold your tongue, you
Ounce. Where does the sun rise 2" =
know, in the east" "Right ! and why,
in the east ?" "Because the east makes !;
everything rise." ~.
WHEN IT RAINS. Ss
Do?-like the things in the garden. Oh!
Just keep quiet while and grow. gEtss
Do?-uke the bird. It shuts its wings
And waits for the sun. Do you hear2-it sings Z.
Do ?-hke the lilies. Let 1t beat; IS
Nestle below it-and be sweet. -
Mrs. s. H. B. Plat. f ff
When the German law against the /
socialists was first passed, it is said that
Prince Bismarck burst out with, Now, 3
off we go for the pig.stioking I" t"Jetst
geht die Sauhatz tos.") And apparently
the chase has been tolerably active, for
1877 clubs and societies and ffty.eight
periodicals, as we'll as 210 on-periodica-
publications, have been suppressed. In
addition to this, sixty two persons have
been banished. The belief in Germany
is that the law has been really success,
in the sense of driving socialism out Of
the field.
It has been estimated that there are in
the State of New York NO fewer than !.
6, 400 ecclesiastical organizations Of all
denominations, occupying nearly NJ
many edifces, which furnish seats Tor
2, 600, 900 persons, and have an enrolled I
membership of 1900, 900 in round NUM-
bers. The total value Of these church
edifces and the lots which they occupy
is about $10l, ITO. 900, to which should
be added, say, SIG. SOC, 600, the value OFF,
parsonages and other real estate belongs.
ing to the various denominations. y.
I would keep "better hours I" If Is
were boy again; that is, would go to-
bed earlier than most boys do. Nothing
gives more mental and bodily vigor than
sound rest when properly applied. /,
Sleep is our great replenisher, and II Z
we neglect to take it regularly in child .
hood all the worse for Us when we grow &
up. If We set up late we decay; ar,des
sooner or latter We contract disease
called insomania, allowing it to be per-
manently fixed upon us, and then we,
begin to decay, even in youth. Late G.
hours are shadows from the grave. !,
Z. Fields. 10
A sum of $l40, 900, consisting OF re*
mittances to Europe from merchants IN
Mexico, has been captured by fifteen ::
brigands on the railroad between Puebla
and Vera Cruz About dozen brigands
took third.class tickets, seated then1-
selves in a carriage next the baggage Z,
car, and about half an hour after sts z
ing severed all the cars behind thera.s, ,
Leaving these on the track, they forced
the engineer to continue ct full speed ;
up to a point where twenty-five armed
men on horseback ordered halt, where.
upon the whole party carried of the =
money on mules, killing the conductor.'