The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1879-04-09

That he lived above hlH store.
Humiliation is guest that only comes
to those who hive made ready his
resting place and will give him fair
welcome.
Make no man your idol, for the best
man must have faults; and his faults
will insensibly become yours, in addi-
tion to your own.
An indiscreet man is more hurtful
than an i'll. natured one the latter at.
tacks only his enemies the other in
jures friends and foes alike.
In Copenhagen there is manufactured
from the blood OF cattle chocolate,
which is said to bethe most nutritious
article yet known to science.
Never write on subject without hav.
ing first read yourself full of it; and
never read on subject till you have
thought yourself hungry on it.
The largest glass bottle ever blown
was ct Leith, Scotland. 1t was in di-
mensions forty inches by forty.two, and
was capable Of holding two barrels in
quantity of fluid.
The body of Philip Dunnell, buried
at Dallas, Texas, in 1852, was lately dis
inferred and found to have literally
turned to stone, and being fully double
its weight when it was buried
The man who married whole family
lives in Traverse county, Michigan. His
first wife died, and he married her sister.
She too died, and then he married the
mother Of his two former wives.
The editor OF the Cincinnati Saturday
Night discovered that his girl wore two
sets of gold. mounted false.teeth, and he
sat down and wrote a poem entitled,
erich and rare were the gums she
wore."
The Mississippi river is computed to
discharge annually 19,500, 600, 600, 600
cubic feet of water. OF this 81. .5O0,-
900, 900 pounds is sediment. Collected
in one body it would make one square
mile OF land, and reach height OF 268
feet.
"Come, now, stupid" said the school.
master, "you don't know how much two
and five make. Now listen. In one
pocket I have two dollars, and in the
other five dollars. Now, how many dol.
lars lave I got?" "Let me see them,
and I will tell you" School was dis
missed.
At one OF our schools recently, in
answer to the question: "What is the
difference between an island and con-
tinent, and upon which do we liver q
bright little shaver replied: "The dlf-
ference is that 8 continent Is much
larger than an island, and We live on
bread and meat and other things"
LINES ON TIE DONKEY.
The donkey is pretty bird,
SO gentle and so wise;
It has silky little tail
With which TO whisk the flies.
Upon its head two ears it bears, Z
So silky, long and soft, J
That when its tail can't reach the die
The ears can whsk them of. -
Mr.. Ei~ard King. who has oeen
writing some interesting letters3trom
the South to the Boston Journal, tnakes
the broad assertion that the prettiest
women in the world live in New Or:
leans. He says: CAT the grand ball
given by the 'Mystick Crewe Of Comus,'
in the Varieties theater, several years
ago, saw twenty-five hundred ladies
gathered together. It would not have
been an eyaggeration of the truth to
say of any one of them that she was
beautiful.
There is in France powerful society
called "The League OF Instruction."
formed in 1876. The league gives spe'
cial attention to the propagation of in
telligence among the population of the
rural regions. It holds that mere
schooling is not education and hence it
seeks to establish all through Franco
village libraries largely made up OF
books on agriculture and the various
industries. It also furnishes special
Libraries for soldiers. The league has
become a center of educational societies,
the number of which runs over four
hundred, with thirty.fve thousand
members. Thus far the league has es-
tablished 246 libraries for the villagers,
and III for soldiers, and it bas also
made contributions to 22G libraries that
were previously in existence. The sue
cess Of the league has been aiGed by the
feet that each member has the right to
introduce any motion or proposition,
and by the publication Of the proceed
iugs at all the meetings.