The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1879-09-03
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


h4 speaker ofthe house.
Marrying woman for her, beauty is
like eating bird fer its singing.
Throw a ripe watermelon out of a
three story window, and, presto change!
it comes down squash. Stamford Adro-
cate. ,p,r
An editor in Memphis thinks thn5
there is but one cure for yellow fever and
that is flight, vigorously applied. Free
Press. .l g.
A street sensation of St. Louis, re-
Gently, was woman III years old look
ing for her lost daughter, q giddy young
thing of seventy.
"That's. 4 relation of yours, isn't it ?"
said man to his wife, at the same time
pointing to donkey. "Yes, by mar
riage," was her singing reply.
The Detroit Free Press has discovered
that one pailful of hot water will clear a
corner of loafers quicker than four po-
licemen. and at much less expense.
Never tell man who is usinga restor-
alive that his hair is coming out nicely;
such a compliment might seem some
Dr.. Glenn, candidate for Governor of
California, raised wheat enough during
the summer to load twenty clipper ships,
has hired 500 men and distributed over
81, 1000, 900. =
Tobacco can by grown in every once
the States of the Union: The annual
production is now 40,OO0,000 pounds,
valued at S33, ,000, ,000.in its unmanufac-
tured state. -.
"If you want to get at the circumfer-
ence Of man." says Josh Billings, ex-
anime him among men; but If you want
tew get at hiz aktual diameter, measure
him at liz fireside."
a The Tribune is publishing a series OF
papers on 'sThe A B G of Finance"
The PAY e of Finance can be con-
densed into four words, Pay AS You
G-o.-Albany Journal.
Doctor" said a lady patient, " / suf-
fer great deal with my eyes," The old
gentleman adjusted his spectacles, and
with Socratic air replied, !" | do not
doubt It, my friend; but then you ought
not to forget that you would suffer more
without them" ~ 81,
They were out driving. Said Thee
dore, "What tree, Angelina, bears the
most precious lruit?" Angelina-Ol,
Dory, / can't tell, unless it is a cherry
tree!' Theodore looked unutterable
sweetness as he gazed into Angelinas
eyes and sad, 1.-The axle-tree, darling.
Joaquin Miller says: If you were
to take newspaper in your hand and
crumple it up and then spread it out
again, the creases in it might fairly rep.
resent the streets and lanes and alleys OF
London, so angular, so awkward and
irregular is this, the greatest OF all cities [
of the earth." . a. ,.,........ ...
At General Custer's home in Monroe,
Mich, the visitor may find reproduced
with the most minute fidelity Of detail
the generals study or private office ex-
actly as it appeared at his headquarters
at Fort Abraham Lincoln when he left
1t for the last time to engage in the fatal
expedition against Sitting Bull. -
Captain Paul Boyton says that he can
90 over Niagara Falls in his rubber
suit. No doubt of it. Anybody could.
But can he get back again, is the
question. If it can be satisfactorily
shown that he can't, hundreds of per-
sons will subscribe money to induce
him to make the OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
toaO,a Herald.
Two sons ofthc Siamese twins, Chang
and Eng. are now living IN summer
county, Kansas. They recently appeared
in the United States land office. at
Wichita, in contest in which. one,ot
them was defendant and the other was
a witness. They are spoken of rs intel
ligent, wide-awake citizens, and fully
up to the spirit of the times.
Queen Victoria has sent to the Lm-
press Eugene frame made of violets in
amethysts for the last photograph of the
late Prince Imperial. The garland is
surmounted by an eagle, which holds
in his talons q tllree-colored streamcr,
on which is written in gold letters the
motto, mot lost, but gone before"
The practice of dairyipp as wellas
the theory. is taught at til. iowa Agri-
cultural College, where = sixty.c cow
power creamery, with all the modern
improvements, 8 been completed OF
late, and successfully carried on, sup.
plying the dining-rooa with butter OF
excellent quality, tie work from the
milking onward being all done by tile
students themselves.
A dead African eagle was lately found
at Mama, on the southern Greek coast;
On examining the bird IN iron,headed
arrow over foot long was found trans-
fixed under one of the wings. Evidently
the eagle had been fired at and struck in
Africa by some native, and had borne
the arrow in its body in it's long flight
over the Mediterranean until it fell dead
from exhaustion on touching land ut
Mama.
A ship carpenter at Belfast, Me-, has
corcludcd to spend the rest of his lite IN
4 chair. When wages were reduced ne
declined to work any longer, and seated
himself in a rocking g-chair near his SIT
ting-room window. There he remains
al. day long, only rising to go to his
meals or to bed. His chair rockers have
worn grooves in the floor, and on the
window-sill, where he drums idly rs ne
rocks to and fro, are the imprints OF MS
fingers. He is supposed to have some
ayings on which he and his wife lives.
The Suicide City.
San Francisco may fairly be called the
"Suicide City" From 1860 to 1874 the