The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1879-11-05
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The paragrapher's favorite nut Is the
estnut. lg .J-so.
Japan has fine macadamized roads
on which the bicycle Is coming into high
favor.
II acknowledge the corn, as the man
said when he pulled on a tight boot.
Riggs.
The pain of boil can be endured
when some other man gets 1t In the neck.
I-Hcaglne. ri h u
In eight years the manufactures Of
Chicago have more than doubled their
number.
No matter how much candidate
itches for Office, he never Likes TO be
cratched. = s.s''t
The royal family of the Sandwich
Islands has adopted peppermint rs the
royal perfume.
There Is an establishment in New
Haven which manufactured 22,424,7D
fish-hooks last year.
Silk embroidered by hand and worth
thirty-five dollars yard 10 on exhibi-
ton In Boston shop.
Over 1000 persons FIN Clark and
Wayne counties, Miss, earn their living
by the turpcntine industry.
Statistics show that of the 96S, ,000, 900
people inhabiting the globe, 3,000, 600
die each year of consumption.
81 20 in for the early closing move.
ment, said the prize6ghter ashe struck
out for his opponents eyes. .-Sss spiee'.
The ordinary life of q locomotive is
thirty years. No doubt it would live
much longer if it didn't smoke SO much.
The latest estimate of practical sta
tisticans is that there are In the United
States 81, ,000, 900 cattle valued at 81 ,S0o,-
1000.
A Jury in New York city has rendered
verdict Of 81, 500 against policeman
who was sued by citizen for unlaw'
fully arresting him. "a
darling, I am growing old,
Silver threads among the gold
Sang the wife, but Jsok replied:
"Turn your switch the other side
- Houston .Ntrs.
In Massachusetts recently q frog was
found on the top of church steeple le0
feet from the ground. It was the most
aspiring croaker eve. heard of.-tsca-
yuze.
St. Louis has inst found out that Mary
Duffy, an insane pauper supported at tho
poor-house for the past four years, hat
81 300 on deposit in one OF the city
banks. -.
In'an article on the Russian advance
eastward, the Cologne Gazette estimates
that Il, 900 Russians are every year ban
ished or sentenced to penal seryitudc IN
Siberia.
A Canadian girl carried q twenty foot
ladder one hundred yards. placed 1t
again:t q burning house, climbed up
and-well she did not put out that fire.
she fell back on man and nearly killed
him. -,
MA new temperance movement in Great
Britain takes the form of joint stock
company, with q capital OF $5,0Oo,0O,
in shares of 81 each. 1t proposes TO
open temperance houses al over Inc
| kingdom.
A Milwaukee girl suffering from lock-
law was left alone with mouse by the
shrewd physician, and she contrived TO
open her mouth enough to give yell
| that made the crockery in the china
closet rattle. e.--Bnsto,s Post.
The import of wine into Great Brit
tain was only seven-eighths as large the
| last wear as reported for two years ago.
while the import into the United States
for the year ending last June was ten (.
per cent. larger than the year before.
London, with all its suburbs, covers.
within the fifteen-mile radius of Charing
Gross, nearly 700 square miles. 1t num-
bers within these boundaries over ~ ,0OO,-
600 inhabitants. Every four minutes 3
birth takes place in the metropolis, ana
every six minutes q death. rs
FADING AWAY. s.....
Now fades the glimmering landscape on the
lea,
Now fades the fly, the gnat and all the rest;
Now walks the st rect, oh painful sight 70 see,
The man whose winter ulster shrouds MS
summer vest.
Much interest has been felt in Florence,
italy. at the discovery of over six hum
dred paintings belonging to the masters
of the sixteenth century. laid away 10
rot and perish in government buildings;
the authorities intend placing them in
the royal gallery of the Ufizi.
A party recently visiting the paly
river, North Australia, appear TO nave
met with m alligator far larger tnan
anything hitherto seen. Notnlng out
the head was visible, but TINS IS &c
scribed as being about.four feetln lengtn
and two feet six inches in wldth. On
being fred at the monster disappeared.
The total amount OF anthracite mi ed
in Pennsylvania during the coal ~ year: az:
ending September 9th. was 7,l2s,Ns
tons. an increase of 6,60l, ,043 tons over
the product of the previous year; -, Inc me
bituminous coal mined was 2,3H%,Ssoe 10
tons, an increase of l56,07 tons. ine
total coal product for the year was ~
495, ,s43 tons, against l2,73s,727 tons lot
the coal year 1873.