The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1879-08-20
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

... ITEMS OF INTEREST.
"Idon't precisely just have to, is whs
they say in the West.
The stick in the lemonade may maze
you feel like o log.-Riqgs.
Thirteen million dollars are invested
in property at Coney Island.
About 100 years ago there were onl
four newspapers In America.
The beehive is the poorest thing on
earth to fall back on.-Gate CITY.
Hot weather enables a man to leave
off q number OF bad abits.-PtcGyu'ae.
Nat. Burbank says: As soon as a pas
senger car is loaded it ought to go OH.
There are 54.4s7 persons employed in
the postal service of the United States.
A Minnesota hen has got into tho
papers by laying thirty-two eggs in six
teen days. =.
The best refrain from rowdy song
is to refrain from joining in the chorus.
PscGysl1se. 80,
A Camden chap calls his watch chain
Music because it has charms. .--PhstGdet-
phia Item. M
Great Britain and Ireland, and their
shipping trade, consume 1l3,OOO,OOO tons
of coal year. ~, f .s.3e
A large number of well executed coun
terfeit trade dollars are in circulation In
New York city.
Hon. John r. Lynch, a colored man,
has been appointed uperintendent OF the
census for Mississippi. ::.ss ~
There are more watches worn in the
United, States than in any other country,
but do the pcop.e have a better timer
L,skens. ..s
The increase of Touring mills in the
four States of Illinois. Wisconsin, Iowa
and Minnesota from 1850 to 1873 was
from l,l3s to 5000.
The South American war has almos
completely annihilated the guano trade
one of the most important article .of eS-
port from that country. IS
Walking match rules have had their
effect on the country. When you invite
a bore to take walk you expect him to
ego as you please. ."-PtcdyM'e.
Live oxen are sent to Europe in COM
Portable, padded and covered stalls on
the upper deck. He who has steers to
thed, prepare to shed them now.-Pttck.
Who hath woe? ask the Ithaca Jour
nal. Well, now, i'll our opinion, the
man who breaks a pair OF wild steers
has more whoa than any one else.-Go-
ocanda Enterprise. ,a .....
Complaints come from Scotland that
American cheese is being imported into
AYRSHIRE in such quantities that much OF
the home produce of last year is still un-
sold and likely to remain unsold.
Astronomers tell us that it would take
I,25O, 900 years, provided there was a
telegraph wire from the earth to the
nebula in Andromeda, for dispatch to
reach there. So no wire will be put up.
A busy man at Columbus, Ohio, keeps
q phonograph ready for use IN his office,
and. when anybody begins to tell him
long story. he says, Just talk it into
the Instrument, and I'll listen to it by
and-by."
A new hay press has been patented in
France and England which delivers the
bales in the form of solid uniform
cylinder two feet one and one. halfinches
in diameter, which may be rolled along
by one man. ..!
SAYS contemporary: No change can
now be expected before February l." 1t
is going to be pretty rough to worry
along without change seven months.
No wonder some fellows undertake to
coin their own change:-Norr1sto'0's
Herald. -.~..
A lady of experience observes that
good way to pick out hus6ana IS 70 see
how patiently the man waits Tor dinner
when it is behind time. Her husband
remarks that good way to pick out
wife is to see whether the woman has
dinner ready in time. ".
InParis and its suburbs there are more
than Is, ,OO0, 900 people who live by rag
picking or rag-selling. There are 10000
chiffonniers who 60 about collecting
scraps OF rags or paper, and 5000 old
clothes dealers who buy rags, and who,
again, empNy 1900 workmen.
OfPayne, the author of " Home, Sweet
Home" it is said that he was small
man, and had rather a sad face, buta
quick manner. He was noticeable for
wearing full, short cloth coat, and al
WAYS carrying gold-headed cane. He
talked much and with animation, and
was gallant in manners to ladies.
1t seems probable that within a little
more than year another railroad-the
Southern Paciic-will be constructed
across the continent, and that the n North-
ern Pacific will soon be able to reach the
base of the Rocky mountains, opening
the newly discovered deposits of the pre-
cious metals in that quarter, as well as a
vast and fertile extent OF public lands.
The story is told that Longfellow and
Fields were making a short pedestrian
tour some few years since, when, to their
surprise, an .ngry bull stood in the path
way, evidently intending to demolIsh
both poet and publisher. II think"
said Fields, "that it will be prudent to
give this reviewer a wide margin"
"Yes," "replied the poet, g. it appears to
be a disputed passage"
When DR.. Thompson was port physi--
clan, says a New York paper, West
India captain told him that on approach
ing Havana in yellow fever times he al
ways served out to every one in his Ves-
sci tablespoonful of pulverized char
coal in wine glass of water three times
day. and that none of his men were
ever affected, even when yellow lever
was epidemic all around them.
The swiftest railroad trains are run in
England, according to German govern
ment report, a speed of fifty miles an hour
being common between London and
Dover, London and York, and London
and Hastings. Trains 60 at forty-two
miles an hour on one of the Belgium
lines. The fastest in France and Ger
many do not often exceed forty, and IN
other European countries thirty is the
maximum.
Odessa has for months past been the
uniting point for Russian vessels de.
tailed to transport exiles to Siberia, the
greater part of whom are Nihilists. Inc
island of Saghalien is their destination:
It is in the Pacific. off the coast OF
Mantchouria, and near the mouth OF the
Amoor river. The climate in winter is
rigorous. but the soil is fertile, ana IL
abounds in mines of coal and iron. ny
way of the Suez canal the vessels MAKE
the voyage in about two months. by
the old way of travelling on loot, two
| years would be required for the journey