The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1879-01-08
Items OF Interest.

Items OF Interest.
What kind of an ant is supposed to
work the hardest? The servant OF
course.
He who is the most slow in mailing
promise is the most faithful in the psy-
formance of it.
To keep apples from rotting put thena
in cool place-where there is . large
family of children.
English reporters are no longer ad-
mitted to, see garcoters logged and
murderers hanged.
In Trenton, N. j., there are nineteen
potteries in operation, manufacturing
white granite, cream colored and porce-
lain china.
Mrs, Whitney's "Key to the Cook
Book is good work, but it is not hall
as satisfying, when man is hungry, -
he key to the pantry. w.
The repartee of q mule is said 10 be,
unequaled, and the way to draw him
out is by pulling out one Little hair from
the tip end of his stumpy tail. ~
Nearly million and half OF gospels
and New Testaments, printed in twenty;
two languages, were given away at thu
Bible stand in the Paris exposition. ~:
"Mamma, are all vessels called she
Yes, my DEAR" "Then how are ell
national ships called men-of-warf"
"Jane, you may put that child in bed.
"say, what is lass ?" his small brothsr M
And the youth, with smile that WAS ~, IS
Made answer, as il by the question inspired
"a lass is alas to lad" ~
The young man to whom the world
"owes q living" has been turned out M
doors, his landlady not being willing to-;
take the Indebtedness of this world On
her shoulders.
The horse Custer rode to his iaassacfe,
a sorrel with one white foot and 9 star
in it's forehead, Is now owned by Trader
Dent at the Spotted Tail agency, who
bought it OF an Indian who cav Custer
fall. cS.; e
A large mushroom is said 10 haye.
forced its way through twelve inches Of
concrete covered with O thick layerof
asphalt, in the floor of the savings bank
department of the general postoMce m
London. y
A very curious plant is the DesssO.S
di.na gyraas, or moving plant Itna
native Of India, and is curious from the
rotary movement Of the leaves, which
during the heat Of the day, are In CON-
slant motion. z - ~
It was formerly believed that the fern
blossomed and seeded only on Q nnid-
summer night, and it was thought that
the seed must be caught on twelve pew;
ter plates, through eleven Of which is
would pass, resting only on the twelfth =
"Give me q cure for the toothachS
quick.-Sufferer." Place the aching
tooth near the heels of mule, and then
touch off the mule. One touch OF mule
sets all nature achin, and relieves the
patient too Immediately sudden to think
about. Constitution. &
Funny things are often found in lite
insurance proposals. Here is one who
says he uses liquor only in mince pie:S
another wants his insurance paid to . his
legal sisters;" this one says his brother
was dwrounded in the Thamas;; and
yet another defines his occupation 70 pes
q Hater." .53ss5
We saw q man, the other day
Who never yet-strange thing to ssy-
With wistful gaze has looked upon
Another's wealth, who ne'er was known
To utter oath, In wrath to cry
Who never told cen whitest LIE.
This man, by the way,
We'd forgotten to say,
From birth deaf mute,
Ia stone-blind to boot. e g
An Ohio woman who died recently
willed her local paper $l25. That
woman's chances OF heaven are very
good, but if a person wishes to mako
sure of happy hereafter, the amount
he or she leaves to newspaper shonid
not be less than $40, 600. Now is tho
time to make up cl- that is wills tor
this paper. .-Norristoton Herald.
Strange discoveries Of petrifactions
are reported from Colorado, near
Pueblo. Perfectly formed cocoanuts,
but larger than the ordinary fruit. with
the inside of the shell lined with white
crystal quartz, were found imbedded IN
mounds of loose sand and shells, besides
several huge petrihed sea turtles, such
as now frequent the Pacific ocean.
A young man sat down at the piano
and began singing for the physician's
daughter, "There's sigh in the heart.
just then the old gentleman came IN.
"Young man, he said, severely, lyon
are entirely mistaken. It isn't q sigh.
There may be q sigh from the lungs.
but from the heart, never. You have
made an error in diagnosis. What are
the symptoms?"
We are heartily in. favor OF girls
learning to dance, and paint, and sing,
and play the piano, but we are also firm
in the belief that large number OF our
Young ladies could be proftably ena-
pIoyed in learning how to sew buttons
on the back OF o fellows shirt, and
also how to fry buckwheat cakes with
out burning them as black as newly
polished stove-lid.
A man will sit up nights for week,
and do an enormous amount Of thinking
in the daytime, and after penning his
thoughts on paper and rewriting them
about half dozen times, will burst into
an editorial room about half hour be-.
fore going to press with 81 dont't know
whether you can make it out or not, it
was little point that I hadn't seen.
noticed, and I just thought I'd scratch
it of. Get it in this issue!"
A poor man at Rochester owed q rich
man some money, and was unable to
pay. The rich man obtained q judgment
and an execution, but there was nothing
on which the sheriff could levy. The
poor man had two large pigs. but the
law allows man two, and the sheriff
could not take them. The rich man
then bought two little pigs, and had
them presented to the poor man. and
thereupon took his two large ones.