The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1879-03-19
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
The seals kin is numerous.

Hanging stiles ell mans aspirations.
Residents of Peru are sometimee.
called Lima bein's. 81
Wine made Of oranges hasan alcohoiiA
strength Of fifteen per cent.
If you would prosper and rest easy
employ and pay the printer. 8
The waters very often getaesf and
then you see the waters pout.
Seventy tons Of chewing gum we're
consumed in America during 1873
Give to the winds your fears,
Hope and be undimayed
Your goods well advertise, III
And you viii thrive IN trsde.
Between the ages Of twenty FIVE and
thirty years the most people become M
sane.
Why are many patentees the peers Of
sovereigns? Because they receive roys
atty. 81
Progress OF science By the use ofs +
the miorophone you can hear the yppe
walk, the butter fly, the gum drop q /
the fall Of the year. ;ssS
The number OF puns on the word
Merritt is at present 162, and scarcely
any Of them possess any real mer- that
is to say, merriment. ~ "
To pin our faith on another manae 8
sleeve, and submit to be led bX authek ~
ity, deprives us OF Independents, sua
subjects us to Just contempt. S5
The magnitude Of some Western farms
may be inferred from the statement that
MIR. Bertrand, of Lincoln, Ill. has 275ss
600 bushels of corn in the ear IN the
corn.crib at his place. s,
The jackson Miss. Cor,aet remarks
that there cannot be too much gratitude
to the North and West for aid given the
yellow fever sufferers, but there can he Z
far too much poetry on the subject #
"sir," said a young fellow, bursting
with pride at his own Importance, de-
rived entirely from his fathers wealth
"I was born the son OF q poor farmer.
At thirty years of age was the sop Ct 3
the richest man in the country.
THE DANDY.
A dandy is chap that would q
Be young lady II he could;
But as he can't, does all he can
To show the world he's not man:
Drilling her class in poetry, the
teacher quoted from the familiar. hpes
of Tennyson: "You must wake and call
me early, call me early, mother dear.
"Now," she asked, "why did the eirl
want to be called early2" Don't
know. replied Tommy, .,unless it was :
because that was her name. 5l z
There are 1900 mule teams constant
ly on the road between Leadville ard =
Carson City, both of Colorado. tits
fair estimate to suppose that at least
one mule balks each day. Now imagine
the rest, remembering that there are
mule drivers on that road who speak
four languages and several dialects.
The wife of printer in New Haven :
has applied for divorce, on the ground
that her husband had no style about I
him. He wouldn't brace up, had no
dash, cut no figure, had no point, lived
up to no rule, was OF bad form and
makeup, wasn't o man Of letters or up
to the period, was a poor type OF the
genus, was out of quoin and couldn't
impose on her any longer.-Chicago
Commercial advertiser.
A real telegraph has been invented by
an English mechanical engineer. a
writer in London moves his pin, and
simultaneously at Brighton another pin
is moved in precisely similar curves and 8
motions. The writer writes in London,
the ink marks in Brighton. The pen at
the receiving end has all the appearance
of being guided by aspirit hand. The
apparatus is shortly to be made public
before the Society Of Telegraph En- g
gineers.
At the State farm (Monson, Mass. J,
the COWS are milked precisely at five A. S
NJ, and each cows milk is weighed and
the weight recorded. The record shows
that fifty-five COWS gave, in one week IN
June, two and three quarter tons OF
milk, and in one week in December two
and one-quarter tons Of milk. !he
whole amount OF milk produced during
last year was little over l0 TONS: .
Seven COWS have given an average OF
about twenty quarts of milk each per &
day. Il
HE'D OFFER TO LIVE OFF HEB.
"I will" Kate said, "you, Charley, wed,
II you'll through lite stand by me-"
"Ili stand by you-if you don Fe,'
Qdoth Charley-"but don't try me.
"oh yes, see" said Kate in g!e,, .
"You would not have me sligh. You
By needless ways in wedlock days;
'rwould be plight-I plight yoo.'
Gan right" said he 81 will agree -
To take the plight you profter. -
Her wealth was great-he'd chan. IL, f;te,s
Aud offer to live of her.
Chicago Commercial Adcerttse'.