The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1879-01-22
Items OF Interest.
"Life is reel," to the spinner.

Items OF Interest. ~
"Life is reel," to the spinner. Z.
Ex.crescents-Theo old moons.
Did you ever hear peachblow
Always in fashion-The letter F. s
|: Always L" at home THE life prisoner.
A paying teller - Edison's phono-
graph.
There are 948 paper mills in the
United States. 80
, Dried apples are used for dessert at
all swell parties. y,
, New York car horses on an average
last only four years. s. s.
A paper that is always full Of good
points, paper of needles. e
To remove paint from door posts, back
up against it when it is fresh. 35ss
A young man with his first goatee may:
be said to have tuft time OF it.
Fashion item: This season, as last
lamps will be trimmed with shears.
There is in the Ohio lunatic asylum a
young lady who is heiress to 800, 600. Is
There were 103. .015 bankruptcies in the
United States while the law was In feFce.
Up to the present time over 10000
silver mines have been located in Ari-
zona. ~ rs
In the hurly.burly Of life, it is we'll !.
to avoid sitting down on a three.legga
chair. ~ ~
An exchange says that con an average
O man eats annually eight bushels OF
wheat" e.
If there be "no foundation for the
stories," what's to become Of the rest OF
the house? q; z;
Anybody can catch cold now. The
trouble is to let ago again, Like the,
man who caught the bear.
The value of the packing boxes manu-
factured in the United States in the
year 1877 exceeded 81, 900, 900. Y.
The Brazilian government has granted
q privilege to gentleman for the manu-
facture Of paper from the wild fig tree. {:
When your captious neighbor tells
you there is no such thing as an honest
man, you may be sure he is himself q g
knave. .s
Phosphorescent paper, writing OF I
print on which can be read in the dark, Z
| is the substance OF a late European IN
vention. (; s.;
Boiled onions nre prescribed In Eng
land for cold in the chest, and onions
either cooked or raw, for chrome rhetas
matism. e
A Frenchman has invented an ap-
paratus by means of which. telegraphic
messages in the actual handwring OF the
writer can be sent.
A fellow out West got q sentence Of
twenty years for stealing horses. That
is what might be called an Evarts sem &
tence. It was very long.
More noble horses are to be seen in 9
New York's business streets than In any
commercial or political capital OF the
Christian world.-Scribner's. S,:S
Mother (noticing her sons greediness) 4
-" George, you should always leave the
table feeling that you could eat o Little
more" Son" I do, mother"
An obvious improvement on Shak-
speare: "Cry havoc, and let loose the
cats of war" They will be much more &
likely to come up to the scratch taaIaS
dogs will. saS s
A weather-prophet is the only
who never gets discouraged. II ne him
the case once in fifty times, he is per-
fectly satisfied there is great future
in store for him.
"My DEAR" said q wife to her hus-
band, "I really think it is time we had
a greenhouse" "Well, my love, paint it 8
any color you please-red, white or
green will suit me-" $500
Burdette, the Raaokeye man, is leo.
turing on the "Rise and Fall OF the a
Mustache." he gives an illustration OF &
his subject every time he takes a bite
out of a pumpkin pie. IL
There is now living in the province OF
] Ontario, Canada, o. Catholic priest 5
Eamed John Macdonald, who is ninety Z
seven years Of age, and has been more
than seventy years in the priesthood. 4
A very cu4ious plant is the desmodiln
gyrans, or moving plant. It's q native
Of India, and is curious from the rotary :
movement of the leaves, which, during {
the heat of the day, are in constants mo-
tion.
It used to be the patchwork quilt, but
row it is feather cloak. This particu-
lar feather cloak is in st. Louis, and is
composed of 38, ,961 feathers, furnished
by quail, wild duck and prairie chicken.
The cost is $500. Oloaks of feather
flock together. -
The remains Of huge glaciers have
been discovered en- the east side of Wind
river peak, Wyoming Territory, and on !.
the east base of Fremont's peak. Prof. q
E. V. Hayden thinks that on the west
side of Wind river gigantic glacier
once existed eighty miles in length and
twelve in breadth. =
The lightning-rod man applied to the !.
president OF railroad to put lightning
rods on all his cars. Lightning.rods ;
on our cars ?" asked the latter. Why,
certainlyl" "What in the world do =
we want them for ?" "Because they
make good conductors" replied M
man, as he closed the door hastily
hind him.
And now the Chinese claim that th1
telephone is nearly 1900 years solesSs ST
having been in use about that tine e
their country. Oh, pagans With ithe
almond eyes, there is something that g q s.
older than the telephone. Lying
is older than the city Of Pekin. ltiss4sx
old as the first Chinese historian-and
about as reliable.-Bardette.
A teacher was practicing her youthful
class in original composition, and gave
one pupil the subject "Boy" to write
upon. The subject was to be treated OF
in three parts-tirst, What is it Sec !,
ond. What is it's use? Third, What is
it made for? The boy wrestled hard
for few minutes in desperate perplexi-
ty, and then wandered up to the teach,
er's desk radiant with enthusiasm and
submitted tho following: "a boy is
an animal his use is to carry in wood
he is made of bones"