The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1879-04-16
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

A woman's gloyeis to her wha. his vest
pocket i9 TO man.
Definition Of nothing: A footlcss
stocking without leg.
The kind>of food that hungry tramps
most dislike is cod shoulder"
The entire population of the United
States is not double. that Of Italy.
Each stalk of the banana plant pro-
duccs from seventy to 100 bananas.
Senator Jones. of Nevada, pays ST,-
600 rent for his Washington residence.
Everything goes by power nowadays:
Even the farmer has to get his team up.
There were nine hundred and five SOL
diers killed by the Zulus ut Sandula.
South Africa.
Hint to those affected by the walk
ing" fever: The most useful pedestrian
is the man who walks the floor nights
with the baby.
Senator Chaffee, the rich banker and
politician, of Colorado. is said to have
once kept small millinery store ut
Adrian, Mich.
"There, cook that to my likeness" ex-
claimed careless man to his wife as he
brought home and threw calls head on
the kitchen table.
ION this head" said the lecturer,
There is nothing left to be desired"
The bald-headed man in the front row
Immediately rose to call to order.
A young French soldier, who exceeded
his leave of absence by less than two
hours, was tried as deselter, and SEN
fenced to two years Imprisonment.
United States Senator Sharon has "a
Chinese valet, who has been in his ser
vice thirteen years, and is very bright
and intelligent. lie is handsome, sharp
looking fellow. with brilliant black eyes,
and wears his hair in the ordinary
American fashion. ..
Two French army surgeons have Just
fought duel in Bois de Vincennes. Ono
wounded the other badly, and then fra,
ternally dressed his opponents Wound
and helped him to carriage. liarlng
thus proved his gai,antry and humanity
he went home eand-committed Suicidc.-
There are 355 Protestant Sunday schools
in New York city. with ss.237 scholars.
on their rolls. There are Likewise OF
Roman Catholics, Jews, anu so lortl.
sixty-two Sunday schools, having 27..
$50 Scholars on their rolls. making total
of 4ls schools, with m enrolment OF
1885 scholars. ''' '
There IS in Chicago Sunday school
for Chinese, which meets every sunday
afternoon. Ofthe hundred ormore China
men in that city, twenty-six. attend the
school regularly, and there is teacher
for every scholar. The converts are said
to be'generous contributors for religious
and charitable enterprises.
Many italian emigrants have written
home from Brazil that the country they
expected to find a paradise is quite the
reverse, and that they are treated IKE
beasts while alive and when dying are
without the benefit Of priest or doctors.
Hence q member of parliament has In
troduced q law Ito restrain the insane
desire Of emigration"
When the Confederate army was on its
shortest rations General Lee rcmOnstrat-
ed one day with n siraggier for eating
green persimmons, ami asked him II he
did not know that they were unfit food:
"rm not eating them for food, general.
replied the man, but for the sake OF
drawing my stomach up to tit my "a
There are in the United States about
one hundred lepers; they are found
mostly in the South, in Louisiana and IN
a small colony in South Carolina. There
are a few among the Scandinavians OF
Minnesota and the Chinese in California.
The remainder are in New York, Penn
sylvania and Maryland. One case was
lately discovered in Chicago.
One of the oldest customs or preroga
tives in regard to fish, was, in the time
of Henry l., the right to what arc now.
termed royal" but which were former
called great" fish, namely, the sturgeon
and the whale. "Of sturgeon" says the
royal autocrat, "caught on our lands (sc)
we will that it shall be ours, saving to
the finder his costs and expenses. W
whales, so found, we will that the head
shall be ours, and the tail our consorts.'
Wise discrimination for the head was
considered the daintiest part, the tongue
being the tidbit. Fishermen would offer,
as their costliest gift to the church. a
whales tongue, and it was, no doubt,
highly relished by the ecclesiastics, for
William the Conqueror gave yearly
grant Of one to the monks Of Marmoutler. -
All the Year Round.
GGA pie-eating match between two no
oriously voracious men was contested IN
St. Louis. One had wide mouth, pom
derous Jaws, an appetite sharpened by
twenty-fours of fasting, and was natural
ly the favorite before the start: The
other was manifestly a dyspeptic, and
his appearance was against him. Hot
pies Of uniform size were used, and the
man maj who ate most in half an hour was
to be the winner. The favorite led for
twenty minutes. swallowing eight pies
in that time, and leaving his competitor
a pie and half behind; but at that juno
ture he choked and was compelled to
rest. The dyspeptic kept steadily at
work. closed the gap, and forged ahead.
At the conclusion of the half hour he
was half through his thirteenth pie,
while the favorite was in his eleventh.