The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1879-10-01
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
A fat contributor-The hog.

A fat contributor-The hog. ~ -
A ship ruled by women Courtship.
The farmer for the fair-A husband
man. II 4
A doughmestic difficulty Heavy
bread. ~, II
Ncbraska's new State house will cost
$40O, 1000. -, = ~" 'sai9sf;a'! 't't,ia
Ready-made-The young lady waiting
for an offer. h& So EEitt<'1'1 -. :
Bat shooting is the popular pasime O.
Richmond, Va. ~ ~. Z!
Three lumber mills at Apoka, Mimi.
pay Sl2, 900 month in wages. a4ag
A negro woman eighty-fve years old
is going to school at Carsonville, Ga. II
A meteor weighing 300 pounds has
been m found on = Rockford (1ll.) farm.
An oyster takes four years to grow 70
full size and have a furnished house TO
live in.-Rcayaae. - - Z.
Iron bridge building is fast becoming
one of the most active and important OF
Ph:ladelphia's industries. iir:19iasS'
Improve the wit you have bought at
dear rate, and the wisdom you nave
gained by sad experience.-Nasos. ~
A Monroe county (Wis.) woman gave
birth to q fourteen-pound babe, and the
next day worked in the harvest field.
Barber your hal. out bit,
sirp" Customer" No; nevermind.
NV wife attends to that; but jd OH it
WELL" / - AiR1. .t;5
An illicit still has been discovered In
full operation in the fashionable part OF
Washington, and within two squares OF
the White House. -.
The L,.m6erman's Gazette estimates
the annual consumption OF railroad ties
and sleepers in the United States as ~,
OOO 900, or thirty years growth Sf75,oeO
acres. r., 7@ @.@srt tgiE $500 =
"That's capital ale," said Q Deer
drinker to teetotaler; " see how long II
keeps its head" AYE" was the reply
"but consider how soon it takes away
yours
"Now you will admit you are lickedW
velled the upper man in street night.
mo. sir" replied the under chap, -
amt licked, but-but I'm satlshed!-
Derrick. ~. ~ tt''l$ .E.jIa.a
An electric light in Saratoga. enabled
persons to read q newspaper at Ballston,
seven and one-half miles distant, on 9
dark night. A powerful reflector was
used.
There are still over 5000, 900 acres OF
unoccupied lands in Illinois. he total
number of acres under cultivation !s ~.
a3l. 1853, the average value OF which y
Sl4.38 per acre. I,
"How to become man." is the it'll.
of a new book just published. A suit OF
| fifty-dollar clothes becomes man az
we'll as ANYTHING we know of nowadays.
CORY Herald. -'''t = 4E24
APar,s journal wants the space nov
occupied by the Tuileries, together With
the adjoining gardens and grounds. tc
be Converted into q Park Central
analogous to the Central Park OF New
York" ......, ......
It is pretty nearly time for sonae old
resident to examine the thickness OF the
corn husk and predict hard winter
The goose bone will not be heard from
until Thanksgiving. .-Niddletoson IRAN
script. ..,..s,s. ...in .s,.
Friend to scientific authority Doc
tor, how is man to tell mushroom
from toadstool?" Scientific authority
by eating it. If you live It IS
mushroom: if you die it is a toadstooi.
Chicago Tribune. -. :9+
The report of the United States Com.
missioner of Internal Revenue shows
that the deposits in savings banks in the
wear ending May 81 last amounted to
S774. ATS, 600, of which nearly one-tliird
are held in New York and Brooklyn.
The Mongols ascertained the number
of the enemies slain by cutting of the
right ear of each of the dead. In 1893
they collected 100000 Of these from the
plains of Russia, and after thu bate OF
i,eienitz, in l24l, filled with right ears
nine enormous sacks. '. ..-''.1.l
There are five families living near New
Jerusalem, Berks county, Pa, who have
among them no less than eighty-five
children. One family numbers twenty
one children, and others, which have
had but one mother, number eighteen,
seventeen and fourteen respectively.
Alta recent session of the Anthropolo-
gical Society of Paris, debate took
place on the origin of the blonde race Of
mankind. Some of the speakers consid-
cred that the region Of Turkistan was
their original seat-while Others main
tanned that they had originated in Eu-
rope. .... ...
A Cleveland (Ohio) boy. eleven years
old. who lost both his legs by railroad
train passing over them last October, has
had four amputations of both limbs
since, and although his case was given
up as an hopeless one several times. yet
tile little fellows grit has carried him
safely through, and his health has been