The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1879-03-12
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

All chips are for sail.
Grasshoppers sing in the hop era.
News of the hospital reports
A bill.head-The bust Of Shakspe
Bred on the waters The ancient mar
iner. .a ~,
Scarlet fever -Madly in love With the
girl with tinted hair.
One herder near Carson, Nevadas hsas
nearly 8, 900 Cashmere goata.
Steamships for Europe usually c1yy
about 80 700 letters each trip.
None but the brave deserve the hair
is the way Sitting Bull quotes It.
"Scrambled eggs" said the grocers
boy when he dropped his basket And
four dozen hen-fruit.
What is the right kind OF timber foE
castles in the air7 Sun-beamE; moon
beams and star beams. ~ is s.:
Tom: "My fathers so tall he. can
look over the garden wall. 5aok & sps
can my father, with his hat on. = tsnss
Everybody" says an exchsnge,
"likes radishes in Japan. q q. s. mis-
take. We don't, for one. We hkg suzs 1! +
here. u
The GRAND secret of Russian yalcg
There's 30 much itch " to their names :
it's no wonder they "come up TO the 3
scratch" sssIs;sI ~
The foundation for the meanest man is
laid when a small boy turns the worm
hole in an apple for his compan1on fo
bite from.
"To get the sack" is from the
French-but young man does not
care where it is from as long as IT y n0t 81
from his girl.
A writer in the Cincinnati GdzctteAs
saws that II, 600, 900 gallons OF alcohol is
annually drunk in the United States; 10
the shape Of malt liquor. 81
The man who wrote that ,"noth thing
was impossible never tried 70 ind the
pocket in his wife's dress when ~ was:
hanging up in clothes:press.
CANINE BE1UDDLKD.
There was once big yellow dog
Who furiously ran after hog.
he was lost in fog, 2 4 ~ 49, ~
which was thick as . bog. *
And has stood still since, all sgog. Ss e
Geologists have reported TINT therei ig g
in Japan enough workable coal 70 pro-
duce q yearly yield equal 70 That tn
Great Britain, for one Thousand yeara
To be in advance OF our oontempo
ries, we feel justified in saying that bath
inp will be fashionable at the yafious 8
watering-places next summer. Netc 8
York Express.
A number of enterprising PERSONS
have been engaged in collectlng the &
bones of the horses that fell in the late
battles between Russia and Turkey
and have sold them to Austrian sugar Il
refneries. Il
AtSanta Cruz, Gal, there is . woman .
OF Spanish extraction, who was married 8
at the age of fifteen years, and is not yet
twenty.seven years of age, but. .dnr1Hg
the eleven years Of her welded lie has &
borne fourteen children, all OF whom are q
dead, except one. Ssss;f
There was an old woman Of Blue Bell
Who, when told some bad news, cried = lo: lks
But always said 80, s
And at once i must 60.
And tell all the neighbors OF Blue Bal: !,
= lNo,Tistotrn Hernd. asss
A newspaper and'a a newspaper editor s
hat people don't talk about sand sonae
i'm es abuse are rather poor conc
The men and business that an editor q
sometimes feels it duty to defend, ct
risk of making enemies Of another class. h
are often the very first to show their ln-
gratitude. The editor who expects 70
receive much charity or gratitude Will Is
soon find out his mistake; but he should
90 on and say end do what he con-
scientiously thinks right without regard 5
to frowns and smiles Waterloo Ob-
server. 2
Mary had little chill s,
Which gave her heaps OF pain. -,
And when she tried to shake that chill
It ahook her back again. rs rs
1t followed her to school on3 day,
Which was against the rule;
It made the children laugh to see
Poor Mary shake In school. = -
And so the teacher sent her home,
And bade her take ssme lie g ~
To reconstruct her system and =:
To Iquidate the bile.