The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1879-09-17
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The scales ofjustice are for the weigh
of the transgressor. 49,,
A Mrs. Potts in Canada has invented
cSld-handled smoothing iron.
The lawyer may be q man, but he is q
fee-male all the same. hampton.
A census of Kansas, just completed,
shows population of s4S, ,97S, an increase
of sixty Der cent. over that of 1875, which
was returned as 528. .437.
Counsel Ito witness)- )-"You're nice
sort of fellow, you are!" Witness
"rd say the same thing Of you, sir, only
I'm on my oath. -
Some people always look kind of
S-ous.-Seabe1,uille Chronicle. The
Sous people are the ones we don't like.
--Neso York People. ~.
The Man in the moonr comical ioon.f
And his face is all that he shows; y.
Whether stately and trim, or scanty Of limb,
L. secret that nobody knows.
Erie Herald.
|" Among the curiosities of the patent
Office at Washington are the locks OF
hair uf all the Presidents, from Wash
ington down to Pierce, inclusive, safely
inclosed in glass frame.
Sir William Jenner, the distinguished
English physician, has the whooping
cough. He is sixty-four years old. The
London Lancet says that he has left the
city :" in order that he. may not spread
the disease" @ ~ - ,
Almanacs for 1880 are now being given
away at the drug stores. They are very
handy for your wife to tear wrapping
paper out of when her neighber comes
to borrow a nutmeg or a LITTLE cinnar
mon.-Foa,d du Lac Exporter.
A St. Petersburg physician has writ
ten an article based on exhaustive re-
searches and experiments on singing
people, and reports singing as the anti-
thesis Of drinking spirituous liquors, as a
means of promoting health. ~
The proverb, "Time heals all things
has been pronounced q base lie by the
old lady who laid away several pairs Of
hose which needed heeling, and some
months after found them worse than
ever, the moths having taken possession.
-Meriden Recorder. .. =
Two little boys thought it good sport
to play in q great bin Of grain in an ele-
yator at Goshen, Ind.,> but one day they
did so when the grain was being drawn
off through an outlet underneath, and
they were irresistibly pulled down and
smothered to death.
"What," asks a writer, lis fiercer
than the eye of fighting animal at
bayp" Well, we don't know what,
unless, maybe, it is the other eye. Or
hold up! we won't give il up yet-it's
the animal itself. Ask US another one.
Burlington Has0keye.
A Florida man, who owns one hun
dred and fifty thousand cattle, Is mis-
erly recluse, living in a shanty WHICH
has neither fireplace nor chimney. He
sells his surplus cattle in Cubai he sell
dom sees strangers, and he hides MS
money in cans on his land. .-'.Df
"There is pleasure in the pathlaR woods"
There is witchery in summers kiss,
There is a,spell that charms our tend'rer moods
When day brings on the twilight benedce,
y
Ofbirds just wakened froI1 night rep6se,
There is something in the onion plant
That's uncongenial to the average nose,
Wade Whtppls ]
News from Ciyita Vecchia tells Of q
striking act of courage performed by
Garibaldi's daughter, girl of twelve
years old. While bathing, young man
near, who could MT swim, got out of his
depth, and at his cry for help she struck
out bravely for him. caught him as he
was sinking, and brought him safe to
and. -
All who have examined copies of
newspapers printed fifty years ago have
noted the dearth of local news in thee
columns of such papers. But when we
think moment and realize that theref
were no moving machines nor steam
machinery in those days, the wonder at
the absence ofsuch news ceases, and we
speculate as to whether there was any
encouragement in printing a newspaper
fifty years ago, anyway.-Ron'e Sentinel.
The Bank of England was incorporated
in l649. It covers five acres of ground
and employs 900 clerks. There are no
windows on the street; light is admit
ted through open courts. No mob could
take the bank, therefore, without can
non to batter the immense walls. The
clock in the center Of the bunk has fifty
dials attached to it. Large cisterns are
sunk in the courts, and engines in perfect
order are always in readiness in case Of
fire.
"Phairest Phlora," wrote an amor
o,,c xo,1tb "nhorever dismiss vonr
phears, and pnly with one whose pher-
vent phancy is phixed on you alone.
Phriends, phamily, phather-phorget
them and think only Of the phelicity of
the .phuture! Phew phellows are so
phastidious rs your Pherdinand, so
pheign not phondness if you pheel itnot.
Phorego phrolic. and answer phinally,
Phlora." '"Oh, Pherdinand, you phool!'
was phair Phlora's curt reply.
Mr.. IT. Lockwood. of Leavenworth
Kansas, slept as soundly as usual one
night recently, but when, according to
custom, his dog Flora, pointer, was
sent in the morning to awaken him, she
found that her master had a bedfellow.
Rubbing her nose over the sleeper's face
she aroused him, and rs soon as she
could attract his attention, pointed to
another part of the bed. Mr.. Lockwood
knew something was wrong, and imme-
diately sprang out, and began to LOOK
through the bed, when he discovered
young rattlesnake cocily coiled under
| the cover. >.
OF General Lees taste for rigid simplic-
itya correspondent of the Herald, OF Bos-
ton, says: One Of his inspector gener;,
| IL, r,lo,ol Mnrray was ollite advanced
in in life, and some friend, wishing to con;
tribute to his comfort. had presented
him with a cushioned eamp-chair. Tents
had been struck, and the baggage all
packed in the wagons preparatory to
starting on the days march all except
the cushioned chair, in which thu, colonel
sat, waiting to join the general rs he
passed. 4 few moments later General
Lee rode up, regarded the colonel for q
moment. and then quietly remarked,
"Colonel Murray, would advise you,
the next time we start on a campaign, to
bring your center-table with you" 1T is