The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1879-06-11
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Done with the pen-A dead pig.
The diamond field-The shirt front.

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The diamond field-The shirt front.
How many feet are there in aschool
yardp
Breeches OF contract-Those that
shrink.
A modiste is not modest in her
charges.
Nothing is more shocking than an
electric battery.
When doctor lances carbuncle
doesn't he "cut swell?"
What's the use of going hungry in
this land of agents? Any man can gel
board.
A Joke is not SO durable as a church
bell. After it has been tolled few
times it is worn out.
The raindrops that fall when the
brightness is gone are the tears OF the
sky for the loss of the sun.
A Sioux county Iowa) boy goes to
school on a donkey with his dinner
basket hung on the ear of the quadruped-
There is nothing more likely to
estrange two friends than a small debt.
I and o may some day be separated by
an o.
The annualimportation of oranges and
lemons in the United States is over sGO,-
0O0, 900, amounting in value to about
$4,000
The Baltimore papers report quie
but very general revival of religion in
that city, which is largely credited to
the labors of Mr.. Moody
Two italian journalists fought duel
with pistols, near Naples, and exchanged
twenty eight shots at ta'distance OF fifteen
PAGES without doing any damage.
There are l27 normal schools in Aus
tria and Hungary; lis in Italy; Al in
Russia; Al in England; SO in Belgium;
81 in Spain; s6 in France, and 80 in
Switzerland.
Small boy (entering shop)."1 want
a, pennyworth of canary seed" Shop
keeper lwhy knows the boy)-" Is it for j
yonr mother?'' Small boy (contemptu-
ously)-"No! it's for the bird"
In digging cellar at St. Paul, Mimi.
the workmen unearthed a solid silver
chalice and salver of fine workmanship,
and they are thought to be part OF COM
munion service taken from Father Hem
nepin in 1880.
The Chinese have curious mode Of
punishment not unlike the old-fashioned
practice OF placing criminals in the
stocks. They fasten heavy yoke about
a convict's neck and make him wear it
night and day, and parade him about the
public squares and streets of the city by
the police.
Says the Iowa City Press: The culti-
vation of wolves is profitable. You
don't catch scalp-hunter killing an old
wolf. he makes. the acquaintance OF
that old one, finds its burrow, and in the
spring, when it has litter of twelve
whelps, kills ten of them, and saves
pair for seed.
| That Turks are not altogether in
capable of good work is shown by Ahmed
Vefyk Pasha, who has in two months
drained some thousands Of acres OF
swamp in the beautiful plains of Broussa.
He is now employing vast NUM-
ber of the unfortunate Mussulman re-
fugees in planting and sowing this land.
Paul Morphy, the once noted chess
player, in his insanity imagines himself
a great lawyer with an abundance OF
clients. The great case that absorbs
nearly his whole attention is an imagln-
ary one against parties who had charge
of an estate left him by his father. He
utterly repudiates chess, and denies ever
having known anything about it.
The ingenious Benjamin Franklinintro-
duced bill in the Pennsylvania Legssla-
ture at Philadelphia to buy small grains
for the use of the army. The Quaker mem
bers, who were at that time a majority,
would not consent to vote money for pow
der, but Franklin deceived them by getting
money vote to buy small grains for army
use. The Quakers thought the small grains
were wheat and oats, but Franklin thought
and knew they were grains of powder.
-..New York Champion.
One of the new industries of Germany,
reported by DR.. Stutzer to be- "now in
fourishing condition." is the manu-
facture of artificial clover seed. Frag-
ments of gravel are sifted until particles
of q suitable size arc obtained, and the
substitute for the seed is then shaken up
with some coloring substance until II
acquires the desired hue. An ordinary
pocket.microscope is quite sufficient
| however, to expose the cheat.
In the government of Cherson, Russia
| in the bed of river, a peasant found an
egg of unusual size. It is equal to forty
hens eggs, whearas the ostrich egg. is
equal to only twenty-four. 1t is Of q
yellowish color, and being found between
the clay and gypsum layers, is supposed
to belong to the tertiary formation. The
purchaser of this egg offered it to the
Imperial Academy of Sciences, St.
Petersburg, for 10000 roubles. The
academy fasled to buy it. on account OF
lack of means, but asked permission to
take a mold from it. The British Mu-
scum has now bought this UNIQUE egg,
to the grief of the Russian students of
natural science.