The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1880-04-07
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huool6 uuet Uc kIc1S cOou6y LOI
hard colds. Almost every ones name
ends with q "koff. f."-FLee Hess.
A joke is not 20 durable as . church
bell. After It has been tolled . few
times, 1t is worn out.-MerideD Re
corder.
Impecunious tramps keep on asking
for quarters at the police station. al.
though they never get 80 much q q
nickel.-Hracuse Herdd. -.
A horse In Paris saw his master get
ting the worst of it in fight, when he
pulled the other man of three times
with his teeth, stopping the battle.
When we see two fashionably dressed
women pass each other on the street, we
can't suppress the thought that they
want looking after.-Yonkers &atesnGn.
The popular color is heliotrope, em
bracing all the shades from delicate
lavender to royal purple, and pheasant
hue graduates from drab to dark brown.
There was bull-fght by moonlight
in Compeachy, Mexico, recently, In
which it is said that the governor of the
state figured, disguised as q matador.
"Wil advertising pay7" A very old
question and it has been proven that il
will; hut what most interests the editor
ia. "Will the advertiser pay"-McKean
County Miner. '.' ..
Thackeray once said: "When I was
boy wanted some taffy; 1t was .
shilling; I hadn't one. When I was
man I had a shilling, but Ididn't want
any tafy."
While two trotters were engaged in
brush on the road at Oshkosh, lately,
they each cast shoe at the same time.
The shoes met in the air and came down
linked together. g." ~
De Lesseps estimates that the Brook!
lyn bridge will lest for six centuries.
We shall watch that bridge with some
curiosity to see just how near be hits it.
Boston I1anseript., .....,
A rich man who had begun life as
bootbiack happened to remark that LIE
had taken a box at the opera, and some
one meanly asked him if brush went
with it.-Bostou Courier. .!
The town council of Liverpool, Eng.
land, has voted in favor of closing the
drinking saloons on Sunday. Last year
there were %, 900 convictions for crimes
and misdemeanors arising from drunk
enness. 10 -! )
There are great complaints as to the
increase of drunkenness in Italy, where
for three years there has practically
been free trade in public houses, and the
revival of former restrictions is de-
manded. ..E
The boys have all had something to
say about "home without mother"
and what it is; but we believe that no
one has yet remarked that it is poor
place for a man to get his stockings
darned.- Middletsson Transcript.
The returns for 1879 show that Cali
fornia that year produced 81, 900, 900 OF
gold and nearly $3,O09,OO0 of silver.
This amount is Insignificant by COM
parison with the much greater yield
u agriculture, which amounted to
S9o, 900, 600. This is nearly 800, ,0O0, 900
in excess of the greatest yield of gold in
any one year.
If you are fond OF interesting anec-
dotes, you will strike one occasionally
in the medical journals. One OF them
Says LudI q COOAthy yooCaS hauSo~SA
years old, was kicked in the head by q
mare named Dolly, and was insensible
for three hours while the doctors were
at work on the depressed bone. As
soon as it was removed he cried.
whoa, Dolly" in a most energetic
tone, and locked surprised at his situ-
alton. He was not conscious the mare
had kicked; the last thing which he re.
membered was that she wheeled round
her heels and laid back her ears.
The population of Sweden at the close
of 1878 amounted to 1881, 1868, being an
increase for the year of i.06 per cent.
About fifteen per cent. OF the whole
population now reside in towns, there
being steady increase in that direc.
tion since 1880. The great numerical
excess of the female population has
been for many years decreasing; at
present the ratio is about LOSS women
for every 1000 men. The excess is less
in the northern provinces. The num-
Der of emigrants during each Of the five
years from 1853 to 1873 was never under
$4,000, aud in one year rose to $1,000.
AS usual, America was the chief attrac-
tion for intending emigrants, but emil
grafton to Australia is steady growing
in favor.