The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1880-03-17
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The great American oesser'-IS'
Taxable property in Texas amounts to
S307, ,466, ,556. .. ..-
Edison will early introduce his elec-
trio light to Paris.
The Boston Transcript says II the
water won't run, faucet.
OF English farmers, At were bank.
rupt in 1877, sl5 in 1878, and l,43l In
A wise man never puts the hot end
of cigar in his mouth mere than once.
H..ckensack Republican. ....-...,
The governor of Indiana pardoned two
convicts on their promise to abstain
from intoxicating liquors. =,
The Oil City Derrick says that all the
inventors in the world will never pro-
duce a machine to tell woman's age,
There is an old saying that "lesp,.year
is fruit 3ear."-Hasrkeye. 1t ought to
be good year for pairs.-PhsIadstpAsa
Netos.
The total amount of steel and iron
produced annually in the world. is. OF
iron, l3, ,sO7, ,725 tons, and of steel, s,77o,-
524 tons.
Dalrymple, the Minnesota farmer
king. owns 3O, 900 acres of land and 3D.
600 acres of grasshoppers.-Bnrlsng1on
HaDkeye. ...,
It is estimated that $4,000 men and
women are employ ed in Philadelphia in
the manufacture of clothing, making
10000. 900 suits year. 49,
bob Ingersoll is about to take up
his residence in Chicago" We thought
the colonel always denied the existence
of such place.-Norristoa0n Heratd'
"Shall hereafter darn your stock
inesp" is said to be the fashionable Lam
euage for a young lady to use when
making leap-year proposal.-fh'tdf1e1-
phia Chronicle.
There is probably nothing in this
transitory world that yields larger and
quicker returns on the amount invested
than poking a wasp with your finger 10
see if he feels well.
The small boy who can ride three
wheeled velocipsde in the hall and bes:
q drum at the same time, has qualities
calculated to make home happy when
he is not wel..-Rcayu,se.
America stands first in the world for
honey production, as we'll as for scien-
tific MANAGEMENT aid improved imp!c
ments for the apiary; next comes S~s
zerland, then England and France.
The statistics show that less than
one. fourth of the 40,n00,OO0 acres OF
land in Missouri are under cultivation.
The State has 1000 miles of railway,
nearly 1000 postofices, and 10000 COM
mon schools.
Now we know all about the "Wha
is It'll" It is book agent. We saw one
ring door-bell on Race street the other
day, and woman stuck her head o9t
of the second-story window ana yeLed:
"What is it?"-Philadelphia Item.
The cheapest railroad to operste In
the country is the Sandy river road IN
Maine, of two feet gauge. The road.
which is eighteen miles long, employs
seyenteen men, and the total cost OF
running the trains in the worst season
of the year is stated to be not moro
than $40 per day.
Mr.. Dudley A. Sargent, director o.
the Harvard gymnasium, says that OF
the large number OF students he mas
already examined at least one-half suffer
to a considerable and, in many cases, an
alarming extent, from palpitation and
other affections of the heart, caused 6y
excessive cigarette smoking and drink
ing strong coffee.
At Mount Desert, Me-, sea eulls are
caught alive In funny way. a SUCK
is put through the tail of small tsh,
then it is left on the sea shore, where 1t
can be seen by the birds. A bird selzes
and attempts to swallow it hend first,
and succeeds until It comes to the stick.
Il cannot swallow the fish further, ana
it is equally impossible to disgorse II;
and so the bird straneles, falls over ana
is captured.
The dramatic editor of 4 French paper
had occasion recently to criticlse the
performance of somewhat popular.
actress. Shortly afterward the lover OF
the young lady met the journalist In the
theater, and presented him with pack.
age of goose.quills. This. SIR" said
he. lis a present from Mrs H.""What;,,,
exclaimed the critic. did she tear all
of these out of you herself? How you
must have suffered"
1t was high school graduate,
Who biscuits tried to mako,
Already having tried her hand
Al batch Of pig-lead cake
She stirred away quite faithfully
Until did ache her bones,
But the product OF her long days tori
Was sold for paving stones.
Mount Holly Herald.
About year since the Musical Festl-
val Association Of Cincinnati offered n
prize of 81, 900 for the best musical com :
position by native-born American citl-
zen. Twenty-four compositions. were
submitted to the committee. consisting
of Otto Singer, of Cincinnati, Leopold
Damsroch, of New York. Asger Ham =
erik, of Baltimore, Carl Zerrahn. OF Bos-
ton, and Theodore Thomas. Only two
of the twenty-four were considered
worthy of a prize-the, "Golden
Legend" from Longfellow, and the
Tale of the Viking" which by curl
Gus coincidence is also found in Long
fellows Skeleton in Armor.." Inc
committee, with the exception OF Mr..
Thomas, was equally divided between
the merits Of the two, and ne cast ms
vote for The Golden Legend" On
opening the sealed envelope it was found
that Mr.. Dudley Buck. of Brooklyn. the
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