The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1880-09-22
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OF age. Esd, .a - lss
A man born at sea cannot be proud o
his native land.-Rcaynne.
Ashland, Henry Clay's kentucky
homestead, has been rented at % per
acre.
A London magistrate sent q man to
prison for three months for cutting on o
cats tail. t@.~..D .,
It is on old adage that the tongue
cannot be easily bridled. But It Il
easily bit.
The Nova Scotia gold mines are said
to have produced more than $6,O00,OO0
in eighteen years.
When a mar and woman are made.
one it is usually the man. Sometimes
the fight is long and severe, however.<
Rochester Express.
Thomas Sherlock, OF Bedford, Ind..,
killed a spotted snake in his garden that
measured six feet seven inches nlength
and four inches In diameter.
The Massachusetts Society for the Pre-
vention of Cruelty to Animals recon-
mends that all kittens that cannot b pro-
vided for be killed ut birth.
A murderer under sentence of death
was baptized by immersion at Dallas.
Texas. During the ceremony the sheriff
stood on tie shore holding q rope at
tached to the prisoner.
Our people are putting in the winters
supply ofcoal, and we observe that those
who have the greatest number OF
grown-up daughters are buying the
most rehabilitation Transcript.
DR.. Glen, the California wheat grower
who sent eight ships laden with grain
to Europe last year, was so pleased with
the result Of dispensing with middlemen
that be will do the same this year.
Horsemen believe that Maud s. will
soon attain a speed. so terrific that q
straight track will be necessary to pre-
vent her running into tue rear of her
own sulky.-Cincinnasi SATURDAY, Night.
William Parish was told by the poor
master of South Toledo, Ohio, that he
must take himself out of the town be-
fore nightiall, OF he would be sent to the
workhouse. "I'll do it," said Parish,
and be swallowed a fatal dose of lauda-
-um. 1872
He was sitting in the parlor with her
/ when q rooster crowed in the yard, and
leaning over he said: "Chanticlear."
81 wish to gracious you would" she
said, "l'm sleepy ash can be-" He took
his hat and left, and hasn't been back
since.
Another battle WINS fought in South
America last week. 1t lasted two hours.
and then a truce was asked for and
granted 10 look after the wounded, be-
cause an awkward fellow in n of thr
armies had dropped his musket on q
friends corn.-OH CITY Derrick.
Chicago now exacts sj,o ior every
circus performance given In Lhat city,
$50 q day for each side show, and 1876
for the concert in the tent after the
regular entertainment. Thus q circus
open afternoon and evening, with say
five side shows, must pay $675 daily into
the CITY treasury.
Curious are the means Of self-defense
with which animals and insects are pro-
vided. A butterfly. when %apprehend-
ing danger, never lights on a green tree
or shrub but flies into a clump of dead
leaves, where it so adjusts it's wings ona
twigs, as to look exactly like a shiveled
leaf, and defes discovery by its foe.
"Have you got a bite, bub9" inquired
a digniied old gentleman Of q youthful
fisher. "Not much Of q bite, mister
Fish seems to know when old coyeys is
round watching 'em," and he whipped
his line out of the water, and the hook
few very near the old gentleman's nose.
-Mtw Haven Register.
The production of nickel has assumed
great importance in Norway within Q
few years. Eleven mines had been opened
between 1861 and 1866, which yielded an
average of $3.50 tons a year. In 1875
fourteen mines had been opened, which
furnished q maximum of 34,500 tons.
The larger part of the yield is exported
in the condition of ore, the rest is re-
duced on the spot.
The death rate per thousand in foreign
cities, at last reports, is as follows: Mon
treal, 2l.5 in 1000: Havana, 6O.9;
Queenstown. Ireland, ALT; Dublin, 81
Liverpool, 25.s; Paris, Is S; Berlin, So;
Frankfort, 1877; Brussels. 1873; Copen-
hagen. 1872; Rome, 1855; Stockholm,
1915; Cauiz. Spain, 44.3: Langier, Mo-
rocco, 1909; Calcutta, 1877.
Harris county, Georgia, contains
many snakes. A gentleman living near
Hamilton killed sixteen grown mecca
sins within a few hundred yards OF one
another. Another person killed an old
moccasin and left it on the hillside. IN
his return q few minutes afterward he
counted thirty.four little snakes crawl
ing around and over the large snake
They are supposed to have been the ola
ones young.
In England the cost Of raising q bushel
of wheat is in round figures Si:oo.
From a number of records Kept IN Min.
nesota and Kansas the average 0 q pei
bushel, counting all material, labor and
interest on investment, was about iorty'
Eve cents per bushel. Allowing iorty.
five cents for carrying the wheatto Eng
land, the cost would be ninety Genus
delivered. Those figures are significant
and speak for themselves.
The London Graphic attributes the
scream of Il woman partly to vul9arlty
and partly to vanity. 1t says no we'll
bred woman screams, but only those
who MOI bidly wish to attract attention.
The ignorance of woman's nature ex'
hibited by our namesake is amazing.
Try a room full of well-bred women
with a loose mouse, and observe the
York Graphic. .