The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1880-04-14
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Match against time-Scratching
ucifer on the clock-case. e
Bananas are successfully cultivated on
the southern coast of California.
The Yonkers Statesman remarks that
the pedestrian has chosen his walk in
life.
Hawking has of late years been re-
vived in England, and finds few en-
thusiastic votaries.
A cat is the most destructive Of all
animals. They mewtillate every sum-
mer night Eatsburg Telegraph. I.
If the balance of happiness be- ad;
iusted fairly, it will. be found that all
Conditions Of life fare equally well.
There are in Germany 32s suear-beet
mills. Twelve pounds OF beets make
one pound of sugar in that country.
Mississippi was the banner cotton
State last wear. raising 1000 bales more
than Texas, which stood next on the
list. mss.. .,..,
During the eight years in which
Thomas Jefferson pract:ced law before
the revolution, he was employed IN Sao
eases. ..r..
The difference between a sailor and q
Snowman is, that one likes lighthouse
while the other doesn't Waterloo 10
se7vcT.
It is well that an attempt is to be
made to prevent the use OF arsenic in
wall and other papers, for they breathe
death at every pore.
Potatoes are raised on fork, and on
the capacity of the stomach depends en-
tirely the amount that may be ralsed.-'
Kcokvk Constitution. -
It was q delicate piece Of sarqsm
n the boarder who sent his landiady q
razor neatly inclosed in a handsome
ailk-lined case and labeled butter
Knife"
Girls know only one-quarter as mucn
about counting as boys. because they
have only one year in four in which
they are allowed to practice.-Rev
Hdve7s Register.
It is an important item Of household
economy just now to save the cotton ana
linen rags and old newspapers tor SAFE,
as paper stock has gone up over htty per
cent. in the market lately. y :.
The New York consumption OF eggs
is extraordinary. Without including
the OUTLYING cities and villages there are
required for that city alone every Gay
3, 600 barrels of hens eggs, aver tglnS
l 200 to a barrel. making the aggregate
daily consumption not less thar 3,0oO'-
600 eggs.
Attention was first called to the
chemical composition OF the guano OF
Peru by Liebig, in 1910. That year
few casks were imported into treat
Britain as an experiment. The next
wear 9, 600 tons were brought, and in SIX
teen wears it's aggregated sales in that
country amounted to Sl00. 600. and
in one single year since to ss,425,oW.
New steel works are to be erected in
Chicago at q cost, including seventy
five acres of land, OF $2,0oO, OoO. Inc
new establishment is to be colnpleteo
within year, and will consist OF Iour
blast furnaces. Bessemer converLng
works and steel rail mill. 1T Will en-
ploy 9, 1000 men, consume 25O, ,OOO TONS OF
ore per year, and turn out so,ooo tons
of rails.
The German papers publish the iol-
lowing figures concerning the news
papers and periodicals in existence:
| In Germany there are 3:77S; in AUSTRIA
1900; in England, 2,5os; in FRANCE
1900; in Italy, 1925: in Russia, o0o; coc
Altogether there are in Europe l5,ooo
newspapers and periodicals: In Asia
there are 1888; in Africa: so; in Amer
| lea, 9, 1923; and in Australia, 100: Ine In
MN her for the whole world is q, 290.