The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1880-05-12
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Shave your facc, but not your cusbom-
ers. ,.. 1i...rarE'
You can't dig clans without moving
q mussel. ftH --1Tir
High time-That kept by "a town
clock.-Ro.nc Senlinel., -., -. .5.....a, =,
Amateur fishermen in this. country
'pay 81, ono, 900 q year Tor fishing geas.
The Boston Post says the man VINO
was run over by II train Of cars exper-,
enced silent joy-,aute elatlon.
The railway through the St. Gothard
tunnel will, it is thought, be open Tor
traffic by the first of October, this year.
Michigan university last year ranked
second amor 2 the colleges oftthe United
States in tile number OF students Ihis
year, first. "a ...,i"hisg.. :.,. j.,
For very young ladies the fichu,shaged
NANTES are retained, also those that zap
smoothly in front, and fit like 9 basque
behind.
Some men are such inveterate jokers
that they can't step from a horse-ca
without getting off good thing.-Bos-
ton Post. .-.. '..,.. 90 ..s.G2llHna!. .-,""
In the South there are IA blast
| furnaces, thirty-nine rolling mills and
steel works, and forty.eight forges aao
bloomeries. .........,,.,.......
Some Biblical student has discovered
that the Bible is particularly severe on
cremation. He bases his discovery ON
Amos, chapter Q, verses'l-S. ri .fa 7a'7s'd
Professor Arnold says q good cow
should give 5000 pounds Of milk yearly
nearly twenty-five pounds, or eleven
quarts, for every day in the year. :p .,a
Never in the history of Pennsylvania D.,
has there been in so short 8 space OF
time such valuable discoveries, OF iron
ore made as those of the past year.
The Germar papers are teeming with
accounts of the unheard-of proportions
which emigration to America is assumi
ing on account ur the new military laws,
A merchant may manage to grub along
without advertising, and sosmay man
empty a hogshead of water with Tea,
spoon, but both are decidedly tedious
undertakings. ,.-.... ,..,,
A Western householder in filing up
his census schedule, under the column
"where born," described one OF ms
children "born in the parlor," and tho
other upstairs" z. -, -....r p.j.a"t. IN
Western papers are discussing the
question, "Shallma ried women work. p
| Unless they do, we suppose good many
husbands of the period will starTe 70
death.-.Ne,1 York Express. e " .'''l'' ~
A Fort Benton (Montana) justice WHO {
was called upon to marry q couple ran
off with the girl and married her him.
self, leaving the lover in his ohce TO
look over the law books. ..,., ,,,,,.,...- Il. :,
M. Louis Favre, the engineer-in-chlet
who built tue St. Gothard tunnel: fell
dead in the tunnel on the eve OF the
completion of the boring. His bust IN
marble is to be placed over the entrance.
According to Chinese notions of rank,
masters must not occupy sleeping rooms
below their serv ,nts. Consequently
the family of the Chinese. professor In
Cambridge, Mass, sleep in the attic,
and the servants downstairs.
When q mans wife comes in and sees
him razor in hand, and with his face all
lather. and asks him: Are you shaw
;ngp" it's a provoking thing in, him TO
answer: mo, I'm blacking the stoye,"I,
but it's human nature to so reply.-Bos-,
ton Post. M !..L ls43
The workmen who bored the st.
Gothard tunnel were mostly Italians,
paid at the rate of FIVE and six dollars 8
day. Many lost their limbs or lives
through accidents, but altogether they
stood the heat and were less frightened
in handling dynamite than the SWISS
and Germans.
A young lady surprised the. gentle
manly clerk" at one OF our dry goonc
stores by offering him fifty rents in pay
ment for q dollar purchase. "lt amounts
to a dollar, if you please" said The
clerk. II know it does," was the
answer. "butpa is only paying nifty
cents on the dollar now" p
The comet discovered by the Ann
Arbor professor has tail three minutes
long. An insignificant affair. The
New York Ledqer frequently has a tale
ten months long. A tail three minutes
long is hardly worth our attention, ana
no doubt there are persons who WILL
second US in this view OF the comet
| Nor7isto10n Herald
From q paltry seventy-fve cents'
worth of iron ore may be developed, u
is said, $3.50 worth OF bar IRON, SlU
worth of horse-shoes, $3.50 worth OF
table knives, $500 worth OF hne
needles, $40, ,490 worth of shirt buttons
5000 900 worth of watch springs. S4O,,
600 worth of hair springs, or ~, 5Oo,oVo
worth ofpallet arbors (used inwatches).
Some ten years ago cheese making was
introduced into Russia, and that country
has now established no less than eighty.
three factories. while 260 persons have
been taught in the school in onreetion
with the St. Nickolas Railway Dairy
factory. In the three Oojesdas OF the
government of Vologda are forty's,;xS
factories. ut which the milk OF = 5W ~,
COWS is utilized. From this milk l2,4s9
pcods OF cheese have been made ana
4 Ys5 moods of butter The total value,
of this has been 2O6. 7Go rub!eS-a ruo!e
being equivalent IL about scventy-slH
cents of Anne, ican ni"ney.