The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1880-05-05
uEMS OF INTEREST.

A current event-The Gulf stream.
There are sixty-seven women preach
ers in the United States. .",i i,.gz wi. -!
The slovenly dressmaker is the most
errible seam monster. the ladies think.
Amateur fishermen in the United
States pay Sl,000,OO q year for fishing
gear. .:,.... ...,.l.,- ..... ...,,.
In Macon, Ca, there are fourteen
schools for white and fourteen for col
ored children. '. '''.''''.' .. 3
The daily receipt of dead letters in the
Washington department for the past
year has averaged 1900. ,.'r-., "~ -..'r
The population of Persia is about
equal to that of Belgium. 1t has 10000
soldiers, Of whom about 10, 600 are fairly
efficient. .s...... .-,-..,... .- r
Over 100000 gallons of petroleum or
earth oil. are brought to the surface
every day in the oil regions of Pennsyl-'
vania alone. '' ''
If the Gear Of Russia cannot punish
his enemies in any other way, he can
abdicate and 90 on lecturing tour
Rome Sentinel. ..., . .eaajy.si.o IT. ~ ,,.,
Apricots are becoming a favorlte fruit
among the growers of California, where,
the climate seems to be well adapted for
heir propagation.
When man is startled at something,
and says: Il hear noise" it prob
ably never occurs to him that there is
nothing else in this wide world that
anybody else can hear but noise.
Syracuse Sunday Times. ,.,.,a....,...
A man in Marshall county, Tenn.
over eighty years OF age, has never seer
either railroad or a steamboat. He is
q good farmer and attends. closely to his
own business. He has lived within five
miles of q railroad for several years. .,l
The wheat crop of Russia for 1879,
though reported short, was more than
double that Of the United States: Russia
exports large quantities to England,
where she is the great competitor!of the
United States, besides feeding popu.a-
ton of ninety millions.
A man stopping his paper wrote to
the editor: 81 think nen offend to spend
their mummy for paper, my dad dident,
and everybody sed he was the intelll-I
gentest man in the country, and be had
the smartest family of boys that eyer
dug tators." Ofcourse he didn't need a
paper.
When the courting at midnight is ended, 80
And he stands with his hat in his fist, '@
While she lovingly fingers beside him, egg
To bid him " ia, to-" and be kissed,
How busy the thoughts OF the future
You bet you his thoughts he don't speak
He is wondering how they can manage
| To live on ak dollars week.
-yModern .Hrgo.
He was of scientific turn, she OF a
sentimental cast. "You see, Amelia,
the law of gravitation keeps the earth
lust 80 far from the sun all the time, and
the centrifugal force of the centripetal
motion, or somethingo that sort, makes
it revolve." Dear me, john" said
she, lis that so? thought twas love
that made the world go round. y
"Well, yes, suppose it does; but not
in a technical sense" II don't want any
technical sense. If you can't talk sentl-
mental nonsense. you can 20 calling on
some girl that reads the magazines and
knows all about science, so there" and
it took half an hour Of his best en-
deavor 10 place himself back in the
same spot in her affections that he was
before the scientific discussion began
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