The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1880-02-25
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/ There are 10000 students IN american can -,
colleges. . y. .,'.,. 's =. . ;. '.s'',, ,'
The sultan's palace costs him about
$l4, 1000, 900 year. 5..n "r"7FaS tcstIe
Can squeezing q person in a crowd be j
termed "a liberty Of the presse"lig ;!
William II. Vanderbilt has given $685.
600 to the University ,ofVirginia. & 9.pr q
Knocking a friend, down is o. sure ;
way of dropping an acquaintance s,eo &;
An artists views OF subject are not
always the best.-Yoakers Gdsesman.
Senator-elect George, the Mississippi
jurist, drove an OK team in his. youth,
A factory in New, Haven. Connv 4.
made over q, 900, 900 tishhooks last year.
Two sleighs have been sent from
Poughkeepsie, N. T., to the Emperor OF
Japan. '
When a doctors business is at
stand-still he feels terribly out OF
patients Yonkers statesman. .'s' 's-s ~
A bookkeeper, whose head is we'll
balanced. writes Dear sir " thus:
"Dr. r."-Nor, isto,ra Herald.
Near Monkstown. Texas, Il deer was
found fastened by his horns in a tree; =,
top. He was captured. OF course.
Buffalo Bill in his book tells of beef
cattle SO poor that he had to prop them
up to shoot.them down.-Pscayase. =.
Theeorn crop OF Illinois is prodigious. 3
Fo' the year 1879 it amounted to @5,- :
Sl3,477 bushels, and the value OF the
crop was S97, ,4s3,0 3,052. -. .r .r..;,.a-. .,
Mr.. oliver Dalrympie, the great Min
nesota farmer. intends to cultivate 3O,GO0
acres OF wheat this year. He viii Fave
twenty steam' threshers in operation,
with 1856 reaping machines. = Last year
he employed 800 laborers, and this year,
will increase the number to 700. n..,.
"What does l2mo meanp" asked q
pupil of her teacher, II few days since.
"l2mo; why don't you know what that
means? 1t means the same as
d&weowly. Haven't.you seen it in &C.
vertisements in newspnper?'-OWego
Times. Is s-. b. .-.-.t g.; :. 3..l rgs' .Ei,2
Light colors are recommended for
cold wcather,as they do not. part Will!
heat easily. But we notice that Il hand
with white kid glove on will part with
a red-hot poker about as previously as
the one enclosed ina brown, ulilten.--
Eeok,k Gate City. 1.''s ... o.. %. .,. a.'.r
The first steamships that crossed the
Atlantic were, the Sirius and Great
Western. The former sailed from Cork,
April4, 1898 and the latter from Bristol,
April 8. 1888. They both arrived in
New York on the 28th of the same
month. the Sirius being only twelve or
fifteen hours ahead of the Great West
ern. ......
The roaming correspondent Of the
Burlington (IOwa) Hapkeye tells a
pleasing story OF Il self-sacriiicing tray
eler who devoted his energies to the
work of devourins everything upon q
certain railway station dinner-counter.
and shaving ut last accomplished the
feat walked away, seying: There: He:
the next fellow that comes along here
will get something fresh" -
When Commodore Vanderbilt: wished
to start in the steamboat business. says
Cornelius Vanderbilt he had but 5000
of the SIS, 900 necessary for Il purchase,
and his wife went to a corner where she
had concealed the $40. 600 she had saved
without his knowledge, and brought
forth the needed funds, thus laying the
foundation of the colossal Vanderbilt
fortune.
Will l.. MARBLE, q St. Louis artist, has
applied fora divorce from his wife. One
of his grievances is that she sent a
broken frying pan to m art show: where
some of his pictures were on eXhloltlon'
with !. request that the hanging COM
mittee woul. give it position. as IAN
example oftho way in which the tai
ented Mr.. MARBLE provided for his taa-|
ily's necessities" .-. -. .....
The.young ladies of Washington are
debating how they shall effectively re-
buke the ill-brcd men who Stare at them
in the street cars and stages. Easy
enough. Poke the point Of your par
asol handle into their eyes. A man, no
matter how ill-bred he may be, loses his
appetite for staring after hc has IN eye
punched out three or four timss. Or
the young ladies might walk.--No'rts-
tow,a Herald.
A servant girl Mt jersey, England,
has been fined ten shillings for plaj jinga
foolish trick with train. She stood .
between the rails while the train was
approaching at rapid rate, ana c;t!miy
watched it draw near. The driver
whistled, shut off steam, and reversed
the engine, and thus succeeded In stop
ping tile locomotive within two yards or
the girl, who merely laughed in his face
and ran away.
The young ladies of Chattanooga
CTenn.) organized 3 leap-ycar party.
hired hall, ordered 4 supper, and went
around in carriages to hunt up The
young men to compel them to come in.
Everything was lovely until they went
to settle the bills, when they learned
that the young men had already paid
them. The young ladies say now that
it was real mean " in the boys, and
declare that they will never give
another leap year party.
Power of o Growing Tree.
N,lton Holl had at one time its own