The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1880-03-24
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

One Chicago man has dug $1,000
graves.
Thirty Englishmen are preaching in
Madagascar.
Nearly 5000 plows are sold in Little
Rock, Ark. annually.
A poor relation-The crude effort OF
Observation-Disclosures Punch.
Mummy cloth, much improved, Will
be among the fashionable spring goods,
An army of drummers in the Southern
trade make Atlanta their headquarters.
Funny thing, this English language; =
witness: How much cold can bare
bear bearp
It should always be remembered that
"advertiser rhymes with wiser. -
Ney York Neaos. (
When one has no design but to speak
plain truth. ne may say great Zeal IN q
very narrow compass.
Kentucky paid last year $4,000 Tor
fox scalps, and the AUDITORS estlmass
for this year is $4,000.
"Ah, yes! Time flics!" said ne, gay
ing on the thief running off with his
watch.-Sdlena Sunbeam.
Proposals are in order. girls. ke.
member no bachelor should be WITHOUT
won.-Yonkers Statesman.
The Baltimore bridge company have
contracted to buildr three bridges ID
Australia. to cost $l75, 600.
There is no surer way. OF telling
whether an egg is good or rot than by
tasting it.-Rocbester Express.
It takes about fifteen per cent. OF the
entire revenues of the United States
government to pay pensions.
Professor Proctor finds that Ameri-
cans take more interest in sclent'nc
matters than the English people.
"Ouail on toast" was what he ordered.
"Ouail on trust" was that the inn.
keeper called it some months afterward.
It is now thought that instead OF its
being dynamite which blew up the
cars dinner, it was baking POWDER
OIL City Derrick.
The city directory of Louisville for
1880, saws in its introduction: LOUIS
willie to-day has $4,000 houses, ana
population Of III, ,000."
The great interest in certain variety
of corn and also of q certain variety OF
Young men is whether 1t Will pop OF
not.-McG Grcgor Neacs.
Oregon farmers propose to test the
practicability of raising the 'ug T,oeat
n that State. A premium ha' oern
ffered of 300 for the best acre a1d. $'o
or the second best.
Young ladies are now wearing coach
mems coats instead Of the ulster. Inns
is to show how they will take the relns
in their hands when they choose matrl-
mony as q vehicle for happiness.-bos'
ton Courier.
When a California editor gets ready TO
call q contemporary "prevaricator"--or
some other word of little higher PROOF
he is always careful to first tell the
foreman the style of funeral notice ne
vents. -Middletoun Transcript.
The consumption of writing paper IN
tho limited States is one and tbrec-fourth
tons daily to each 1000, 900 inhabitants,
ar eighty tons q day for the whole
country. Holyoke is producing hlty
tons Of writing paper daily.
A Chicago man has had a lost tooth
renlaced by one transplanted from the
mouth of young girl, and now at a
Marty. when the rest of his mouth IS
watering for salmon, salad ano quail a on
toast, that tooth aches for ice-cream anu
rozen pudding.
There must be something wrong when
any kind OF subsidy goes hegglng; "A
Nassau correspondent writes That therc
is a standing offer on the part OF tne
Bahama legislature of $40 GOO q yeaT
for ten years to any company that WI
Inv q cable between Nassau and tne
United States.
The German government has recently
rechristened no less than $50 places IN
Alsace-L Lorraine, giving them German
names in the place OF French. Inc
Ohcial Journal explains that the names
were originally German. the same s
are now assigned. and that unoer
French rule they were simply trans-
lated.
A MODERN WAY.
Darling, I'm waiting for thy replS,
Waiting thy answer to my request;
| Thy lips are mute, thy eyes are ci"se",
| And thy ne9u lies pl'lo"o' ". "''
Oh peak! be thy answer what it may,
Speak, and my whole life blight or biees-
Whether the cold. harsh, cruel No"
Or whether the longed-ior, heavenly Y es'"
Thy lips do tremble, but, ah; my dear
cannot hear cen the slightest moan!
Sneak moro loudly-or, stay, my love,
Breathe it into my audphone.
Salem Sunbeam.
The Rev. Burr Baldwin, the oldest lest
surviving graduate OF 7 lale, ana ne $500 ste
died d At Montrose, Pa. aged ninety.one.
He He y was m regarded as the founder OF the
American An eric school system, and a school
was as organized under his direction at at
Newark. n. j., in the first quarter OF
the present century. The application d OF
co!ored woman for admission ,si nues caused sdl
much apprehension. but she was aa,
mitted, and the school at parslppany
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