The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1880-03-10
ITEMS OF INTEREST

ITEMS OF INTEREST. ,
Five counties in California CONTAIN
quicksilver mines. .~.. ....-f ...r.."
Mummy cloth. much improved, will
be among the fashionable spring goods.
Last year twenty minor. planets were
discovered, and their umber is now
2l1. Ls.
There has been no issue Of silver i've
cent and copper two-cent pieces since
1872.
An Ohio newspaper speaks of a man
being bruised by "emphatic gestures of
mule" in, . .,nr.. = =.
! The first gold mine known in the
United States was discovered in South
Carolina in 1890. ..s. ........ ...
An exchange softly says of defaulter:
"He admits q gap of $4,000 between
himself and creditors
A firm adeertises "raw silk stock
ings." Good gracious, who wants them
cooked !-Rockland' Courier. e. ..
The clip of wool for 1879 is the largest
ever shown in the United States,
amounting to 233, $50, 600 pounds. =. ..
During 1879 more railroad accidents
occurred in the transportation Of coal
than of any other kind of freight,
Ari Jonson, an Icelandic youth, has
written five-act tragedy with the sim.
pie title of "Sigridur Eyyjafiordarsol."
Yes, pie Is the great destroyer.
Whenever we are confronted by 1t we
at once cry for quarter.-Boston Tran.
script. .O ,..-....,a .. p. ,,m.,..,
Eighteen express trains are run from
New York to Philadelphia daily on tLe
Pennsylvania railroad, Sundays ex-
cepted.
We have known some young ladies
to take five or six years to get over be-
ing sixteen years old.-Waterloo o.
seTver. ,#.-J... d" a.ra ID" -j....
A young man at Canton. Ohio. sued
his own mother for $4,000 for SANDER.
She circulated report that he was
drunken and thievish. ....... 49,.
AFrench chemist asserts thatif tea be
ground like coffee Immediately before
hot water is poured upon it, its exhila-
ratingqualities will he doubled.
Talk about Robinson Crusoe's island
being uninhabited! Didn't he find a
! great swell on shore and little cove
running inland? Avast there.-Boston
Transcript.
| "Who will write the music OF the
| future?" asks New York, paper.
"What troubles u.s." replies the Detroit
! Free Press, sis to know who will have
patience to listen to it," ..,
, Both peaches and apricots arc natives
of Persia; they were brought into Europe
! by the Romans. They were first intro
! duced into England for cultivation in
the year 1924, by Henry the Eigllth's
gardener.
The Ponca Indian, Woodworkrr. says
he has never seen a gray haired lndi;n
! in his life. There are men in his tribe
over ninety years old and their hair is
jet black. and bald heads are never seen
among the red men.
When a man reflects that by going
! back few generations he can claim
several hundred ancestors: :tn!! reflects
how little they have left him fur IN in
| heritance, it makes him feel abused
! SyillUater Lumbermnn. -:
! You can train the eye to see all !.e
bright places in your Ole. and so si'p
over the hard ones with surprising
ease. You can also train the eye Ia rest
on the gloomy spots. in utter iorgetful-
ness of all that is bright and beautiful.
The only time in life when q woman
seems to be happy is when she calmly
sits down and attempts to trim new
bonnet with old trimmings. She seems
to be truly happy; but what n Vesuvius
! is at work within her!-Qninry Modern
! ERGO
| see him in the starlishts glcam,
His soft glance answers mine;
With melting look aud tender beam
! I see his blue eyes shine.
Nv garden wall see him scale
! Still. heart He will not iall;
hear his voice-his tunetl wail;
The cat upon the wall.
Statistics show that there is one cow
to every four ,ersons in this country.
One COW, if it has just been bercaved OF
its offspring, or is determined to &C. tie
! wrong way, is enough for any four
. ordinary persons. Indeed. under cir
cum stan ces of great excitement, one cow
to about fifteen persons is generally con-
sidered sufficient. nt.-Ha'ckcye.
The reason why the moon appears;as
large as the sun is because Of it's near
ness, its distance being only 240.0O0
miles. while the sun is about 92,mio, 600
miles. The moon then is by far the
nearest of all the heavenly bodies. Her
! distance, however, is not always the
same. .Ibut changes, so that at tunes it is
q, 600 miles less distant than at ethers.
A biz six-footer was yesterday lifting
for ali he was worth on a wagon wheel
which was stuck, when little two.foot'
mite of humanity, nearlyas broad as he
was long, and Just out Of long dresses
and into pants, with his hands in his
pockets and a staggering air, sang out:
"Mister, do you want me to help you?
I can grunt while you iift."-CA City
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