The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1880-01-28
ITEMS OF.ISTEREsT.

Uurlng the yeat 1919 AmeTlcau mlueo
produced $4,000, 900.
Over 1000 cheese factories are opera
ted in the State ofNew York.
TlR present governor of Colorado used
to be carpenter at Sl.50 per day.
Seven machines in Pittsburg pro-
duced last year 1858, ,345 kegs of nails.
There is a tea plantation in George
town. S. c., which is paying its owner
profit.
The production of anthracite coal thia
year will reach 25,000, 600 tons-more
than ever before.
Any one who is quick at repartee must
necessarily have great response ability
Seubenville HeraM..
Charles Lamb remarked of one of his
critics: The more 7 think of him, the
less l think of him"
Milwaukee made $4,000 barrels OF
-four last year, being an increase of 2O0,-
600 barrels over 1873. ,.s
Cotton factories are rapidly going up
in Texas, in order to utilize her super
abundant cotton. crop.
Kansas has been numbering its people
aud finds ,hem to be $40 97s. The popu-
lation in 1870 was 1854 1893.
Nearly 100000 letters were dis
patched to foreign ports from the New
York postofice during 1879.
"Foregoes" was the word given out at
written spelling exercise recently:
and sne little boy handed in: "Go, 60,
20, CO."
It is estimated that in the United
States 100, 600 men are compelled to work
on Sundays By the running of steam
and horse-ca on the first day of the
week.
Five thousand dollars is offered by
the American Hur,are Society, of Chi
cago for n stock car in which live ami
mails can be carried long distances with
out needless suffering.
OF the discoverers and conquerors of
the New World, Columbus died broken
hearted, Roldin and Bobadilla were
drowned, Balboa was beheaded, Cortez
was dishonored, and Pizarro was muir
dereG.
A COPY of the first edition of Ptolemy's
atlas of the world was purchased at
secondhand bookstore, the other day.
for the small sum of $40. It is valued
at $1,000, as it is the only copy in
America.
dear Louise, don't let the men come
too near you when courting."',. "Oh. no,
dear ina. When Charles is here we al
ways have one chair between u.s."
Mother thinks the answer is rather am
biguous. '.."
care we musical people?" asks the
Chicago Tribune. When every. ,Ameri-
can babe tunes up as soon as it enters
the world, and small towns support two
brass bands. we should say that we are.
-PailadelphiH Chronicle. ID p
A Cincinnati man who had S65 stolen.
from him received q note, with S25. say
ing: II stoled your money. Remorse
naws at my conshens, and send some
of it back. When remorse naws again
I'll send you some more. ;"
NH. Mum, ofNewton county, Miss,
q wide. and Industrious farmer. OF
no small pretensions, weighs eighty-nine
mounds and is four and half feet high.
His wife is only four feet high, and
weighs fifty-seven pounds.
II say, old fel, you haven't got a five
dollar bill about you that you dom!
know what to do with, nave you'"
"There's one" "Thanks-but, hello.
it's badr', "You asked me for one
didn't know what to do with': -.
A schoolmaster asked one of his boys
on a cold winter morning, what was
Latin for cold. The boy. hesitating,a a
little. the master said: "What, sirrah,
can't you tell9" YES, sir" says the
boy. II have it at my finger ends."-
Picayune.
In this climate, where one; extreme
follows another so rapidly, it is I'M
possible for a newspaper to say any
thing about the weather with any de-
gree of confidence that it will be appro-
priate by the time the paper reaches itss
readers. Therefore we have arranged
the following plan. You pay no money,
but take your choice: