The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1880-01-14
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

-Harpsr's BJsai
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
United States Senator Jones, the Ne
vada millionaire, is English.
A clock, pendulum is bound to keep
time ifithas to swing for it.
Both very light colored and very dark
costumes for street wear are in vogue.
A great deal of the medicine used now
a-days is vial stuff-Honker's Statesman.
A competing hotel out West says
generously of another that sit stands
without arrival" ~, ..
Treat your servants with confidence
and consideration, and 40 not suspect
them of doing wrong.
Bows who are granted the utmost tree
! dom of the streets are like the sanas OF
lfe-they run out.-Gate Gttv.
The Sultan of Turkey has portions of
the New York Scientific american trans
lated into Turkish for his reading: ;
When man gets che rheumatism in
his knees he knows the beauty OF gate \
without hinges.-Ne,o Haven Register.
The farm products of Illinois anount-
ed in 1879 to 5000, ,OOO, 900, which. is
double the product of all the gold and
silver mines in the United States.
Do not lend your paper and cheat the
printer. People who do not pay for the
papers they read have the hardest kind
of times trying to get to heaven.-asH-
s1dter L1f1lbe1D1dn.
The mother should set an example OF
being neatly and appropriately dressed.
| She will see no one during the day before
whom she should desire to appear so
we'll. or to be so attractive.
How is it in fashionable weddings that
we always have a'cata :oge iof the
brides wearing apparel. While we never ,
hear of the groom having so much rs
new pair of socks?-Syrac,tse Herald.
Without. wholesome intervals Of
amusement, uninterrupted work be-
comes intolerable. There are and must
be differences in the modes of enjoyment,
but there is common womanhood.
Miss Payne, Of St. Paul, became Sc
cret smoker. When two gentlemen
called she hurriedly thrust lighted
cigarette into her pocket, and was soon e
ablaze, receiving burns that were almost
fatal.
Live in your drawing rooms; have
books, work. music. fire, all to make It
the pleasantest place for the members OF
the family; q place for rest. comfort,
conversation, with nothing too fine to
situpon. 49,
The United States use more. coffee
than any other nation, England more
tea. and Spain more chocolate. We also
use more sugar than any other country
and fully half of all the Malaga raisins
grown and dried.
We suspect that there are men in New
York who would willingly give $780,
600 for seat in the New York stock
exchange, who rarely give a cent toward,
securing one in the heavenly klnSdom.-
Brooklyn Unior,-Aryas.
Joshua Woodbury. made ccord in the
wear 1851 that he Tad just set out two
apple trees "for posterity's sake" The
trees still stand on farm at Cape Eliza
beth, Cumberland county, Me-, and this
year bore two barrels of good apples.
The total production OF honey:in the
United States has for years past aver
aged about fifty million pounds annually:
In 1879 the supply is estimated at hnif
that quantity, owing to failure OF the
crop in California and q partial failure
in other States.
The Yonkers Gazette says: Every
person in the State of New York who
plants shade trees along the public bigh-
wav is entitled to an abatement OF his
tax at the rate of twenty-five cents PEI -
tree. We believe this fact is not gene.
rally known"
The Duke of Rutland recently ac-
cepted notices to quit their farms sent
in by fifteen Of his tenants, and when
rent day came, directed his agent to re-
turn the whole of the years rent to
every one OF his tenants except the
fifteen who had given notice.
The'proprirtor who nuts onions on
his bill-of- fare in French, and then sends
them to the table in sections with the
heart punched out, and covered with an
elegant brown batter which makes them
look like half. grown crullers. perpetrates
cruel fraud upon the evening young
man who is going out to see his GIRL
Hotel Gazette.
Spain has 90 dukes, s66 marquises,
832 counts, 90 viscounts, SO barons. i lie
whole number of persons bearing the
titles of duke, marquis. earl, viscount.
baron and lord in the United Kingdom
of Great Britain and Ireland is some
where about 900. hut Of these only some
400 have seats in the house OF lords.
Most of the rest bear merely courtesy
titles.
Another secret printing. office. has
been discovered by the Russian .pollce IN
St. Petersburg, and this time in one OF
the mcst fashionable quarters OF inc
capital. When the police entered the
house they found about twenty persons
among them three women-some OF
whom are supposed to belong to the best
classes of society, engaged in printing
orbidden pamphlet.
Mr.. Ansell Warren, of St. Louis, IS
venerable printer who is recorded as
companion of Mr. Greeley while the
country lad was serving his apprentice
shin at the case in Poultney. Vt. Mr..
Warren says that Mr.. Grecley's first
boyish attempt ut writing for putlica'
ton was made apropos OF monster
SQUASH which was sent into the news
paper Office. Several of the men en-
ployed in the office undertook to write
descriptions of it, the best one to bepuo-
lished. The young Greeley was among
the competitors, but his item was not
thought to be successful. and went into
the waste basket.
Six boys at Hennepin, Iowa. organ.
ized as bandits, on plan suggested by
a thrilling novel which they, had reaa;
Ttey could not find a natural cave, ana
therefore dug one in the side Of a MI.
Their first exploit was to rob all the
clothes-lines in the neighborhood on"
wash day night. Great excitement e..
sued, and several innocent tlamps were
arrested; but the mystery was explained
when, on the following night, the young
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