The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1880-06-23
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

When it goes out at night.
In California there are about 900, 600
cattle and 100000 sheep.
The bright plaitings around dark
dresses should be very short. -
There are 5000 miles of telegraph and.
telephone wire in New York-city,
The population of Richmond, = aYap is,
81, 900, OF whom only $4,000 are white.
Immense quantities of iron are now
received in Spain for the Englishmsr.'
ket. sr :, ); , ~ IL
a great deal of jet and colored bead
embroideries appear on full dress SUM-
mer toilets.
The average yield of potatoes in 1e7 g
in the United States was only sixty-nin,
bushels per acre.
The Boston Post suggests that it Is
now safe to treat girls with coolness-
favored with vanilla. ~ ~
Iti estimated that seventy years and
81, ,0Oo, 900 will be required to complete
the excavations at Pompeii.
A young lady resembles ammunition
because the powder is needed before the
ball.-Aarathon Independent.
It is the same with nature as with
humanity, when the land gets worn out
the farmers plaster it.-Watertoo ";
SeTUeT.
Coal is raised from the French mines
in the Creuzot district by means OF COM
pressed air, the process also ventilating
the mines. 2
The steel industry of the United
States is now the second in the world.
and in another year will lead that OF
Great Britain. 6,
Cayenne pepper blown into the cracks
where the ants congregatc will drive
them away. The same remedy is good
also for mice.
Read not to contradict and confute,.
nor to believe and take for granted,
nor to find talk and discourse; but To-
weigh and consider. 8
The Chinese ambassadress at Paris Is :,
unable to stand on account OF her lash.
ionably mutilated feet. She is held up
by two persons of her suite. 81
A subscriber asks il Beecher breaches
without notes. Not as long as the banks
continue to issue, or seats can sell Tor
$50, 600 a year.-0Uego Record. X;
" It's hot to-day" the young man said,
The old man looked into his house,
And replied, May be, but It's scold in there,
As he pointed to his spouse.
-.MarathonI Independent ]:
care YOU q home ruler?" was asked
of one OF the candidates at an English
election. A voice from the back seatas
answered: "No, but his wife is. " I,
During the wear 1879 the omnibuses OF
Paris carried 9l,24s, 4a2 passengers, an
average of $50, ,269 per day. In 1873
the number of passengers was luz,
9l2,582.
The annual report Of the American
Bible society shows receipts for the
wear of .s60s, $40. John W. Foster,
minister 10 Russia, was elected vice.
president. and John Jay, manager.
The total cost of the Gothard tunnel.
the most gigantic work of the kind in
the world, will not exceed SIC, 1000, 600.
1t has been very costly of human lite as
well ss money, no less than l50 work.
men having been killed and 40O disabled
during its construction.
A peasant who had during nItV years
dressed in female attire and been con-
sidered a woman was recently sent to
hospital in Milan, and was there dis
covered by the surgeons in charge to be
a man. The supposed woman had beer
formally married to man.
"Here, John, don't eat those crackers up.
Said she, with hateful snap; ~,
"They're some saved on purpose o..
To put in the baby's pap" =.
"Weil," said John, edging tor, the door
And reaching for his hat, q
"What makes you so cross aboutit, then1
Amt the baby's pap7"
This story OF a windy day is Of course
from a Nevada paper, the Truckee
Republ;ca.: A hand-car with four
men started for the snow sheds to re.
pair an old snow plow which was dam
aged by the storm. On reforming, ths
wind was so strong that they hadlto
get off the hand car and push it down
hill.
Pulling matches by steamboats are
still q popular diversion in the West.
At Chicago short time ago the CARO-.
ner, for years regarded as the. most
powerful vessel on the lakes, wasbeaten
by the johnson. In these contests the
boats are fastened together by. rope
running from stem to stern, and then
both are started at the same instant.