The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1880-05-19
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Tobacco chewing has increased eight
per cent in the past year.
A boy ten years old tramped all tho
wsy from Iowa to San Francisco:
In the Turkish language there Is said
to be no word siguifying gratitude. =,
A mule is tame enough in front-out
awfullv wild behind.-MeT1aen re-
cordeT
"You,re q man after my own bsart,
"A the blushing maiden confessed when
herloyer proposed marriage.-Ne~ fors
NeDs.
The crockery business of the United
States is represented by about ,O0o,G0v
of CAPITA, and employs 1000 skilled
hands. ..
Gold is found in fifty-six counties IN
Geo1 sia, silver in three, copper IN tnil-
teen, Iron in forty-three, and diamond
in twenty.six.
ARome (Nev. } girl has been made the
recipient Of $25 by an insurance com.
panv as reward for the promptltuae
l. with which she put out hre.
A man will remember q broken leg
mnch longer than he will favor, but
that doesn't make broken leg any BET
ter than Vallejo ChrontcIs.
M. o. Button, the arrowmaker OF
Santa Cruz, CAL, recently orougnt cow
nine squirrels. three rabbits ana jazz
an afternoons hunt with DOW ano
arrows. r. -.
Senator Davis, of West Virginia, now
a millionaire, used to bea railroad brake
man. He made bis money by not slam
ming the doors of the cars, says the de-
troit Free Press.
"You want fogging- that's what
n,r want :" said a parent to an unruly
Son II know it, dad; but I'll try to
e oct a1orr without it," returned the in
dependent hopeful.
California has about 100. .o0o, 600 acres
Of land, of which 5000, OOe acres are
unsurveyed. Not much over 4,oOo,Wo
acres acres are under cultivation, although
iomethine more than 5000, 600 acres are
snclosed with fences. ...-.
The days are fair; the stately uees
| Put forth their beauties to the eye'
While the small boy lies on the gteen' green
And fon!..y dreams OF pumpkin pie. 49,
-iVtliiamspor Breahtast 1abl<:
Dangerield Stanley, the chief OF
large gypsy tribe in Missouri, has pun
chased a granger supply store near St.
Louis, and will make that city his homo
hereafter. ,... .- ..-. ...~.,
Ifthese few lines meet the eye OF the
Young man who was singing kocked
in the Cradle of the Deep" about one
O'Clock the other morning, they will In.
form him that the only reason we didnt
rock him was because VIC didn't have
anv rock handy.-Marathon Independ'
ent. -,'r
A Williamsport man stumbled and
fell down five flights of stairs and when
he landed at the bottom, instead OF
calling for arnica, he looked at MS 1ees
a moment. and then said: Nv ell, nope
you haven't any more objections TO car
rying my body about. C'y oe''
rick.
A Montreal butcher pleaded guilty TO
having sold woman meat that was nn-
fit for human food, but the court dis
charged him upon the plea OF his coun-
sci that according to the existing law
the court had not power to punish . man
for selling bad meat, but only tor lex"
posing for sale" such meat.
People who have general idea OF the
size ofColorado may vet be surprised py
the statement of the Denver NeoI, tnat
it is the fourth State in the Union IN
this respect, and is larger than New
Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts'
Connecticut, Rhode Island. New York,
New Jersey, Delaware and Maryland
combined.
Charles Lamb says speaker should
not attempt to express too mucn, ous
should leave something to the imag1nar
tion OF his audience, and be tells now,
being called on to return THANKS iora
toast to his health. he rose, bowed TO his
audience, said: "Gentleman." and then
sat down. leaving it to their imagina-
tion to supply the rest.
In the churchyard of Heyden, Suffolk,
England, there is q stone when pears
this inscription: Here lieth the body
of William Strutton, of Paddington,
M bnr;ed Nav ls. 1894, who had by bis
first wife twenty-eight children, an6 oy
a second wife seventeen, own iasneF 70
forty-fiye. grandfather to eighty-si1,
ereat. grandfather to ninety-seven, ana
ereat-great- grandfather to twenty-three
in all 25l.
The Deadwood Times says Colonel
Benteen has located a stock rancn Juss
east of Bear Butte, in the valley OF the
creok of that name. He viii llstock 1t
with short-horns, and makes6reedtnog
thoroughbreds specially. he wlii
also purchase this season a thousano
sheep. including q carload OF HOBART,
town fiat-tails from California, imported
originally from Australia in !eo1, tne
largest sheep known. He will also make
q speciality of fine blooded horses!
The celebrated botanist, Nicholas oe
| Nasakine, in an article IN the CoTre-
spo1adence Scientifque, claims that the
| flavor of fruits increases in proportlon
as they recede from the equator, Whlie
| it decreases as the equator is approacheG;
The leaves and flowers of nearly all
northern plants contain also a larger
uuantity of oil than those of Southern
Europe. He believes that the phenom-
enon is explained by the longer pres
ence of the sun above the horizon dur
ing the summers Of the North.
There is good deal of loose talk about
the man who steals five dollars beng
sent to prison and the one who t".kes
hundred thousand getting Oft without
punishment. But supposing it is so, it
only shows the advantage OF doing
large business. You can see the same
sort of thing in all departments. For in
stance, if Il horse-car driver should
break a pane of glass. he would have TO
pay for it; but if he break Ks up q whole
car fifty times day he does not haveto
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