The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1880-07-07
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Chestnuts make good -four:

CheStnuts make go0o nOuf. -
Detroit has 773 licensed newsboys. p
The sultan of Turkey lives surrounded,
by 1000 soldiers. =. :
An exchange alludes to the bicycle as
the circumlocutory beast. -
What the daily newspaper is to man,
friends visit is to woman.
Twenty P Provincetown (Mass.) vessels
will hunt whales this season,
A ton of silver, at the standard rate
of 81 1920, is worth 37,7O9.57. -
Seth Green advises farmers to gointo
frog ponds. Millions in them! VI
The shores of Lake Mira, Wis, are
fringed with dead buffalo fish.
Burlington, Iowa, has horse that
lifts bale of hay with his teeth.
I Talk we'll Of the town you live in or
the town will not talk well of you.
There are about go, 500, one, 900 worth
ofsilver in circulation in the world.
A lady writer thinks every country
town should have o cooking school.
Fly time-When you hear her fathers
heavy cane humping along the hall. 5
The Harvard college boys consume
ITO gallons OF soup every day at dinner.
England has nearly 10000 gypsies,
and most Of them cannot read or write;
Red Surah silk is the favorite material
for illuminating dark or sober tinted
costumes.
Was the novel "The Seamy Side"
suggested by a stitch in the sidew 1t
would seam sew. " ~ 3
Edison is building a factory at Menlo
Park for the manufacture OF electric
lamps in large quantities.
Freckles are not 80 bad. It is said
that one girl does not object to seeing
them on another girls face:-Ftcayss''e.
Sal Soda was sent to the workhouse
yesterday for telling lie to the officer.
and trying to soft soap the judge after
ward. Cincinnati Star. l. 80, -. x
The British peerage originally Con;
sisted of earls and barofs; the hrstd1ke Z
was created by Edward ILL.,, the FIRST
MARQUIS by Richard H., and the first
viscount by Henry vi. ..s-a>** !. -: = !:
Of the 81, ,553 miners employed in the
gold mines Of the cotony OF Fictoria
Australia, during the last quarter Of the
year 1876, 28.443 were Europeans, and
8, ITO were Chinese. q s.t.st!E
Coroner Ellinger, of New York says
about suicides in hot weather: The elarg-'
est number of the suicides at this season
among men are the results OF excessive
drinking, Men drink until their nerv-
Gus systems are shattered and their
bodies soaked with alcohol, the evil
effects of which are most keenly felt
when the increased temperature de-
yelops their internal fires, and then, in
moments of desperate disgust with life,
thew seek death. Another thing impeH-
ing many suicidesis that foreigners who
come here have never become so accli;
matized until they are here great many.
wears that in case of misfortune they do
not feel, keenly, mentally and IN t1elr
nervous organizations cllmatlc lnnu-
ences. Thus, when they find themselves
cut off from that consolation which theYe
would have at home among t9elfS
friends, and which would strengthen
them there, desperation stares them IN
the face, and they seek escape in suicide;
Another thing which is great cause OF
suicide at all seasons now-ls the decline
of religious faith. Where people center
their entire hopes in their worldly suc,
cesses, lack faith in future life, and
have lost their consciousness of q con-
nection with world that had no begin
ming and can have no end, they have
nothing to sustain them when misfor-
tune assails them, the petty thwartings
and grievances of mundane affairs as
sumo an overweening Importance IN
their eyes, and they are prone to plunge
heedlessly into the shadows OF the dread:
unKnOWn.