The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-07-07
PITH AND POINT.

The skeleton man travels on his shape.
A good place for a loaf-A bakers
shop.
A man who always cuts an acquaint-
ance-The barber.
A clothes call is made by the laundry
robber - Waterloo O5seruer.
Uniform prices-What the tailor
charges for soldiers clothes.
People who throw banana skins at large
are now called bananarchists.
The cyclone raises everything on the
farm but the mortgage.-Bostom Post.
The "melting look" must come from
the man with '6re in his eye."-States-
man.
Westinghouse are happy people.
Every one of them is a capitalist. -FFee
Press.
Love may be blind, but in some way
it generally manages to get on to mans
bank account.-M City Blizzard.
1t must 10 glorious fun to 60 courting
in Greenland. The nights are about
three months long.-Burlingto7s FREQ
Press. o..
Speaking of flies, a Burlington base
bail player says: "They come high, but
we must have them. Huntington Free
Press. -.
The small boy learning the alphabet
il very much like the postage stamp-he
often gets stuck on a letter.-Bostos
Bulletin. -
First love and first shave come but
once in mans lifetime. And neither
usually has much result.-SomerOiUe
Journal.
When q man falls in love he courts his
sweetheart. Afterward she sues for a
breach of promise and courts her lover.
-New Hauen Ne0s. '.s
Although they claim that love is blind,
A sad experience will disclose ....-
IT'S difficult to be resigned
To boils upon your sweetheart's nose:
-Rttsburg Gazette.
The bricks with which many Egyptian
tombs were built are as perfect after four
thousand years as when they were made.
They evidently were pressed for time
Texas SJtings. =
stPa. what does nobby meana" ''Sty-
lish, my dear" "WeD, then, pa, your
nose must be very stylish, for grandma
says you have got the knobbiest nose in
town" n."-Sittings. -
'Isn't it heavenly" ejacnlated Miss
Gush, in reference to Miss Pedals per.
formance on the piano. eyes, replied
Fogg, cit is indeed heavenly. 1t sounds
like thunder. ."-Boston Transcript.
"Grandpa," said Teddy, as the old
gentleman woke up from a loud sounding
after dinner nap, 7'if you'd give your
nose a spoonful of paregoric don't you
think you could put it to sleep too3"
Burdette.
One of the Lynn primary school teach
ers few days since asked her scholars
the question: "What is dust2" One lit
tie fellow answered: "Please, marm, it
is dirt with the water squeezed out."-
Lynn Item.
A tramp who had been furnished with
q good breakfast, was invited to saw
some wood after he had finished.
''Thanks, awfully," he said, "but I don't
consider it healthy to work between
meals. ."-SJtings.
When you've told your little story
And have settled to the glory,
Of extravagant narration most successfully
displayed,
How you turn bilious yellow
When you hear some other fellow,
With his wretched THAT reminds me, )" Lay
you snugly in the shade.
-Pittsburg Gazette.
Again the zephyrs sigh along the leas,
And blooms the violet and buttercup,
Now softly blows the balmy western breeze,
And the thermometer is going up.
The golden dandelion mods its head,
Again we feel the odor Of the briar,.
And "Thomas" re-appears upon the shed
At night to warble to his loved Marian"
Boston Courier.