The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-04-17
Abbeville, S. c., April II, 1889.

Paper is now used as q covering for
lead pencils, instead Of cedar.
The United States treasury surplus
has increased to $50, 200, 900.
One of the latest inventions is a
three-cornere steel nail that will
drive easily and will not split the
wood.
Postmaster General Wanamaker has
established an inviolable rule that no
postoffice shall be kept in a saloon, or
in any room from which saloon may
be entered.
It costs from 100000 to $l50,O0O a
year to run q steam pleasure yatch like
that of Gould or Vanderbilt.
The people of Union presented Rev.
Thomas Leitch with a purse of $500 at
the close Of his recent meeting in that
town.
Rev. Sam Small says that constant
speaking almost every day, for the
past two years or so, has strengthened
his lungs, improved his general health
and given him better muscle.
1t is stated that out Of the 5000, 900
converts in all the foreign mission
fields, 80, 900 have gone as workers into
the field, or one out of every 100, while
Protestant Christendom has sent forth
but one out of every 5000.
The smoke cloud that overhangs
London is said to contain 800 tons of
carbon. The waste involved In this is
estimated at S13, 100000 year, and the
damage to buildings at S1O,0O0,OOO a
year.
1t is reported that convicts in the
prison at Sing Sing, n. Y, are becom-
ing insane from having nothing to do,
and an effort is being made to secure
the repeal of the law which has led to
such sad results.
A Washington paper recently con-
tanned the following advertisement :
"WANTED-By gentleman and wife,
old residents Of Washington, half a
pew or two seats in st. Johns Epls-
copal church best of social references
given"
OF the forty-eight national societies
of women, with 5,O00,0 900 membership,
the Woman's Christian Temperance
Union is the largest, with 2,l00,GO
members.
Cardinal Manning is reported to
have said "that had it not been for the
preaching of John Wesley, no man
could tell into how deep degradation
England would have sunk"
BY appointment of numerous Sab
bath Association on both sides of the
sea, the week beginning April 7lh
(including also April l4tM, is set
apart as the "World's Week Of Prayer
for the Sabbath"
A Paris firm of glass-makers has
produced some porous glass, to be used
for window-panes. The makers claim
that the pores are too fine to permit of
draught, but cause Il pleasant and
healthy ventilation in room.
Evangelist Leitch closed very sue
cessful meeting at Union, lasting three
weeks. There were one hundred and
twenty-three converts for the different
denominations. The Methodists re-
ceived 81, Baptists %, Presbytierians
lG,. Episcopalians 3. Mr.. Leitch is
now at Spartanburg.
The great University Of Southern
California is to have the finest telescope
i'm the world, with forty-two inch
glass. It's said that seen i lrough such
a glass the moon will appear as it would
seen by the naked eye sixty miles away.
The University, with S20,0O0,O00 en-
dowment, can afford grand telescope,
and the clear atmosphere of California
makes it the best place in the United
States for the erection of such All in
strument.
The salary of the King of Samoa,
is $50 a month; and American
wouldn't wear the clothes the king APP
pears in on State accasiOns for $50 4
week. Twenty dollars Il month is a
small salary for king, but it may be
that lie is frequently presented with Il
few shares of Pan-Electric stock in en-
change for his Influence.
In short sermon out of church, on
overworked superlatives, the Golden
Rule takes in the quill drivers OH this
style:
Thirdly, my discourse hath an appli-
cation for inexperienced writers for the
press. There are some words, fellow
Guill-drivers, which we should seek to
avoid as much as possible, among
which may he mentioned the word
"very," whose poor back is nearly
broken with the immense load that has
been put upon it. "Most" is in hear
ly as unhappy plight and so are
nearly all words ending in "cSt."
They have been worked so hard and so
long that they have little vitality left
as they appear in the pages of many
writers. Whc II these writers have
ANYTHING every strange" or "most
wonderful" to relate they cannot do it
for "veryn and most" have been
"done to death" in their hands. If
YOU always treble the Importance to be
attached to any commonplace event,
your readers will discount by three
Quarters all that you say, even when
YOU have something of real Importance
to state. If we dignity every event a>
a "startling providence or "a most
event." let us ask again,
what can we say when such events
actually occur?
Sir Julian Paunccfote, Lord Sack
villc's successor, has sailed for Amerl-
rl,