The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-05-15
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Wltn Ille HloueJ SPeho oh o'ihh III
Great Britain there could be main
tained 100000 missionaries at &25O a
year, $4,000 school masters at Gl0O,
900 churches at &2, 600 5000 schools at
gSOO. It would give to the world 2OO,-
10000 shilling Bibles, 500, 600
tracts at four shillngs a hundred !;
would give 100 900 widows EGO a year,
and 100000 poor families elO n year.
Which do we value most-our glasses
or our Bibles ?-Be!fast ;,.'itness.
Mr.. Leitch closed his meeting Sun
day night after preaching twenty-five
days. At night the attendance was
generally large and it increased to the
close, the crowd Sunday night being
the largest he had. About seventy
five announced themselves as candi-
dates for church membership during
the meeting. 40 were received into
the Methodist Church Sunday, eight
ioined the Baptist and one the Presby-
terian. Carolina Spartan May l.
From time immemorial the practice
of massage has been known to the Fiji
ans, from whom the Samoans first,
and then the Tongans, learned the art.
The process consists in rubbing. and
kneading the part, the operation being
sometimes continued for hours. 1t
stimulates the circulation and relieves
pain, and is commonly used in abdom-
inal disease. The native doctors have
great faith in massage. and it is always
practiced by them.-London MedacaI
Recorder.
Under our present system of the cleo
toral college q, 900, 900 people can out
vote 2S,OO0,0 A comparison of the
proportion of population for each elec-
toral vote in the different States varies
from $4,000 in Montana to $4,000 in
Pennsylvania. That is, in a choice
for presidents, $4,000 men in Montana
count Just as much as 142, 900 in Penn
sylvania.-7he Voice.
It was recently decided in England.
in legal contest for the possession OF
a dead body, that the executors OF a
dead mans will have the right to the
control of the corpse; that, therefore,
"a man can not lawfully dispose. OF his
body by will, or any other lnstru-
ment." The Judge added: "This is a
legal conclusion.
Over at Philadelphia they have found
the root of the tree under which Will
liam Penn made his famous treaty
with the Indians. This, we presume,
is an important discovery, but we be-
Iieve it would be heap better for the
good name OF America if some vestige
6f the treaty or of even the spirit in
which it was made, could be found.
The great Eiffel tower at Paris has
been completed. 1t is the highest
structure ever reared by human hands,
80 far as known, being 1,l7S feet high,
or over twice as high as our great mon
ument at Washington. The electric
light at its summit will he visible for
ty miles.
About nine-tenths of all the clay
mines manufactured in the United
States are made in Brooklyn n. y,
where three factories are located that
turn out 5000 gross annually. Inc
CLAW comes from Woodbridge, N. j.,
and costs at the factory five dollars per
ton.
The Sunday morning inspection in
the army and the navy, and the sun
day evening dress parade, are to be
aholisbed. it is said, by special order
from the President himself, as com.
mander-in- chief Of both branches OF
the military service.
A chain of "dry towns" from Eris-
tol. Tennessee, to Roanoke CITY,, Vlr,
pinia, a distance of one hundred and
fifty miles, has just been completed by
prohibition triumph in Abingdon
Virginia.
The article in the new Japanese Con-
stitution guaranteeing freedom OF re-
liaion reads thus Japanese su3)ects
shall. within limits not preiudicial to
peace and order, enjoy freedom OF re-
iigious belief"
The next house of Representatives
will consist of $50 members, quorum
of which will be 166. At the outset
the Republicans will have l69, or three
more than quorum.
When a writer says q certain thlng
ia "impossible to describe" and then
nses a half column in its description,
he doubtless means that nopoay Du'
himself could describe 1t.
From November to January. at
least 60 feet were added to the heighth
of Vesuvius, while the size of the base
of the cone of eruption was proper
tionately increased.
DIR. Bradford X. Pierce, for sixteen
Years the honored editor of Non's
Herald, died at his home in Newton
Center, Mass, April 10Th.
A despatch from Liverpool states
that 5000 emigrants embarked az tnat
mort in one day, nearly all OF them be-
| ing bound for America. =.
Rev. N. NJ. Woods, D. D.. has lett
this city to take charge OF church ID
Memphis, Tenn. ,
The pious words of the weakest ana
most obscure Christian, are Infinitely
more precious than the choicest WIS
dom Of the most learned philosopher.
who is ignorant of "the exceliency OF
the knowledge Of Jesus Christ"
We fail to see that we are working
out in our own lives the same proDle1Is
which the men and women OF the bl-
BILE worked out in theirs, that we are
fighting the same battles as they
fought, and with the same weapons.
Tn the intercourse of social life it i
nv little acts of watchful kindness re
ci1rring daily and hourly, and oppoItu-
mites of doing kindness if sought, are
forever starting up. 1t is by words, by
tones, by gestures, by looks; that affec-
tation is won and preserved.
Christ rs the light of the world is;
first, light to the intellect, a guide ana
teacher, embracing every shade ana
degree of truth in the pure white llght
of His truth. He is, second, warnltn,
g., tl,o baort ful1 of SymDatlV ana