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How Many?

spa, do you know your tables7"
''Fairly we'll, Johnnie. What do you
wish to know"
"How many bushels make a hen
peck s"-Mw Yort World.
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Things Better Left Unsaid.

"You can't go home when It's raining
like this. You'd better stay and have
dinner with us!"
"Oh! it's not quite as bad as that! !"-
London Punch.
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Mutton With Gamers.

Miss Giddyspinster (coquettishly)-.
"Dear MIR. Tiniid, don't you like mutton
with capers2"
MIR. 1imid (who has been trying in
vain to cut his meat for the last ten
minutes)-"Ye es, when they are properly
mated; but my mutton is too old fer
capers. ."-Boston Beacon.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-02-20
A Bracelet Made of Name.

I have friend who comes to town at
intervals. He Is happily married, and
when his wife does not accompany him
always takes back some sort of present
to her. Of course, he is hard pushed
sometimes to hit upon something new.
He was over here this week, and last
night he strolled into the Hoffman
House. He saw the bracelet man at
work. "The very thing" he said. He
gave the artist in wire the name. That
operator took up some wire, clipped OF
a sufficient length, and then began to
twist it this way and that with pair of
tweezers, and in brief time, as a result
of his deft manipulstions, there was a
bracelet with the. name clearly written in
wire. "Wonderfnl!" !" said my friend, as
he pocketed the trinket. So it is, and
makes a fellow wonder what some other
fellow will next hit upon wherewith to
coax the coin from his fellow mans
pockets to his own.-Nsw York Star.
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BUDGET OF FUN.
HUMOROUS SKETCHES FROM
VARIOUS SOURCES.

Her Valentine-How Many?-Things
Better Left Unsaid - Mutton
With Capers - The Modern
Plan The Reason Why.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-02-20
Did Penance as q Hermit.

For eight years Nine. Peynand, an old
Frenchwoman, has lived in hut near
Catonsviile, about fifteen miles from
Baltimore, Md. No one knew her ex-
cept a Catholic priest. Her only COM
pauions were cats, dogs and birds. She
prayed great deal, and was Jealous in
all religious devotions. The other night
she died, and the mystery of her hermit
life was explained.
She formerly lived in Paris. Her hus-
band was barber, and upon his death
left her receipt for identifying the
complexion. She started an establish
ment, but trade not being brisk she
adopted a new plan. She advertised
extensively, promising astonishing re-
suits. When her victims came she
charged them large prices for the lotion.
The lotion, however, brought out ugli-
ness and blotches instead of beauty, and
she then demanded cxorbitant prices for
removing these blotches. She made q
great deal of money, but in 1915 she
was arrested, tried, and convicted. She
managed to escape to New York, where
she lived quietly for time. ! emorse
overcame her and she consulted priest.
He counseled penance. She came to this
State and began the hermit life which
ended few nights ago. Her only visitor
was priest. 1t is expected that the
Catholic church will get her money
Meao York inns.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-02-20
Mrs. Cleveland and the Gamin.


At half f-past twelve o'clock, says tie
Washington Post, Mrs. Cleveland rode
slowly down the street in an open car
riags alone. Alher. Hawkins was on
the box and the seal browns in front. Tho
carriage stopped at the Palais Royal.
Albert wound the reins around the whip
IN proper style, and Glighted and helped
Mrs. Cievelann do the same.
AS she stepped across the sidewalk q
ragged little boy with basket of laven
der held up his goods and said:
"Please, lady, buy paper OF Law
ender."
"What is your price" asked Mrs.
Cleveland.
"Only five cents" was the reply.
Mrs. Cleveland took a paper of Law
ender seeds and put them in her bag.
Then she hunted her portmonnaie over
and put dime in the dirty little paw OF
the small boy.
IF you'll hold my basket I'll get you
the change" said the soiled urchin.
Mrs, Cleveland laughed merry, girl
ish laugh, as the "funnyness" of the idea
of the first lady Of the land holding a
basket of lavender seeds on the sidewalk
of Pennsylvania avenue struck her, and
she passed into the big store and out OF
sight of half hundred people who had
paused in the promenade to watch her.
Another street Arab, with string OF
the .'missing link or Whitechapel mys'
teryn puzzles around his neck, said some
thing in the ear of the lavender Arab.
"Nom gasped the lavender Arab.
"Sure pop" said the puzzle Arab.
"Well, dog gone my buttons" said
the lavender Arab, looking regretfully
a. the door where Mrs. Cleveland had
disappeared, and then at the dime in his
black paw: 'If I'd or knowed that I'd
have gev it to her fer nothin'."
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1889-12-06
The Milluri and Enlilinu.

This is certainly II century of reyivals. The
minuct AMI cotiilon are hein. danced, we
drink our lea out Of old china aud ure prutnlcr
OF Ola silver plate than the most beautiful of
modern tlcsi-iis. we 60 back TO Queen Anne's
time fur our houses, and to Sheraton md
Chippcntialo for the designs of our furniture
AS to our phstlmes the origin Of tennis is an
tuue enough for anything; and now we nre
reviving croquet, the graceful pastimc which
has been alternating, 50 to speak, for four
teen Or fifteen years. | am glad that this is
SO. l think that tennis, like other sports is
rapidly acquiring a taint OF professionalism.
Besides this it is II selfish game, so far rs con-
Germs the inability Of people no longer very
young to stand the violent exercise it in
wolves; and now, what with the rules and
regulations, and text books, and champions,
and columns all to itself in tho papers, it is
becoming quite as public" game as cricket
or football. Indeed, when have seen some
Of my friends charging across II lawn as hard
as they could SO, with face like the August
sun at monday ought to be, perspiration
running down their checks, hair disheveled
and generally breathless look about them,
l think, as the shah does about dancing, that
lit is folly for people to take such violent ex-
ercise when they can pay others to do it for
them" Croquet requires just us careful and
scientific playing us tennis, and if it is not as
athletic game, it is certainly more graceful
and quito rs interesting, and wish all sue
cess TO its rival. Kathleen in Leeds Mercury.
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Tho Oldest Bank Notes.

The oldest bank notes are the 'dying
money! or convenient money! first issued
in China 2G97 B. G. Originally these notes
We're issued by the treasury but experience
dictated change to tho banks under govern
ment inspection and control The early
Chinese ''Sreenbacks" were in all essentials
similar to the modern bank notes, bearing
the name of the bank, date of issue, the num-
ber Of the note, the signature of the official
issuing it, indications of its value in figures,
in words, and in the pictorial representation
In coins or heaps Of coins equal in amount to
its face value, anc notice Of tho pains and
penalties following counterfeiting. Overland
above all MAS a Mconic oxhortation to in
lustry and thrift: Produce all you can;
spend with economy" Tho notes were
printed i'll blue ink, Oh paper made from the
fiber of the mulberry tree. One issue, i'll 1880
b. c., is all carefully preserved in the .As.a,ic
museum at ST. Petersburg. Globe.
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There are pictures of tie Parsons family,
of noted socialists, and Of the men who were
hanged OH the llth Of November, 1887. The
few books are socialstic works and the school
books of the children. And through her
children Mrs. Parsons has suffered greatly.
She lad two when her husband was exc
cutcd The younger, little girl, was long
sick and died few weeks ago, leaving the
mother almost l.cartbroken. The other is a
manly, healthy and apparently intelligent
boy Mrs Parsons is sadly broken, but her
devotion to the nnarchis,ic programme is MS
strong es ever
lu the later years uf her husbands life she
was among the most hc,ivc spirits and fluent
takers in the c:t,lsa After the anarchists
were condemned Size ragged furiously against
society and tie courts aud caused many pain
full scenes 81" t!iaa fell into comparative
obscurtv but la, lately emerged, breathing
fury against capitalists and prophesying that
the day Of ovrriurning is near at hand
Fifteen years before freedom came to the
slave" she rtitcratcs, mo man hoped to see
it in this century; it was apparently most
hopeless at the beginning of the war;" And
so, she lrophesies, will it be with the capital
and wage system.
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been taken up by the New York press in
most pronounced manner &.
Previous to the prohibition some 500 organ
grinders made New York city their head
quarters. Since Nov. l. on account OF the
municipal restriction, 200 organ grinders
have loft the city. Many journeyed to Con
ncc:icut. a few are now playing Johnny
Get Your Cunt in South Carolina. Still
others have gone as far west as Ohio. AS
rule, only the clipples and blind have been
left in New York In nearly every case these
tramping musicians have left families behind
them, and US the expenses of the organ
grinder while on the road will eat up the
larger part of his earnings, the outlook for
the wives and children is very discour-
aging
There are two manufacturers and four re-
pairsrs Of hand organs in New York. To
these The hungry and despairing Italians
have fled for refuge in their distress A ma
jority Of the prrntnbulating instruments nre
hired from the manufacturers at the rate of
from - to s. {, month. The average earn
ings of Il man with an organ is about 81 Il
week. In the case of cripples or the blind
this sum represents the wages of two men-
one to carry tho instrument and the other to
turn the crank Those who think the work
of the organ grinder is easy should feel the
weight Of the instruments. The lightest Of
these weighs sixty pounds In the case of
the pianos on wheels the weight is between
COO and 500 pounds.
To handle these instruments on crowded
street is an exceedingly difficult matter To
add to the annoyance Of the player the truck
and hacknan take delight in trying to run
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them down. III the Fourth and Fifth wards
Of New York, an organ or piano grinder is
known in the Yernacular as Guinea"
They derive this title from the fact that it
was formerly the custom Of the newly landed
Italian emigrants to buy guinea pig US soon
as they landed in this country to fatten for
the table. This custom prevailed to such an
extent that it was a common sight to see an
italian coming up broadway with pig un-
der his arm, and SO the boys in the rougher
locality came to call them "Guineas."
The Italian emigrant takes to playing the
organ because he finds it the readiest method
of earning living. Besides this he is natu-
rally musical, and the strains of the organ,
however crude, satisfy that passionate desire
for harmony which is q part of the italian
nature No matter how ignorant he may be
OF the theory of music, his innate knowledge
of the accord of sweet sounds teaches him
when his instrument is out of tune His rep
ertoirc OF tunes is changed usually about
once every year. This is done by the inser-
ton of a new cylinder into his instrument.
In making this change in programme the
manufacturer puts one tune upon tho cylin-
der, md then sends for the owner Of the in
Gtrument to let him hear how it sounds. II
it suits him, the owner submits the titles Of
several new songs which he wishes to play.
These songs are then incorporated into the
instrument He is guided in the selection of
these tunes by the requests of the children
whom he meets in his daily rounds. The
children buy the ballad sheets containing the
freshest songs, learn the words, and wait till
the organ grinder comes around in order to
learn the tunes. In this way the organ grin
der finds out what tunes are popular.
This fact will no doubt account for the
marked change in the character of hand
organ music within the past three years.
Almost every observant person will remem-
Der that the airs formerly played on the
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said many things derogatory to the divine
right Of kings, and proposed to reTolutionize
tho Austrian military system, incurring the
enmity thereby Of a field marshal.
While he was commanding an army corps
the Bulgarians, who were hunting ruler to
take the place Of Alexander Of Battenberg,
hunted him out and offered him the throne.
He agreed to accept it without so much as
saying by your leave to lis imperial cousin,
but before he was ready to step into it, his
plans were betrayed, and he left hurricdIy
for London, Mt the same time advising the
commissioners to offer the crown to Prince
Ferdinand Of Coburg.
Don John was removed from his command
in the army, whereupon he went to Flume,
Italy, to study navigation, and passed an e1-
animation, with high honors rs captain for
long voyages.n Then he returned to Aus
tria, where he found himself in such bad odor
with the emperor that he asked TO be retired
from the army and TO be permitted 70 resign
his titles ana emolt.nents. His request was
granted, with the proEjSo that he retain his
orders. He has now gone to work like my
other man @"M
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Every girl should learn business habits Mt
home while under her parents control Tic
mother who prefers to keep her daughter ut
home should pay her for tra,isncilng dones-
tic duties rs regularly MS n father would pay
his son whom he took into his store or office
as clerk. The money she has earned she
should be allowed to spend with as little
criticism as possible, but deficit should
never be made up, and bill should never bo
permitted. The cash system is the solution
of tho problem of domestic economy. 1t sets
at rest forever the idea that perhaps at the
end of the month two and two make five,
and it compels the buyer to estimate the
exact value Of the thing bought. Two young
men were once looking at the moon and csti-
mating its apparent size One said it looked
us small MS II silver dollar 81 tell you," said
the other impccunious youth, IA dollar looks
bigger to me than any moon that ever
shone." If we hold tho dollar near enough
to the eye it will shut ont many MOONS
Brooklyn Eagle.
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months. Ill July.
1880, he came to the United States and founded
The Revista lllustrada de Nuova York. He
is member of the international congress.
The general was born i'll Caracas in 1888.
An Anecdote of Foote.
Temple Bar relates an anecdote of the com
edian Foote i'll connection with Garrick's
Shakespeare jubilee in 1863. During the
three days amusements, of every kind were
provided for the crowds who assembled from
nll parts of the country and from London.
Tue proceedings were closed by an ode on
Shakespeare, written aud recited by Garrick.
On this occasion the success achieved pro-
voked the naturally bitter spirit Of zone
Foote, a player" as Walpole designated the
man otherwise known us the British Aris-
tophanes. Walking with Murphy by tho
banks Of Avon, we'll dressed man ap-
proached him, anxious to converse with him
on the recently concluded performance:
"Has the county of Warwick the honor of
giving BIRTH to you, sir, as well as to Shake
speare" asked he. ''No,"replied the stran-
ger, II come out Of Essex. "Ah, SIR" said
Foote, remembering how celebrated was that
country for calves. land who drove you"
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UNITED STATES OF BRAZIL.
POINTS ABOUT THE CHARACTERtS-
TICS OF THE COUNTRY.

Tho Population Is but 100000, but the
Area OF Territory Is Nearly Equal to
That of the United States-A Region of
Great Rivers, Mountains and Discrsities.
The name of tho new republic i'll South
America, the United States Of Brazil, comes
about very naturally. The empire was di-
vidcd into twenty provinces and one neutral
municipality, in which lies the city Of Rio de
Jnnero. These provinces are now tho states
which compose the republic. Yet having
less than half the number of states of her
great sister of North America, Brazil has
nearly an equal area This territory is more
contiguous than any of the great national d-
visions on tho globe. The circle worh 10
the most compact form for nation. Brazil
is not a circle, but she has shape something
like Il heart.
In this vast territory, which comprises
two-fifths Of South America, there is, of
course great diversity of contour. There
are seq coast and lowlands and high lands, vast
forest tracts, mountains and rivers. The
mountain chains run mostly northward and
southwark, the rivers mostly northward,
though the great Amazon runs east.
In NIL this immense area there are about
100000 people. OF this nearly million
live in cities There are great many races
comprising the population. In the north they
are mostly Indians while in the south the
negro element prevails. Only one-third the
whole people are white, the other twothirds
being namelucos or mcstizos, mnlnttoes, cafu-
EOS or Indian and negro mixed. civilized and
savage Indians, and Afrcaus-the last com
prsing the most numerous unnixea race in
Brazil
The native Brazilian is gentle kind Of
person, though occasionally partnking Of tho
savage vndictiveness of the Spaninrds and
Portuguese who overran the territory. The
Aborigines werc nlnny Of them cannibals,
and it is ). ii that the Catauxis and other
tribes Oh the river purus kill and eat mem
bers Of other tribes today, But these can
nibals are chiefly confined to the banks of tho
Duce Purus and other tributaries Of the
Amazon. .a............ ,4 g. ,..
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The Usage tribe of Indians, whose reserva-
tion Is between Kansas and the Greek country,
are five times as rich us the average Of
Americans, ten times rs rich as the average
Of Englishmen, aud the French and Italians
are paupers in comparison. There are among
the Osages no penniless people, and none in
want, except that Unsuitable want that
always wants more. There are sol Of them,
according to last years census. They have
in the United States treasury $7,75s,694 of
their own money, drawing per cent inter
est. This amounts to a capital of s5,175
apiece for the whole nation-men, women
and children.
But besides this they have 1,470,00O acres
of land, equal to just about / 900 acres apiece.
This land is mostly fine and arabic, and
would sell for an average of $40 IN acre, or
$4,000 for each individuals portion. This
makes each individual Usage Indian worth
$15.172. Each family possesses 100000 on an
average, and the head Of it, II he be indus
trious and enterprising, can grow $4,000
worth of crops year on his 1900 acres Of
land. He is raised permanently above want
and above fear of want.-Pittsburg Dis
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A BUDDHIST LEGEND.

Gnutama Buddha snt beneath the tree
OF Life and Death, whose fruit is mystery.
Thinking how close together, even as one,
Are Death and life--a shadow In the sun.
To- as the shadows hasten to and fco
Ger endless Life Deaths shadows come and 60
To him there came man; "Dcar Lord, he said
"Dhnr, my mother, III the house lies dead;
tomb Of noony marble let me raise,
To stand forever to my mothers praise"
Lord Buddha mllsed, then Oh his features broke
The light TRANSPORTING. the while he spoke
'"rhe dead shall live, the living Shall be dead;
The dead want but pillow for the head
The dead rest. soon to rise of life possest;
Who help the living. they alone are blest-'
The weary Traveller toilin5 DER the plain,
Stops By q Shaded fountain. where, like rain.
The quickenins water. dripping from tho brink.
Summons the thirsty ~nyfaler to drink
He reads thcst words upon the tuarhe head.
I'm honor Of Dlara my mother dead"
Archie Livingstone Hodges In Boston Tran
inf
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The German government has issued regu-
lations for the management of public dances
organized for the diversion of children on
national holidays. Dancing is not to be until
after noon, and in no case to be continued
after S o'clock p. IN. No one but school chill
dren to join "the may" Boys and girls who
happen to be undergoing preparation for the
ceremony of confirmation are absolutely for
hidden to indulge i'll terpsichorcan festivities
Waltzes, polkas quadrilles and cotillons arc
forbidden. Other amusement than dancing
is urgently recommended for children Of ten
der years-Exchange.
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The climate so enervates~ the Brazilian
youth that the senorta is constantly on the
outlook for a husband from among the young
North Americans who 90 to Brazil to enter
the counting houses of the merchants. Many
Of the girls are wealthy, and often youngsters
who 70 to Brazil to earn a fortune by hard
labor find fortune lying in the lap of
houri, which they have only to appropriate
at will. Unfortunately, however, these girls
are very ignorant and possess jealous dispo-
sitions. so that the husband who looks kindly
OH another is liable to raise breeze over his
head that is not easily quietcd.
The religion Of Brazil is almost exclusively
Roman Cntholic-nt least, that is tho religion
Of the nation. But Brazil is full of free
thinkers, spiritualists and other kindred
people. This is largely the characteristic of
the men, while their wives nnd daughters are
members of the Roman Catholic communion.