The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-11-25
All Sorts OF Paragraphs.

- There are 110,759 acres devoted to
tobacco in Virginia.
- Is marriage q miss take? Not when
you marry a widow.
- Some insects are in q state of matu
rity 80 minutes after birth.
- Two mats owned by the Shah of
Bareda are worth 81, 0 900.
- During 1890 there were built in the
United States $500 Churches.
- A kind word will go farther and
strike harder than a cannon ball.
- A Chicago dentist says that too
much kissing causes the teeth of Ameri-
cana to decay.
is your father a Christian, asked the
new minister. No, replied the boy, he
sings in the choir.
- Trying 10 drown sorrow in drink is
about as wise as cutting off a sore finger
to make it stop hurting.
- The King of Siam is attended by 6
b~ody-guard composed exclusively of
1000 of the prettiest young women in his
realm.
- The annual coffee crop of the world
is estimated at over II, ZOO, 000,O 900
pounds, worth in first hands over $685.
600. 900.
- The governor general of India re.
ceives a salary of $25o,0OO a year, and
extras which increase the amount to
$500, 900.
- There are very few things in thi
world worth getting angry about, and
they are precisely the things which anger
does not help.
- The California raisin crop is this
year estimated at eighteen hundred car
loads, three hundred and fifty more than
last year.
- 10000 pairs of wooden shoes are
sold annually in Cincinnati, o., at an
average price of 25 cents a pair. They
are chiefly made in Indiana.
- Frank (pleadingly1-"l never kissed
a girl before in my life" May (coldly)-
"Well, I haven't advertised for appren
tices, have II"
"A Georgia farmer is living with his
sixth wife. Each of""his five other wives
died on the Friday preceding the second
Sunday of the month,
- Mr.. o. D. Wakeman, of Deposit,
N. Y, owns a serviceable dog. 1t lately
found and walked home with a pocket
book containing four hundred dollars in
g~reenbacks.
- A graduate of Princeton College
complains that he was married to a young
woman without knowing it. Undoubted-
ly, a girl ought to give a fellow notice.
Marriage is q serious affair.
- A young gentleman wishes to
know which is proper to say on leaving
o young lady friend after a call-good
night or good evening? Never tell a lie,
young mau-say good morning.
- "You say the chicken soup isn't
good? Why, I told the cook how to
make it. Perhaps she didn't catch the
ideaw Boarder-"No; I think it was
the chicken she didenticstch."
- The ostrich is a long stopper. When
feeding, his step measures from 20 TO %
inches, when walking, but not feeding,
26 inches, and when terrified, from III to
IA feet, or at the rate of about twenty-five
miles all hour.
"When I marry I shall try to be
sure of one thing, and that is that I have
a woman of sense" "You mean a wo-
man of prudence and knowledge of hu
man nature? ?" eyes, that's it exactly"
"But, they are the kind that never mar.
ry."
Say, Harry" said one small boy to
another, "they's people in the moon"
mo, they hain't." eyes, they is: my
pa said So" GLOW does your pa know?
He vas never in the MOON" mo, but
he's out every night and sees lots. J.
guess he knows more'n u.s."
- There is q little boy in Mass ahu.
sets who believes that business should
come before religion as we'll as before
pleasure. On a recent Sunday he aston
ished the congregation by rushing int,
the Church and exclaiming, "Where IS
my papa? The pigs are out"
- The British debt is 60 large that If
it we're divided into ons. pound notes they
would completely cover the State of Ohio
three times over. If paid in penny
pieces, and each penny piled one above
the other, it would make seven columus
of copper reaching to the moon.
Professor Gaines, of Roanoke, sticks
to it that lie has partially discovered the
language employed by monkeys in COM
Illuminating with zach other. Ha states