The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-09-16
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gion very much who keep both hands in
their pockets.
- There is Il clergyman in New Mex
leo who goes by the name of Rev. limo.
cent Wolf. -.
"Woman feels where man thinks"
Yes, and that's what makes the man pre-
maturely bald.
- The man with cork leg, glass
eye, false teeth and borrowed reputa'
ton is man of parts.
"A Ton of tomatoes as they come
from the field, it is estimated, will fill
frcm 400 to $40 cans.
- Pertezs Observation-Disclosures is a
cabiuet-maker of Buffalo, N. Y. He
occasionally uses his name for saw.
-She-"I don't suppose you are fond
of kissing babies?" He-"Not unless
they are girl babies about 1s years old"
- Delaware has very singular phe-
nomenon at Wilmington in the shape of
a citizen 81 years old who is cutting his
third set of teeth.
my mammals got whittier teeth than
your mamma" said Allie "She'd
oughter have. She changes 'em oftener,"
retorted Maudie.
- The difference between realism and
idealism is just the difference between. a
girls opinion of her lover and the young
man1 1mself.
The French still fight an average of
1000 duels year, but as they are most
ly bloodless affairs the subject is not
painful one to dwell on.
- In the 5000, 900 letters that reached
the dead letter Office last year there was
money amounting to $2S,642 and checks
and notes Of the value of$l,471,S71.
~ was kicked by q horse when I
was little and knocked senseless," said
Chappie. Chow soon do you expect to
recover" asked the cynical Maud.
- Artificial eyes are supplied to all the
world from Thuripgia, Germany. Nea'-
ly all the grown inhabitants of some of
the villages are engaged in their manu-.
facture.
- Bilkins-"After all the country is
the place. How different from the city |
No dust, no noises, no everlasting grind
of business" Jinkins-"Yaas; but
above all, no duus."
The life insurance compsr les of the
United States pay one million five hun
dred thousand dollars per year toward
supporting the physicians who make
their medical examinations. Il
-"My dear julia" said one pretty
girl to another, "can you make up your
mind to marry that odious Mr. Snuff"
"Why, my dear Mary" replied Julia, II
believe 1 could take him on a pinch"
- Mr.. Frederick K. Ridge, of Cam
bridge, Mass, has within the last three
years given to charitable, religious and
municipal institutions more than $4,000,
900. He inherited his money.
II is said that P. d. Armour, If
Chicago, is the largest individual COM
mercial operator in the world. His
transactions last year reached the enor-
NOUS aggregate of s6S,OOO,00O.
"A colony of 200 or 300 monkeys 10
reported to exist in the everglades of
Florida. They are supposed to owe their
origin to the wreck of vessel upon the
coast, having on board monkeys which
escaped into the forest.
The little daughter of leading
physician in certain country town,
presented the following as her first
school essay: There was little girl,
and she was very sick; they sent for my
papa, and she died very quick"
- The presidents salary is paid to him
in monthly installments Of $4,166 81.
The warrant is brought to the White
House by a special messenger from the
treasury department, and after the presi.
dent has endorsed itas he would an ordi.
nary draft, his private secetsry deposits it
at the Columbia bank. When the .presi.
dent is out of town the draft is mailed to
him. The same method is pursued in
paying the justices of the supreme court.
- Mr.. J. Il. Bates, of Acwarth, Ga,
has What cne might call curiosity. 1t
is pumpkins that will weigh not less than
one hundred and twenty-five pounds.
Mr.. Bates has FIVE hills of the mammoth
Tours pumpkin, so named from having
originated near Tours, France, where
they are largely grown, both for table
and cattle use. Itgrows to an immense
size, even with ordinary culture. In an