The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-10-14
All Sorts of Paragraphs.

-"Woman feels where man thinks"
Yes, and that's what makes the men pre-.
msturely bald.
- Harvard College is 225 years old
and has graduated $4,000 students.
A little more than half of them are liv-
ing.
A female engineer, Miss Ida Hew-
lit, is regularly employed on the Cairo
and Kanawha Valley railroad in West
Virginia.
-"Do you believe man spraug from
the ape?" 'No; but I believe woman
springs from the mouse-in fact, I've sen
her do it."
Mrs. spendall-"You look worried.
Is it because you are so deeply in debit"
Mr.. Spendall (gloomily)-"No, it's be-
cause I can't get any deeper"
Johnny" said the pretty teacher,
'what is kiss" II can't exactly put
it in words" returned the boy, "but if
yer really wanter know, I can show
yer"
Printer-There was bill collector
here to see you. Editor-And what did
you do with him? Printer-I shot him.
Editor-Good gracious! {! And powder is
forty cents pound Why didn't you
pitch him out of the Window
-Quong Yo lex, Chinaman, who
has all the advantages of first class ed
ucation, has recently married an Indian
woman of the Soughies tribe, and they
will enter the field as missionaries of the
Methodist Church, to which they both
belong.
"Wheu 1 marry I shall try to be
sure of one thing, and that is that I have
a woman of sense" "You mean a woman
of prudence and forethought, with fine
perceptions and a knowledge of human
nature ?" eyes, that's it exactly"
"But, they are the kind that never mar.
ry."
Rev. A. W. Mann, the deaf mute
preacher, says that there are forty thous.
and deaf mutes in the United States, and
upward of million in the world. The
ratio of deaf mutes to the rest ofAhe pop.
ulation, according to his computation, is
one to every 1900.
A New York woman hoppedsout of
bed the other night, flung her arms
around q burglar and held him while her
husband ran several blocks for a police.
man. All of which goes to show that
when woman gets her arms around a
mans neck he is safe.
The Tennessee Courts have to decide
whether a man can select his own Sab.
bath, or rest day. A Seventh.Day Ad.
ventist who insisted'on keeping Saturday
as his rest day and working on Sunday
was indicted. He was convicted in a
County court, but an appeal has gone up
to the higher court.
- The youngest married couple in
Connecticut, probably, dwell in the little
country hamlet of Sterling, among the
Windham County Hills. They are Mr..
and Mrs. G Fenner. He is IA years and
7 months old and she is Is years and 4
months. They have been married for
several months.
Deacon Jones-"But, my dear man,
why cannot you and your wife agree to
harmony ?" Dear man-"That's just it.
I'm agreed, but she isn't. I, of course,
want her to harmonize with me, but she
insists that I shall harmonize with her.
Just like woman, you know. Bound to
have her own way every time."
This is a record. smashing year.
Mrs. Georgia A. Brown made notable
divorce record in Oakland, California, a
few days ago. She filed her complaint
on Tuesday morning, the summons were
served on Wednesday, on Thursday her
husband put in frivolous answer, and
7 on Friday the answer was stricken out.
The case was referred, testimony was ia.
ken, and the decree was granted on the
same afternoon. Time, three and half
days.
"A lover should be treated with the
same gentleness as a new glove. The
young lady should pull him on with the
utmost tenderness at first, only making
the smallest advance at a time, till she
gradually gains upon him, and twists
him ultimately around her little finger
whereas the young lady who is hasty,,
and In too great hurry, will never get a
lover to take her hand, but be left with
nothing but her finger ends.