The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1905-12-27

teeth in a half eaten apple, left In ;
house at Basic, S sltzsrland, a burgla
has confessed and been sentenced.
In May the famous ST. vans, Smith
"cox case'' was closed in Colorado
with a total Of 81 500 attorneys fees,
plus court charges. The COW, worth
only $50 in the first place, has b;er
dead Is years.
CONVERSATIONS.
R ldolpa Matter, a New York CIV.
en- ineer, was uncivll enough to hug
Mss Gladys G Chapman, overlc oking the
fac that he did not know the lady,
The magistrate thought the embrace
worth SIX month on the Island"
B cause a revolver, which he had
purchased to kill himself With missed
lire. Paul Schlardlun Of San B,rnar
dino, brought suit against the hard
ware company for the price OF the
weapon.
Mrs. Lawson Of Richmond, Va,
owns a COW and the COW owned a calf,
but this last was drowned in a swamp.
Tner. oon the bereaved mother adop
ted a rawn, first rescuiDg 1t from a
hound which lad chased it into the
pasture.
JUST LIVE.
Three brothers were welded to three
sisters an sister OF the brothers to a
brother Of the sisters at Durren, Eng
land, last September. In each OF til
four cases bride and grotm we're Of tne
same age, ranging from 10 to %.
A young and pretty Bellevue nurse
dropprd her steshoscope out Of the
hospital window in May. 1t hit the
shoulder of a masculine passer- by. The
two were married in Ju le.
A couple were We'd ed in Hertzfeld,
Swi zarlau5, after . courtship Of As
years and the exchange of 3 300 love
letters; while, down in It Xas a lted
swain mas sued his once fair lady for
$50, 900 charging S., 900 10 courtship
expenses at 81 a day for bis time.
HUMoRs OF LIGHTNING
Near q small town In Minnesota,
lightning struck an electric auto whose
batteries hal ran out. The stroke re-
charged the batteries and the occu-
pants of the machine ran it home.
A DO t struck the home OF Kellar
Creagen, at Ringgold, Md, running
around bis straw hat to above his left
ear, then down the side Of his neck TO
the body, tearing the shirt collar. then
down his right leg, tearing the shoe
in half and splitting the great toe.
His skin was scorcned but his hair
was not even singed.
The chatelain of the Castle OF Ben.
atonnaire, France, was sitting in a
chair when struck by a bolt. She was
herself uninjured, but on the back Ct
her dress vas found a perfect picture
Of the. chair, to its minutes detail.
STRANGER THAN FICTION.
At the very hour Of the assassina.
tion If the Russian Grand Duke Ser
gius, his god daughter, in the Alexis
Ialace, declares he opened the dvor Of
her room ccvsred with bleeding
wounds, and exclaimed: Look, young
princess"
E nber Mason, who lives nelr In
dependence Uity, Nd, has built his
ow7 cof1 4 from a tree he planted when
ne first came to Jackson county, II
years az ; while an Irish merchau
Was buried in the spring, bis requi,m
being sung from a pnonoSrap1 record
ae himself had made just before death.
S L u 8 attorneys found in F b
urary a missing heiress to an estate,
through the continuous cries OF q pet
porrot of the deceased Il want to see
my Baltimore baby" was the clue
which lead to Success In the City
named.
POULTRY In ODD ROLES
A brown African goose in North
Atleboro, NJ 49,, amazed its owner by
producing an egg measuring IL 6.o
inches in ci:c inference, lille a hen
az C,eyerton, E gland, was 50 ex:raV'
agant as to include three yolkS 10 on
shell.
1t va7 fortunate for Mamie Gaul-
son Of Fort D dye, Ia that she had
chicken FIR dinner IN January 81, tor
10 the g.zzard Of the wi she found a
lecklac2 she had lost two years ago.
Mrs. Ley Seymour Of G;eat Br
rinton, Mass, has a hen which lays
eggs each bearing the initial M Or W.
o. the shell. Every time this fowl
,ays ar egg she pocks or tho kitchen
window till her mistress gathers III the
acquisition ~.
TRAGEDIES IN LITTLE
II might as we'll dead a,aliVe, I've
oothing to live for" As a tramp on
the road near Lshigh, E lgland, said
this he was stI uck by lightning, dying
instantly.
D lrirg the singing Of a pathetic
song, plcturing THE old home"
scenes q yourg man In 2 Cafcago the
atre, shot himself. february
Ssnt to bed In punist m ant for a
little naughtiuess which it transpireo
later he did not commit, Harry Am
bier, a l4-year old L >adon boy, hung
himself.
At Stoke. ou-Trent, ENGLAND, In
September, a Mr.. L.tham assisted To
caring for a b,y killed by a dray. lie
was bruised beyond rec gnization,
out a more thorough examination OF
the body showed the rescuer he had
been working over bis own SON.