The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1905-12-27
A. Few Queer Happenings OF the
Day That Have
TO TIE WORLD
During the Past Year. How the Small
News of the Weeks aud Mon'ns
Shows the Play Of This Old
Worlds Lights and
Shaj, VS..

Worlds Lignts anu
ShaJ. VS..
When the dying year was young q
farm hand near St Paul drunk a small
bottle of nitr glycerine on a wager
| Ga the way hcme he was overcome by
| the cold, and, when his friends trieo
to thaw him out, he lost his winnings
and everything save two buttons.
Until the fl st frost there were to be
seen on a tree near Kington' on
Thomas, England, several sc mi:roast
ed apples. An auto had caugnt nte
beneath the branches, and tie Times
had cooked the flu:t while destroying
the car.
Last february the behring's came
down Departure By, B c., IN such
numbers that their, rush through tne
tszeers sounded like escaping steam.
This lasted 81 hours, at the emu OF
which tjmeeneaTly 1,cea tons OF nsn
we're in and near the channel, dead
smothered by their own density.
LIES LITTLE IRoNIEs,
Gen. Dokstourt #, running up stairs
to thank the minister Of wal fJr order
ing him to the front (he had begged
to be allowed to die a soldiers deatb)
was claimed by heart disease on the
top STEP.
The only, essay entered for the an
nual prtz3 offered by the Partisan
Academy of Moral and Political
Science, did not receive the a "ard-as
it was too illegible to be read.
Sir Alfred Harmsworth offered $500
reward for information which might
lead to the arrest Ut a certain reckless
motorist-who turned out to be Sir
Alfred's brother.
Dying in poverty in a San Francis
co hospital, Luscomb Seares received
word that the British government had
just allowed his claim Of $4,000. 600
arising from losses dnring the Boer
war.
r THE GENTLER SEX.
In October, Mrs. Ella G >ltz OF
Portsmouth, o., swore out q warrant
sfor q circus elephant, which had eater
her gold watch ard smashed In a
brandnew Paris hat.
A Cologne dairymaid was arrested
for bathicg herself daily in the milk
abe later sold.
Anegress. living near Atlanta, Ca,
Ehas to have her shoes made to order
f .nished they are % inches long ano
weigh 10 pounds.
A June bride enter d a grocery
store at Fort Fair6 Id, NJ, to buy
an empty barrel of fl 'ur that SHIT
might make a hero .op for her dog"
WHATS IN A NAME.
To commemorate the years yellow
fever epidemic a New Orleans couple
manned their baby Stegomyia Sciata
Wilson.
Y "Old Tabby," chief Of a tribe OF
Utah Iodians, died in o ;tober Of a cat
aleptic fit.
"Damsite" Is to be the nameo OF one
of Texas new post, III :es. There are
irrigation works there.
At q wedding IL P plar Eng and,
the brides name Was Wedlock, ano
the bridegrocm's M ,rriage.
OUR FOUR FOOTED FRIENDS
During a Mauchurian ergtg mGnt
a japanese cficer fund a D king
spaniel wondering l)sJ between the
opposing lines. II cam. TO whistle
and was at once afe ctionate. Later
when the charge sounded, the dog
started fourth with his new friend;
but as it could not keep up with tn.
rush, the Jap tucked IL under his left
arm and so led his men to victory.
A cat belonging to the Dutchess OF
Beaufort, being taken to q country
seat other than the q where 1t had
been born, turned back home" after
two unhappy days, covering the 2Ot
inte1v ,nipg miles In safety.
A veteran police horse October
2s5t) climbed the steps Of a htuse on
Forty fourth street, New York, anc
thumped with his hoofs-on the door
helping arouse the slee ping tenants o
the smoke. filled rooms.
WEIRD WILLS.
An Australian detective died ir
April, dividing a s35, 900 property int
six shares seeming q able to him
These divisions we're specified in writ
ipps, placed in sealed envelops, TIT
six heirs drawing them with no clu'
to the contents. ..
Baron Rothschild was named soil
beneficiary under the will OF a Nlc'
miser. Abraham Fiddler, who left hin
$3.50, 600 on the principle that none!
must seek money" The baron hunt
ed up the relatives CT the departed
and gave each an equal share.
This the last will and testamen
of me, John T lonas," read a certain
document in Montreal, last July. "
gave all my things to my relations t
be dev,de1 among them the best wa
possible. n. B g: If anybody kicks u
row he isn't to have anything"
RED TAPE AND THE LAW.
q lawsuit at Aberdeen, WASH
over a horse whose death the owne
SL,.o5 m q ma who had hiI6d.i II