The Abbeville banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1847-1869, 1847-06-30
INTERES'TINGFACTS.

The population of the earth is estimated
at one thousand millions. Thirty millions
die annually, S,42l every hour, and 81 eve
~ minute.
\ hushcl of wheat weighing G2 pounds
contains 10000 kernels.
In Greece 1t was the custom ut meals for
the two SEXES always to eat separately.
The Romans lay on couchcs ut their di
nmg tables, on their arms, eating with their
right
1t is estimated that 2i5, 900 persons have
been annually killed in battlc for the last
four thousand years, to say nothing Of the
wounded.
Noah's Ark was 575 fest long, 81 broad
and 81 high.
The walls OF Ninncvah were 100 feet
high and thick enough for three chario,s
abreast.
Babylon was Is miles square. Its walls
were - feet thick and 30 high
The largest pyramid is ISl feet high.
a clean skin is us necessary to health as
luol.
On one of,hc peaks of the Alps there is Il
block of granite weighing, by estimate
Al .36Ston< so nicely balanced on its centre
OF gravity, that a single man may give it Il
roc king motion.
Vinegar boiled with myrrh or camphor
Sprnkled in room. corrccts putridity
Hops cnlwinc to the left, and beans to the
right.
Gold may be beaten into leaves so thin,
that $50, 600 would be only an inch thick.
The earth is 1910 miles in diameter, and
24,SSO miles round.
Forests of standing trees have been dis
covered in Yorkshire, England, and in Ire
land, inbcd:lcd in stone.
Fossil remains on the Ohio prove that it
was once covered by the sea.
When the sea is Il blue color, deep waters
and wien green shallow.
4 map of China, made one thousand
years before Christ, is sill in existence.
The l4,h day Of january, on an average
of years, is the coolest day in the year.
In water, sound passes at the rate of
4,GOS feet per second. In the air i,l12
feet per second.
In the Arctic regions. when the thcrmn-
motcr is below zero, persons can converse
at more than mile distant Dr. Jaimcs-
son asserts that he heard every word of IL
sermon ut the distance OF two miles
4 hand used for horses is four inches.
EZrkicI's reed was 10 feet | | Il inches
long.
\ Sabbath days Journey was about two
thirds Of il mile.
! There are 24O known specie Of fishes.
! The bones OF birds are hollow and filled
with air instead of marrow
a single house fly produces in one season
2O.USO,32O!
The flea jumps 200 times its own length,
equal to IL quarter OF Il mile for ii man.
! The black ostrich stands seven fee. high.
In the human body there are 24U bones.
There is iron enough in the blood Of AZ
men to make fifty horse shoes, each weigh
ing half "A pound
! u man is taller in the morning by half an
inch than he is at night
; Water is the only universal medicine ;
by it all diseases ma;' be alleviated or cured
Above the age of thirlysiX, it is said the
lean man becomes fltter, and the fat man
lcanrr.
The atoms composing Il man are believed
to be changed every forty days, and the
bones in few months.
A LlrANy,-To he reu,l on all conreuicut
OtCnStOnS.-
From frogs and blue devils, from mus
q'itoes and mad dogs, from bed bugs and
pcttifoggcrs- deliver us.
From rats AMI rascality: from lady poets
and love sonnets, from Yankee petars and
delinquent Observation-Disclosures us.
From hornets and horse jockics, from
smoky chimnics and scoldiug womcn-de-
liver us.
From steam doctors and sea serpents,
from vagrant musicians and militia fine col
lectors-dclivcr us.
From teasing sweet-hcarts and torment.
ing creditors, from close, ,fstcd customers
and courts of judlcature-O! Lords, deliver
lis.
FLOWING FOR WHEAT.-But few farmers
are willing to undertake the purchase and
use Of the subsoil plow, but all may adopt
the practice of dcrp p/o'0ing by the ordinary
method. In many parts Of the country, the
soil may be much improved in its wheat
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