The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1878-10-23
Items of Interest.


The Vienna and Constantinople rail-
road will be ] ,010 miles long.
Ancient soldiers were trained to fight
with either hand. 4.
The common school system may be
traced back to the year 600.
There are over twenty thousand
stitches in q well.msde shirt. -
An operator in q spool-thread factory
will make thirteen and half miles OF
thread daily.
In the time of Romulus, 750 BE-,
women were subject to capital punish
ment il found drunk.
Beecher's first four lectures in San
Francisco brought him 81, 800, 2,l6O,
81, 500 and 81, 500 again.
Parlor matches don't 60 off any better
though they make more fuss, than those
made over the front gate.
Bindman's buff is game that gives
opportunity to show human sympathy.
It is a fellow feeling for fellow-crea-
ture.
Mr.. John McKeeman Of Norristown,
Pa, has invented wagon designed to
run without steam, water or horse
power, and has made application for i
patent.
The glaciers Of the Himalayas far
surpass anything hitherto known out
side of the polar regions, some recently
measured being twenty or thirty miles
long and one to three wide.
"How is it, Miss, you gave your age:
to tha census taker as only twenty-five,
when you were born the same year !
was, and lam thirty-nine ?" "Ah You
have lived much faster than I, sir.
Oh the corn, the horrible corn,
Burning at night and aching at morn;
Under somebody's foot half Of the time,
Throbbing with misery almost sublime,
Painting, b
Infsming,
Dig as your fist
Show me the sign Of the chi-rop-o-distl =
"Anythiag new with you to-day"
inquired man OF his friend who was
suffering from inflammation Of the
lungs. "I shonld think so," replied
the sufferer. "What is it?" said the
first speaker. pneumonia" answered
the victim. @
A fisherman at Kingston, Ill.,, saw o
coffin floating down the river. The
tide took it toward the shore and he
pulled it in. Holes had been bored in.
the top, and inside he found q live baby
about two months old, with o nursing
bottle half full of milk. -
While the woods turn red and russell, -
And the swallow skins the weir,
And the dernier rose Of summer
Doth poetic bosoms cheer, =
While waiting for the winter winds,
Which through the forest howl,
The barber doth bestow wierd
And highly hateful scowl
gpon the young man who has decided
to raise full besrd for the winter.
-,-Ne,o York Graphic.
Fruit culture is making rapid progress
il: the United States. According to re-
cent official statements the land appro-
priated to this branch of industry is
4, 500, 900 acres. Upon this there flourish
l12, 900. 600 apple trees, $4,000, 900, pear
trees. 112, ,270, 900 peach trees and 14l,.
260, 900 grape vines. The total value OF
the fruit crop throughout the United
States is set down at S138, ZIG, 700, an
amount equal to half the value Of the
the wheat crop Of the country. Toward
that large sum apples are held to con-
tribute $50, 400, 900; pears, $14, 100, 900;
peaches, SAG, 1856, 600; grapes, $2,118,.
600; strawberries, $5, 900, 600, and other
fruit, $40, 432,0 900. -,s.-
The sleep of winter and that of night
are different in those animals which are
torpid for months. The bat, the hedge
hog, the tawrie, the marmot, the ham
ster, the tortoise, the toad, snakes, mol
lusca, spiders, bees, flies, bears,
badgers, etc., retire to their closed holes,
and, in various degrees, undergo q
temporary death for four, five, six and
seven months of the year. They usual
ly roll themselves up, but bats suspend
themselves in caves. Those who lay up
provisions use them before they become
torpid, and on reviving before they
venture abroad. Their temperature
lowers their respiration is less fre-
ouent and at intervals the circulation is
reduced; they lose their feeling, the d.
gestive organs are inactive and they
suffer loss of weight. The confined air
in which they shut themselves, added
to the cold, is cause of their torpidity.-
Facts lead to the belief that some birds
hibernate.