The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1878-07-24

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A New York photographer has sold
$4,000 ikenesses Of actors and actres.
ses in three years. .
According to the Pekin (Chtna) Gez-
cite, the telephone was invented by
Kung 70 VIKING, who fourished in the
tenth century.
General Pleasanton has not given up
his blue glass theory, but leetured
recently on the subject OF the Jefferson
Medical College in Philadelphia.
|. American silver quarters are cut IN
two BY the Mexieans, and freely eircu-
lated as g bits' Twelve and o half eents)
onthe Rio Grande frontier.
There is O erriblefaminein the south
ern part Of Morocco, caused by drought.
The inhabitants are said 10 be so re-
duced that they resemble living skele:-
toms.
The heat in the lower levels Of the
Nevada silver mines is intense. At o
depth of 1900 feet, where the tempera-
ture was 1876 degrees, three men died
recently from exhaustion.
The famine in India is slowly dying
out everywhere, the survivors are recoy-
ering health and strength, and the small
quantitieSsof food imported show that
the people have o suficiency of grain.
Large quantities Of coarse straw
wrapping-paper are shipped from New
York to Cuba and Europe to be used in
he manufacture of cigars. It Is there
saturated with tobacco juice and passes
for leaf tobacco.
The Memphis 4yatanche notices the
interesting and significant fact that of
all the bankrupts who have lately filed
their applications in the United States
Clerks office In that city, none ever
advertised their business.
It is proposed to erect in Central Park
q statue of William Cullen Bryant, to be
placed near that of Mazzini, the unyeil-
ing Of which was the indirect cause OF
MI. Bryant's death. Mayor Ely is asked
to become the treasurer of'the necessary
fund, and TO receive subscriptions Of five
cents and upwards.
The cheapest railroad in the world 10
that in East Friesland, connecting the
village of W~esterstede with the Olden-
berg-Leer Railway. It is five miles
long, of two feet five anda half inches
guage, and was built by the rural popu-
htionof the district OF o cost OF about
$780,
/ In the obituary columns Of o single
Philadelphia paper appearedin one week
recently the names OF sixteen persons
who had lived to or beyond the advanced
age of eighty years, among them being
Madame Heloise Ferti, one hundred
years: Lydia Sanders, ninety-seyen, and
Hester Col1esh, ninety-three, the aver
age of the sixteen. being e~ighty-nlne
years aud nine months.
Ayoung girl in Cleveland, O., went
to,bed recently with strong eyes and in
excellent health. During the night she
felt "a sort Of pricking' for o second or
two about her eyes, and then Q snap, as
If something had broken. These SEN
Stations were accompanied by no pain,
and after they had passed away there
was NO uncomfortable feeling about the
eyes. In the morning she WINS stone
blind.
A moderate amount of fat is generally
considered evidence Of good health.
About one-twentieth part OF the weight
OF o mai and the sixteenth'of q woman
is considered the normal proportion. Its
Office, aside from it's value IN giving
symmetry to the figure, is to prevent
the rapid escape Of animal heat, and
also TO supply the waste OF tissue from
sickness, unusual egertion and tempora-
~ deprivation Of food.
It is seldom that o newspaper editor
is so fortunate as the co-e7itor and Co
proprietor Of the Manchester England)
EXAMINER. Some months ago he re-
ceiyed q last offer of 800, 600 o year to
ioin the editorial staff Of the London
Times, and about the same time $4,000
by Che London Meaes on the sameterms.
The owners of the EXAMINER, however,
offered him an equal partnership Ia that
paper, which yields him $4,000 o year
and independence.
Hawthorne, had he been living, would
have found rich suggestion for one OF
his beautiful seni-supernaturl sketches
In q little incident that is related in con-
neetion with the poet Bryant's fatal fall.
A costly steel portrait Of the poet has
hung for some time in an office IN Pitts
field, N. Z, and on the very afternoon
That Bryant met with the accident which
resulted in his death, the cord which
held the picture gave way, causing it to
fall to the floor, shattering the frame
md glass and iniuring the picture.
Mrs. Nancy q. Glenn, notorious
through o murder trial and acquittaI in
Indianapolis, is again under arrest.
After her escape from the galloWs she
turned her attention very successfully
20 swindling. Her mode was TO make
rich people believe that she was enc
gagged in some secret but exceedingly
profitable business, and offer, purely ag
q favor, to invest some Of their money
In the mythical enterprise. She thus
obtained from six dupes an aggregate OF
about $4,000.
The commerce Of the United States
with Japan dates from the year 1859. In
that year it amounted to but 1896. The
following year it was less than $780,
600, and up to 1866 il had not reached
$3.50, 600 per annum. In the fiscal year
1855 the total exchanges suddenly in
creased TO so, 800, 900, and in 1878 their
value reached 81, 300, 600. The follow
ing year their was o decline to $780,
OO6,' and since then an increase has again
taken place to Big, 600, 900 in 1876 and
and 1877. Very great fluctuations, it
WILDE observed, have taken place dur
ing this short period.
Two men the other day drove up to