The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1879-02-26
TIMELY TOPICS.

TIMELY TOPICS.
Gas much trouble should be taken to
pay small bills as large ones." Advertis
ing and subscription bills, for instance.
A full pardon has been granted to
twenty.four French communists, impris'
oned at New Caledonia, for their services
against insurgents there.
All Say, a Chinaman, who for several
years has controlled Chinese labor on
the Union Pacific railroad, is million
aire, and married o Tartar woman, the
Tartars being menial race in China.
Iroquois county. ILL.,, has two hun
dred artesian wells, all of small bore,
within q radius OF twenty miles. No
one of them exceeds seventy-fve feet in
depth, and they yield total daily supply
of SO, 500, 900 gallons.
Michael Sullwant, man OF national
reputation, described as the largest
cultivator of lands ever known, died
suddenly while sitting in chair in the
cabin of the steamer Guthrie, en- route
from Evansville, Ind, to Louisville, Ky.
The newspapers are guessing on the
population of the United States in 1880,
and some of them think the increase
from 1870 will be about twenty-five per
cent, which, in round numbers, would
make the population about Al, ,645, 600.
Wisconsin pays $40 apiece for wolf
scalps, and this protection has largely
developed the industry of lupiculture.
In some of the oldest counties in the
State, according to State Senator Bailey,
there are farmers who make a good
living by rearing wolves and scalping
them.
NJ. Camille Flammarion, of Paris, has
recently published number Of articles
to prove that the moon is inhabited, and
is now organizing committee to collect
the necessary funds to construct re-
fracting telescope Of sufficient power to
see them. he calculates the cost of the
instrument at 100000 francs ($2OO,-
0OW.
The son OF King Theodore, of Abys-
sinia, who was brought to England after
the fall of Magdala, is being educated
for the army. he is slender youth,
of dusky hue, naughty, as becomes
descendant OF the queen of Sheba, and
shrewd, as becomes prince Graded In
adversely. The lad has added ten years
to his life since the British government
became his patron.
There are 1,542 theaters in Europe,
divided as follows among the different
countries Italy, '343 France, 337 {;
Spain, 1853 England, $50 ; Austria, 152;
Germany, 191 ; Russia, forty-four; Bel
GUM, thirty four; Holland, twenty
three; Switzerland, twenty; Sweden,
ten; Norway, eight; Portugal, six;
Denmark, ten Greece, four; Turkey,
four; Roumania, nine; Servia, one !;
Egypt, three.
The following particulars as to the
Russian losses during the recent cam
paign are officially given: In the Balkan
peninsula, 129,471 men were killed by
the enemy or succumbed to sickness,
and 12O, $50 were sent back to Russia
wounded and sick, of whom AZ, $50 died.
The whole losses amount, therefore, to
172, 400 men, but in this number the
severe losses of the Russians in Asia
Minor are not included.
The occupations of the members OF
the New Jersey house of assem- bly, are
given as follows: Farmers, thirteen
teachers, four; merchants, ten; engi-
rieers and surveyors, two lawyers, nine;
druggist, one wheelwright, one; physl'
clan, one liquor dealer, one; real estate,
one manufacturer, seven ;pyrotechnlst,
one clergyman, one temperance hotel
keeper, one contractor, one; railroad
superintendent, one; architect, one;
molder, one; painter, one; retired,
three.
An Indian carried the dead body OF
his sister to the top of hill at Rosebud,
Neb., and stationed himself by it with
a rife in mis- hands, intending to kill
the first white man who came within
range, so that o white spirit might &C
company her to the happy hunting
grounds. He stood there six hours,
firing occasional but harmless shots at
distant, persons. Then o white man
who had lived many years among the
Indians, and whose wife was a squaw,
walked unsuspiciously that way. The
Indian shot him in the breast, and was
satisfied. But the wounded man re
covered, and accepted thirteen horses,
forty blankets, and IN apology in settle
ment.
Chemistry is the science of the world
and OF the future. The bridge which
takes the engineer years to construct,
the chemist can, in so many sixtieths OF
a second, reduce to atoms. Chemistry
has given US the balloon; it has put in
our hands gunpowder, tro.glycerine,
dynamite, and, above all, fuln,inate OF
gold, an explosive 30 terrible that, if an
ounce of it be left in stoppered bottle,
it's grains falling among themselves by
their own weight will create convulsion
sufficient to lay all New York in ruins.
It has given us poisons so subtle that,
we're we to employ such means OF war
fare, we could sail in balloon over the
camp of the enemy and drop upon it o
she'll, the bursting of which would kill
every human being within a mile OF Its
range.
Speaking OF rich Englishmen, an e1,
change says that the eccentric old Earl
of Dysart will, it may be presumed, be
of some use to somebody at last, as he
left a personal estate of $500, 600, the
largest ever left behind by an English
peer, although it has been surpassed by
many mercantile men. The late Duke
of Cleveland, who left over a million
sterling. comes nearest. Lord West
minister, regarded as the Cr@sus par
excellence, left but $4,00O,0 900. No
Englishman has as yet come within
$4,000, 900 of Mr.. Brassey, the great
contractor. Mr.. Morrison, of Fore
street Morrison, Dillon & Ga. }, comes
nearest. with $40, 900, coo, and, having
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