The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1880-04-21
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

| A rifle ball moves WIFI u FelOClGy u
one thousand miles per hour.ap
The ice factory at Baton Rouge, La.
manufactures three tons daily.t
The total capacity of the steel mills ct
the present time throughout theiworld ID
estimated at about 1900, 900 tons for the
years production. ......- ....rt
A collection of portraits of the secret
taries of the treasury has been begun In
Washington. For each of these portraits
the government pays about $500.
A few months ago a colored woman
! in Hayti began to grow white, and now
there is not trace of color in her skin,
and she is much displeased at thechange.
Ninety-five centennial SKees-one for
each county in Tennessee ARP to be
planted on the capitol grounds At Nash
vile, to be known by the names OF their
respective counties. .""i NJ"
The best statisticians estimates that
the population of the republic, as shown
bv the next census, will be Al, ,00O, ,000, or
Gain ofnearly g, ,0OO, 900 over tkepopula-
tor of ten years before. ; .Is y
Of the metals, the following are the
degrees of temperature required TOR
melting: Tin, 42l; lead, 594; zinc, 740;
antimony, $50; silver, 1850; brass,
800; steel, $500; copper, 2,548; gold,
$50; platinum. S, $50; iron, cast, 3,479;
iron, wrought, $3.50. 49,. .4.
In little family discussion the other
day. madam remarked, somewhat tartly !:
"When I marry again" II suppose
YOU will marry fool" interrupted the
husband. "Beg your pardon, p she said.
"I shall do nothing OF the kind. l pre-
fer q change" The lord and master
wilted. Cincinnati Enquirer. r.,
An extraordinary snowfall occurred
in Cashmere, in Asia, last winter. In
certain places itsnowed continuously and
uninterruptedly for ten successive days.
the snow upon the level plains being
from thirty to forty feet deep, and IN
some of the mountain passes it was piled
up to height of $50 and $50 feet.
The latest and most refined style OF
novel writing Is to avoid mention OF the
scenes of bloodshed and violence !:
Like flash of lightning froma cloud.
with the velocity of q rifle bullet and
the resistless sweep of the avalanche,
the insulted youth skipped around the
corner and hunted up q policeman.
Bogus gold $5 pieces are peing circu.
lated In Sacramento, Cal. The coin mas
the right sound, exact IN wsight ana
size. very finely executed, gold plated.
of the dates 1914, ls47 and 1875. These
pieces are the product of company
which executes its work In ships at sea,
originally of the Spanish coast.
Smith got a good dinner at home q
few days AGO by telling his wife he was
Going to bring 4 Judge home with him to
that meal. When be arrived alone, ana
Mrs. Smith asked him where the Judge
was, he triumphantly pointed TO him.
self, remarking, I'm q good Judge OF q
dinner" He will be obliged to cook up
dinner in some other way hereafter.
The endeavor to explain why the g.
mitic nations wrote from right to left,
has led to many curious speculatlons.
Erlenmayer, for instance, accounts for
their mode of writing by assuming that
they were left-handed. But this is hy-
nothesis contrary to known fact. One
| OF bQG mOSG duCIcuL Va GAo CSSAs S~ -
Bible mentions left-handedness as q
physical peculiarity. ""'
At the French mint are shown now
specimens of a coin which will oe
sought for eagerly by numismatists OF
the future. These are five-franc pieces
struck during the reign Of the Com
mune. At first sight they have all the
appearance of coins of like value under
the empire; but there is a difference
and it thus occurred: When the Com
munists began to run short Of cash they
wanted to coin some new-fashloned
money, but were informed that no
workmen competent for the task could
possibly be got. Consequently they
wers compelled to 60 on using Napo-
Icons dies. Camelinat. however, who
was then master of the mint, bethought
him of slight innovation: On one
side of the five-franc pieces Of Napoleon
are three emblems, one Of which Is
a bee, representing the sign OF the
director of the mint. Camelinat re-
placed the bee by trident: About
1900, 900 francs of these CONS were
struck, but had hardly been complete
when the troops entered parls, anG
nearly all these coins were dispatched
to he melted and recast.