The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1880-01-28

Cdkc0 Ill GilS CIllLcu OttIco ACAo " oAo,
will show 48,500,000, in all the States
and Territories-a gain Of about 10000,
900 over the census returns of 1870, or an
increase of about ], 900, 900 year. Ifthe
next census comes up to the estimate,
the United States will exceed in popular
ton any Christian nation excepting Rus.
sia. The latest census reports give Ger
many, 1875, AZ, 727 ,659 Austria Hungary,
1876, 81, ,35O, 900; France, 1876, 80, 9O5, 1888
and Great Britain and Ireland, 1871,
$685. 1887.
One of the most ruinous habits Of the
Russian peasants is displayed at mar.
riage celebrations. A peasant, to cele-
brste the marriage of his son, procures
twenty-five gallons of whisky, to get
money for which he sells his horse, cow
or pigs, and is ready to become a pau
per. He cannot resist the practice, for
custom requires Chat tie population OF
the village, men, women and children,
must get drunk. A rich peasant, at the
marriage festival, will procure 100 gal
Ions of whisky, and the neig hborinrg
villagers are invited to take part in the
carouSal.
Statistics show that in 1890. when the
population of the United States was
only about 1900, 900, the average value
of property to each individual in the
country was Sls7. In 1870, when the
population had increased to nearly
39,00O,0 900, the average of property, in
value, to each indiviual was S776.96. 1t
has been estimated that in 1865 the
average wealth of each person in Great
Britain was $1,000. By 1875 this had
increased to $1,000. The calculated
total increase of the popular wealth Of
the United Kingdom in the same period
was Sl2, 1000, ,OOO, 900, or about three times
the public debt of Great Britain.
A Paris paper gives some curious
statistics regarding the number Of
women who have entered the profess
sions of art and literature, from which
it seems that there are at present living
in France l,7OO lady writers and 2,l50
female artists, whose production have
been exhibited in the Salon. Two
birds of the writers were born in the
provinces, one thousand are known to
be writers of fiction, two hundred are
poets, and one hundred and fifty conf
pile educational works. There are
seven hundred and 6fty-two modelers in
wax and two painters in oil, one hun
dred and ninety-three miniature paint
ers, and one hundred and seven sculp-
tors. Painters in tans, artists in water
colors and chalks, etc., number four
hundred and ninety-four.
According to the British Trade Journal.
India is one of the greatest wheat-grow-
ing countries in the world, ranking
second only to the United States. 1t is
said that wheat may be successfully
raised all over India, from the foot of
the Himilayas to near the southern
point of the peninsula. On account of
certain climatic advantages the valuable
soft white variety hourishes there bet.
ter than in Russia and the greater por-
ton of America. Our contemporary
places the wheat product Of all India at
IS 900, 900 quarters annually, and re-
marks that, if more attention were
given to its preparation for market,
which might be done by the introduce
ton of modern machinery, East Indian
wheat could successfully compete with
Russian and American in the English
market.
The legal hours for marriage in Eng
land are from eight o'clock A. NJ. to
twelve NJ. Unless by special license it
is illegal to perform the ceremony at
any other time in the day. The Rev.
Mr.. Bickersteth is trying to get parlia-
ment to extend the number of hours so
that from light o'clock A. NJ. until six
p. VI. persons about to marry can be
married. He wants to, make it more
convenient for laboring and professional
men to attend weddings. The present
restriction had its origin in desire to
prevent Englishmen from entering the
connubial state while in q state of
drunkenness. 1t was thought that such
IL person is most likely to be sober be-
tween the hours Of 8 A. NJ. and
II NJ. according to the Mosaic
doctrine that they who are drunken are
drunken in the night.
A remarkable case of death from an
erroneous prescription occurred in New
York city. A baby eighteen months
old was badly scalded on the arm by
the upsctting of a bowl of hot tea. A
physician WAS called. who directed the
amounting of the burn with a salve for
which he wrote the prescription. 1t
contained 3 large proportion of opium,
not too much for application to the skin
in normal condition. but dangerous
quantity considering the increased sus-
ceptibility to absorption caused by the
scald, for which the doctor neglected o
make proper allowance. The prescrip-
tion was carried to a druggist, who
heard nothing about the scald, and
merely saw that the ointment was for
external use," and put it up without
having any idea, or giving the customer
any caution, that it was not perfectly
safe. But the narcotic, absorbed through
the scalded cuticle, cast the little suf-
ferer into sleep which proved fatal.
Paris has just lost another of her
celebrities. Mile. Foucanlt has died at
Clichy in the midst of her poor tenants.
She was the daughter Of colonel and
granddaughter of general of the first
empire. In 1913 ber father died and left
her penniless orphan. She tried all
sorts Of means to gain an honest living,
but failed, till one day the idea struck
her to assume male attire and in that
disguise she became a corrcctor for the
press in the printing Office of NJ. Dupont.
She remained there two years, when
her sex being discovered she got notice
to leave. She subsequently wrote in
one or two small prints, then she be-
came concert hall. singer, and finally
copyist to Alexandra Dumas the elder.
On leaving the service of the great
novelist she again found employment in
a printing Office, where she was able to
save enough money to buy small piece
of ground at Clichy. Here she built a
series of small houses, or rather huts,
which she letout to ragpickers. Her feats
of arms among her turbulent tenants
have become legendary. She died, it is
said, worth 100000.
In many parts of Europe the fecundity
of the hamster, a kind of rabbit, and it's
destructiveness, especially to cereal
crops, are q source of constant trouble