The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1881-09-07

Inc Un1GeQ SGaCeS OOllar Vi lOut sells
for $500. If the government officials
had known how highly these coins were
to be valued they might have made a
grand speculation by turning out a few
millions of them. As it was they
thought eight would "meet the bust
ness wants of the country" and eight
they made.
A correspondent of a London paper
warns people against throwing broken
bottles among sun. dried grass or heat
at this time of the year, as the bottoms
of such bottles frequently act as burn
ing glasses. The Australi MS know that
extensive and damaging brush fires
have taken place in Australia in conse-
uuence of broken bottles having been
carelessly thrown down among the dried
scrub.
From the year 1875 to the present
date 17G murders have been committed
in Chicago. OF these, as is the case
generally, nearly one-half were com
mitted in the hot months-June,
July, August and September, chiefly in
July and August. Only two of the l76
murderers were hung for the crime.
But in that year, 1878, n of the hot.
test summers known, the number OF
murders decreased, from thirteen in
the summer of 1877, to six; increased
next year to nineteen, and this year
bids fair to exceed it.
The Main Exhibition building at
Philadelphia, which cost 81, GOO.O 600 to
erect, was recently sold at auction for
1910 00. It's sale calls to mind the long
and disastrous effort to maintain a per-
manent exhibition within it's walls with
SOM of the shells and vestiges of the
great Centennial fair. The scheme
was doomed to failure from the begin
ming, but it was heroically supported
for four years by a company of Phila-
delphia gentlemen who have paid dearly
for their enthusiasm. Nowhere has a
large permanent industrial and art ex-
hibition been successful save at Syden-
ham, near London, and that has in its
favor the attractiveness of the Crystal
palace and its park as a point for eS-
cursions, ard the immense population
of the British metropolis close at hand.
A handbook giving q general account
Of the Jews, just issued by DIR. IL.
Andree, estimates their total number
throughout the world at about 6, lUO,O 0O.
Only $50, 900 of the race are to be found
in Asia, 400, 900 in Africa, 100000 in
America, and 90, 1000 in Australia. The
great majority of the race, more than
5000, 900, live in Europe. Roumania
contains q far larger number Of Jews in
proportion to it's population than any
other European country, namely, 7.44
per cent; while Norway contains only
81 individuals of the race. The local
distribution of the Jewish population in
different countries is traced out with
great pains by DR.. Andree. Thus, in
some of the government districts of
Russian Poland the Jewish inhabitants
constitute from Is to Is per cent. OF the
population. Although for the whole of
Germany the Jewish element is only
IL 10 per cent. Of the population, in
the city of Berlin it has increased to
nearly 5 per cent.
There is nothing small about the
nawab of Gondal in India. he has
chosen seven youthful and lovely brides
from among the daughters of the Con
dial aristocracy, and has made arrange
ment to lead them to the altar, one
after another, upon seven successive
days. 1t will be the pleasing duty Of
each bride, progressively and in regular
rotation, to attend the weddings cele-
brated subsequent to her own, SO that
the first lady of the series will enjoy
the unusual privilege of witnessing
seven nuptial ceremonies, in all of
which she will be more or less directly
interested, within the limits of a single
week. The seven-fold bridegroom,
however, has bestowed upon all his
brides wedding dresses and ornaments
OF identical material, design and value.
The rooms they are destined to occupy
in his palace are all furnished exactly
alike; and the accident of seniority, as
regards the mere date of their respect
i've marriage ceremonies, is not to carry
with it any precedence at court.
The time is not far distant when, &C.
cording to scientific geographers (who
certainly ought to know, the passage
across the Atlantic will only occupy
four days. This will not be, as n may
hastily suppose, on account of improve
ments in steam power, electricity or
any such out of the way attempts, but
simply because in time the American
continent will be something quite diff
ferent from what it is to-day. The
coast of New Brunswick and Prince
Edward Island is rising, the land round
the Bay of Fundy is sinking. Green
land is slowly sinking along q line Of
600 miles; New Jersey and the coasts
to the east are rising, and en- the Pa
cifc there is o subsistence Of water.
The American continent must in time
project to the North Pole. Hudson's
Bay will be a fruitful valley, with just q
lake or two to keep up the watery
character of the place, the Newfound-
land banks will become arid and st.
Georges bank will be part of the main
land. The coast line of all oceanic
States will be carried ont to the inner
edge of the gulf stream.