The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1881-01-26
ITEMS OF INTEREST,".
The real estate OF Boston is valued at
$3.50, 00n, 900.

The real estate OF Boston is valued at
$3.50, 00n, 900.
Do rs your conscience dictates and
you will not 60 far astray.
The University Of Berlin has 4,l07
students this session. Philosophy
claims the largest number-l,9l8.
The stamp dutv of six cents per pack
wss paid IN l,O97,e 23 packs of playing
cards in England last year, amounting
to S65, $50.
1t is seriously asserted by a French
scientist that the application of a mag
netic sand from the Isle of Bourbon
rapidly revives diseased plants.
A grocer of Boston left $40 to be an
nually expended in caring for his dog,
and that fortunate animal now eats sir
loin steak three times u day and sleeps
on q spring bed.
The Union Pacific road has bought
the soda lakes On the Laramie plains,
intending to make commercial soda, on
which they expect to make $3.50 on
every carload delivered at Chicago.
Lieutenant Schwatka. the Arctic navi-
gator, paid pleasant visits to eternal
shows, and lodged around among ice
bergs hundreds of miles long and wide
and hundreds of feet in the sky and
down in the sea, only to be hoored and
have his leg fractured by a piece Of ice
no bigger than his hand on 81 New York
sidewalk.
Captain Isaac Bassett, assistant door
keeper of the United States Senate, who
was originally made a page through the
influence of Daniel Webster, has a book
on Fifty Years in the United States
Senate" now in the hands of the pub
fishers. He has seen and known all the
men who have held seats in that body
during fifty years.
According to Mr.. S. E. Peel several
varieties Of ants possess the power OF
producing distinctly audible sounds. He
has heard some ofthese insects at q dis
lance of twenty or thirty feet, the noise
being produced by the scraping of the
horny apex OF the abdomen three times
in rapid succession against the dry
leaves of the nest.
Mr.. james Swank, in the Bulletin of
the American Iron and Steel associa-
ton, estimates the production of pig
iron in the United States in 1880, at
3,300,00 gross tons; in 1879 it was 2,74l,-
1853 tons. The importation of pig iron
uring the year was about 700,0 600 tons.
He estimates the production of rails in
the United States. in 1880. at 1900, 900
gross tons; in 1879 it was 993, 1913 tons.
The names of the Brule Sioux chiefs
who went to Washington to complete
the negotiations for railroad rights of
way through their reservation are:
White Ghost, Iron Native, Dear Hand,
Little Pheasant, Medicine Bull, Bull
Head. Don't Know"How. Dog Back,
Bear Bird. Big Name Will and Hand
some Elk. Nest of them have adopted
the garb Of civilization, inc uding the
plug hat.
The publication il announced of the
twelve manuscripts by Leonardo da
Vino. which till now lay almost IN
known in the library OF the French In
stitute. Perhaps the reaso why they
have remained unpublished 80 long is
the fact that Leonardo wrate from right
to left, like the Hebr9"stand arabs,
Joining his letters WITH ~a2ficious -four
ishes, which made tkee7riting very diff
cult to deciphcr Gsle MSS. contain
many precious S5signs, which have
been reproduced in fac, simile, as has
also a part of the text. A list OF the
subjects OH which the MSS. treat will
give an idea of their Importance: Co.'S
mology. Universal Geography, Percus-
sion. Resistance, Hydraulics. Light,
Hext and the Conservation of Force.