The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1882-08-16
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

A doughmestlc dlthculty-heaVy
bread.
Strawberry is the newest shade o.
aesthetic red.
Nevada reports 32,0s7 horses within
its border, and 1853. 1877 cattle.
By the use of lime aud ashes, and by
growing cow peas for turning under,
poor soil can be made to yield good
crops.
The greatest length of Lake Erie js
$50 miles; its greatest breadth is 80
miles: its depth is "a mean feet; eleSa.
ton, 26l feet; area, 5000 square miles.
Professor Proctor says that the sun
never lacks a supply of fuel, which re.
minds MS that the sun is very much like
the family in the neighborhood of our
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
The marine fauna of the coral region
of South Florida is said to be a West
Indian colony, engrafted on the North
American fauna of the east and wes9
coasts OF the peninsula.
- Old Holenson, of DEBORAH, Iowa,
feared there was foul air in s cistern
which he was about to clean, and pru
IDENTIFY sent his daughter down to dnd
ont. His apprehension was not ground
less.
The director of the United States mint
estimates the circulation of toe principal
countries of the world at: Gold, So,
22l, 600, 900; silver, S2.538, 600, 600,
tossl specie, S. 59, 000, 900 Of paper,
8, 1854, OOO, 900.
Pennsylvania and New York are the
only two States containing over 1,O0O,-
600 voters. Minnesota and Wisconsin
have more foreigners than natives aged
over twenty-one years. New York has
forty per cent. Of foreigners and Penn
s~ylvania twenty. five.
An area of SO, 1000 acres has been
planted with trees in Kansas under the
new law relating to arboriculture. The
cotton tree was largely planted on &C
count Of its rapid growth and 5000
acres we're set with walnut tees. The
expectation IS that ills will operate, in
course OF time, to relieve the climate of
Its extreme dryness.
In Switzerland efforts are being made
by earnest Christian people to relieve
letter carriers from work on Sunday,
they being required to distribute letters
on that day as we'll as others. Little
gummed tickets have been prepared to
.be attached to letters like stamps, on
which is printed: "This is not to be de
livered at the house on Sunday"
A new invention promises to preserve
beef or mutton while the animals are
still alive. Bnric acid is injected into
the animals veins, the natural circula-
tion of the blood carries the anticeptic
through every part Of the body, and
when the unfortunate animal that thus
innocently preserves it's own flesh for
future consumption comes under the
care of the butcher, it will be found
that the mutton will keep perfectly
wholesome for a considerable period.
According to the New York Times
there were thirty-eighs Presbyterian
churches in hat city in 1S45, with a
membership of 13,460. In 1872 there
was n less church and a falling off OF
thirty-three members. In the decade
that followed, for 1872 to 1882 there
was q gain o. four churches and 4,72S
members. The Catholic church has far
outstripped all others in recent growth,
the Lutheran coming next, and the
Episcopal third.
A scientist who has investigated the
chances of the game cf "pitch and
toss" with q penny or piece of silver,
says that in 10000 hips there will be
;. 5000 "heads" and a. many "tails."
Sometimes the "heads" will come out
fifteen or twenty ahead, but on the next
10, 900 stalls will catch up, or vice
verss. To this it is added, however,
that if a penny is tossed up 100 times.
it will probably come up "head" fifty
times, and "tail" fifty times; but if a
player undertakes to call each toss, he
will not be right fifty times.