The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-09-01
FACTS FOR THE CURIOUS.

Cows may have scarlet fever. 1t at
tacks COWS with fresh calves before
others.
Coupling cars is duty in which, ac-
cordiag to Prof. Arthur l.. Hadley, there
are Il, 600 persons injured every year.
Of ancient Persian paintings there are
now no remains or information. The
walls of the buildings were no doubt
plastered and colored.
The Wars of the Roses lasted thirty
wears from the first battle of St. Albans
to the last one on Bosworth Field, aud in
that time there were twelve battles fought
DR.. ]. S. H. Bogg, of Boston, has q
complete set of the autographs of the
signers of the Declaration of 1ndepcnd-
ence. having paid $50 for one signature
cut from the fy-lcaf of book.
The ancient Britons, before the coming
of Julius Caesar, were ve:y clever at bas-
ket work. They could even make boats
of wicker, covered with the skins of ami
mails, and very good wooden boats also.
John Spaulding, of Louisville, KY,
owns big mastitf. Not long since she
captured a.d killed cat, the mother OF
three kittens, and then, as if conscious
of having done an evil decd, gathered
the little orphans to her side, and has
since teudcrly cared for them and fed
them with the faithfulness of mother.
Farini saw many strange sights during
his recent passage through the Kalahari
Desert in South Africa. OF natural freaks
and wonders the supply appears to be
considerable One of them is q bug
which, on being touched, emits per-
fumc, and two or three of which, carried
in his wagon, scented it delightfully."- for
weeks,
The national health statistics, prepared
by DR.. Billings, show that in proportion
to the population there are more deaths
from pneumonia in New York than IN
any other part of the country. DR.. Draper,
of the New York Meteorological Observ.
atory, attributes this to the presence of
ozone in the atmosphere; other authori-
ties, finding that the air of New York il
very deficient in o"one, think it due to
the absence of that healthful clement.
The phrase s'man alive originated in
Rugby School, England, and belongs in
the vocabulary of public school words.
It is an exclamation of impatience:
'sAlan alive, what are you doing that
for?" j. G: "You are q living man with
your wits about you, haven't you more
sense than to do that" Il is interesting
as one of the comparatively few cases in
which, in ordinary English, an adjective
followsinstead of preceding the substan-
tive. These instances arc often of re-
ligious kind, as ''God Almighty" 'Iife
eternal, Faith unfeiened."
Girls of marriageable age do not like
to tell how old they arc, but you can find
out by following the subjoined instruc-
tions, the young lady doing the figuring.
Tell her to put down the number of the
month in which she was born; then to
multiply it by two then to sdd five; then
to multi ply by fifty; then to add her
age; then to subtract 3G5; then to add
lis: then tell her to tell you the amount
she has left. The two figures to the
right will denote her age, and the re-
mairder the month of her birth. For
example the amount is S2a, she is twen-
ty-two yeus old, and was born in the
eighth month (AugusD. Try it.