The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-08-08
CURIOUS FACTS.
A pace is three feet.

A pace is three feet.
Insurance was in general use in Italy
before 1894.
It takes eighty-four of our years to
make one year on Uranus.
A Persian carpet twenty-five feet
square was sold in Paris the other day
for $1,000.
Clans are said to have. arisen In Scot
land in the reign of King Ma!com II.
about 1908.
A wild goose flies bya chart which
the Royal Geographical Society could
not improve.
Two pure white robins have been
taken from the nest of an ordinary red.
breast in Galena, Ill.
A Nebraska farmer has unearthed the
skeleton of q woman who must have
stood eight feet high in life.
An enterprising physician in Australia
advertises: 81 will pay half the funeral
expenses in cases where am not success
ful.n
Four figs taken from tree in Chero-
kee, Cal, weighed one pound seven
ounces, one Of them weighing eight
ounces.
The phrase "The real Simon Pure"
occurs in Susannah Centlivre's play, ia
Bold Stroke for Wife" The authoress
died in 1772.
A new industry in California is said
to be the killing of bees that swarm in
private houses. At present it IS mon-
opolized by two men.
Salmon fishers at Woodbush, England,
recently found in one of their nets fish
with the body and tail of salmon and
the head of a haddock.
Joseph Ritas, a Spaniard, recently
died at the age of 118 years. His brother
lived TO be ia, and their father was Ill
at the time of his death.
A mole is an insect eater and never
molests the roots of trees. Two moles
devoured in nine days 341 white worms,
1853 earthworms, 25 caterpillars and L
mouse. s
A woman was passing through the
grand hall of the Glasgow (Scotland)
Exhibition, q few nights ago, with Q
baby in her arms, when the band began
to play. The child screamed with fright
and died.
Mrs. Hall, OF Sabine County, La, has
three fingers preserved in q jar Of alco.:
hol, which the owner can have by prov.
ing property. They belonged on the
hand OF burglar, and she cut them of
with hatchet. - s ss-s -
Recently, at a Moscow (Russia) sunset,
the rays of the sun were intercepted dtby
cloud, and, through some peculiar
property in the atmosphere, the city was
colored vivid purple hue. The strange
effect lasted for eight minutes.
Judge Arnold, of Argonia, Kan, lost
his Office and courtroom in the recent
cyclone at that place, and was so se--
verely shocked by stroke of lightning
that it restored the hearing in one Of his
ears which had been deaf for thirty
years. Is.
At recent dinner given in New York
b mound of flowers orlamented the table,
and over the flowers hovered gorgeously
colored butterflies, living, but dying in
agony. Long pins were run through
their bodies and they were fastened to
the flowers to die slowly. - -.
Billy Neuberry, of the City Engineers
Department in st. Paul, Minn., is man
of phenomenal strength. He is able to
lift q heavy man by his teeth, and can
snap steel stove pokers like broomsticka
by twirling them aloft and bringing them
down quickly over his left forearm.
In order to secure case againsta den.
tist who was using contraband matches,
the detective of French match company
went to the offender and had tooth e1..
tracted. Then, taking out cigar, he,
asked for light. The dentist handed
him box of matches, which he at once
declared were contrabaud. The detec.
tive called to an associate in an adjoin-
ing room, and case was at once made up.