The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-04-11
CURIOUS FACTS.

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Coaches were first used in England In
1859. ..... 1
City Park, Philadelphia, is the largest
in the world.
The latest discovery is that seltzer
water is cure for burns.
The highest recorded price for q Strad1
ivarius violin is said to be SO, 600. I
A hunter in Arkansas found jaw,
bone with teeth twenty inches long. /
Zalediscofokenonisch is the name Of
man who is working in the Schuylkiu
coal regions. II
The longest suspension bridge in the
world is at Freibourg; then come those
at Pesth and Bourdeaux.
1t is 1898 years since the death of st.
Patrick. the renowned apostle of the
Christian faith in Ireland. ii
An ancient Japanese coat of mail was
recently unearthed in the vicinity of
Victoria, British Columbia.
A Montreal butcher named Desmar-
chois was arrested and fined 500 recent
ly for kissing q woman against her will
He decided to go to jail rather than pay
the fine. ... y
The venerable American Philosophical
Society, of Philadelphia, still possesses
the chair in which Thomas Jefferson sat
when he wrote the Declaration of Inde-
pendence.
In IN appeal from Justices court in
Ohio the lawyer couldn't find any par
ticular technically, and sc he based the
appeal on the ground that court was not
opened with prayer. '~t7s-.s.~~.
The mascot black cat of a Washington
theater walked out on the stage during
a performance the other night and took
a good look at the President, who sat
in box with party. +
There is legend current among the
peasants of Bavaria that the long
life of Kaiser Wilhelm was due to q
mysterious philter of which His Imperial
Majesty alone possessed the secret.
Robert McCrone, of Thompsonville,
Conn.,, is the most consistent vegetarian,
in the Nutmeg State. He has eaten no
animal food for over forty years. He is
now sixty-fve and in perfect health. i
Vienna must be jolly place to 1--we in.
On one Saturday night, in single dis,
trict of the city, 246 public balls were
held, and there are about twenty such
districts included in that gay metropo-,
lis. .li-f$
Some Florida cabbages measure FIVE
feet across the top and weigh twenty-five,
pounds so the Florida papers say. They,
also tell of a potato twenty-seven pounds,
in weight and turnip weighing ten
pounds. - I
A new rule for removing o cinder in,
the eye is given by an engineer. It Is:
let the injured eye alone and rub the
other one, and the cinder will be out in,
two minutes" It is a simple remedy
and worth trying. /
An English judge recently committed.
the sentence of a prisoner to five years..
imprisonment at hard labor instead Of
six months imprisonment and two. fog-j
gings. He thought the former sentence
was more merciful. +
The Alexandran era fixes the creation,
at 55O2 B. C. This computation con-,
timed till A. D. 2SS, but the following
year ten years were subtracted, and $751;
became 5777. This conceded with the
Mundane era of Antioch.
Bob and Ben Day, of Conyers, Ga,
have trapped sixty-four beavers and four
otters on Georgia streams during the last
three months, besides number of smaller
animals. They will realize $40O from
the furs which the animals yielded.
Mrs. Nancy Miller, who died at Cum
berland, Md, recently, at the age of 10S,
years, remembered well the day she saw
General George Washington review his
troops at Fort Cumberland on October
10, 1894, and had many interesting
"reminiscences to tell of the first Ameri-,
can President.
At Birmingham, Ala, Doctor Jones
discovered racoon in yard back of q
drug store and took a novel method OF,
capturing it. He procured fshpole, q
sponge and chloroform. Standing at q
distance he lowered the sponge to the.
nose of the sleeping animal and held it
there until the coon was stupe6ed. Then
fearing that he might be bitten, he ar
ranged a lasso and caught the coon with
out difficulty.