The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-05-16
CURIOUS FACTS.
Bears are good swimmers and enjoy.

Bears are good swimmers and enjoy
the water.
The farms of the United States are
valued at ten billions.
The first cotton was raised in the
United States in 1921. .,H:.s
Printing was known in China in the
sixth century, but it was not introduced
into America until 1885. 4 q
The original of Lincoln's general
emancipation proclamation was burned
in the great Chicago fire.. q
Mrs. Sally Summers, of Jones county,
Ca is 90 years old and re;oices in 1856
grandchildren, one for every day in the
year. z
An Ohio man has four hogs born with
our the sign Of an ear, and so lacking in
hearing that they don't know when it
thunders. st2 = q 81
The captain of an incoming Atlantic
steamer tells of icebergs he encountered,
one of which, he says, would weigh not
less than half million tons. 50 8
The citizens of Missouri village act
ually forgot when election time came
around this year, and by consequences
the old board holds over another year.
When future Chinese belle is about
three days old she is formally betrothed
to the scion of some acceptable neigh
Dor, and when she is about fifteen she is
carried to his house and left there and
that ends it. es7, 9
Mrs. Morris, of Sheboygan, Mich,
possesses as highly -pr1zed relic . large,
meerschaum pipe that belonged to q
former King of Denmark, and is nows
23S years old. 1t has been an heirloom
in her family for generations f
A Pacific coast missionary relates that
after walking fifteen miless to perform Q .
marriage ceremony he received in pay.
ment sack of fine cabbages, and
lugged them home on. his back for;fes
of offending his parishioner 81
The bursting Of acreosote tank at the
freight yard Of the Midland Railway, at
Carlisle, England, allowed a quantity OF
the creosote to run into q small stream
which is tributary to the kiyer Eden,
and it poisoned tons of fish, including
salmon and trout. =
Three little Buffalo On. Y girls, all
under eleven, lately started TO walk to
Indianapolis, where the mother Of one
of Them is living. As they took 3 CASH
capital Of but one silver dollar along,
they were reasonably glad to be over
taken by rescuers less than twenty miles
away. :; ,,sss55s
A twelve-pound cannon shot was
found imbedded seventeen inches deep
in an oak tree in the suburbs of Frank
lin, Tenn. It was evidently fired from
a Federal cannon during the bloody
battle twenty-three years ago, as IT en-a
tered the tree on the side next TO the
town. The fbres of oak are still att
tached to the ball, and are nearly as hard
as the iron itself. = q y :sS23l5,.a.
.<l A Hartford Conn. lady remitted to-
large New York house to pay q bill and
by mistake sent one cent less than the
face of the bill. The New York house
wrote (cost two cents asking fol, the
missing cent, and on receiving it sent
on new receipt {cost two cents moreh,
and of course it. cost the debtor two
cents to forward the one, making in all !.
six cents expended in paying one cent
Business is business. ~ ..l5 y;.3 S
An umbrella that was brought TO this
country from Holland in 1880 is on ex.
hibition in Albany, N. Y. It bears the !.
name of an Italian maker. 1t has been
asserted that umbrellas are q later in. 8
vention than 1880, and that an English.
man first appeared in the streets OF z
London in the last century with one: TO :
protect him from the rain. The fact is,
however, that umbrellas were in use BY
the Egyptians 1000 years ago. The Z
umbrellas seen sometimes attached to q
vehicle in the streets are seen pictured
upon the wall paintings of ancient,
Egypt. - 6; I, &. = =, g g;