The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-09-26
CURIOUS FACTS.
Asllver penny was thirteen cents.
A hog will not eat q watermelon.

"A nog Will not eat watermelon.
Collegiate DEGREES are coeval with
| universities.
An ephah, or bath, coutains seven gal
Ions and five pints.
Photographs have been taken by the
light from a fireplace.
Calming the sea with oil is now regu-
larly and Systematically done.
A Biblical days journey was about
twenty. three and one-fifth miles.
A French laundryman cleans linen
without soap by rubbing it with boiled
potatoes.
MIR. Burlington, of Georgia, has just
baptized his own .wife-a case never
heard of before.
Transplanting teeth has been revived.
It was done twenty-five or thirty years
ago in very rare cases.
1t is proposed to build three foot
wide cinder path between New York
and New Haven for bicycles.
Masters and doctors existed A.D. S28.
Those in law are traced up to 1149, in
medicine to 1884, in music to 1863.
A vulture, measuring nine feet from
tip to tip, was lately shot near Julien,
CAL, as it was sailing away with full
grown sheep in its claws.
One of the curiosities exhibited at the
Cincinnati Centennial is a petrified
watermelon, which was found near the
quarries of the Southern Granite Com.
pany, at Lithonia, Ga.
A Scotch paper has this singular ad-
vertisement: ITO be let, a beggar's
stand, in a good, charitable neighbor-
hood, bringing in about thirty shil-
lings per week. Some good will is re-
quired."-
Gov. Crlttenden's tavorite daughter,
upon her death bed, asked pardon for
Stevenson, convict who had used his
leisure to make toys for the child, and
so won her heart. The Missouri Gov
ernor granted the request.
Parchment was invented for writing
books by Eumenes, of Pergamus, the
founder of the celebrated library of Per-
gamus, formed on the model of Alexan-
dra, about 100 B. G. Parchment books
from this time became most used.
A campaign torch is being made in
large quantities with an air tube up the
handle. By blowing in the tube the
fame-can be made to leap up about two
feet for an instant. The effect of thou
sand such spurts of fire at once will be
striking.
Edison is perfecting device consist
ing of female face, which he proposes
to set in the face of clock. The lips
of this figure will move at the hour, the
head will bow and the fictitious lady
will say: "Good evening, ladies and
gentlemen, it is bedtime.
In the rolls of the British Parliament,
1445, is petition from two counties set
ting forth that the number of attorneys
had lately increased from six to twenty
four, whereby the peace of those counties
had been interrupted by lawsuits. They
asked that the number be reduced to
fourteen.
Captain George Murphy, of Philadel-
phia, possesses among other relics, the
barrel OF John Browns rifle 1t is an
octagonal smooth bore Springfield,
weig Ching about twenty pounds, and has
telescope attachment. Near the butt
is little silver plate set in steel, bearing
the name of John Brown.
The battle of the Thames was fought
by General Harrison on the 5th of Oc-
tober, 1913, against the British and the
Indians under Proctor and Tecumseh.
In this battle Tecumseh was among the
killed. The result of this victory was
the recovery of Michigan and the termina-
ton of the war in the Northwest.