The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-12-12
CURIOUS FACTS;

A woman in Meriden, Conn.,, has
pet snake.
The Arab who invented alcohol died
900 years ago.
A prehistoric dam has been discov-'
cred in Arizona.
The Ms. of the first letter ever written
by Mrs. Stowe is preserved among her
papers.
The old-time broad -brimmed, sugar
scoop Quakers are not dying out in
Philadelphia.
Manly Luck, at Why Not P. O., is
the name and address Of corresponds
ent of a New York city firm. #
Chesly Heal, of Searsmont, the oldest
inhabitant of Maine, died few days ago
at the great age of 100 years.
"Old John Street." of New York city,
the first Methodist Church in America,
has just celebrated its 122d anniversary.
There is still Aourishing in the porch
of the convent at Santa Sabina, in kome,
an orange tree that is said to have been
| planted A. D. 1900.
A hired man struck because he had
worked thirty days for farmer and had
been served with ninety meals OF grid
die cakes during that time.
A fashionable Broadway, New York,
jeweler makes superstition pay him trib-
ute. He advertises amber necklaces "to
prevent Group in children"
A bronze statue of General Gordon,
| lately unveiled in London, weighs two
| tons, and it took two hours to hoist it
| into place by means Of huge three
| legged crane. ~
George Ashlock, farmer residing
near Whitewright, Texas, recently e1-
hiblted in that place cotton stalk, cul.
tivated on his farm, which contained
$50 full grown bolls on it.
Gold to the value of $40 was found in
the crop of a chicken bought the other
| day in San Francisco market. and now
the buyer is peculiarly anxious to corral
another of the same breed. , ,r
Lincoln County, Ga, requires on the
average only day and half Of court.
At the last session the only prisoner who
has been in Jail in the county for several
years was let 60 on his own recognizance,
the prosecutor failing to appear.
An uptown New York candy store at
tracts attention by having goodIlook-i
ing young fellow pull taffy in the win
dow. He throws three or four yards OF
India rubber sweetness about in a man
ner that always procures him knot OF
spectators. 80. ...t 8
Bokhara, after successfully forming
part of the empires of Persia, of Alex
ander and Bactriana, was conquered by
the Turks in the sixth century, by the
Chinese in the seventh and by the Arabs
about 7G5. After various changes 1t was
subdued by the Uzbek Tartars, its pres
ent possessors, about 1905. q
The phrase, "begging the question:
is logical fallacy, the first explanation
of which is credited to Aristotle, who
gives five ways of begging the question.
The earliest English work in which the
expression is mentioned is onepublished
in 1854, entitled, "The Arte Of Logicke
Plainlie set Forth in our English
Tongue"
Hiram Bobb, of near Cheney, Wash.
ington Territory, was arrested the othet
day for stealing gold ring off the hand
of dead friend of his. He had asked
permission to take one last look at the
body of his friend and was admitted to
the room where the corpse was lying.
The ring was afterward, missed and
Bobb was convicted of the theft.
A weather prognosticstor and amateur
artist of Prague has painted landscape
colored with the salts of cobalt. These 4
colors are very sensitive in moisture,
and are made still more SO by mixture
with gelatine. With an increasing
amount of moisture in the atmosphere,
the blue heavens of the picture assume
dirty red hue, and the green grass and
foliage, as we'll as the background etc.,
are also st-ikingly changed in color.
A very odd dining organization in
Philadelphia is known as the Ishmaei-
ties. The apartment in which the feast
is held is always decorated in the
Oriental fashion, some of tho features
introduced being very luxurious and
striking. During each season there is
Muezzin who presides and rules. the
feast and who also delivers mock
prayer and has a peculiar song. All
wear turbans or feh caps, with long
robes and ornaments around their necks.