The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-04-04
CURIOUS FACTS.
They are making glass tombs now.
More male children die than females

More male children die than females.
Modern needles first came into use in
1545.
Pascal, the French mathematician, in
vented the wheelbarrow.
Vienna gets its name from the river
Wien, which flows through the city.
Brunswick, Georgia, has an oak tree
which can shade one hundred teams.
1t is said that for consumptives moth
ing is better than raw or half-cooked
snails.
Napoleon, Wellington, Marshal Soult,
and Humboldt, were all born in the same
year, 1863.
A Russian law forbids the use of ex-
clamation points in newspaper articles in
that country.
A lady living in Boone, Iowa, has just
completed a crazy quilt which has
"a, 7S4 pieces in it.
The term Derrick is an abbreviation
of Theodore, hangman at Tyburn,
England. in the seventeenth century.
The oldest known specimen of linen
paper extant is o document written A. D.
l3Os. This was probably made as early
as 1900.
Envelopes for letters are mentioned
by Swift, 1926; but they did not come
into very general use for more than q
century later.
George Miller, who died in Lancaster
County, Penn, the other day, at the
age of seventy-fvc, had attended a,7OO
funerals and made that number of collins.
japanese papers tell of native girl
only twelve years and five months old
who stands eight feet high and weighs
over 27C pounds. Her hands are nine
inches long and her feet fifteen inches.
If you will take an old English b, p,
d and q you will see that they are oil
one letter in different positions, or
viewed from different points. This is
the explanation of 'mind your p's and
q's."
The coolest spot in the world has been
located in Siberia. At the point desig-
mated the tt ermometer marks 80 degrees
below zero in winter, at which tcmpera-
ture man would be struck dead as with
blow.
When Charles Gillens of st. Louis,
died the other day, his heirs found re-
ceipts for every dollar he had paid out
in tifty-four years. He even took re-
ceipts from bar-keepers when he paid
for drink.
An English lady who came to this
country in early life says she remembers
when men used to go through the
streets of New York calling out '1ckory
hashes" (hickory ashes). They were pur-
chased from housekecpers for soapmak-
ing.
THE Khedive of Egypt is styled "Iourr
Highness," the children OF kings ana
qneens, "Your Royal Highness," and
the children of emperors, Your Impe-
rial Highness." Till the reign of Henry
VLII. the kings of England were styled
"Your Highness, ,""Your Grace, " Your
Excellent Grace" etc.
When the late D. r. Locke, "Nasby," "
of the.Toledo Blade, was alive he took
particular pride in the fact that none OF
his buildings had ever been damaged by
fire. It is singular fact that since his
death three of the best editiccs erected
bv him in Toledo have caught fire, and
in each instance at the top of the build
ing.
B. Napoli, an, Italian ranchman at Day
ton, New, discovered one OF his COWS
choking on a potato. IEe thrust in his
hand and succeeded in pushing the OBJ
struction down the, cows throat, but
when he undertook TO- withdraw his arm
the cow shut down on it Like wise, and
kept her hold until her jaws were prledi
apart with a crowbar: Thc bones and
flesh of his arm were So crushed that
amputation was necessary.